The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save.

He will rejoice over you with gladness.

He will quiet you by his love.

He will exult over you with loud singing. Z will quiet you by his love. He will exult over you with loud singing.

Zephaniah 317. Welcome to Grace and Truth. My name is Owen Strand. I'll be your host. Please subscribe to this podcast on all relevant platforms.

This is a passage that I'm not sure many Christians have heard preached. I'm not sure many of us have heard

sermons or a sermon about the book of Zephaniah in the Old Testament, one of the minor prophets.

But what you find when you go to the minor prophets is that there is absolute gold packed into

them. And one of the passages that contains gold for the believer's life is Zefaniah 3, 14 to 17,

a broader passage that I want to treat today because I want to expound to you the love of God.

And I've been doing that on this podcast as many of you are picking up for some time now.

The reason I am focusing on the love of God is because it's become a

really, really dear theme to me of late, and it was in large part because of this book over my

shoulder that I'm pointing to if you are not watching on the video called The Warrior, Savior,

a theology of the work of Christ that came out just a few weeks ago, and that I worked on for

several years.

And just full disclosure, I was writing a book about the atonement and specifically

atonement throughout Scripture. And in doing so, I came to see that you can't write about

the atonement of Christ without a very strong focus on the love of God. In fact, you really

can kind of bind together

atonement and love, divine love. And so I've been musing on this theme for a long time now,

and I can honestly say that God has deepened my understanding of and appreciation for

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