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<v Speaker 1>This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry

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<v Speaker 1>of Pastor Rick Warren. Today, Pastor Rick kicks off a

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<v Speaker 1>series called Forty Days of Love. In these lessons, Rick

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<v Speaker 1>looks into the Bible to help you understand God's great

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<v Speaker 1>love for you and to empower you to love others

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<v Speaker 1>the way Jesus does. But first, in just a bit,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll tell you how to get Pastor Rick's forty Days

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<v Speaker 1>of Love Bible study with six video sessions and workbook.

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<v Speaker 1>It's perfect for individual studying and also great to do

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<v Speaker 1>with a small group of friends. You can take a

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<v Speaker 1>sneak peek by going to Pastorick dot com while you listen,

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<v Speaker 1>or just text the word hope to eight hundred, six

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<v Speaker 1>hundred five thousand and four. That's the word hope to

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<v Speaker 1>eight hundred six hundred five thousand and four. Right now,

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<v Speaker 1>here's Pastor Rick with part one of a message called

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<v Speaker 1>It's all about out Love.

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<v Speaker 2>How would you complete this sentence? My number one goal

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<v Speaker 2>in life is and I want you to think about

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<v Speaker 2>that for a minute. My number one goal in life,

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<v Speaker 2>what is most important to me is how would you

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<v Speaker 2>complete that sense? What word? What phrase would you use?

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<v Speaker 2>Would you say, my number one goal in life is

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<v Speaker 2>to be happy, or my number one goal in life

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<v Speaker 2>is to be loved, or my number one goal in

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<v Speaker 2>life is to succeed at my career. How would you

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<v Speaker 2>answer that question? My number one goal in life is comfort,

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<v Speaker 2>or have fun, or retire or get married and raise

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<v Speaker 2>a family. My number one goal in life is to

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<v Speaker 2>be well known popular, How would you answer that question?

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<v Speaker 2>It's very, very important, and if you haven't ever thought

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<v Speaker 2>it through, you need to think it through and consciously

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<v Speaker 2>understand it. Because however you answer that question is what

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<v Speaker 2>I call your dominant life principle. Now, everybody's got a

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<v Speaker 2>dominant life principle. It's the most important value to you

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<v Speaker 2>in life. You maybe never thought it through, but you

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<v Speaker 2>use it all the time every time you make a decision.

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<v Speaker 2>Every time you have a choice, you access the database

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<v Speaker 2>in your brain and you decide what you're going to

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<v Speaker 2>do based on your dominant life value, your dominant principle

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<v Speaker 2>of life. For instance, if my dominant life value or

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<v Speaker 2>principle is to have fun, then this evening, if I

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<v Speaker 2>get a couple of invitations on the phone, I'm going

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<v Speaker 2>to tend to choose the thing that's the most fun

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<v Speaker 2>to do, because that's what's important to me, have fun.

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<v Speaker 2>If my dominant life principle is comfort, then I'm going

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<v Speaker 2>to tend to choose the easiest thing to do. What's

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<v Speaker 2>the most convenient thing. No, I'd rather just stay home

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<v Speaker 2>and lay on the couch and watch TV. If my

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<v Speaker 2>dominant life value our principle is safety, it's then I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to tend to make every decision in life based

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<v Speaker 2>on what's the safest choice. And so I'm going to

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<v Speaker 2>look at it that way, security issues. If my dominant

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<v Speaker 2>life value is to be approved, to be affirmed, to

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<v Speaker 2>be applauded, then I'm going to tend to choose things

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<v Speaker 2>in life where I get the most affirmation. If earning

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<v Speaker 2>approval is the most important thing to me. So it's

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<v Speaker 2>extremely important that you think through what is going to

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<v Speaker 2>be the most important value in your life. Now, what

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<v Speaker 2>does God have to say about this? Well, he has

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<v Speaker 2>a lot to say about it. And in the Bible,

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<v Speaker 2>in the Book of First Corinthians there on your outline,

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<v Speaker 2>chapter fourteen, verse one, he says this, let love be

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<v Speaker 2>your greatest aim. You might want to circle that let

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<v Speaker 2>love be your greatest aim, not status, not success, not

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<v Speaker 2>possessions or power, or privilege, or prestige, not comfort, not money.

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<v Speaker 2>He says you should make is the number one life value. Love.

