 church giving me a hand. Can I have a praise this morning? Joy. And if you've got the joy of the lateness to sing this song, then I want you to get out and greet somebody that already said it to somebody, but turn to the person beside you and say, I'm glad because they might not like you sitting next to them. You may be seated in God's house this morning if you can. I bless you for being here this morning. Amen. We're so glad to see you all here. So glad that you made Pace similar your home this morning to be here. And if you're here, then whether it's you or with your family at the end of service, if you'll step out into the four year over to the left hand side, we have a place called guest central. If you'll step in there, we want to get some information about you, say how you can stay connected with our church, let you know about what's going on and then pass some mystery to have a special gift. Just for your own vote, give all of our guests that are either here or watching from around the world, let them know that we're welcoming them. If you're watching this morning, we're so glad that you have joined us here at Pace Assembly. This whole year that we're doing has been back to the Bible. We hadn't done it in a couple of weeks, so we left the same ticket that we've left under the same seat every week for the past two weeks. So reach underneath there. You might be the one that gets that because we're going to give away Bible this morning to somebody who has it. It's right over here. All right. Amen. Did y'all just make a little ding-dong thing back there? Did you hear that? Did anybody else hear that by me? Okay. Well, maybe that was just me. Sounded like a price is right thing, like the winner. I don't know. Lord, if you're speaking to me, just tell me now to get off the platform. If that's, I mean, that's, oh no, anyway. What announcement I want to bring to you? Oh, Lord. Thank you because if it goes off, I want to hear it. One announcement I do want to bring to you before we go any further. If you're planning on becoming a member here at Pace Assembly, our starting point class will start next Sunday, September 3rd at 9 a.m. If you're planning on being a part of that, normally if you're wanting to get a part in some type of ministry here at the church, we ask everyone to go through this class. It's a four-week class to let you know about our church and different things and how you can become a member here at Pace Assembly. So it's called starting point to four-week class. It begins next Sunday, September 3rd at 9 a.m. If you're wanting to be a part of that and wanting to go to that class, then please go online and register online so we can know if you're going to be a part of that. But then again, that starts next Sunday at 9 a.m. So make sure you're here for that. I'm glad not only being in God's house to worship this morning, but I'm also glad to worship in our giving this morning. How many of you know it's a privilege and an honor to give this morning? And again, we ask God, we don't give God our leftovers. We don't give God just what we have, our crumbs. We give God our first fruits because he deserves it. He owns it all. He owns it all and he's not saying, I don't need it. No, no, no, I just want to see how faithful you are to give back to me. That's what it is. And showing God where your heart is at this morning. So there are ways you can give you. If you're giving in cash, you can grab an envelope, drop it in the black buckets as you leave this morning. If you're watching online, there's a place right there for you to click to give or you can give on your app. Whatever the, you know, whatever you want to do this morning. And whatever you give this morning, whether it's little or a lot, does not matter. Whatever you give this morning, I know God will bless you for that this morning. How many of you know that there is nothing that can separate us from the love of God? What God died on the cross for your sins and mine, the bloodline was drawn and nothing can get past the blood this morning. Do you believe that this morning? Raise your hands if you believe that this morning. Amen. Amen. That's your testimony. Everybody get on your feet and say, Thank Jesus. Take just a moment, lift your hands towards that expression under the Tell him how you feel about the fact that he took the blood and washed away your sins. Come on church, open that heart in your mouth this morning. Hallelujah. About the blood of Jesus applied to your heart and life. Come on, give him glory for it this morning. Get in there. Thank you Jesus. I want you to look at two or three people and tell them, Thank God for the blood. Tell them I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the blood of Jesus. Praise God. You may be seated for just a moment. I'm thankful for God's grace and His mercy upon us today, aren't you? Praise and the glory this morning. I've told you and you know that I've, it's about the third day that I've been able to put on some shoes. But pressing through. But more than that, they called this past week and said, Reverend, you don't have to worry about it. There is no cancer anywhere around. So I say, say it again. You might get tired of me saying it, but I think I'm going to say it again. I want you to say it again. Amen. When the Lord does something in your life, you make sure that you give him continuous praise. Amen. Praise God. I want to encourage you to, I just thank God. I don't have it here. We'll have it for you next weekend on Mission Sunday. But I want to thank God for what you have been so faithful in your giving and all that's taken place. As we speak today, there are efforts that are happening in Washington State and other locations with convoy of hope that is ministering to the needs of people on the ground. And I'm really impressed and thankful for the ministry of convoy of hope because as I understand it, as I understand it, they were on the ground moving before even government officials and so forth were there. FEMA said it for Hawaii that they would give them a one time $700 check and that was a week and a half after the destruction of the fires there in Maui. But thanks to people who love the Lord first and because you love the Lord, you love people. I got a small smattering of that right up here. Wait a minute. Let me say it like this. Maybe you love people, but you don't really like the person you're sitting next to. I'm not sure. But nonetheless, because you love people that you've never seen, because you gave, convoy of hope didn't have to wait and pray about and sell some chicken dinners to get the supplies that are needed there. They were on the ground doing it for the glory of God. Come on, somebody. So we can't wait because we don't know when disasters may pop up like this week. So if you haven't already began to prepare for storms that are circling out there in the Gulf of Mexico and according to the forecast, I don't have to be a meteorologist to be able to figure out when they make an arrow that points straight north. Somebody said, well pastor, the cone of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You haven't lived here long enough. I watched, I think it was Eloise or Frederick bounce across the whole state of Florida and back to Mississippi and Louisiana before it decided, hey, we'll come visit you in Pensacola. So I want to encourage you, and this is your pastor talking to you. You be prepared for what's taking place. Go ahead and get your supplies. I was telling some of them before the service began this morning that because there's been thousands of people that have moved into this area, the supplies that you've known to be there on the shelf