The Christian life is a life of mutual indwelling – God in us, and us in God. Having a saving faith in Christ is something that radically transforms us because it changes us in two profound ways; it moves us into a position of abiding in the Triune God, and it results in God abiding in us.

It’s great to be with you this morning. If you don’t know me, my name is Jamie Robinson. I’m the worship pastor here. Usually I’m leading worship, but this morning I just got to sit in the congregation and enjoy worshiping alongside you. I’m so grateful for the worship team that we have here, all the volunteers, the team this morning did a wonderful job. So thank you. Well, I don’t know if you’ve ever had the feeling that you’ve heard something already. Maybe you are in conversation with somebody and they start telling you a story and you’re thinking, I’ve heard this before. I know where they’re going, I know the ending, but you just don’t have the heart to tell them that you’ve heard it already. You just let them go on and on. Well, maybe you’re getting a sense of that somewhat this summer, as we’ve been walking through our summer sermon series, Walking in the Light. A lot of these themes that we’ve been looking at have been coming around again and again. And it’s because this letter, written by John, is written in a way that we call circular emphasis. What he’s been doing is he’s been circling around different themes, themes of love and light and truth, and he keeps circling around. He keeps coming back to them again and again. And it’s because these are important truths that we need to grasp and get hold of. And this is the way that he’s writing.

This is his style so that we grasp these truths. It’s intentional. It can seem redundant at times. It can seem like we’ve covered this already, but each time he goes a little bit deeper into the theme and he builds on it a bit more, he’s building on these truths so that we can remain in the light, so that we can continue to walk in the light, so that we can be obedient to the Lord, and also so we don’t stray into falling for false teaching. So this morning, we’re coming around to one of these themes again, the theme of abiding. We’ve heard about abiding in the light. So far. We’ve heard about abiding in God. We’ve heard about the Word of God abiding in us. This is clearly something really important that John is wanting us to see and hear and understand. If you cast your mind back a couple of months ago, you’ll remember Pastor Kyle spoke. He preached on a passage earlier in First John on abiding. And Kyle gave us this wonderful, holy and righteous and tried and tested through the ages image of pickles in brine. That’s how he got us to visualize abiding. And it was a really helpful picture because as we saw the cucumbers there in the brine, it helped us to understand this idea of abiding, of saturation, of complete and utter immersion in something.

Another way we could think about abiding would be through the lens of marriage. When two people get married, they become one flesh in the eyes of God. They unite together in desire and purpose. When I married my wife, Kate, when we got married all those years ago, we gave, we exchanged vows. We said that all that we had belonged to the other person. We came together in one purpose before the Lord. Now we didn’t become one physical person. We remained our identities. Obviously, we didn’t become one freakish, conjoined person with ginger hair and a beard. That would be weird. Although no offense to people with ginger hair and beards. That’s not what I was trying to get at. But you get the idea. We remain two people, but in the eyes of God, we become one. And in one sense, we abide in each other. Another way to think about it, another picture would be a song and a singer. Think about a song. It’s just lyrics on a page with notes. And think about the singer. Just an individual waiting to sing a song. But when those two things come together, when the song starts to be sung by the singer in a very real sense, they abide in the song and the song abides in them. You’ll know this if you’ve ever seen and heard a passionate performance at a concert, you’ll know that the very best singers completely embody the song.

They embody it as they sing it, as they perform it. They dwell in the song. They live in it. Now I have to be careful that I don’t push these analogies too far. I don’t want to give you the sense that God needs us to become real. God doesn’t need us to abide in that sense. God is completely whole and perfect in his own being. He needs nothing outside of himself at all. He’s perfect in his wholeness. But these images and these pictures can help us get an image in our mind of what it means to abide. Or the way I want to put it this morning, mutual indwelling, two things dwelling together. This is what John is wanting us to see and understand here in our passage today. That the Christian life is a life of mutual indwelling. God in us and us in God. Having a saving faith in Christ is something that radically transforms us in two very profound ways. First of all, it moves us into a position of God dwelling in us. And it also moves us into the position of us dwelling in God. What I hope we’ll see this morning is this abiding. We’ll see how this mutual indwelling shapes our love for God and for each other, and how it gives us confidence and assurance for what lies ahead.

