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The capacity to love given to human beings is greater by far than the capacity that is

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given to insects or to birds or to cats and to dogs. The quality of love relates directly

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to the capacity of the being who gives it. Now think with me about this. The love of

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God.

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Welcome to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith. I’m David Pick and Colin as we begin

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a message all about the love God, as we stop and try to think about it, it’s really overwhelming.

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Yeah, it is. It’s beyond anything that we can fully

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comprehend on earth and it’s actually beyond anything that we will fully comprehend in

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heaven because for all eternity, we will go on discovering, exploring more and more of

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the riches and the depth and the breadth and the length and the height of this amazing

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love of God. The important thing is that for us now, we begin to know something of it that

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as a Christian I’m able to say, I know that God loves me and I’m able to assure myself

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of it when I don’t feel it, when it feels that God is far from me, and that’s what

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we’re getting into today. So today we’re going to try and answer that

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question, how can I know that God loves me and to begin to enjoy that knowledge of the

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love of God. So if you can, I hope you’ll join us in Romans, in Chapter five as we begin

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the message, The Love of God. Here’s Colin. Today is the last message in our series on

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the soul. God has made us a body-soul unity. The body wears out, it is weak in its nature.

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But your soul goes on forever, your soul will never die. Your soul will be forever saved

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or your soul will be forever lost, that is why it is of supreme importance that you care

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for your soul. And in this series, we have been seeing that God gives to us four wonderful

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friends for our soul. Friends who are to be welcomed into our life, into our heart. Into

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our inner being. And we have seen that these are first the Son of God, second the Word

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of God, third the fear of God, and then today this wonderful subject of the love of God.

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Each of these four is spoken of in the Bible as being in the heart, in the life, in the

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soul of a Christian believer. Galatians 2, and verse 20, here’s the Son of God in you,

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Christ lives in me. That’s true of a Christian believer. Colossians 3, and verse 16, let

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the word of Christ dwell in you richly. We looked last week at Jeremiah and chapter 32

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and verse 40 where God says, I will put the fear of me in their hearts that they may not

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turn away from me. And so this fear of God does us a wonderful, wonderful good. And today

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then we come to the last of these four friends as we wrap up the series. And I do invite

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you to turn to Romans and chapter five and particularly verse five, which is our focus.

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Though we will be touching on the other verses around it also. And here we have this most

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marvelous statement for us to relish and to take into our hearts today. Romans five and

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verse five, God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the holy spirit who

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has been given to us. I want you to think with me for a moment about this love of God,

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the love of God, God’s love. The quality of any love relates directly to the capacity

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of the being who gives it. The quality of any love relates directly to the capacity

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of the being who gives it. So if you ask the question, do insects experience love, I think

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the answer is reasonably yes. You watch bees cooperating in a hive. There is clearly relationship

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there, there is partnership there, there is common purpose that’s there, developed

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even at the level of the insect kingdom. If you ask the question, thinking about higher

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forms of animal life, do birds experience love? The answer very clearly is yes, the

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relatedness of birds in migration. How many times have you stopped by Lake Arlington there

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as these Canadian geese parade in their slow walk together as a group across the road,

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holding all the traffic to a standstill. The capacity of birds is higher than the capacity

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of insects and you see the development of relatedness in the world of birds move higher

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in the created order. And let’s get to cats and dogs, do cats have the capacity to love?

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All the cat lovers here. Quite clearly the answer is that they do. What about dogs? Clearly

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the loyalty and the affection of a dog is a special gift in the lives of millions and

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millions of people. Now whether cats are more loving than dogs is an issue that I’m not

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going to venture into today. That is the easiest way to lose half of the congregation, and

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I’m not as foolish as to do a thing like that. All that I’m affirming is that the capacity

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of affection is given to cats and to dogs and that it is given to them in a higher degree

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than is given to birds or to insects. Then let’s move out of the animal kingdom and

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into the world of people, the man and the woman. People are more than developed animals.