will probably get scarfed up real quick. So I want to encourage you to be a people that is prepared for whatever takes place. And you're not just preparing for yourself, but you're preparing to help serve others in the time of need, in the event that we need to do that. Can you say amen? Pace assembly has always been of that mindset, so you be praying. And you know, I don't have a problem praying that God puts His great, big, almighty finger right in the eye of it and kills it right out there somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico. I want to mention to you very quickly, just before I preach this morning, don't forget, please mark your calendar for the upcoming Pace Family Fests. It will happen in November. You can see what's taking place online with that and upcoming announcements about that. And if you have not yet registered for Prophecy Files Conference coming up on Saturday and Sunday, September 16th and 17th, I promise you, this is going to be an event that you will not want to miss. On that Saturday morning sessions with Bill Federer, Jeff Kinley and Shane Warren, and then the afternoon, three more sessions with them. And then Sunday morning, I'll be preaching a Bible Prophecy message. And Sunday night, our keynote speaker, Pastor John Hagee. So I don't want you to miss it if you're planning on being here on Saturday and you'd like to be able to have lunch. There's a $10 cost for that lunch. The conference is free. We will receive an offering. But I want you to get the information because things are happening so fast. And we recognize that Jesus Christ is coming sooner than you can bat your eyes, amen. So I want to encourage you to be a part of what's taking place there. And don't forget that. And let me also mention to you, if you haven't been attending and being in service on Wednesday nights, this past Wednesday night, I just encourage you to be here. I'm dealing in a subject. And of course, we've got something for the whole family. Children's ministry is going on. Rangers and missionettes are impact out there. I'll never be able to get impact out of my head. But they're out there. Boys and girls ministry is going on. Ignite student ministries. They've been busting out the seams upstairs there. Ninety-some-odd kids have passed few weeks. And so we're thrilled about what God's doing there. And you make sure you're here on Wednesday night. We're doing a study on the renewing of your mind. In the time we're in, that's the battleground. That's the place where we are going to fight the fight. With the mind, the Bible says you serve the Lord. So I want to encourage you to make plans to be here Wednesday night. Don't let anything break that up. You make sure that you're here. Bring somebody with you. I believe it will be a blessing to you. Listen, I know when I have family members that are watching online that tell me they're enjoying the study, there must be something more to this than me for sure. So I just encourage you to make plans to be here and don't forget it. Praise God. If you'll stand with me this morning and open your Bibles up to the book of John, you may not even need to do this, but the book of John, thank you for all of you that are watching online this morning. From around the world, we welcome you from Kenya, the Philippines, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Illinois, Washington, Wisconsin, Kansas this morning, Brazos Valley, Texas. We love you. We're glad that you're with us. Home folks, would you let all of the folks that are watching online know that they are blessed and we're blessed to have them. Amen. Open your Bibles to John 3, 16. Today, I want to preach to you from the Word of God in John 3 and 16 on what I identify and others have said is the deepest theological thought known to humanity. And that is the love of God. I want you to look at John 3, 16. In fact, I want you to pick up in John 3 and 15. John 3 and 15. If you found that, say, Good Amen. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God so loved the world. Come on, let's say it together. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Verse 17. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. Can you say Amen to that today? Thank y'all, thank y'all. I believe God wants to speak our word into our hearts, and I want you to open up your hearts. Can I take you to one other passage of Scripture? Go over to 1 John. 1 John chapter number 4. 1 John 4. 1 John chapter number 4 and verse number 7. If you found that, say, Good Amen. If you're still looking, say, Hold Up. 1 John 4 verse number 7 says, Beloved, let us love one another. Lord, Lord. How about we stop right there and say, Sealah for a moment. Beloved, let us love one another. The Bible says, For love is of God. And everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God. Did you get that? For God is love. God is love. God doesn't just do love. He is love. He's the absolute of all the definition of love. In this was manifest the love of God toward us because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him. Herein is love. Not that we loved Him, loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the perpetuation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us and is perfected in us. Can you say a man to that? I want to preach to you for a few moments this morning on this incredible profound thought that comes all the way from the nursery school of every church. It is this. Jesus loves me. This I know. Look at your neighbor tell me this I know. I got in trouble last week because my brother got on the phone with me up in Alabama who's probably watching right now and said, listen, you know me, we were all raised back in the day when we went to church and he said, I love all the songs y'all are doing. But he said, every once in a while he loved me. Now my brother can't sing but he did try his best to yodel this out and I want you to help me with this right here. I was sinking deep in sin I was far from the peaceful show deeply. Jeremiah 31 and 3 says with a never lasting love how many of you understand it's the Lord who has done the drawing today this is the most profound thought that I can give to you in all of theology it is the fact that Jesus Christ loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so. There are too many believers that are living beneath the privileges of God they go through their worship form and exercise of religion without a deep knowledge and experience of the power of God's love whenever you talk about love to some people they cower away or they shy away from the subject but I want you to know God's love is powerful love starts and stops with our God he created love out of his own nature God is spirit the Bible says God is light love these are the attributes of God he doesn't do light he is light he doesn't do love he is the epitome of love when the world talks a lot and sings a lot about love most of it has to do with the eros in the Greek the erotic love and all that kind of love knows to do is take but according to God's word the love that God offers to us is the agape kind of love it is love beyond our imagination or thinking the world is full of broken hearted abused and used people relationships and perversions of love misunderstood kind of love they're searching for love today to fill the void and the emptiness of their life and only God's love and the knowledge and experience of that satisfy an empty soul the need for genuine love in your life is something that is so required someone said if I did not have it I would literally die that's the reason why you're not dead right now because all of your friends and family and everybody else may not