The love of God, demonstrated through Christ’s sacrifice, forms the unshakeable foundation of our salvation. This love, initiated before the world began through God’s election, is made tangible in history through Christ’s death and resurrection. When we respond in faith, we are justified and brought into an eternal relationship with God. No external force—be it tribulation, distress, or even death itself—can separate us from this love. Christ’s ongoing intercession for believers at the Father’s right hand ensures our continued security in God’s grace. This assurance is not based on our feelings or performance, but on the unchanging character of God and the finished work of Christ.

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[00:00:00] There was a time when I was still a teenager and I got invited to preach at a Church of the Northside through my dad who was a person known to come and preach in places and he was invited to be the real speaker but he got stuck down in NSW and rang him up at the last moment and said, ìMy son Jim will come.î And so I turned up and as I walked forward the fact that I’m looking forward to speak. The first thing happened is some voices were heard, “‘Oh! He’s only a boy.’ And then the next thing happened was there was a water thing there. The pulpit had a big part that you could hide behind it. But just like this one, there was water.

[00:00:46] And I got going in the zone and waving my arms, and it hit the water, and the water went right down on the front of my trousers, and I kept standing I was hoping it was dry before the end of the sermon, it didn’t and I had to walk out and look up and they were watching what, did he wet himself because he was so young. Anyway, it’s my voice, it’s a bit croaky, which I have some water and I’ll watch, I don’t wack it. Tonight though, it’s a joy to turn in the book of Romans to a passage which is somewhat A summary halfway through… It’s not the final chapter but in Chapter 8

[00:01:29] there’s the Apostle Paul summing up about the love of Christ and that is really quite a summary and he’s gotten to an exhos exalting mood about the truth that he’s speaking. And what that does for us is to give us tonight a message that’s not so much a whole string of verses, with logic bringing them all together, quite like I sometimes do, but it is more to go deeper into a topic that you probably already know, but that there is a depth to that’s well worthwhile taking on letting it take a hold on you. And it has to do about the love of Jesus. And a love of Christ is right at the center of the gospel and it does get a hold of you

[00:02:21] and what we should let happen is something that when it does get a hold of you, two things one, you want to tell everybody else, and two, it is the reason why we have assurance. So we will first read through the passage so you can get a sweep of it. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn?

[00:03:14] Jesus is the one who died, and more than that who was raised, who is at the right hand of God who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword In a new realize that is written, For your sake, we are being killed all the day long�this is what happens to the Christians and did to the first generation of Christians�we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered�NO! No. In all these things, we are more than conquerors�how come?�through him that loved us�there is more in these words than we can immediately bring out�for I am sure that neither death

[00:04:04] nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” So shout a triumph really. It’s halfway through the gospel which is the content and the cycle of the book of Romans. he’s delivering to the Roman church, but it’s about the love of God that comes to us through Jesus Christ. Now, first of all, notice that in this passage, and I’ll leave to your initiative where you want to go back to the, putting up the beginning part again, there’s 3 statements and they build on each other and they’re taking us deeper into something that sometimes we can get a quick idea of but it is not something that a quick idea does justice to.

[00:05:05] There’s an enormous depth to that phrase the Love of Christ. There’s an enormous depth to what it means and so the first question is in verse 23, in verse 33, but who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? And the question is if we have been chosen, wording, God’s elect means that God chose us, and if God chose us, who is there that could bring something against us, because you are competing with the choice of God. You are competing against the very action of God to choose someone. And the Bible teaches election that’s when people come to Christ it is God getting His way, his will, he’s elected us and happened before the world began… You can’t deny the fact of election, by the way, even though you may not be able to explain how the teaching of Bible and the book on the idea of election fits together with the

[00:06:22] core of the gospel that we have to respond. And that faith is not something that’s just given to you. Some people think that. is a gift of faith that is something that is given to us. It’s a capacity to believe and do things in that power of faith, but that’s not the faith that saves you. The faith that saves you is your response to the Gospel, and it’s a faith that we’re responsible to have. It’s a stance it’s a way to be related to, between a human and God. It was the original way that we were made We are made as a human race, to be related to God in a trusting relationship, which the initial sin wrecked, and we were not sinners when we sinned. We are sinners because we sinned, or the human race is sinful because we fell.

