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Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny and I heard

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Speaker 4: about this man. He was the only Protestant in a

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Speaker 4: large Catholic neighborhood. Every Friday during Lent, while his neighbors

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Speaker 4: were eating cold fish, he was in his backyard grilling

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Speaker 4: to try to convert him to Catholicism. He finally agreed.

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Speaker 4: A priest came over sprinkled water on his head, said,

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Speaker 4: you were born a Baptist, you were raised a Baptist,

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Speaker 4: over his steak, saying, you were born a cow, you

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Speaker 4: raised a cow, but now you're a fish. Say it

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Speaker 4: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 4: Today I will be taught the word of God. I'll

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Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 4: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 4: knowing that you are loved. When Victoria and I had

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Speaker 4: been dating for about nine months, a friend of mine

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Speaker 4: Don't tell her that I called, but she told me

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Speaker 4: she thinks she loves you. And my friend was so excited.

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Speaker 4: But I had a problem with two words. She thinks

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Speaker 4: if she thinks she loves me, that means maybe she does,

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Speaker 4: I know. And that was over thirty years ago. But

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Speaker 4: But God is not like people. People can love you conditionally.

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Speaker 4: Quit trying to earn this love. There's nothing you can

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Speaker 4: loves you right now. He loved you when you were wrong.

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Speaker 4: nothing can separate us from the love of God. You

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Speaker 4: are a marked man, a marked woman. God put his

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Speaker 4: love on you. Now you are permanently loved. The Psalm

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Speaker 4: can't get away from this love. Well, Joel, I'm an atheist.

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Speaker 4: scripture talks about the great love, wherewith God loved us.

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Speaker 4: conditional love. It was a great love. And we think

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Speaker 4: about how much we love God. But what's more profound

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Speaker 4: is how much God loves you. Before you were formed

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Speaker 4: There was a popular book turned into a movie a

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Speaker 4: Can I tell you God is just the opposite. He's

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Speaker 4: how God must feel when we go around thinking I

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Speaker 4: I know he's smiling down on me. Voices will whisper

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Speaker 4: John was written by the disciple John. What's interesting is

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Speaker 4: Jesus loved his mother. In fact, he probably loved his

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