love you but Jesus said I love you and you can't do a thing about it now I'm preaching this this morning because this is family Sunday and the simplest and greatest and deepest theological thought is being brought this morning so that even the smallest child and even those with college degrees can understand that Jesus loves me this I know love is not an emotion it is an action and we are called and commended to love God with all of our heart with all of our soul with all of our mind and with all of our strength and to love our neighbor as ourselves Bible says in the last days that the love of many would wax cold towards God in fact he said it would translate into something that would be so perverse and so horrible that men would hate one another and be offended at one another welcome to the time we're living in we're getting along and loving one another is almost something when it actually happens is amazing for many people but I want you to know something as believers as Christians it is critical for us to display and demonstrate the love of God that has been poured out into our lives without measure so this morning I want to drop a few things I'm not going to try to work too hard unless you work me hard and right now you're working me real hard I want to drop some things on you this morning to tell you about the love of God that he has for you using John 3.16 as a backdrop for the Bible says in John 3.16 let's break it down a little bit for God some might say for God God is love and so God for God means that God's love is unchangeable because God is unchangeable all genuine love starts with God you've heard people tell you oh I love you and you never see him again in fact let me put it plain for all of this generation you see little marks on your Facebook page that has a heart and it says I love you they don't mean it I love you God's love is unchangeable God's love is not fickle God's love is giving and receiving taking and receiving God's love is always coming to us in more abundance than what we will ever be able to give back to him hear the promise and prophecy from Deuteronomy chapter 7 the Lord did not set his love upon you talking about the nation of Israel or the people of Israel nor choose you because you were more a number than any people for you were the fewest all people but because the Lord loved you I want you to get your head wrapped around this this morning and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn into your fathers half the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of the bondman from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt know therefore that the Lord thy God he is God and the faithful God which keepeth covenant to us see with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generation pastor that's just for the the nation of Israel know it transcends here when he says he keeps that covenant to a thousand generation he's talking to us today another words you can't shut God's love off and there's no way to diminish God's love to us we can't stop God from loving us and I don't care who I know there have been plenty that have jumped on the Facebook pages of pace assembly and prophecy files recently who've tried to condemn and throw that shade and all that kind of stuff on me but I came to tell you there's nothing you can do to escape the almighty unchangeable love of God he loves you where you are he loves you right now not you more than anybody else because God is unchangeable nothing can move us from the position of being loved by God did you know that you can't sin enough to get God not to like you God loves you I'm talking about loves you let me say it like this God loves even you let me go a little deeper God knows everything about you past present and future and still loves even you and you and you and all of y'all nothing can change the way God feels about us that's a hard thing for us to wrap our mind around because we judge others and we think that's the way God judges us in fact we think because we're American God is American let me step on some let me kick down some sacred cows right here we think because we sing the way we do that God likes our singing better but I'm telling you he don't love you anymore than he does the Chinese or the Japanese or the Russian or the Ukrainian come on somebody or the Muslim or anybody else I don't care what religion you call there's only one true God he is Jehovah God above all he loves all the same way and he's the God of the Muslims he's the God of the Jews he's God of the Christian he's the God of the atheists did you know that God loves atheists they may not love him but he loves them you can't do anything about that can you I mean when somebody says I hate you but you love them back nothing can alter the fact that God is going to continue his love to us no matter what we say or what we do receiving God's love in Christ Jesus heals us on the inside first and allows us to feel value worth respect and love for our self a proper self image there is no greater blessing than to know that the love of God is surrounding my life and that it is unchangeable now here's the question I give to you behind each one of these that I will share with you this morning why should I know that God is unchangeable because when the enemy comes or the world comes or your friends come to you and tell you that God treats you different than he does me you can say oh no that's not it God is so unchangeable that he's no respecter to persons what he's done for me he'll do for you for God so loved that is a term that I would share with you this morning to say that God's love is unexplainable and explain it what do you mean by that pastor I'm saying what he says in Ephesians 3 19 and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that you might be filled with all the fullness of God what is he saying he's saying that the love of God passes all of our understanding that God's love is not something that we can know with just our mind we must know it by experience and we must accept it by faith to our hearts understand that just to try to figure out the awesome mind of God is an impossibility he said the love that I have for you is so amazing that it will surpass all of your human reasoning to think of the reasons why I can't love you and God said I'll step over all of that and come where you are the only thing that can satisfy the bleeding broken hurting hearts of all humanity explainable love of God that's the reason why I believe that Andre Crouch was inspired and said I don't know why Jesus loved me I don't know why Jesus cared I don't know why he sacrificed his life oh but I'm glad I'm glad he did so glad he did I'm glad he did I don't know about you but I'm still glad that the Lord I can't explain it all I can say to you is why do I love my children and my grandchildren so it's not something I have to work up whether they're good or whether they're bad whether they draw with crayons on the wall come on if you're a real good grandparent you've got a crayon wall come on baby I'll give you the crayons to ride on the wall I know your mom and daddy won't do it but I'll do it because you come over here to Papa's house why is it because there is no debate it is automatic it is without thought it is unexplainable how that I'll step in between them and the evil with an automatic response because I love them unconditionally and it is unexplainable to me there's some reaction that will come whenever the enemy tries to get between me and my kids and my grandkids I go into automatic motion do you understand it's unexplainable because God will step into the situation because he loves us so much why should I know that