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We hope you enjoy this message by Pastor Chris Vallaton.

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Well, don't you grab a hand. Let's pray.

Holy Spirit, we thank you for what you're doing today.

We pray, God, that you would just move on us and that you would impact us for love.

Amen.

This morning is going to probably be the simplest message that, at least that I've ever given.

And I want to talk to you about love

that never fails and I want to you know sometimes it's um sometimes we we I don't know about

you but I love heavy revelation I love all the deep things God's been teaching us and sometimes

I think we lose sight of the most simple

things of the gospel. The very things that we learn, it's gospel, you know, 101, Jesus 101.

And I want to talk a little bit about just the simple, the simplicity of loving Jesus, loving your neighbor

and loving yourself. So why don't you turn to

Mark chapter 12, and we're going to begin in verse 28. The scribes are interacting with Jesus.

They're the Facebook detractors of Jesus' day. And they ask them, what is the foremost commandment

at all? In verse 29, Jesus answers, the foremost is this,

hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is one Lord, and you shall love the Lord with all of your heart.

Everybody say heart, and all of your soul.

Everybody say soul.

And all of your mind, say mine.

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