So let’s turn to our passage. This is First John chapter four, starting at verse 13. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of His Spirit. John begins by telling us how we can be confident of this mutual indwelling, because God has given us of His Spirit. This is how God has chosen to dwell in us. This is how he’s able to abide in us. It’s made possible through the gift of His Holy Spirit. If we recall Jesus interaction with his disciples before his death, when he gathered them together. He promised. He told them that the Spirit would come. He said the Spirit would come to them, giving them power to be his witnesses to the ends of the earth. In the book of Acts, we then see the Holy Spirit fall on that early church in power. The Spirit enabled the apostles and those gathered to speak in tongues, and they reached out and took the gospel to many people that day, and many people were added to the church. This is why John starts with this reminder. The gift of God’s Spirit is the assurance that God loves us. It’s the guarantee of our inheritance, as we’re told in Ephesians. The Holy Spirit is a down payment that assures us of our salvation and our inheritance. When you make a large purchase, if you buy a house or a boat or a piece of land or a car, often you have to make a down payment, a deposit.

It’s a way of saying, yep, I’m in this transaction. I’m going to put my money where my mouth is. I’m going to complete this process. And in the same way, the Holy Spirit is very much like a down payment to us. It’s God’s way of guaranteeing that he is fully committed to us. We are his, and he intends to make it permanent by giving us his Spirit. Understanding the role of God’s Spirit is so crucial if we want to fully see and appreciate what the Christian life looks like. Unfortunately, some people have reduced the Holy Spirit down to a force or a power. They’re more likely to refer to the Holy Spirit as an IT or a thing rather than a person. And phrases or prayers like God, fill me with your spirit or give me more of your spirit can lead us down that path. We can kind of have this image of us as a glass, and God’s Spirit is a liquid flowing into us, and we can sometimes think of God’s Spirit as a thing. But he’s not a thing, he’s a personal being. He’s part of the Triune Godhead. And our passage here today, these five verses that we’re looking at, brings the Trinity into view. The Spirit, the Father, the son.

John is intentionally bringing this triune nature of God into view to help us understand what it means to abide in God. If we’re able to catch a glimpse of the relationship that exists in the Godhead, it’ll help us understand our own relationship with God. Now, I’m not going to try and attempt to explain the Trinity this morning, you may be pleased to know. I don’t have time. Actually, even if I did have time, let’s be honest, I would not be able to do it. I know my own limitations. I know the pitfalls and the traps that we can fall into when we try and explain to deeper level how the Trinity works. I’m never going to fully grasp and understand the Triune nature of God. None of us are. There are people out there, theologians and authors, who have written wonderful books on the Trinity, but even they, and all their deep study and understanding, will never fully know the true nature of God. But he does give us glimpses in His Word of who he is. He has revealed things that are understandable to us, and that’s what I want us to see here this morning and understand is that the God is relational at the very core of his being, because he is 3 in 1. So although I’m not going to explain the Trinity here this morning too deeply, what I am going to do is try and bring out that interpersonal relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, and that can go a little bit deeper.

So I hope I’m able to, to, to do this in a way that relates to you. And I hope you’re able to stay with me for the next five minutes or so as we go into this part of the sermon. A few months ago, I was having a conversation with somebody, and they’d been having a conversation with somebody else, a young believer, somebody new in the faith. And this young believer had asked this person a question. And the question was this: what was God doing before he made the earth, before he brought creation into being? What was he doing? And that’s such a tough question to answer, isn’t it? You may have wondered that yourself. You may have asked it of somebody else. Somebody may have asked that question of you. It’s something that perhaps we wonder from time to time, and we don’t have knowledge, really, of what God was doing before he brought the heavens and the earth into being. We don’t have a book that comes before Genesis, which gives us the prequel or the pre-story to what he was doing. But what we do have in Scripture is glimpses. We can see that God eternally exists in three persons as three persons: Father, Son, and Spirit. So before he created a single being, whether that be a heavenly being or an earthly being, we do know this, that God was already in relationship within himself.