God's love is unexplainable because whenever people try to come to you with their philosophy and theology and tell you well God only loves this group of people and believe me there are people in their ignorance according to Calvinists the only ones that God loves are those that are predestined to go to heaven already well if that's the case a large percentage of us won't make it because there's only a selected group of people that's going to go sounds kind of like a Hitler device to me only the blonde hair blue eyes there was a day when I would have gotten in but this silver is changing things I want you to know he so loved us it is unexplainable how that God loves us and I know this deep theological truth you have it so ingrained that you've already clocked me out because you already know John 3 16 but I'm going to persuade you to know to open up your heart and mind here today because there may come a time when you cannot explain how that God stepped into my life and changed me or he did this situation and why did he do it not because he loves you anymore because he loves me or anybody else but because he loved you he set his heart towards you for God so loved the world he still loved the world God's love is unlimited it's not just unexplainable but it's unlimited in other words God goes beyond all human capacity he has no boundaries of his love God's love knows everything past present and future you better hold on for the ride right now God's love reaches over prejudice over race over creed over nationality over political party over religion over social status God's love surpasses all of that and said I love the one who was unlovable to all human beings so if you happen to catch this message and you're sitting in prison this morning and you feel like God doesn't love you and somehow that humanity has thrown you away I want you to know there's a God in heaven who sees right where you are in that cell and you can't get so locked up into solitary confinement that God will not break through all of that and tell you that I love you like I love everybody else in this world and you may not like what I'm about to preach to you but I'm going to preach it anyway God loves the lesbian he loves the homosexual he loves everybody no matter who they are where they are and what they've done well pastor it's an exclusive club oh no it's not exclusive at all as a matter of fact you are a testimony of the reason why God passed everything else and loved you enough to let you and me get in the building because of his grace and mercy he loved us you better go ahead and praise him right now because see there's a dividing situation a dividing spirit in the land today would say you Christians don't love these that are sinners oh no no no we love like God loves that's the way God said for us to do it but we hate the sin I hate the sin of my own life come on now and the Bible said until you hate that sin you'll keep running after it but when you hate the sin but love the sinner now you're moving with God's love God loved the whole world I said he loves the whole world I know it's hard for you to wrap your mind around that God loves Saddam Hussein but he did see I can't get no way man's there he gets he gets tight because we think we're a club but this is not a club this is the Lord's church and I know in your club you'll only let certain people in but in God's church he throws a wide world open and said come on in all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you a rest God's love for everyone the same as a matter of fact no one has more or less of God's love in fact I am persuaded ladies and gentlemen according to the scripture in John 3 17 for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world that's not his plan but that the world through him might be saved then why pastor do I need to know that God loved the whole world that it is a global effect and it is unlimited because when people come to you or the enemy comes to you and says God don't love that one you say wait a minute if he love me he loves them and don't we need a good baptism in the love of God from Christians to people all around we got shooting because of race we got shootings because of a social status we got all kind of mess going on any love that's displayed in this world it's going to have to come to the people who God is sending into the world to show love one towards another I bet you won't have any problem if you're drowning in the Gulf of Mexico what color the hand is God's love is unlimited verse 16 and John 3 16 says for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son we're just breaking this scripture down this morning love is only begotten son what does that mean God's love is sacrificial in other words you can't say you love without sacrificing something don't tell me you love me and you don't do anything to show me you love me come on somebody according 1st Corinthians 1st Corinthians chapter 13 this love is not self-serving it's not puffed up full of pride it doesn't behave unseemingly the Bible says it doesn't seek its own love goes overboard to rescue you I'm going to try that on again love goes overboard to rescue it doesn't stay on the boat and say throw him a life raft God's love jumps in the water and grabs you by the hand and pulls you out you're going to get that this afternoon and shout all over your living room here's what I give you from Romans chapter 5 verse 8 but God commended his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners while we were yet sinners I've been studying this book for a long time and that's one that I've always had trouble I had to pause that every time in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us the only argument I can come up with is that God must have loved me more when I was a sinner because he sacrificed himself to get me in the kingdom y'all didn't hear what I said he commended his love toward us in other words the writers say he demonstrated his love toward us in other words don't tell me you love me baby and you don't send me flowers anymore don't tell me you love me and you leave me come on somebody God demonstrated his love by doing what by sending his only begotten son his only begotten son this marks out the Muslim thought because Muslims say that God has no son but the book says he sent his only begotten son y'all better hear me this morning he sent his only begotten son whose name is Jesus born of a virgin went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil for God was with him and on purpose gave up his life for us before we were ever taking our first step into this God demonstrated he said before you take your first breath I'm already going to do what's necessary for you to have an abundant life just by you receiving the love that I have for you and what I've done on the cross he was beaten by the love of God he was bruised and spat upon because he loved us he was crucified on an old rugged cross because he loved us he loved us God didn't say that he loved us from way up in heaven and I hope y'all make it good the bible said in John chapter number one that Jesus the word became flesh and dwelt among us he came down here among us and put on the human form of flesh never setting aside his deity his lordship his godness he did take upon himself the humanity of us all and we esteemed him afflicted and bruised and wounded and beaten for our cause and yet ladies and gentlemen we have not the ability to understand that it is so sacrificial that God said I'm not going to send somebody else to do this job I love you enough to sacrifice and demonstrate my love toward you that's something that the world can't wrap their mind around because God