Welcome to Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin.

The Church of 1122 is a movement for all people to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ.

And we're praying this message helps you deepen your relationship with him.

Now let's dive in.

Howdy Church family.

Welcome back to the Deepin podcast where we're going to just, again, take a deep dive

into sections of the scripture that we've been studying in big church through the gospel of John.

We're 18 weeks in.

And also look at it through the lens of one of the one another's that we've been given in the New Testament.

59 times we are commanded to either love one another

or bear one another's burdens or honor one another.

The most commanded one is to love one another.

Now, in Romans chapter 15, verse 7,

we'll get to that context in just a little while.

The Bible says that we are to welcome one another

as Christ welcomed you. Some translations are to welcome one another as Christ welcomed you.

Some translations say, accept one another as Christ accepted you. Again, the reason I want to

look at it this week is because this past weekend, we looked at the two heart postures

juxtapose to one another in how they responded to Jesus and what Jesus had done in them.

In the first section, it was the back half of chapter 11, and it was a bunch of religious people.

And they had this attitude of entitlement. They were not super

interested in what God was doing in people's life or what God was doing for other people.

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