[00:07:24] Likewise, that relationship of our sinnerhood and the fact that we have participated in is what the Bible teaches, that you’re not just a sinner because of what Adam did. You are a sinner that was started by Adam, – that’s true, but there’s also the fact that you have joined in that sinfulness with your own sins, which is why the Scriptures say, in the Book of Romans, for all have sinned and have fallen and Short of the glory of God’, and the idea of fall and short is very telling. It came out of as some of you will know, the idea of an archery contest and if you have been watching the Olympics sometimes Australians do quite well in the shooting or in the archery. But the idea of the archery was that there’d be someone who’s firing arrows at a target there’s someone else hovering around somewhere down there near the target,

[00:08:25] who calls out the result, but if a person shoots the arrow, and it doesn’t get near the target, particularly, if it just falls short, they might have had weak arms and couldn’t pull the thing back far enough, then the person down near the target calls out, ”It has sinned!” it means it has fallen short. and the target that God had set human nature, which because of sin getting into the whole human race, means that we’ve

[00:08:57] all sinned. So we are sinners because of Adam and Eve sure enough, but we are also sinners because we have proven it. And our arrows of life keep falling short of what human nature was intended for. And it doesn’t matter how good we think we are. were none of us measure up and so here it is the fact that we’re sinners and we’re sinners and it’s God’s election that wanted better for us and yet, it’s God’s election but he would save people. I can’t know, and when people talk about is it because we’ve done the right thing in responding to Christ, that’s why we’re saved and other people say no, it’s

[00:09:43] just because he elected you, both are the case. You ask me about how that’s possible. I can’t answer everything about God. I know the Bible teaches both. The person who most called upon his audiences to have faith was Jesus. And even when his own disciples didn’t live out that and trusting him, like Peter, who took a very big step to walk on the could to walk on the water, he started doubting and began to sing. Great goodness, he had the common sense to cry out to Jesus, who had come walking on the water on that occasion, and reached out, and caught him, and lifted him up. is something that Jesus called on people to have, and when they didn’t have it, another occasion in the boat when there was a storm and they were all worried of

[00:10:37] drowning, because there was not a bit of a history of sailors on Lake Yellowii drowning and storms the nature of how the hills funneled down the Ywinds, big southern storms it came up. And there were lots of stories of ghosts on the water. You go fishing, and the ghosts are previous fishing people who’ve been drowned and they come up in bad weather to get you to. So if you see a ghost, you are likely to be the next victim as the superstition that came about. And when Jesus came walking on the water to them, they cried out in fear! Lest there was a sign that this was…he was a ghost. He had to tell him he is not a ghost and it was And Peter had the courage to say, well, if it’s really you, ask me to come out in the water to you.

[00:11:31] That’s actually the beginning of someone showing a step of faith and asking Jesus to act on his presentation and help him to do something he wouldn’t otherwise do. People coming to Christ nearly always begins with some moment like that. And like a man that I knew who worked on roofs and had people that came to our church, and but he became a Christian, and how I became a Christian was when he just walked out into his own backyard and called out to God. He wasn’t in a big storm. But there is a moment where people call out to God, and it is that cry of faith, This Book of Roman says, If you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, for that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead.

[00:12:36] And there are the aspects of the Gospel, who Jesus is and what he’s done for us, and dying for us, and being risen from the grave. that there’s a moment of faith when you can’t prove those things, there’s a sense of history that might give you lots of evidence there was a man called Jesus but it’s really because of the Word of God that you take on board the proposition that he lived and he came and he came as the Savior. And the fact that he rose from the dead, which people try and debate all the time, although the evidence, historically, lies on the side that he really did rise from the dead. But it’s not like an evidence mathematically, you put QED at the end, it’s not like an evidence without there being methods people could challenge it, there’s an element of faith, where you get convinced somehow. And that getting convinced

[00:13:36] It’s not something just done by your intellect. Good that it involves the intellect. It’s actually something that is fed by God-Spirit working on you, and working on you to be able to believe. And when he helps you to believe, it still doesn’t bypass the fact that your response is needed to go along with that help. and so any person who’s become a Christian it has been the result of there being some moment when wonderment or not knowing what to think or investigation or something else in our humanity and now wondering about it all

[00:14:25] became a sense of belief and it’s the act of the soul and the confession of the mouth is the outward demonstration of that now being the case but the belief in the heart is the faith part. So that passage talks about- if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart- goes on to say that with the mouth confession is made under salvation. That’s us coming out in the open, as to what we now are seeking to believe or do believe. But with the heart, it’s where the belief happens, its faith. There’s a mystery in it. It’s the best thing to do in us.