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<v Speaker 2>Now why does he say that, make love the highest

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<v Speaker 2>aim of your life. Why? Because God is love and

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<v Speaker 2>he wants you to be like him. The Bible tells

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<v Speaker 2>us that God created everything in the universe out of love.

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<v Speaker 2>He made everything in order to love it. Because God

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<v Speaker 2>is love. Doesn't say he has love. He is love.

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<v Speaker 2>He created you as an object of his love. And

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<v Speaker 2>God wants you to be like him, and so he

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<v Speaker 2>created you to learn how to love. In fact, you

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<v Speaker 2>were put on this planet to learn how to love.

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<v Speaker 2>Why didn't God just creation take you to heaven? Have

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<v Speaker 2>you ever thought about that? Why does let you spend

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<v Speaker 2>sixty seventy eighty ninety years here on a broken world

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<v Speaker 2>where there is a sin, suffering, sorrow, sadness, problems, pressures, stress.

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<v Speaker 2>Why doesn't God just create you and take you directly

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<v Speaker 2>to Heaven. Why does he put you here on earth?

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<v Speaker 2>He allows you here on earth in order to learn

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<v Speaker 2>to love. Life is all about learning how to love.

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<v Speaker 2>In fact, one day Jesus was walking down the street

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<v Speaker 2>and the guy came up to him, and he said, Lord,

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<v Speaker 2>what is the most important command in the Bible? Can

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<v Speaker 2>you tell me what really matters most Jesus, Of all

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<v Speaker 2>these things that are in the Bible, what should I

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<v Speaker 2>really focus on? And Jesus said, I can do that.

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<v Speaker 2>I can summarize the entire Bible for you in two sentences.

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<v Speaker 2>And if you get these two things, you get it.

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<v Speaker 2>You get what life is all about. It's called the

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<v Speaker 2>Great Commandment. We've looked at it manyutes, many times. It's

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<v Speaker 2>stare on your outline. Let's read it aloud together. In

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<v Speaker 2>Mark chapter twelve, Jesus said, love the Lord your God

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<v Speaker 2>with all your heart and all your soul, and all

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<v Speaker 2>your mind and all your strength. And love your neighbor

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<v Speaker 2>as yourself. There are no commands more important than these.

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<v Speaker 2>Now that's pretty clear. He said, nothing in the Bible,

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<v Speaker 2>nothing at all, is more important than these two things.

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<v Speaker 2>Learn to love God with all your heart. And oh,

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<v Speaker 2>by the way, learn to love everybody else. He said,

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<v Speaker 2>if you get those two things, you got it. You

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<v Speaker 2>get it. You understand what I put you on this

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<v Speaker 2>planet to do. Life is all about learning to love.

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<v Speaker 2>Everything else is excess, everything else is secondary. Make love

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<v Speaker 2>your highest aim. He said, I want you first of

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<v Speaker 2>all to learn to love me God, And then he says,

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<v Speaker 2>I want you to learn to love every everybody else.

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<v Speaker 2>And once you've done that, now you're ready to come

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<v Speaker 2>to heaven. That's why you were alive. And if you

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<v Speaker 2>go all through life, it doesn't matter how much you

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<v Speaker 2>acquire and how much you achieve, and how many accomplishments

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<v Speaker 2>you make, and how many rewards or how famous you become.

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<v Speaker 2>None of that matters. One day you're going to stand

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<v Speaker 2>before God and he's going to say, did you learn

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<v Speaker 2>to love me by the way? That's why I sent

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus Christ so you could learn to love me. And

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<v Speaker 2>did you learn by the way to learn to love

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<v Speaker 2>other people? Because that's what I put you on earth

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<v Speaker 2>to do. And if you admit that, miss that wrong answer.

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<v Speaker 2>Because life is all about love. Love God with all

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<v Speaker 2>your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself. That's what

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<v Speaker 2>it's all about. In fact, the Bible says this one

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<v Speaker 2>Corinthians sixteen fourteen everything you do must be done with love. Question,

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<v Speaker 2>what does that include? How about everything everything you do

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<v Speaker 2>must be done with love? I didn't say that, God

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<v Speaker 2>said it. Now does that mean writing emails. Yeah, some

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<v Speaker 2>of you need to tape this verse to your computer,

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<v Speaker 2>and before you ever write an email, you need to think.