didn't just love you from heaven he came down to us and loved us why is it so important that you have that understanding why should I know that pastor because somebody needs to know that God's sin is only begotten son have you told anybody lately about that this is really really pediatric understanding to tell you if you haven't told someone recently that the only begotten of the father Jesus Christ came with such love that died for them then you are not doing the work of the believer in these last days you hear the preaching and the teaching from behind this pulpit you're reading the Word of God and you understand the signs of the times that are all around and the urgency of the hour ladies and gentlemen there shouldn't be anybody that you're coming in contact with on a daily basis that the Spirit of God is not leading you to drop a seed of Christ inside of their life to water the seed that may have already been there or perhaps to reap the harvest and talking to them about Jesus because if we have Jesus living on the inside of us and he came down from glory and deposited himself on the inside of me then mine should be sacrificial love for other people as well and we need something this is God's love I'm talking about for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son and I love verse 16 says for whosoever look at your neighbor right now and tell him you're a whosoever you didn't even know who you were you were an alien an outcast of the nation of Israel but now you become a whosoever look at your neighbor and tell him you're a whosoever if you didn't know who you were whosoever believeth in him what does this mean it means God's love is unconditional unconditional meaning that nothing is required before God loves you you can't do anything to earn it he gave it to you when you didn't deserve it one of the first Bibles that I was ever given was given to be my wife I was never ever married at Thompson chain reference Bible I love that Bible still got it on the shelf Thompson chain and one day I heard the enemy say and I know I'm the only one that's ever heard this before in your life my life not only does God not love you but you're not saved and so instead of me asking to give me an answer a definition give me something I went straight to the source I said God I need to know an answer to this accusation in my ear and he took me I haven't marked to this day in my Bible and I settled the issue a long time ago here's what first John 4 in 19 says we love him because he first loved us was that mean pastor don't you ever doubt the unconditional unlimited sacrificial unconditional love of Almighty God when God said I love you he was the first one loving before you ever thought that you were could love him he said I've loved you with an everlasting love long before you were ever in this world I already have my love set towards you you can't earn it and God gave it first it's a covenant of love an everlasting covenant why am I preaching this to you and on family Sunday because ladies and gentlemen the most neglected and unloved demographic of people in our society today has obviously risen to the occasion by the movie sound of freedom where thousands tens of thousands of children are being abused and unloved and used and if we ever needed Christians not only for the children you have in your own home but for the children who walk up here on Wednesday night whose parents do not even come to this church but because they say I feel love in this place they keep going week after week it's not because of the hot dogs it's not because of the games they play up there it's because of the presence of the love of God that compels us that ought to be the aura around your life every day it's a covenant of love it's not a covenant of law 1 John 4 and 16 says and we have known and believed the love of God toward us that God is love and he that dwelleth in love and God in him why do I need to know that it's unconditional why do I need to know that whosoever will can come because it's not just who you think should come I want my family to get into heaven so do I but I'm standing in front of this judgment bound eternal bound congregation this morning and those watching online to tell you whosoever will let him come to Jesus today you don't know what I've done pastor God said I don't care what you've done come on somebody I don't care what you've done oh you've got five husbands in the thingamajig Jesus said anything new I found that over there in Samaria come on turned her around and made her a prophetess and a preacher and started revival in the city of Samaria don't tell me that God can't use you well you don't know how many times I've been divorced you don't know what I've had God said I don't care about none of that come to me all you that labor and are heavily and I will give you rest for your soul now my friends if there's no rest in God then we need to run out of here if there's no love of God we need to run out of here but because you're in this building somewhere you felt the long arm of God's love strike you into this place and I don't know about you but I'm still glad about it but for all these years that he loved me enough to let me in I wish some of you knew who you were sitting beside some of you are sitting beside a liar this morning some of you are sitting beside a thief a robber somebody who steals somebody you're sitting beside a gossip mouth this morning come on say amen now somebody all locked up know where to go you're sitting beside somebody who's messed up before somebody's marriage is messed up if you knew who you were sitting beside this morning you might get up and move except for the fact that when you really look at your own life you recognize that if it had not been for the Lord who was on my side I wouldn't dare be sitting up in this building this morning I wish I had a church in here that knows where God's brought you from and it wasn't the law that got you here it was the love of God that pulled you in the love of God I'm looking around this room thinking about some folks here in this room this morning who I've had the chance to be able to perform their marriage ceremony before I always love watching what happens prior to the marriage ceremony when they pull up at my office for counseling they're sitting almost in the same seat with bucket seats in the car while he runs around and does something that's so much of civility that you rarely see it anymore he goes and opens the door puts his arm out to make sure she don't trip and let's go in to the pastor's office and talk about our marriage ceremony y'all don't like me talking truth this morning some of y'all are so locked up right now men are fixing to hit the door by the ask them an always important question it seems obvious but always ask do you love each other now see if there's a pause and there has been before the girl who's been waiting and preparing for this since she was nine little doll houses and all that kind of stuff building up all that kind of stuff waiting for the moment and the guy who's been playing with Tonka trucks and had got a clue sorry it's just the way it is watched it too much usually the pause is on his part she'll say oh yes he'll say can you get it out of your mouth a head nod won't do how many of you that have been married for a few years know a head nod will not do this is a good time for your wife sitting beside you to hear you say oh yes pastor amen cause some of you still gave me a head nod I told her I loved her 1952 that order be on her yeah yeah you keep on with that knucklehead and you'll raise up another generation that won't know how to love their spouse and that will continue as a curse