[00:15:13] It’s the most logical thing to do in my opinion. But it’s not because of its logic, its faith. It’s that simple response to the call of Christ. And his call coming to us, gives us the ability to have faith. It’s one of the most wonderful things about how God has set up the possibility of salvation is that he doesn’t call us to do the impossible. Well, he does call us to do the impossible, but he doesn’t leave us without help to do it out of our own resources. It’s like the man that came to Jesus come and he wasn’t sure what to make of Christ. But he said, Lord, I believe, but please help me in my unbelief.

[00:15:57] He asked for help and one of the things that Jesus does, just like Peter, when Peter was walking in the water and he began to sing, why did he sing? Well we can hypothesize, my hypothesis is that he turned away from looking at Jesus and looked at the fearful faces of all the other disciples, and maybe the wind blew up a big splash of water from one of the big waves, and he realized what a very dangerous he was doing, and he began to doubt. I don’t blame Peter for the doubting by the way, because ways have but how many of us have gone walking on water thinking we can do it, you can’t do it just because you supposed you’ll have a try. It’s only the presence of Jesus that helps us do the miracles, and when he began to think he turned himself to Jesus and cried, and the the Lord reached over and grabbed his half,

[00:16:56] lifted him up again and they both got into the boat. How about having that as a story to give at church and do you know from every person that comes to faith… I would say it is true, though not all will report it equally and not all are aware of it, but there is some moment in the Coming to Faith in Jesus where you didn’t really have it in yourself all the way, but you took a risk or you had a decision that your mate said percent of your time, and you stepped out on his call, and faith is like that, faith is when where you put your rest is in his promise rather than your ability

[00:17:46] to do the wonderful thing or in the most reasonable thing. You can’t prove the nature of salvation in terms of, get a solid proof that you’ve proved it. You can see it’s a reasonable In terms of, get a solid proof that now you’ve approved it so you go and do it. You can see that it’s a reasonable request, you can see that it’s not wrong and stupid, you can investigate it and that’s a good thing to do, but it won’t relieve you of that moment when you have to say, I’m going to … Like Peter getting out of the boat. But like any person coming to Christ, And those of us who came to Christ in an evangelistic moment know that moment of difficulty when the call was given, and God’s been getting at you.

[00:18:42] In my case, my raincoat got stuck in the nail, and I had a little opportunity to have an excuse not to go, but it got matched. Maybe the Lord was showing the match to me, but my big brother who I have followed in most places made a move to go forward. And I decided to follow him. But then I had the raincoat in the nail, and I had to rip it clear. But there’s that moment of decision where you decide, I’m going to trust. Faith is like that. And how do you know, he’ll save you? You don’t have an ultimate-proof or signed document that you give.

[00:19:26] Well, the Scriptures are better than the signed document actually, because in the scripture, you have the presence of God. And if you are doubtful of whether you can trust the Scriptures, just try reading. It will give yourself a period of time. For Lord, this year I will read through the Gospels. And if you are really there, and if this is your Word, then speak to me. And there are many people who have made that statement to God and went about to read the Gospels, and what happened? God spoke to them!

[00:20:04] Some of them became heroes of the faith. Because they discovered what it is to believe the word of God which is another way of describing Faith is connected to the statements of God. It’s what Adam and Eve failed to do in the beginning when God says if you do that, you’re going to die. And the Devil said, no, you won’t surely die. And they disbelieved God, and the nature of faith in the first place was just not to trust the character of God. And that disbelief was non-faith, which was the original sin. Anyway, I’m wondering, but we’ve got here these three statements about faith.