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<v Speaker 2>Everything I write must be done with love. Does this

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<v Speaker 2>include ordering fast food when you can't understand the speaker? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Everything you do must be done with love. Does it

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<v Speaker 2>include finding a parking spot when other three other people

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<v Speaker 2>want it? Everything you do must be done with love.

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<v Speaker 2>Does it mean including being nice to people who vote

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<v Speaker 2>differently than you. Everything you do must be done with love.

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<v Speaker 2>Does it include responding to people who attack you for

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<v Speaker 2>your faith? Yes? Everything you do must be done with love.

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<v Speaker 2>If you don't, you are missing the point of life.

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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Rick will be

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<v Speaker 1>back in just a moment with the rest of today's lesson.

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<v Speaker 3>Jesus said there's nothing more important than loving God and

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<v Speaker 3>loving others. That's why Pastor Rick created the forty Days

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<v Speaker 3>of Love Bible study that comes with a sixth session

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<v Speaker 3>DVD in workbook. In these sessions, Rick helps you understand

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<v Speaker 3>how deep and wide. God's Love is for you and

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<v Speaker 3>reveals how you can enjoy happy and successful relationships with

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<v Speaker 3>us by focusing on the spiritual principles of patience, kindness, truth,

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<v Speaker 3>and forgiveness. This resource is perfect for personal study, or

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<v Speaker 1>Now back to more from God's Word with Pastor Rick Warren.

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<v Speaker 2>Everything you do must be done with love? Does it

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<v Speaker 2>mean including being nice to people who vote differently than you?

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<v Speaker 2>Everything you do must be done with love? Does it

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<v Speaker 2>include responding to people who attack you for your faith. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>everything you do must be done with love. If you don't,

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<v Speaker 2>you are missing the point of life. I think this

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<v Speaker 2>is a great verse verse to memorize together before we

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<v Speaker 2>start forty Days of Love. Now you've heard me say

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<v Speaker 2>many times that in order to learn a verse, the

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<v Speaker 2>hardest part is to learn where it is in the Bible.

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<v Speaker 2>The reference point. We call that the address. First Corinthians,

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<v Speaker 2>sixteen fourteen. So when you memorize a verse, you say

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<v Speaker 2>the address before and after, because that's the hardest part

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<v Speaker 2>to remember. So let's look at the outline and let's

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<v Speaker 2>read this verse together. First Corinthians sixteen fourteen. Everything you

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<v Speaker 2>do must be done with love. First Corinthians sixteen fourteen. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>now here's the hand motions. Everything you do must be

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<v Speaker 2>done with love. First Corinthians sixteen fourteen. Okay, let's try

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<v Speaker 2>it together. First Corinthians sixteen fourteen. Everything you do must

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<v Speaker 2>be done with love. First Corinthians sixteen fourteen. Some of

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<v Speaker 2>you didn't do it. That was very unloving, So we're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna do it again. First Corinthians, sixteen fourteen. Everything you

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<v Speaker 2>do must be done with love. First Corinthians sixteen fourteen.

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<v Speaker 2>Very good class. Now let's try that. Oh, by the way,

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<v Speaker 2>what is First Corinthians sixteen fourteen. Everything you do must

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<v Speaker 2>be done with love? First Corinthians sixteen fourteen. And today

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<v Speaker 2>we're going to begin the journey of how you do

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<v Speaker 2>everything with love? Now, as we begin forty days of

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<v Speaker 2>love journey together, I thought it'd be helpful to start

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<v Speaker 2>with the definition of love. We throw this word around

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<v Speaker 2>and we use it now. I love hot dogs, I

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<v Speaker 2>that order, and not all in the same way. And

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<v Speaker 2>so what does it mean to love? So I went

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<v Speaker 2>to my twenty fourth volume encyclopedia at home, and I

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<v Speaker 2>looked up the word love to get a definition. And

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<v Speaker 2>I discovered that in that twenty four volume encyclopedia there

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<v Speaker 2>was not a single article on love. In fact, if

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<v Speaker 2>you looked up the word love, it said see emotion

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<v Speaker 2>about sex than we do about love. A lot of

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<v Speaker 2>love songs, love poems are not really about love. They're

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<v Speaker 2>give it, I'm going to take it. That's not love.

