Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification

according to the need of the moment that it may give grace to those who hear.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with

all malice.

And be kind to one another, tender-hearted forgiving each other just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children, and walk in love just as Christ also loved

you, and gave himself up for us an offering in a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

If love is going to flourish and deepen among us, then we will have to be rooted more deeply in the love of Christ for us.

That was the point last week of the message,

that in order for love to grow on the fruit of the tree that we are, we're going

to have to send our root down deep into the soil of the love of Christ which we saw last we is a bottomless, rich soil of love. We want love to abound among us.

And to that end, we must experience the love of Christ for us.

For that to happen, we have to be somehow in the love of Christ so that it surrounds us and holding us and getting into us.

I call that faith.

I get that from 1 John 416 that says, we have come to know and have believed the love that God has for us.

Have you ever noticed that phrase? We have believed love. It doesn't say believe on love or believe in love, believe on

Jesus, or believe in Jesus says we have believed direct object, love. We believe love. That's the root, now I'm shifting through the

pictures. That's the root of our life that has to go down into the soil of the love of Christ or the love of God for us.

We saw last week that it is, it's higher than we can imagine, deeper than we can imagine,

broader than we can imagine, deeper than we can imagine, broader than we can imagine,

and for us to see it and know it, we got to get into it.

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