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1. Thanks for joining me today for “A Little Walk with God.” I’m your host Richard Agee.
2. Just how much does God love us? Sometimes we let familiar verses get too familiar. Listen to one today in a different translation to hear again the depth of God’s love for us.
3. Scripture
   1. John 3:16-21
   2. For God expressed His love for the world in this way: He gave His only Son so that whoever believes in Him will not face everlasting destruction, but will have everlasting life.  Here’s the point. God didn’t send His Son into the world to judge it; instead, He is here to rescue a world headed toward certain destruction.

No one who believes in Him has to fear condemnation, yet condemnation is already the reality for everyone who refuses to believe because they reject the name of the only Son of God.  Why does God allow for judgment and condemnation? Because the Light, sent from God, pierced through the world’s darkness to expose ill motives, hatred, gossip, greed, violence, and the like. Still some people preferred the darkness over the light because their actions were dark.  Some of humankind hated the light. They scampered hurriedly back into the darkness where vices thrive and wickedness flourishes.  Those who abandon deceit and embrace what is true, they will enter into the light where it will be clear that all their deeds come from God.

4. Devotional
   1. So many see God only as someone who wants to put a damper on life.
      1. A list of don’ts
      2. Take the fun out of any party
      3. Looking over our shoulder looking for our sins to zap us
   1. Important verse tells us the nature of God
      1. Loves us so much He became one of us
      2. He came not to judge, but to rescue the world from our own self destruction
      3. He came to offer life
   2. Then and now acted as light to expose the hidden things that cause that destruction
      1. Crime show detectives looking for evidence use flashlights even in the daylight
      2. Pinpoint the light
      3. Focus attention
      4. Expose ill motives, hatred, gossip greed, violence, and the like
      5. Many hate Him because they see their real self when He exposes their soul
   3. Can you imagine a surgeon trying to operate in the dark?
      1. Only by exposing the diseased parts in bright light can they be removed
      2. Exposing sin makes it possible to get rid of it
      3. The Light came so we can be cleaned up
      4. Jesus came to rescue us from certain destruction
   4. God loved us so much, He gave His Son, so that anyone who believes in Him for the forgiveness of their sins and obey Him, will not face that certain destruction, but will instead have everlasting life. What a Savior we have.
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