[00:20:49] And in these statements the very enormous I don’t know if it’s logic, it’s just a sheer statement, is that God has elected you, and Christ came in to the world and died on the cross to cleanse you…. What greater weight could be put on the other side that he won’t keep you? And when you have made sometimes a tentative response, the devil’s business is to come along and chisel in some doubt, or get you to not think you’ve gotten in the door. And I’ve seen that in people who are old people, people who are kids, and one church where I was working in, when I was only that teenage of time, they had a children’s week where the kids in holidays came along, and there was a little girl, well I think she’s about seven, and I didn’t really know that much in how I used to lead the evangelism,

[00:22:02] but I used to use that verse, Behold I stand at the door of knock, if any person hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into that one. And she came to me in tears after one of the sessions, and she said, I’ve tried to let Jesus in seven times, but how do I know that he’s come in? And I said to her, I said, does Jesus ever lie? Do you have any reason to think that he tells something not true? Is there anything in the Bible that makes you think that? And she said no. I said, who’s the liar? And she’d be listening to the sessions and she said, well it’s the devil.

[00:22:46] Well, he would tell you or he’d give you something untrue that you can’t trust Jesus. But if Jesus said He’d come in, tell me again, have you given Him a request to come into your life, and she reported how she had many times. I basically told her to stop asking Him because He’s acted on the first time she did. And you can know He’s come into your life simply because He promised, and His promise is a greater proof than any feeling. Some people get feelings and AN NORMOUS emotion at this moment, and other people it’s just something happens. I ended up becoming someone involved with giving help to folk who were making responses in charge of the counseling room and a number of places in Youth 4 Christ, and each year

[00:23:39] when we had our Gold Coast Crusade, I was in charge of that part of the doings. if they had two crusade moments, one in the morning, one in the evening and it would reap a group of people who’d respond who wanted to come and know Christ and they’d lead them to me, and I had a hold of the counsellors trained who would speak to them and seek to lead them in a moment of faith, a moment of prayer to come to Jesus. But if they had a problem then they were trained that they’d bring the person to me. And some very precious events happened in my history in those years that I was doing that. They were quite varied. It’s like the person, the counsellor, who was trying to lead a girl to Christ but she wouldn’t stop crying. And she was from another country. I think she

[00:24:29] was a Eurasian girl or some sort. And she wept and wept and wept and he couldn’t get her to stop crying. And he couldn’t do any counselling. So he brought her to me. And now I was a single man. I wasn’t an expert at how to stop girls crying. And I didn’t know what to do, so I just let her cry a bit more, until there was a bit of a break in the crying. And I turned to the book of Romans—not this very part of Romans—but chapter nearby, where it’s talking about the assurance God gives that when you come to Him by faith,

[00:25:04] it means you get right with Him, the justification that makes you right with Him gives you the consequence of your taking a step of faith, and then it goes on to say that it ushers you in to a place of race, a place of steady state under His smile. And then what happens is you have all the ups and downs of life holding that moment, the Holy Spirit is given to you as a result of coming to Christ and he causes you in your heart to know the love of Christ. And the exact wording in the KJV, the love of God is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Spirit who is given to you. And I would take them through these five verses. And we get to this part and I say this love of God is both objective and subjective.

[00:25:59] Let me explain and I would say it’s about the fact that you know he loves you. That’s a fact, an object effect. And where the ultimate place of assurance is is the Holy Spirit in your heart. after you’ve taken a step of faith sheds abroad the love of God in your heart. And the other side, it also refers to what happens to you and your capacity to love God because the love of God is also about the fact that you love God and one of the fruits of the Holy spirit in your heart when you’ve come to Christ, is that somehow that catches off of you. You love Him back. It’s a love of God, the sense of you love God. In the first sense it was that you’re aware that God loves you and given by the Holy Spirit. When you take a step of faith he’d meet you at that point”. And I found that when the girl who was crying

[00:27:13] I got her to listen. And I told her just like I’ve said to you. And I said, if you had that Holy Spirit making you aware that God loves you, you’re special to him, and if he gave they view the ability to love Him. Would you have any more problems? Oh, No. I’ve used that, again and again and again, many times over through the years since. I’ve never had a person who’s said anything other than that would be wonderful. And she did. And she went away. I said to myself something I shouldn’t have said.