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We are made in the image of God. And quite clearly the capacity to love, given to human

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beings is greater by far than the capacity that is given to insects, or to birds, or

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to cats, and to dogs. The quality of love relates directly to the capacity of the being

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who gives it. Now think with me about this. The love of God. Think about the love of God.

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Think about the capacity there. What are we to say about the love of God? This God who

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is eternal in his being. Unlimited in his power. Infinite in his knowledge. The capacity

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of God is more than anything we can fathom on earth, and it is more than anything that

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angels can fathom in Heaven, therefore the love of God is beyond our ability fully to

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grasp, which is why forever, we will be lost in worship and wonder and love and praise

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as the extent of his love goes on being unfolded to us for all eternity. No wonder the apostle

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praised for Christian believers that we might have strength to comprehend the breadth and

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length and depth and height of the love of Christ, which he says, surpasses knowledge.

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Now that’s our subject today, the love of God. And I want you to notice that the love

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of God is spoken here in two ways. First in verse five which is going to be our main focus,

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but also in verse 8 that I’d like to draw your attention to now. Romans 5 and verse

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8 says, God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ showed

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up to save us and Christ died for us. Now friends here’s something to tuck away in your

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memory and to keep with you all your life. When you ask the question, how can I know

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that God loves me, this is where you go for an answer. Romans chapter 5 and verse

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8. Heres how you know in any circumstance of life that God loves you. God shows His

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love. It s what the verse says. God demonstrates His love. The word could also be

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translated even as strongly as that God proves His love in this. How do I know?

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Christ died for us. We are looking at objective, historical data. Something

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happened and this is how I know that God loves me. How do

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I know? Christ died. And He died for me. And this is Romans Chapter 5 and Verse 8

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the proof of God s love. Christ did this and He did it for me.

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Loved me. Christ did this and He did it for me.

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Now friends, it is really important that you know how to answer the question, how do I

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know that God loves me, especially when you come to really traumatic events or seasons

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in your life. And here s why it s so important. That when you face trauma, you may very well

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find that a large part of your whole emotional system shuts down. And because of the circumstances

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that you are in and what is hitting you in your life, you just don t feel things as you

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normally would. And when you are in that place, you will find yourself saying, well here I

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am in this trauma and I can t feel the love of God. Of course you can t, you can t feel

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anything. You can t feel anything as you normally would. And that is why this objective, historical

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revelation of the love of God is so important, especially at these times. You may find yourself

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in a place of saying, someone may be there right now. Many Christians will be there at

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some point in your life, and this is why you need to tuck this away and have it in your

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mind and in your heart. You may find yourself in a place of saying, I can t feel a thing.

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I come to church and I feel numb, but I know that God loves me because he sent his son

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to die for me. That s how I know, even when I can t fell a thing. Christ gave himself

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for me. And this is love. Even when what has hit me in life has numbed my system to the

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point where I cannot feel anything or relate to anything quite as I normally would.

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You re listening to pastor Colin Smith on Open the Bible and a message called the love

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of God. And it s part of a series called Soul Care. If you ve missed any of the series or

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if you simply want to go back and listen again, don t forget you can do that by coming on

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to our website openthebible.org.uk Back to the message now, here s Colin, Romans

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chapter five and verse eight, this is where you go to answer the question, how can I know

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that God loves me, but there s more and it s the more that I particularly want to focus

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on in the scriptures today and let me put it to you this way, that the love of God is

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more than a truth to be believed, it is a gift to be enjoyed. And that is the great

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significance of Romans chapter five and verse five. Because verse five says that God s love

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has been poured into our hearts, now he s talking about something that s happening within

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us now. Into our hearts, into our souls, into our interior life. And that this happens through

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the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. So do you see how these two verses, Romans

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chapter 5 and verse 8 and Romans chapter 5 and verse 5, two wonderful statements about

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the love of God, how beautifully they complement each other and how wonderfully they stand

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together. That the love of God is poured out at the cross by his son, and the love of God

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is poured into our hearts by his spirit. It is a truth to be believed, Romans 5, 8, it

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is an experience to be enjoyed, a gift to be enjoyed. Romans chapter 5 and verse 5.