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<v Speaker 2>That's actually a lust song, not a love song. Lust

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<v Speaker 2>can never wait to get, love can always wait to give.

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<v Speaker 2>So what is love? Well, the Bible has a lot

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<v Speaker 2>to say about it, and I've been studying it for

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<v Speaker 2>You can just call me the love doctor. So today,

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<v Speaker 2>as we kick it off, we're going to look at

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<v Speaker 2>all that we're gonna do together in the next forty

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<v Speaker 2>days of love. Five things the Bible says about love.

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<v Speaker 2>Number one, if you're write and hews down, we love

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<v Speaker 2>because God loves us. God is love, and all love

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<v Speaker 2>comes from God. And we love because God loves us.

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<v Speaker 2>In First John four seven and eight, it says love

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<v Speaker 2>comes from God, for God is love. It doesn't say

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<v Speaker 2>God has love. It says God is love. And the

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<v Speaker 2>reason why God wants you to love, as I said,

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<v Speaker 2>is because He is love. It is his character, in

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<v Speaker 2>his essence. He wants us to be like him. And

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<v Speaker 2>God is the source of all love. If God wasn't loving,

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<v Speaker 2>there would be no love in the universe. All love

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<v Speaker 2>comes from God. And the reason you have the ability

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<v Speaker 2>to love is because you were made in the image

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<v Speaker 2>of God. That's what makes you different from rocks and plants.

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<v Speaker 2>God gave you that ability. You were made in His

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<v Speaker 2>image so you could do the two things you were

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<v Speaker 2>put on earth to do. Learn to love God and

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<v Speaker 2>learn to love other people. Life is all about love now,

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<v Speaker 2>the Bible says in fee John four nineteen, we love

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<v Speaker 2>because God first loved us. Circle God first. God is

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<v Speaker 2>always first in everything He takes the initiative. The only

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<v Speaker 2>reason you can love God or love anybody else is

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<v Speaker 2>because God first loved you, and He showed that love

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<v Speaker 2>by sending Jesus Christ to earth to die for you.

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<v Speaker 2>He showed that love by creating you, and he showed

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<v Speaker 2>that love by everything you have in life is a

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<v Speaker 2>gift of God's love. Love. We love because God first

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<v Speaker 2>loved us. You know, sometimes I'll talk to believers in

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<v Speaker 2>always feel like they're not measuring up and they're not

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<v Speaker 2>pleasing God, and God is always angry with them, and

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<v Speaker 2>they always carry a load of guilt around the whole time.

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<v Speaker 2>And I've heard many people say this. You know, my problem, Rick,

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<v Speaker 2>is I just don't love God enough. And I said, no, No,

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<v Speaker 2>that's not it. Your problem is not that you don't

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<v Speaker 2>much He loves you. Because if you realized how much

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<v Speaker 2>God loves you, extravagant, irresistible, unconditional love, you would have

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<v Speaker 2>to love him back. You could not not love God.

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<v Speaker 2>If you understood how much He loves you, you would

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<v Speaker 2>automatically be attracted to it. And the reason you don't

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<v Speaker 2>love God, you don't care about God, you don't serve God,

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<v Speaker 2>is you don't understand or feel how much He loves you.

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<v Speaker 2>So you have to start. If we're gonna talk about

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<v Speaker 2>got to first understand and feel how much God loves you.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's what I want to happen in your life

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<v Speaker 2>during these forty days. I don't want to just talk

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<v Speaker 2>about love, read about love, talk discuss about love. I

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<v Speaker 2>day that you finally fully understand how God loves you

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<v Speaker 2>completely unconditionally, you can't make God stop loving you. You

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<v Speaker 2>can try, but you will fail. When you feel that

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<v Speaker 2>unconditional love. You know what, You're just gonna start cutting

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<v Speaker 2>people a lot of slack. You're not gonna be as

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<v Speaker 2>angry as you've been. You're not gonna You're gonna be

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<v Speaker 2>more patient, You're gonna be more forgiving, You're gonna be

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<v Speaker 2>more merciful. You're gonna let other people have grace. The

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<v Speaker 2>reason why you see people who are judgmental, who are sarcastic,

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<v Speaker 2>who are mean spirited. The reason why you see people

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<v Speaker 2>who are angry, self righteous, always putting other people down,

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<v Speaker 2>is because they're putting themselves down. They don't feel good

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<v Speaker 2>about themselves. They don't feel loved, they don't feel forgiven,

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<v Speaker 2>they don't feel grace, they feel guilty. They feel bad

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<v Speaker 2>about themselves. And if I feel bad about myself, I

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<v Speaker 2>certainly don't want you feeling good about you So during

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<v Speaker 2>forty days of Love, we're gonna have to do some

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<v Speaker 2>healing in your heart because you have been hurt in life.

