Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast.

What if the most important truth about you isn't something you earn or build, but something you simply receive,

that you are beloved by God.

Today, Francis Chan invites us to slow down and actually wrestle with what it means that God is love,

not just that He shows love, but that love is His very essence. And if that's true, then understanding His love should completely change how we see ourselves and how we treat each other.

It's this that I wanted to talk about today.

I actually changed my own message this morning, and now I'm changing it again.

But, you know, there's this verse, this passage I think a lot of us are familiar with. First John

four, seven, and eight. This was a song I learned when I, I think I was in high school or college.

It used to be like a popular song. Does anyone know the song, First John four, seven, eight?

Okay, just three or four old people. Lisa, why do you know? You're two young. Okay, you have an old soul, or you are in an old-fashioned

church. But we would sing this song, Beloved, let us love one another. Let's love one another.

Okay, but so, you know, sometimes when you hear like a song and it's a little goofy,

you never really think about the words.

And this morning I was just thinking about the words.

And that whole passage in 1 John 4, I just kept reading it over and over and over.

Actually, Justin, you sent me an article in the, and I just kept reading it going,

wow, this is really good, and made me just study that whole chapter of 1 John 4.

But he says, Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God,

and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God,

because God is love now we live in a time when people say well if God is love

then he must not have wrath and that's not true because the Bible says that God has this wrath

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