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The love of God is rooted in history, but it is also earthed in experience. It is universal

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in it’s scope, Christ giving himself on the cross, here is the demonstration of the love

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of God that anyone in the world can see. And yet it is to become personal in experience,

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not only there and then on the cross, but here and now, known and experienced in our

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hearts. Our hearts. Romans chapter 5 and verse 5. So I read Romans chapter 5 and 1 and this

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is my response, I’m sure it’s yours. I find myself saying, I want to know as much of that

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love of God in this heart as I possibly can this side of heaven. Don’t you find yourselves

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thinking that? Isn’t that what you feel? And that’s what we’re going to look at today.

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If all we knew of the love of God was what we may deduce from the fact that Christ died

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on the cross, it would still be glorious. But God speaks to us in Romans chapter 5 verse

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5 about something that is beyond perceiving that God loved us because Jesus died for us.

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He speaks about knowing it in our heart, experiencing it in our heart. Moving beyond the realm of

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knowledge, increasing abundance of felt experience of what it is to be embraced in the Father’s

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love. Here’s what we’re seeking to do today. Two points, not always three, just two things

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today. First I want us to look at what’s promised.

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Let’s look at this marvelous promise in verse 5, try and take it in. What is it that God’s

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just saying to us? And then the second thing of course is to answer the question, how can

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I know more, much more than I have known before, of this love of God poured out into my heart?

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These two things. Well, first, the promise. Then, let’s look at this verse. God’s love

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has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given us. Notice

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that beautiful word poured. Not dribbled, not sprinkled, not dripped, poured. It speaks

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of an abundance. Let me use a picture from the scriptures to try and illustrate what

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is being described here. The apostle John tells us that six days before the Passover,

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when Jesus suffered so much for us He came to the home of Mary and Martha, and Lazarus,

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siblings who loved Him and Jesus very much indeed. Lazarus, of course, was one who Jesus

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had raised from the dead. That’s in John chapter 11, and this story that I am telling

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you is in John chapter 12. And Jesus comes to the home and, how do you say thank you

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to someone who has given you life from the dead? How do you say thank you? And here’s

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Martha and Mary and Lazarus and they want to put on a dinner in Jesus’ honour. And

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they put on the dinner, and John tells us very movingly that during the dinner, an idea

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she took a pound of expensive ointment and she poured it on the feet of Jesus. And John

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says this, the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. Now you think about that,

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she takes this flask of perfume and she smashes it, she puts the whole lot, not just the couple

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of drops you would normally use, but the whole lot of this very, very expensive perfume on

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the feet of Jesus. And John says the whole house was filled with the fragrance, it went

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everywhere, when it was poured out, not just everywhere in the room but everywhere in the

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whole house, there wasn’t a corner of the place where you could not smell the beautiful

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influence of what had been poured out in this marvellous act of devotion. Now isn’t

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that a wonderful picture of what we’re thinking of here? The Holy Spirit pours out the love

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of God into the hearts of believers.

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What that means therefore is that it goes everywhere. This love can’t be contained in

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a small corner of your life. When it’s poured out by the Spirit, everything is affected.

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The fragrance fills the whole house. Think of this. It’s something wonderful just to

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lift your mind and open your mind to. Think of what this can mean for you. The love of

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God in all of its healing power poured out by the Holy Spirit permeating every part of

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your interior life. That would include your memories. That would include your mind, your

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heart, your will. The fragrance of the love of God permeating into all of this. The pervasive

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presence of this love being poured out into you. It is wonderful to think of, and of

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course as you think of it, the natural place for the mind to go is to say, well how in

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the world would that be possible? So I want you to look at what the Apostle says. God’s

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been poured into our hearts. How? How? Through the Holy Spirit. You see what he’s saying.