until somebody comes into the love of God and said you know what there's gonna be some good days there's gonna be some bad days there's gonna be some in the middle but it makes no difference I'll love you with the love of God it's an action on my part I said it's not emotional I love him so much you can miles well dry them tears up dry it up my daddy said dry it up why you dry it up because them tears ain't gonna make no difference talk to me somebody next weekend starts college football listen to him right now my God I just spoke the Assemblies of God Church of God college SEC there it is right there I'm watching the game now's not a good time for me to take the garbage out I don't know why I got on that I just want to let you know I tell you why I got on that because this is getting me out of the hole right now you understand what I'm talking about I'm preaching to y'all I'm preaching to me say God's love is unconditional ah that's beautiful can you say God's love is inseparable you better know this for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believe in him should not pair doesn't mean they could not they should not God says to us as long as you're in this earth I want to let you know something who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sore Paul said for I'm persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present or things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus I want you to know God's love is not willing that any should perish the only separation will be if you leave this world without God in this life God said there is nothing that can separate you let a devil get between you and the love of God and God will put his big toe out and crush him to the ground and show you I love you more than anything else in this life nothing has the power to get between us and God's love nothing can break it nothing can destroy it and he said I don't want any to perish you should not perish you should not perish the love of God is constraining you to such a degree that you should not perish if you perish it's because you rejected the love of God that you have no comprehension of how deep how wide how high it is for you and me it's inseparable God's love is inseparable where can I go where can I go that the love of God is not already meeting me there what can I do that the love of God is not standing there waiting on me where can I ascend that God is not standing on the top of that apex to let me know that the love of God is still here come on somebody I don't care what's going on from a fox hole all the way to the apex of a mountain top at Everest the love of God is so vast and so wide listen to me I'm feeling charged in pressure behind my back pushed to the Holy Ghost this morning you know why because I'm telling you something that the world will never tell you that God loves you Jesus loves you and he loves you so much that he'll never separate himself from who you are somebody ought to give him about 10 seconds worth of praise right there I'm just teaching you a lesson this morning is God so loved the world that David's only begotten son that whosoever believed in him would not perish but have everlasting life everlasting life what is everlasting life that means God's love is unstoppable who can stop the love of God it's impossible the song of Solomon says for love is strong as death chapter 8 verse 7 says many waters cannot quench your love the floods drowned it God's love is not intimidated God's love will go anywhere and cross any border it will go into a prison this morning and pull out a Paul and Silas while they're singing in the middle of the jail God's love will get down in a fiery furnace and cause a Shadrach, Meshach and a Bendigo to walk out without even the smell of smoke on them God's love will sit down and lay down with Daniel and the lion's den God's love, hey backslider God's love is married to you he will never divorce you from his love God's love will pursue the prodigal all the way to the pigpen God's love will stand up for righteousness God's love will pursue the runaway bride come on back, Hosea I got something for you Gomer I got something for you come on back here I want you to know you're not meant to live like that you're not meant to live down and underneath the circumstance in the father's house I love you so much that no matter what you've done your prostitution can't keep me from loving you you're hormone and running with every man and shooting drugs in your veins and trying to commit suicide it's not gonna go without the love of God he loves you more than you can ever imagine and if you hear me screaming in this microphone may it get into your children today so that they won't have a world tell them that everybody hates them he loves you and you can't do a thing about it Jesus loves the drug addict he loves the one in the crack house he loves you so much that he's able to break the bondage and the yoke of that bondage upon your life he loves you so much that he'll weep with you at the grave but command the stone to be rolled away and command the one that he loved, Lazarus come on out of that grave because he loved him why did he resurrect me he didn't have to resurrect him he did it because he loved him that tells me if I die tomorrow and they throw that six dollar loaded dirt up on my head God loves me six feet down underneath the sod so much that when the trumpet of God sound he'll come and raise me up because he loves me that much I don't know how you feel about it this morning but I just got some news for you Jesus loves you ain't got it Jesus loves Jesus loves come on somebody I don't even love myself sometimes but Jesus still loves me come close to closing to tell you that the love of God is consequential accepting the love of God through what Jesus Christ has done on the cross means I'll never be lonely again if somebody watching online right now sitting all by yourself you're clicking on and you watch the service this morning you feel like that you're over there by yourself but I came to tell you that the spirit of God is all fill in that room and Jesus said I'll never leave you and I'll never forsake you that's a benefit of knowing Jesus Christ I wish I could run this morning I'm just telling you Jesus loves me so much that whenever He comes into my life I'll never be lonely again I said I'll never be lonely again I might be alone but I'll never be lonely I might not have you around me you may not want to be my friend or anything like that but that makes no difference I've got a friend that sticks closer than a brother and whenever I need him he is always there have I got a witness in this room this morning has he ever been there in the midnight hour when you needed him when you called on him at three o'clock in the morning because nobody was there did he show up in the power of his grace and mercy I'll never be lonely the world wants you to be lonely but God said I'll never leave you I'll never forsake you I'll never be forsaken God's always got me on his mind I said God's always got me on his mind he's thinking about me when I get up in the bed when I lay down at night close my eyes and I'm unconscious to this world God still got me on his mind he said I'll never leave you and I'll never forsake you come on somebody I've had plenty of people said I'll stand with you I'll be right there with you next thing you know I turn around and they are gone can I tell you there's never been a time when I turned around and said Jesus are you there that I didn't feel the touch of the master strong hand ladies and gentlemen I came to tell you Jesus loves you and when you come into that deep revelation you too can be a child