[00:27:56] I said. moment because of how much she tried. The only thing is, I think the next day I was doing this morning and night each day of a 10-day crusade down there, and a young man came and he was looking around like this, and he was looking like he wasn’t terribly paying attention. He got brought to me, and I told him he needed to tell Jesus that he Jesus that he wants to trust him and so he got me to leave him in it and He prayed the words. He looked up and says was that it? Yeah, and he shook my hand and off we walked And I said to myself, well, it’s not much emotion. There. Probably wasn’t very real. I don’t know what to think Well next year because I was doing this every year He came running up to me said it’s my

[00:28:49] how wonderful it be to be a Christian all year. There are big differences in people and in a make-up and also the circumstances by which we hear the gospel. It’s not actually the emotion that counts, though I might have described it sounded too much like that. It’s what the spirit does. But the spirit does it in answer to our step of faith. If you say, I’ll wait for the spirit to make me convinced, you’ve missed the point. He’s given his word. There’s the word of God up on your screen. If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Now, there’s a bit of this I need to unpack. When the Bible tells us about the love of God and the gospel what it says is referring to the love of the Father for us. And how is the love of the Father God, for you, made visible in the middle of history, but by how He sent His Most Beloved

[00:30:12] Son, for God to love the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, I won’t say too much about it, but that’s referring to the specialty of who the Son always was as Eternal Son of God, and also what especially He became when He took on humanity and came to earth. As elsewhere in the Bible it says, in these last days God has spoken to us through His Son. Jesus is the ultimate revelation of God. And John’s Gospel, if you really carefully, is trying to bring that out, that Jesus coming into the world was Eternal Father God sending His own Son to bring Him into open observableness for us humans. He brings us to reveal Himself through His Son. Jesus is the ultimate revelation of the Father. And when He comes and you see Him, you get to know something of God, that John chapter one and two chapters one and two told about Jesus being the light that comes into the world Who lights every person in the world. Jesus is the light! And you get close to Him and you have a

[00:31:32] way to know Father God, he is the very image of Father God and he reveals the Father to us in who he is. But more than that, what happened with Jesus when in obedience to the Father he allowed himself to be taken to the cross and die on the cross and bear our sins? That famous verse John 3.16 says, for God, so love the world, that he gave his only son. Now if you track back, I did do a bit of exercise of looking back in the Old Testament, there’s verses that talk about the Father and talk about son, some of them in the book of Psalms and Proverbs. And I talk about wisdom as though it is a person. It’s actually the wisdom you get from Christ.

[00:32:29] And the fact that the wisdom reveals God and when you read—and if you read the Old Testament in the light of what the New Testament makes of those promises—you recognise the Bible as pains to make clear that the Father loves the Son. Jesus had to say it again and again. There’s nothing, no one, there’s not an event, there’s nothing, the Father loves more than The Son. And The Son came totally obedient to the Father, though eternity passed, he was co-equal with the Father in every respect, but he took on humanity, took on the role of human before Father God. And at his baptism, which he didn’t need to do to get saved, because he just had no sins to be saved from it, to do what the Father wanted,

[00:33:18] There was a voice that was heard, This is my beloved Son, in whom I’m well pleased? There’s no one that the father loves more than his son. But that wonderful verse in John 3, 16, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, It should have everlasting life and that everlasting life is given because the father was willing to give the thing and the one that he loved most, his own son and particularly his son who’s be taken on humanity. And there’s one verse that says about Jesus’ birth at Christmas time and where,

[00:34:11] to the father of this, I had forgotten you, God the Father, because of Jesus being born as a human, begotten Son, that He went on loving, because it was His only Son. And if He could love His Son that much and then gave Him to the Cross, Who were we to ever entertain a doubt? They wouldn’t do what this passage says He who did not spare his own Son But gave him up for us all heavily not also with him Graciously give us all things Graciously mean uncertain

[00:34:55] Graciously give us all things And then he goes onto the second question second question is, who shall bring any charge against God’s elect if it’s God that justifies us? Who’s going to stand up and try to condemn us when God is the one that justifies us? Who is to condemn Christ Jesus as the one who died—the one who died for us to be justified, he also is the one who is now at the right hand of God—who indeed is interceding for us, taking on board to plead our case before the Father, there’s no way in the world that if you come to Christ that He would let you not latch on or not let you be accepted or let you drop out of His hand. He’s been raised to the right head of God, and indeed is interceding for us. So, one of the parts of the gospel that often is left out people say, if you