He always has been. He always will be. From eternity past to eternity future. The Father perfectly loving, the Son. The Son perfectly loving the Father, and the Spirit being the very essence of that love that flows between the Father and the Son. And we know this from passages like John 17 where Jesus prayed this. He prayed, Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me may be with me where I am to see my glory that you have given me, because you loved me before the foundation of the world. And the same is true of the Son towards the Father. In John 14, Jesus said this. He said, I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. We see from Jesus’ own words there this mutual indwelling in the Godhead. And we know from Scripture as well that the Holy Spirit is part of the Triune Godhead as well. Verses like First Corinthians 2:10 and 11 help us see this. It says, who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person which is in him. So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. There are so many verses that point to the Holy Spirit being part of the nature of God, and this interpersonal nature of God is unlike any other God, any other being, any other religion, any other false God out there.

You see, all the other false gods out there are described as single entities. They’re not triune in their nature. And so what that means is when they created or before they created, there would have been no one or no thing for them to have any kind of relationship with. They would first need to create something to then have a loving relationship with their creation. Love wouldn’t have come into existence until that god had created someone. And then what would be the basis of that loving relationship? Where would that love come from? He’d have to then find some way or invent some kind of love to start flowing to the being that he’d created because he’d been alone before that point. A few years ago, Tim Keller made this observation, which is so helpful. He said, with all the other gods of the world, creation power comes first and then love follows. So what he’s saying there is with all these other gods, they supposedly created what we see around us. And then they started loving the creation. But he said, with the true God, with the God of the Bible, love came first and then creation power followed. Therefore, love is the primary trait that we see in God. That’s the first thing that we see rather than his power.

And this is what sets the God of the Bible apart from all the false gods in the world. It’s why the Trinity is so foundational to our faith. Church if we grasp just one thing, if we remember one thing this morning, let’s remember this, that the interpersonal relationship within God is the foundation for the love that God has for us. As God abides in love within himself, so we abide in the very same love. This perfect relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Spirit is the same relationship, the same loving relationship that we are caught up into when we give our lives to Christ. The love that we heard Jason preach about last week isn’t a love or a concept that God came up with outside of himself. It’s at the core of who he is. It’s what we’ve been invited into, to share into as believers. And so that happens through God’s Spirit, God’s Spirit abiding in us. But, what does this mean for us? What does it mean when we say that God’s Spirit is living in us? What’s the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives? Well, these next two verses shed some light on the role of the Holy Spirit in our life. It says, and we have seen and testified that the father has sent his son to be the Savior of the world.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So here we see the primary, the main role and work of the Spirit of God in us, bringing us to the place where we’re able to see and testify that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Without the Spirit, we wouldn’t be able to do this. We wouldn’t be able to see this. We’d be inclined to say, you know what? I think I’m living a fairly good life on my own. I think I’m being fairly good to other people. If I judge myself against the way other people are living, I think God kind of likes me. I hope that’s the case. And when I die, if there is a heaven, I think he’ll probably let me in to heaven. That’s our default place. Without the work of the Holy Spirit in our life, that’s where we would be. But God’s Spirit enters us and then brings us to the place where we clearly see our sinful nature, and then in turn, we see our need for a Savior. He exposes our blindness. He exposes our true spiritual condition. He enables us to see that chasm that lies between a holy, righteous, and perfect God and us as mere mortals. He awakens a desire for Christ within us. Rather than just knowing about Jesus, he awakens a desire for us to know him in a deeper way.

If you’ve ever seen the Statue of Liberty or the Washington Monument or the Eiffel Tower, or any large structure or statue, you’ll know how important, at nighttime, it is to have floodlights on that statue, how important it is to have spotlights that illuminate the structure so we can see it in all its glory and majesty. Especially important at night. And often we can see things at night that we never see in the day if we were to look at the same building. The spotlights illuminate it in such a way to draw out its beauty. And this is a way we can think about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, in a way, is a floodlight. The Holy Spirit is a spotlight that is shining on Christ, illuminating Christ in our hearts. We’re able to see him more clearly. We’re able to see him in all his majesty and his glory. This is what the Spirit of God loves to do. This is what God’s Spirit loves to do. Illuminate Christ in our hearts and our minds. Jesus told his disciples to expect this when he says in John 15, When the helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me. He will bear witness about me. The role of the Holy Spirit isn’t to draw attention to himself or anything else.