Jesus said unless you become as this little child's faith you can't even get into the kingdom of heaven Jesus said I'll never leave you I'll never be out of his care you better hear me this morning Jesus loves me so much while other people are hunting something to eat he'll provide for me I'll be right out of heaven y'all didn't hear what I said the reason why I'm going to say it again is because I need to say it again Taylor and I were at two funerals on Friday had to do one in Crestview and then preach one down in Fort Walton and we drove past the hill there on Hollywood Boulevard where the old daily news used to be they're selling the property coming down Eglin Parkway right down there and he looked over and said that is that where the that's where the daily news used to be the newspaper of death and assembly I said yeah it looks like they're selling it but I said let me tell you about this I said that's the piece of property right there that your grandparents on your mama's side the Barnettes they owned this entire thing it was a hill at the time I said this is the place where your uncle buddy my uncle stood out in the middle of that place with all them tall pine trees and he went in and saw my grandmother one day and his mother and said hey she's selling some fish she popped that wrinkly spearmint gum and said well then you better pray because I ain't got no fish my uncle buddy went out in the yard and started praying next thing you know a hawk comes flying across in the tip tops of the trees in the claws of that hawk is a flounder I'm not talking about one that swims on top I'm talking about one that's in the dirt a flounder is in the claws and clutches of that hawk and what do you know in midair and that one dropped that flounder and it hit right in the feet of my uncle he picked up that flounder walked into the house of my grandmother and said granny here's the fish can I tell you you better know that God loves me enough to drop fish from the sky if I need I know some of you think I'm telling you a lie but I say lord bring back the days when we didn't have so much where we depended upon you that's the kind of heritage you came from here's the condition if you love the lord and you've accepted him as savior and lord because of what he's done on the cross and walked with him in obedience then the consequences of that love will take you to heaven but there's other consequences if you're sitting under the sound of my voice watching online right now and you've never given your life to Jesus Christ and accepted him as your savior and lord he's placed your faith in what he's done at the cross then the consequences are this you will be removed from the love of God ultimately you will be separated from God's presence let me tell you what comes with God's presence joy peace love the absence of that ladies and gentlemen is no joy is no love that's what hell is going to be a place that is absent of God's presence I'm not going to hell apparently I have lost my church this morning half of them going to hell this morning I'm just telling you I don't know what you're gonna do I'll pass to this church and I'll give you this word but I came to tell you this morning I'm not going to hell cause Jesus loves me this I know I don't know about you but I still consider myself a little one little ones to him be strong I don't know about you but I need an affirmation this morning say yeah Jesus loves me Judson Cornwall prolific writer of scripture he was passering a small church but he asked him if he would take an extra job in counseling at the local mental health center he said he would do it went into the mental health center there was some 37 patients that were in this room completely out of their minds fecal matter on the floor their clothes dirty and disheveled it was an unclean location and the pastor sat in an environment and God said to him go in and sit down in the middle of the floor he walked in and sat down in the middle of the floor he said now start singing from your whole heart this song and the pastor sat in a room full of people that had lost their minds and said Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible and he sang it and he said the first time he was there all he heard was the grunts and the moans and the complaints and the shut up and the demonic laughter he said but he kept on being every week he would come back and he wouldn't preach to him he just sat in the middle of their mess and said yes Jesus loves me the week after week that took place until finally one or two of them started coming out of their confusion and their mental illness moved to a different ward and after a period of a few months the record shows that he didn't say anything but sing that little song all but two patients left that ward and went back to their normal life because Jesus loved them a woman messed up on crack cocaine and everything else in prison gives birth to a baby the state takes the baby away and gives it to Phyllis the owner of a daycare when she comes into counter with this little baby child she starts trying to take care of it and the baby would cry excessively fall on the ground in the fetal position and it was tormenting the child the daycare director didn't know anything to do but take that little four year old baby up in her arms got in a rocking chair and said yes Jesus loves me the baby just cried seemed like she was not getting through a few weeks later a few weeks later a few weeks later she sat down with that baby day after day she had been doing this she sat down in that rocking chair and started rocking it today she didn't sing the song right away so the little four year old baby looked up at Phyllis and said sing me that song the man who loves me I don't care how old you are or how young you are you need to know that you know that you know and let nothing persuade you any different I know because you're older now you've elevated to deeper thoughts of theology and religion and all kinds of things but I just want to let you know Paul said in case you slip away from the vanity of the gospel I came to tell you John 3 16 still applies you still need the love of God but for me this morning you're here it's the people that are watching and people in this auditorium it's the people that I stood up in front of this past Friday when my cousin called me and said we need you to preach other family members' funeral Chris Aates looked at me two years ago when I stood beside his mother's grave side after preaching his funeral their her funeral and he said Joey I want you to preach mine when that time comes I said Chris let's just live let's just live for the Lord man little did I know they would find him at his work place drugged out of his mind dead I said we need you pastor his wife of two years called with a three year old and a seven month old and said I need you what do I say what do I say Taylor was in the room with me as I was preparing for the service I had plenty of notes pastor but not a thing to say I told him I said you need to pray for me because I don't know what I'm going to say because this is the same crowd that I keep seeing one less every time we join together like this and when I got up in front of that crowd I could sense the spirit of God come upon me I opened my mouth and I told them what I'm telling you this morning Jesus loves you you don't have to know hermeneutics you don't have to know the deep thoughts of justification and sanctification what you need to know who is the simplicity of the loving tender olive skinned hand of the man from Galilee who to this day thousands of years later so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son who so ever ain't it