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Ceres SDA Church

Anil Kanda

Bible’s Love Stories- Part 3

Father in heaven, we just thank you again for this special time.

And Lord, our hearts' desire is that today you would bless us, you'd refresh us.

God, I know that it is in your heart to bless your people.

Lord, you want to pour out your favor upon us, so we pray that our hearts would be receptive, God, to what you want to do.

Thank you so much for this communion experience.

Thank you, Lord, that this isn't a drudgery, but this is a wonderful privilege you've given to your people.

Name of the sermon's called The Final Love Story.

Now, we're not going to be talking about the final love story.

But this is the final love story of the series that we have been doing, Love Stories in the Bible.

I hope you have your Bibles because we're going to be needing them today.

You know, I was listening to the Sabbath school, and I really appreciate our Sabbath school teachers, and they were talking about the race.

You often hear about that, the Christian race, right?

You read about it in Hebrews chapter 12, and the Bible talks about how we're on a race.

I have come to the conclusion about something, and that is this.

The Christian race is comparable with only 1 kind of run that I believe comes close to it.

How many people know what running with the Bulls is?

Okay, now church family, I don't want you to get mad at me, but I'm going to tell you guys something.

I have now placed a new item on my bucket list.

And I've checked out the dates, July 4, July 6 to the 14th.

And it is completely free, except for the ambulance drive.

About 50 people have been killed since 1910.

They did take 200 people to the ambulance last year during the bull run.

And I was really thinking about the Christian race and I was thinking to myself, okay, you know, it's not like a 5K when you're running and you get a little, you know, ribbon at the end or a medal.

The Christian race is a run where, run or die, right?

And I really believe God is calling us each and every day to keep making advances forward for His glory.

And thank God for His justification and His righteousness that covers us during those times that we fall.

God picks us back up and He says, keep on going, amen?

And that's what I'm excited about because I believe Sirius is heading in the right direction.

As you guys know, last week we announced the beginning of our Patterson Church Plant.

That will take place at the end of May, the beginning of June.

As I told you before last week, we have secured a church.

And we're now going to start making preparations.

This is going to require missionaries from our church to take up the mantle of ministry and head out over there.

It's going to be a small church at first, but I believe God is going to grow it.

It's going to be a time of reaching out to others.

Our first picture of Adventism that we want to the Patterson community is going to be the health message.

I've been studying councils out, and this is the entering wedge.

We want people to know we are there to help them, to bless them, amen?

So if you're thinking about, okay, what new adventure does God want to put me on, I want you to start praying about this, okay?

But either way, God is calling us to keep moving forward.

I believe in the Bible when it says we can hasten the second coming of Jesus, and every soul that is 1, every church that is set up, every time the gospel message is preached, we are 1 step closer to the second coming, amen?

And ending this world of sorrow, I want it to end.

I want Jesus to come back and take us home, and he's yearning for that same desire, right?

All right, name of the sermon is called, The Final Love Story.

And we've been covering love stories in the Bible.

Last week we talked about perhaps the Bible's most powerful evangelistic couple.

We learned about them and how we saw their process of growth, right?

They started off connecting with Paul then they begin to follow Paul and then they begin to win Apollos and the Bible says they eventually had a house or church in their house.

God really led this couple in spiritual growth and development.

And God is calling us into that same kind of experience.

Today we're going to be looking at a different kind of love story, okay?

How many men here, by the raising of their hand, propose to their wife in a unique way?

And a unique way means more than just saying, hey honey, let's get married, okay?

1 person proposed to the wife in a unique way.

Ted, really quickly, why don't you tell us, okay?

And by the way, this is a contest, so go ahead.

Tell us how you proposed to Sweet Georgia.

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