The role of the Holy Spirit is to bear witness about Jesus. And this is how he does it by illuminating him. You see, the Spirit takes the written word of God, takes the Bible, and he opens our eyes to see and hear and comprehend the truth. He brings the accounts of the gospel to life in us. He allows us to see that Jesus of Nazareth, the man who lived and walked this earth 2000 years ago, is who he claimed to be. He allows us to see that he’s the Messiah. And whether we’re reading the Old Testament or the New Testament, he does it through the scriptures. He’s actively working in us to show us truth, especially the truth of who Jesus is. And this is the difference between Christians, professing Christians, and those who just claim to acknowledge that Jesus lived. There are many people alive today who believe that Jesus was a historical figure. Yes, he was somebody who walked this earth, but they cannot and they will not accept Jesus claims about himself. They haven’t come to see Him as Messiah. They won’t refer to him as the Son of God. They don’t accept his deity or that he rose from the dead. And it’s because the Holy Spirit hasn’t brought these things to life in them. He hasn’t brought them to the place of seeing and testifying that Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of the world.

If that’s true of someone in your life, if you know somebody like that, or maybe some of you this morning are in that position where you acknowledge Jesus existed, but you don’t accept the claims that he’s made, then pray. If that’s a friend of yours, pray for them. Pray that God would open their eyes through His Spirit so that they see Christ as He really is. And if that’s you this morning, pray that God would open your eyes to see the reality of Jesus. In his book Delighting in the Trinity, Christian author Michael Reeves described how this happened in his own life. This is what he wrote. He said, my new life began when the Spirit first opened my eyes and won my heart to Christ. Then, for the first time, I began to enjoy and love Christ as the Father has always done and through Christ, for the first time, I began to enjoy and love the Father as the Son has always done. That was how it started and that’s how the new life goes on. By revealing the beauty, love, and glory and kindness of Christ to me, the Spirit kindles in me an ever deeper and more sincere love of God. And as he stirs me to think ever more on Christ, he makes me more and more godlike, less self-obsessed, and more Christ-obsessed. What he’s describing there is this mutual indwelling that’s the Spirit at work, causing him to see the Son and the Father as they really are, imparting that love that flows between the Father and Son, drawing him into that same relationship.

And only those who trust and believe in the good News of Jesus can claim to abide in God. This is why John says, whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And my hope and my prayer for us today here this morning, is that this is true for each one of us. If we know our true spiritual condition, if we know our need for a Savior, if we know that Christ is the only answer to our greatest problem, then we can be sure that we are abiding in God and that he is abiding in us, because His Spirit has enabled that in us. We’ve come to know and believe, as it says in the next verse, the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. If this is true for you today, if you’ve experienced this love, then this is the most profound love that flows straight from the heart of the Trinity. It flows out like a waterfall, just keeps on flowing and flowing. A few years ago, me and my family, we were on the East Coast for a while, and on our drive back here, we decided to take a stop at Niagara Falls.

We went there for the morning and we got to see firsthand the falls. And it’s just what an amazing sight to behold. What an amazing thing to experience and see and hear. I think it’s something like 3000 tons of water flow every second over Niagara Falls. Just keeps on coming, keeps on coming day after day, month after month, year after year. This is such a great picture for us to visualize the love of God. It’s like a powerful waterfall, only hundreds of times greater. This love that keeps flowing out towards us. Jason put it really well last week as well when he used the image of the sun. He reminded us that God’s love is like the sun. You have the light and you have the heat. These are not separate things from the sun. They’re part of the sun’s core and energy, and they flow towards us. And in the same way, the love that God has drawn us into flows from him; the source is God Himself. It’s the love that Paul tells us in Romans has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who’s been given to us. And so these are the kind of images, these are the kind of pictures that help us understand when we say to one another and when we read God is Love.

