The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.Jehovah appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
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… John chapter 15, if you pull out your message notes, the very first verse, Jeremiah 31 verse three, God says, I've loved you with an everlasting love. I loved it in the message paraphrase. I've never quit loving you and I never will. You can build your life on that verse right there. But then, here's the hard part, John 15, I command you to love each other, by the way, in the same way that I love you. Hmm. How in the world do you do that? How do you practice everlasting love? I mean, is it even possible to have everlasting love? Today in America, the divorce rate is 41% for first-time marriages. it's 60% for second time marriages and divorce rate for third time marriages is 73%. The track record gets worse. It gets worse. Now the truth is anybody can fall in love. You know, it's like falling in a ditch. I fell in love. Anybody can fall in love but it takes a whole lot more to stay in love. …
… That's when he wrote that wonderful song, O Love That Will Not Let Me Go. And the sentiment behind that song was Jeremiah 31.3, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Is that good news? He will not let us go, and we will not let Him go. You say, whoa, wait a minute. I know a guy who believed and walked away. First John tells us, they They went out from us because they were not of us. Father, we are so undeserving of such a love, so grateful for it. We should be literally in a spiritual euphoria every day of our lives to think that You love us like this. All the petty things of life should fade away compared to this eternal reality that You You have reserved for us in heaven an eternal inheritance, undefiled, unchanging, unfading, reserved for us with our name on it. You have loved us to the max. us to love you and show it in
Since we are loved with a love that will not let us go, then let's live in the depths of that love, right? Jeremiah 31.3. Write it down somewhere. Jeremiah 31.3, I have loved you with an everlasting love. I have loved you with an everlasting love. You want love? There's love. There's love. Father, we are really speechless, even in speaking, to grasp and articulate the wonders of our salvation and your love. Encourage us with this this morning. and may we lose ourselves in that ocean of divine love and love you in return. In Christ's name.