Good morning, everyone.

It's a big week ahead for us because today we launch week number 500 and the five gas

500 weeks.

Incredible.

That's a lot of sustaining grace and it's not possible without you.

So thank you for your prayers and your support and your questions and your listens.

We don't take any of this for granted.

So thanks for listening while you wait in airport terminals while you ride in subways

or do your daily mundane chores, the dishes, the laundry, walking the dog or when you're

driving to work or shuffling kids around town or even through your iPhone speakers

as you end your day.

However, and whenever you listen, thank you for listening and making this podcast a part

of your busy life.

And now for 500 weeks humbling.

And we begin week number 500 with a question from a listener named Joe, Pastor John, hello

and thank you for this podcast.

What would you say is the difference between the kind of love that is produced in the

Christian's heart for others through the new birth for John 4, 7, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3 compared

to the charitable and often self-sacrificial love that we often see demonstrated in the

world among non-Christians.

As for John, how would you explain this difference?

The difference between secular love and Christian love is that secular love is not rooted

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