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Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
Episode 013—The Love Meter

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The Love Meter

How do you rate on God's Love Meter?

  • God’s desire: “That you also may have fellowship with us” (1 John 1:3) — intimate communion with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
  • The reason the Holy Spirit comes within — to draw us into that fellowship and to make us godly, Christlike
  • Abiding in that fellowship is the foundation of freedom from sin and sinning
  • “I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.” (1 John 2:1)

1 John 2:1-2

  • If anyone sins,” not when.  For a Christian who is walking in the Light, living in the profferred communion with God, sin is a rarity, rather than a perpetual inevitability.
  • Jesus is presented as:
  • Our Parakletos, that is, our legal Advocate for when we offend.
  • Same word used of the Holy Spirit in John 14:16,26; 15:26; 16:7
  • Our hilasmos, that is, [click to continue…]
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