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Only the Holy Spirit can do this. Your pastor can speak to you about the love of God. But

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your pastor doesn’t have the ability to pour this love into your heart. You have to go

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to God for that. Your counselor can point you in the direction of a God who loves you.

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But she cannot pour the love of God into your heart. You have to go to God for that. But

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look at what it says here in the scripture. It’s not just that the Holy Spirit can pour

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the love of God into our hearts. It says He has. You see that? God’s love has been poured

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into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

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So trying to shape our minds by what the Bible actually says, Paul is writing to Christian

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believers in Rome. And he’s saying, effectively, now here are two things that you need to know

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about yourself as a Christian. Number one, for a person in Christ, the Holy Spirit has

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been given to you, He has been given to you. If that’s not true of you, you’re not yet

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in Christ and you shouldn’t pretend that you are.

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There’s no such thing as a person who’s in Christ who has not received the Holy Spirit.

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Check that out in Romans chapter eight and verse nine, it’s very very clear. How could

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Christ be in your heart and how could you be in Christ if it was not that the Holy Spirit

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had done that work and made it to be so? Could not possibly happen otherwise.

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So if you’re in Christ, Paul’s saying to these Christians in Rome, understand two things

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are true of you. The first is this, the Holy Spirit has been given to you, and here’s the

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second, therefore, because the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God and therefore the Spirit

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of God, God’s love has been poured into your heart. These things are true of everyone who

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is in Christ. Everyone who is in Christ has tasted something of the love of God and a

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person who has not tasted something of the love of God is not yet in Jesus Christ.

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You’ve been listening to Pastor Colin Smith on Open the Bible, and the message called

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The Love of God. It’s part of our series called Soul Care and if you’ve missed any of the

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messages today or any of the previous messages don’t forget you

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can always catch up and listen again online. That’s at our website Openthebible.org.uk.

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There you can stream any of the messages which have already gone out on air. You’ll also

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find our messages as a podcast if that’s a better way for you to catch Pastor Colin’s

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teaching and you can find that on your regular podcast site, just search for Open The Bible

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or follow the link from our website. Also on our website and available as a podcast

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is Open The Bible Daily and that’s a series of short, two to three-minute daily reflections

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based on Pastor Colin’s teaching and read in the UK by Sue McLeish. There’s a new one

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on the website and as a podcast every day and it’s a great way to start the day. Open

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The Bible depends on your generosity to keep Pastor Colin’s teaching on this station and

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online. And as you set up a new monthly gift to the work of Open The Bible this Month,

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we want to thank you by sending you a free copy of Chris Lungard’s book, The Enemy Within,

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straight talk about the power and defeat of sin. Colin who would you say this book is

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for? Well, first it’s for anyone who is a Christian.

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By definition, a Christian is a person in whom the Holy Spirit dwels. And also by definition,

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a Christian is a person who is engaged in a serious battle against sin. The Apostle

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Paul says we’ve got to put to death the misdeeds of the body by the power of the Holy Spirit

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who lives within you and here’s the thing. As you grow in the Christian life, you actually

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become more aware of the sins that you need to fight against in your life, not less aware

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of them. So there’s an increasing sense of battle that a Christian experiences. And this

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book by Chris Lungard, The Enemy Within, is one of the most helpful books I have ever

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found on the subject of the battle of the Christian life. It is really encouraging.

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I’ve found it helpful and I think that everyone who reads it will find it helpful too.

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We want to send you a copy of this book, Chris Lungard The Enemy Within, straight talk about

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the power and defeat of sin. And it’s our thank you gift to you, if you’re able to set

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up a new donation to the work of Open the Bible this month, in the amount of £5 per

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month or more. Full details on our website www.open-the-bible.org.uk

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For Open the Bible and for Pastor Colin Smith, I’m David Pick and I hope you’ll be able

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to join us again next time on Open the Bible.

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How can you receive more of God’s love? Find out next time on Open the Bible