[00:35:56] ask them what’s the gospel, they say it’s about Jesus. Yep, that’s right. What happened, what did he do, he died first? Yes, that’s right! Some of them all that in and he rose again which is also needed and that’s right. But more than that. Having been risen, he went back to heaven and the Father chose to make Him the The head of all things. We named Jesus the name He got in His humanity When He was the God-man that name Jesus is the name that has been now credited as the highest name with the greatest of power that at the name of Jesus One day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord and Christ

[00:36:43] So who as a person to condemn Christ Jesus is the one who died and now he’s interceding the one who died for you and paid the price He’s interceding that the Father will let you be forgiven on the basis of his death And when you become a Christian and things go up and down and you find you in difficulty he’s the one that says, I’ve got my My boy down there And he’s having a problem. O Father, will you help him?” Or if you say a prayer and Jesus told us to say that this is where we get the idea when

[00:37:22] you pray you pray in Jesus Name because Jesus said, if you ask the Father anything of My Name he will give it to you. So much does the Father love the Son and his willingness to come into the world and die for your sin and mine. then Jesus intercedes for you. And there’s no way the Father won’t answer your prayer. About answering prayer, God will always do what’s within His will. And there’s a mystery about that, but you don’t get Him to do what’s not His will and you can’t buy that somehow lever that you tell God what to do.

[00:38:03] It’s not an opportunity for you to try and command God to do this and that because you pray hard enough. But it certainly will get God the Father to want to listen when you pray in Jesus’ name. And his care for you has been demonstrated because he gave the One that he loves the most. And because Jesus was willing so to do, the Father only had his love doubly confirmed. He loves the Son. And the Son is right at the apple of his eye. You want to know? This one is the one that has you, do you think you could ever need to worry that you’d slip out of his grip? When the Father’s the One who elected you, the Father is the One that set his Son to cleanse you,

[00:39:00] and the Father is the One who justifies you when you come and pray and come to him, the Father is the one who listens to Jesus intersiding on your behalf. That’s what this passage is saying. And at the end who shall separate us from the love of Christ? He lists all the problems that the early group of Christians were having tribulation, distress, persecution, famine or nakedness, danger or sword. And now, having a bad time knowing all these things more than conquerors through Him that loved us. There’s no reason, not this day, to let Jesus be anything other than your personal Saviour, because the Father’s love to give

[00:39:52] Him for you is so powerful a reason, and He calls you to come. If the Lord Jesus has got that on your heart to do, then do it today when I don’t want to call people out in the open here all the time. Sometimes we have a call to do, but I know from experience that we need to not always do that, but to give the teaching, and let the Spirit work in people. But if you want tonight that to happen, find someone that you know who knows Christ, and it leads you in a prayer. They may not have the exact words, it doesn’t really need the exact words. The words are that you pray to Father God experimenting versus your resinner, thanking King for sending his son to die for you, and asking Jesus to be your Lord and Savior and to be in your life, a holy spirit to take that residence up. And in that moment, you get in the door, and all our passage, this Romans 8, 31-39, will

[00:41:04] be your most favourite passage. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Isn’t that a fantastic thing that nothing can? Let’s pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you. Father, we thank you for the fact of your love for your son. We thank you that your love for us was so great that you were willing to give your son for God so loved the world he gave his only son. The whosoever, Lord, that whosoever is guaranteed by the giving of the Son, the whosoever believes in Him who should not perish, but would have eternal life. May that be the case for someone tonight, and may it be that which grips our hearts as Christians to inspire us to see the depth of the message.

[00:42:09] That very famous verse in John 3.16 is not just a 50 little, I’ve heard some people call it as a very shallow verse, it’s for just a simple thing, but Lord there’s actually an enormous depth in it. May that strike us and grow in our awareness that we’ll be people who marvel at the Gospel and want that every person we get some opportunity with we can share. May that be our story, we ask in Jesus name, Amen.