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Falling Madly in Love with God

Francis chan leaves his church (Cornerstone in Simi Valley, CA) with this last sermon on "falling madly in love with god." He preaches about comparing your love for things that are here on earth to the endless love that god has for you. He references Ephesians and talks about how we really don't know how God Loves us. We will never truly understand.

He says that if we could see and truly understand the love Jesus has for us we would not think twice about selling all of our possessions just to have his love. If we truly knew then we would be able to forget about all these things that we worry about in our everyday life. If we just turn to God and trust completely in him, then we would not have these pointless things. Like our clothes, what lunch we have, what phone we have, and all the things that do not matter, to someone who knows how loved they are by Jesus.

We need to forget the things that do not matter when he loves us. He also says that you no person is going to make you fall in love with him. A human can only act as an introduction to his love. So we need to not Rely on the love of people. And we need to seek the love of our Father, God.
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  1. AnonymousFebruary 28, 2017 at 5:42 AM

    I agree that we should know that Gods love is all we need but on the other hand I find it hard to keep telling myself that when it's not very obvious that he's showing me his love. I feel like I need reassurance that someone cares about me and I find it difficult to realize that God does care about me more than ever when I turn to him and he sometimes is not there.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 2, 2017 at 8:35 PM

    i like this sermon, it establishes pathos in a way.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 3, 2017 at 10:33 AM

    I agree, Sam. It is really sad how people care so much about new technology, the clothes they have, and other stuff that doesn't matter when they should be caring about how much God loves them.

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  4. UnknownMarch 6, 2017 at 2:41 PM

    It sounds like he used pathos by getting people to want to love God more than our possessions and by basically saying Jesus loves us more than anyone on earth ever could. It pulls on our heart strings and makes us long for God's love.

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