You may remember a few weeks ago, Kyle warned us that that phrase, those three words, God is love, are some of the most misused words in the Bible. And the reason for that is that the people start with their own definition of love. They start with their own ever-changing values that are influenced by the world. And they say, okay, this is my idea of love, and now they imprint that view of love onto God. They say, well, if this is love, this is what I think it is, then God must be like this. But it’s the other way around. They’ve got it backwards. If we start with the true nature of God, we can see the real source of that love. Once we see the love that Christ has for the Father, that he should be obeyed, and that his will be done, that he would be glorified. And once we see that the love that the Father has for the Son, for Jesus, that he should be lifted high, that he should be glorified and magnified for who he is. Once we glimpse that loving relationship, the term God is love really starts to come alive. This is true love that abides in us, changing us from within to magnify Christ and obey him in all that he taught. And this is the end result. This is where this love takes us. It’s not a love that is just for us.

It’s a love that spills out to others. When our eyes are placed on Christ, his glory and his greatness and his majesty, our eyes are naturally taken off of ourselves. As Michael Reeves said in that quote I read earlier, we become less self-obsessed and we become more Christ-obsessed. This is the true nature of love that our own needs, our own desires, our own preferences would start to grow smaller and smaller, and the needs of others grow bigger in us. We move away from seeking to get our own way and we move towards helping others. We want to seek the best for others rather than seeking the best for ourselves. For this ultimately, is the love that Christ has for us. And this was most powerfully demonstrated in history when Christ hung on the cross for us so that our greatest need would be met. And because our eyes are now on Christ, because our eyes are now on him, he’s the source of that love that we have for others. We’re compelled to want the best for other people, whether it’s a spouse or a child, or a parent or a family member, or whether it’s a colleague, a friend, a neighbor, or even a stranger. It’s outworked in hundreds and hundreds of tiny little decisions that we make every day. Are we going to put ourselves at the center of our life? Are we going to order everything around us to make everything as comfortable and as easy for us? Or are we going to start to move and put others into our orbit and start to direct ourself to them? If we look at this interpersonal nature of God, the triune nature of God, we see that love is always focused on another.

It’s never focused on ourselves. But it’s not easy, is it? I know that, we all know that. Living this way is not easy. It doesn’t come naturally to us. It doesn’t flow from our natural flesh. Our inclination is to prefer ourselves. My inclination is to prefer myself, to make my life as easy as I can. But know this church. This is why God has given us His Spirit. This is why he’s put the Spirit of Christ in us. This is how we’re able to love others, because His Spirit will help us love them. This is the same spirit who is in Christ. The same spirit when Christ walked the earth, and when he showed love and compassion to others, when he said to his Father in heaven, not my will, but yours. This is the same spirit at work in us today. And this isn’t a love just focused in on us as Christians. It’s not something that stays in the four walls of this church. It’s a love that spreads out into our community. It’s a love that touches those who don’t yet believe in Christ.

Our hearts will be changed for those in darkness. In the same way that Jesus’s heart was moved and stirred in compassion for others. So our hearts will be changed if we have the Spirit of God dwelling in us, abiding in us. And John knows that this love is something that is practiced throughout our lives. It doesn’t just arrive. It’s not when we decide to become a believer and become a Christian, that suddenly this love is finished in us. We receive it. It’s not like that. It’s a love that is outworked. Verse 17 says, by this is love perfected with us. In other words, what he’s saying there is this is how it’s brought into maturity in us. This is how it’s made complete in us. It’s that daily habit, that weekly habit, that lifelong habit that’s formed in us by God’s Spirit over all that time. Ask yourself this morning these questions. Ask yourself, is there a desire for Christ growing in my life? Do I want to see him glorified above everything else? Is there a love for others that’s being matured in me and perfected in me? Am I able to look back over my life and see a continuation towards loving others and towards seeing Christ glorified? If your answer to those questions is no, then if you’re thinking that doesn’t describe me, that’s not where I’m at, then seek the Lord and ask him.

Ask him to stir a desire in your heart for Christ today by His Spirit. But if you’re able to say yes, yep, that is me. Just in even small ways. There’s been a just a gradual growth towards Christ becoming bigger in my life and to loving others in the power of the Spirit, then that is a sign that God is abiding in you, and that is a sign that you are abiding in God. If you can genuinely say that you see and you testify and you confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and if you’re living in the love of God, then God’s Spirit is in you. And if God’s Spirit is in you, you can be sure that God Himself is dwelling in you and you are dwelling in God. And if all this is true, then you have no reason to fear what lies ahead. See what it says in verse 17, it says that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is, so also are we in this world. Once we fully understand and grasp our position in Christ, our union with Christ, we can be assured that we have nothing to fear on the day of judgment. Our sins have been removed. Your sins have been removed. Mine have been removed. Our guilt has been washed away. We can stand fully, righteously before God, not because of any goodness in ourselves, not because we have any righteousness that we can bring.