right Susan just a few months ago we celebrated your dad yesterday up there in Alabama but you had the privilege of leading him to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ just a few months ago ain't it worth at all to know that I will see them and know them as they're known all because the Lord loves them more than I could ever imagine I got some people that don't like me imagine that you don't have to like me to go to heaven you just have to love me the love of Jesus is jumping over every rail, every bearer every excuse that you have right now every head bowed and every eye closed I don't want nobody moving, nobody leaving this is the greatest invitation of all times my friends it's an invitation to know the one who knows you the most and loves you the best his name is Jesus and he loves you so much that he loves you no matter what you've done but he loves you too much to leave you where you are he wants you to come out of darkness into his marvelous light and today is the moment today today, right now, today today you cannot afford to put this off tomorrow I'm telling you Jesus Christ is coming quicker than what you think you cannot afford so I've got saints praying all around this room and saints that are praying all online because somebody today is going to give their life to Jesus Christ somebody today is going to surrender their all in all and I don't care how long you've been coming to church you may have been coming to church with an abused scar inside of your soul that you've never been able to release and forgive and today's the day to lay it down at the foot of the cross I'm telling you the Lord is going to take you by the hand in just a moment and lead you this direction and we're going to pray for you and when you leave out of here the love of God is going to so overwhelm you it's going to cover you front back side to side top of your head, sole of your feet because that's the love of God Father I pray for this congregation and those that are watching people that need to know you as today they do not need to wait another day that love is what holds their marriage together that's love is what holds their mind together that love is what holds their life together it is the abundant love of the abundant Christ so today Lord I've done my best I preach what you told me to preach now Holy Spirit this service this service has always belonged to you do what only you can do and draw people today draw them today draw them today if you're standing in this building and you say pastor today I need to come to the love of God I need to bring my marriage to the love of God I need to bring my life to the love of God I need to give my life to Jesus Christ if that's you I don't want you to hesitate as soon as we start singing this song I want you to get out from where you are and come directly to this altar I'm going to be standing right here waiting on you this is the moment people are praying for people all around this room I know you think everybody at Paces say but they're not I know you think everybody around you say but they may not so pray just like it's your children they may be watching right now if this is your call I want everybody in this building to stand everybody if you physically can stand I don't want you to get in the aisles whatsoever do not leave this building and block anybody from coming down that altar right now in the name of Jesus if the Lord is compelling you to come and give your life to Jesus bring that to Jesus today then right now is the time sing y'all do it right now come on all over this building he loves you everybody in this building come on girl the nose of the Lord lift your hand and say oh how please no one moving around reverence the Holy Ghost right now Jesus if you need to come to this altar whether you're already saved or not but you need to reacquaint yourself for the love of the Lord come on right now from all over this building lift those hands and bless the Lord while people are coming to face this coming week but the Lord today's the day of salvation today's the moment when you surrender your life to Jesus Christ so I want this whole church to pray this prayer wood to God that you had just a moment if you got to get away from God that fast then I'm sorry something ain't right you better be in this altar you better hear this preacher there'll be one day when you can say you know what we won't have to hear that preacher no more all I'm asking is that you make it to heaven and you won't have to hear me preach no more but if you go to hell my voice is going to haunt you through the ceaseless ages I want you to grab somebody by the hand because the worst thing in the world you could be is that you think you're going through this by yourself and you're not the devil is a liar I'm not just walking with somebody I got somebody walking with me hallelujah get a brand new marriage a brand new home a brand new life so I want you to pray this prayer right out loud with me we're going to open up our hearts before heaven because Jesus loves me so much that he's waiting to hear the voice of people say come into my heart now let's pray this prayer together dear heavenly father I come to you in Jesus name I come to you in Jesus name I'm a sinner in need of the savior and you are that savior you're the only one who loves me like you love me you gave your life for me on the cross of Calvary cross of Calvary and today I place my faith in what you've done forgive me of my sin and heal my soul let the love of God come in and fill me from this day forward I give you my life I give you everything and I ask you Lord Jesus save me heal me wash me in your precious blood and when you come again take me to heaven when you come in Jesus name I'm washed I'm cleansed I'm healed I am saved well let's just lift our hands and pray to God that somebody's come all the way home today I'm going to tell you this I'm going to let you go while I'm in the basement of sister cavers Sunday school class at ride assembly they taught me a little song this is the way it went into my there should be no reason why everybody here and those of you watching have not completely surrendered your life to this service Jesus loves you this I know you believe that today I want you to testify to about 10 or 12 people before you leave here tell them Jesus loves me this I know I'll see you Wednesday night at 7 o'clock don't miss it praise God thank you for worshiping with us today and we pray that God has touched your life in a powerful way if you've given your life to Jesus Christ or you're feeling the tug in your heart why don't you surrender to the Lord today ask him to come into your heart forgive you of your sins he'll do exactly that when you place your faith in what he's done at the cross and then we want to hear from you would you send an email and let us know what Jesus Christ has done in your life let us know where you're watching from we'd love to connect with you and I believe that God is going to touch your life and bless you in the days that are ahead if you count Pace assembly as your regular church of worship there's information on the screen that you can send your email to and we look forward for you being a part of every service right here at Pace assembly every Sunday and every Wednesday and special services throughout the year God bless you for joining us today Father I pray that you would touch the life of my friend that today they would never be the same that your presence would surround their life and peace would be their highest blessing we give you praise for it today in Jesus name Amen God bless you friends and until we get together again remember Jesus Christ is coming soon