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Harris Creek Baptist Church

The Greatest Obstacle to Loving God

Harris Creek Baptist Church

Harris Creek

Religion & Spirituality

4.8523 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

JP’s sermon taught that many of us struggle to love God because we’re afraid, He’s disappointed in us. But God is love, and His perfect love removes our fear because Jesus already took our punishment. We don’t love God to earn love; we love because we’re already loved.


God is love

Perfect love casts out fears

God loves you


Life Group Discussion:

When you think about God, do you naturally picture love or disappointment? Why?

In what areas of your life do you need to let God’s love replace fear right now?

What helps you remember God’s love when you mess up or feel unworthy?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Harry's Creek, how we doing?

0:02.3

Let's go. Let's go church.

0:06.1

Oh, when I was in high school, I was raised in a small town, in the neighboring town, Victoria, I was raised in Quero, Victoria.

0:13.4

That's where the movie theater was, the restaurants were.

0:16.3

That's where a lot of my friend group was in Victoria. And we had school. In Quiro, we had school,

0:25.5

but Victoria, they were out. Now, this felt like an incredible injustice. Like, if one school is

0:30.1

closed, all schools should be closed, because all my friends get the day off. So I humbly

0:35.4

went to my parents and asked a very reasonable question. I just said,

0:40.0

hey, you know, we have school tomorrow. Victoria doesn't. Would it be okay if Travis and I skipped

0:46.5

school tomorrow? To which they said, absolutely not, under no circumstances, can you skip school tomorrow so what we did being the

0:58.5

reasonable students that we were is we skipped school the next day and and so we had this

1:04.5

master plan where you know I went to first period he missed first period so it wouldn't

1:10.5

look like we were directly

1:11.5

aligned. And, you know, it's pretty genius, honestly, and a lot of people are saying so.

1:17.2

And so we go, we do, we execute the plan. We go to Victoria. We hang out with our friends.

1:25.5

Like, everything is going great. Everything is going

1:28.7

great. And in fact, I shared this story with you in our Remove series where I was talking

1:32.5

about how I used my brother's cell phone to execute the plan flawlessly, and it was genius.

1:37.9

But I didn't finish the story. Coming back into Quiro now, we've been with them, it's

1:43.6

school's out, and so we need to go back

1:45.8

home and Travis and I are in my car we're stopped at a stoplight when my dad's long bed

1:52.8

Chevrolet pickup truck pulls up beside me I noticed the front of that truck it's familiar to me

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