We have nothing, but because we have the righteousness of Christ given to us. And when God the Father looks at us, he sees us in exactly the same way as he sees his beloved Son. Last week in our lead team meeting, we received a prayer card. We get quite a few prayer cards from you, which is great. We love to pray over these prayer cards. Most of them are requests that we pray for, but occasionally we get people who give us praises, things that we can give thanks to God for the way that he’s moving in your life. And this particular card was a praise card, and it was written by a member of Calvary who has been attending for many, many years. But it was an incredibly honest card. They admitted that they had always lacked confidence, that they had been fully forgiven. They’ve given me permission to read this card out to you today. I won’t mention their name, but this is what they wrote to us. The biggest thing that I have not really accepted is God’s forgiveness for my sins. Somewhere I read that God has forgiven those who abide in him, forgiving them of all their sins past, present, and future. Two weeks ago, during the sermon, for the first time in my 85 years, that finally sunk in.

I confess that sometimes I lie in bed at night thinking how much God must be disappointed in me for all the bad things I’ve done during the day. Shame on me. That’s a sin because I’ve doubted God’s promised forgiveness. Once a sin like that is confessed, a burden is removed. I can attest to that because I feel a lifelong burden has been lifted off me. I can identify with Pilgrim’s Progress when his heavy load of guilt fell off his back at the foot of the cross. What a joy it was for us to read that card. What a joy it was for us to be able to give thanks to God for the way that he’s moved in that person’s life. This is what happens when the Spirit of God brings alive the truth of Scripture. This is the work of the Spirit dwelling within us. It’s happening, I think, more than we realize, perhaps. We come to church, we worship, we go home, we go to small group. But are we really aware that God is using His Spirit through the word each and every Sunday, each and every time that we gather, each and every time that we meet together as a small group to study God’s Word and to pray. This is how a person sees and knows that they are secure in Christ. This is what the Spirit of God does, and this is what abiding in God really looks like.

If you struggle deep down knowing that you are forgiven, if you struggle having confidence that you can be assured that God is for you and not against you, then I pray the reality of of what we’re looking at this morning will really sink in. In 1847, the Welsh hymn writer William Rees wrote the hymn Here Is Love Vast as the Ocean. It’s a hymn that became one of the most popular hymns of the 20th century because of the Welsh revival that happened in the first part of the 20th century. A few years ago, a contemporary hymn writer took that him and he wrote another two verses. It’s something that we sing here at Calvary from time to time. You may recognize it, but I wanted to read this final verse that he wrote for this new version. It says this: here is love, vast as the heavens, countless as the stars above, are the souls that he has ransomed. Precious daughters, treasured sons. We are called to feast forever on a love beyond our time. Glorious Father, Son, and Spirit now with man are intertwined. God has intertwined himself with us. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit. He’s grafted us into his very being through the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross, made real to us through the very real work of the Holy Spirit in us.

He’s enabled us to abide in this love within himself. And once we understand this reality, it gives us boldness and confidence and assurance to not only be assured of what comes in the future, but to live for him in the present, in the here and now. Through his power we’ll be able to live in obedience to all that he’s called us to do. We have this very Spirit of Christ living in us, enabling us to live as he lived when he was on the earth. That’s what John means when he writes as he is, so also are we in this world. As Christ is, so are we. It’s not that we are exactly like Jesus. there’s no way we could do the things necessarily that he did. We are not sinless and perfect in that respect, but in a very real sense, as Jesus is, so are we. We are found in him now. We are his. And one day we’ll see him face to face. One day we’ll experience this love fully in a way that we kind of begin to understand and imagine. But until that day comes, we can live in confidence and assurance, knowing that we do abide in God, that he abides in us. I pray this strengthens us today. I pray it encourages you today. May it remind us that nothing, absolutely nothing is going to separate us from God’s love. Let’s pray.

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