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<v Speaker 2>You've been hurt by parents, or you've been hurt by

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<v Speaker 2>peers on school, or you've been hurt by professionals. Are

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<v Speaker 2>you been hurt by partners? Maybe some of you have

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<v Speaker 2>been abused, or you've been misused, or you've been rejected,

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<v Speaker 2>or you've been abandoned, or you've been betrayed, and you've

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<v Speaker 2>got scabs on your heart, and we're gonna have to

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<v Speaker 2>do some gentle surgery on your heart because you can't

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<v Speaker 2>love others until you feel loved. Let me say that again.

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<v Speaker 2>We're gonna have to come back to this several times

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<v Speaker 2>this in the next forty days. You cannot give to

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<v Speaker 2>others what you have not received yourself. You cannot give

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<v Speaker 2>to others what you don't possess. Unlovely people are unloved people,

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<v Speaker 2>Hurt people hurt people. It's like a bottle of toothpaste.

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<v Speaker 2>When you squeeze a bottle of toothpaste, what's gonna come

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<v Speaker 2>out whatever is inside it. And if you're filled with

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<v Speaker 2>anger and you're filled with impatience, and you don't feel loved.

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<v Speaker 2>Guess what, You're not gonna be able to love anybody else.

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<v Speaker 1>a moment. But first, one of the main reasons Pastor

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<v Speaker 1>Rick started Daily Hope was to share the hope of

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<v Speaker 1>Jesus Christ with people around the world. And because of

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<v Speaker 1>your prayers and financial gifts, we're now reaching over thirty

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<v Speaker 1>five million people every month, but there are still billions

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<v Speaker 1>you prayerfully consider giving a gift to Daily Hope today

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<v Speaker 1>when you do, we'll send you Pastor ricks forty Days

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<v Speaker 1>of Love video based Bible study to say thanks for

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<v Speaker 1>your support of this ministry. Here's Pastor Rick to tell

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<v Speaker 1>you more.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus says that the two most important things you can

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<v Speaker 2>do while you hear on earth are to love God

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<v Speaker 2>with all your heart and to love your neighbor as yourself.

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<v Speaker 2>In other words, life is all about love now, as believers,

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<v Speaker 2>it's not just enough to talk about love, or to

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<v Speaker 2>read about love, or to discuss love. We must show it.

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<v Speaker 2>We must exhibit it by the way we treat other people. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>the Bible says that we do this. We learn to

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<v Speaker 2>be genuinely loving people by relying on the love that

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<v Speaker 2>God has for us. That's why I put together a

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<v Speaker 2>six session study kit called forty Days of Love. It

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<v Speaker 2>includes a study guide and a six session DVD that

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<v Speaker 2>will teach you the habits of a loving heart. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>you can go through it by yourself, but really, how

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<v Speaker 2>are you going to learn to love by yourself? You

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<v Speaker 2>need to do it in a small group with two

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<v Speaker 2>and some neighbors and say, let's learn how to really love,

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<v Speaker 2>and let's study this together for forty days. Now. Forty

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<v Speaker 2>Days of Love is going to teach you why love

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<v Speaker 2>matters most more than anything else, and it's going to

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<v Speaker 2>teach you what the Bible means when it says that

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<v Speaker 2>love is patient, and love is kind, and love speaks

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<v Speaker 2>the truth. Love keeps no record of wrongs. Love is forgiving. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>I want to tell you something. This is a life

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<v Speaker 2>changing study. It changed my life when I did it,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's going to change your life and those that

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<v Speaker 2>you share it with. And if you really want to

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<v Speaker 2>grow spiritually, you've got to learn how to love. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>This month, we're offering the forty Days of Love study

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<v Speaker 2>kit for a financial gift to Daily Hope ministries. I

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