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Hear the sounds of little baby in our audience and that's great.

Love the sound of little children, little babies.

I know, churches have children's rooms and nurseries in all that kind of thing and we do too, but it's certainly a joy to hear them here in the audience with us as we worship Our God together.

You do you think about the fact that when Jesus was brought the children, the tiny children, it says the tech nine children, the little children to him.

And Jesus turned to the crowd.

He's looking at these children you said for such is the kingdom of God, write such belongs to the Church of Christ.

The kingdom is the church.

The church is the kingdom and it's the people.

And he says for such as the kingdom of God.

And so he desires all his children to be like little children to be as innocent.

And as pure as that baby.

Now the truth is we're not We're not by a long shot, but we are with the blood of Christ and that makes all the difference in the world.

So when the father looks upon his children, he's looking down through the blood of his son and he sees us with no sin.

That's what he sees.

That's why we're here today.

That's what we do.

What we do on the first day of the week because we can't get to Heaven by herself.

It took something miraculous on Calvary for us to get there and we're part of God's family and we ought to be Brothers and Sisters in Christ and love one.

Another as John has been talking about for the past several weeks here, in a few you need to love one another because Jesus Loves You.

Jesus is the reason we love.

Jesus loved us first.

We didn't love him first but because of his love we love back and that is we love each other back and we love him that.

And what we do collectively on the first day of the week is a demonstration of, not only our faith, but our love to God.

And for Jesus Christ, that's why the first day of the week is so important because we get to assemble together.

And it may seem like a Something of non significance for the rest of us, but to God, it's very significant.

He wants his children to gather at the table moms and dads want to have their children.

What our father wants us at this Memorial table to remember his son for all that.

He's done for us and what a joy, it is that we can remember back to Calvary two thousand years ago, and think about that glorious act that he did for us.

And so we're thankful for that.

And as we consider what happened on Calvary John's going to tell us about the witness that we have.

You know, you've heard that the common nomenclature today.

Is that a witness for Jesus?

Or we witness for God, we don't witness in the sense that the apostles witness they were eyewitnesses and so they were truly Witnesses.

But what we do is we evangelize we tried to teach and preach that we try to share Jesus Christ with others.

And so, are going later today cuz that witnessing.

So if you want to call that witnessing fun, but that's what we do.

But the thing about it is God also witnesses to you and me everyday and beginning on the first day of the week.

Is this not a witness the empty to risen.

Then he took on the pain and the suffering for you and me and he promised that he would never leave us, nor forsake us.

And then he also said he's coming again to see them to himself that where I am there.

You may be also and so we look forward to that.

Second coming will look forward to that day.

A lot of people live like this is the only place they're ever going to live.

But Heaven, if not on Earth, I know there was a song Heaven on Earth by Belinda Carlisle on, but Heaven is not on Earth.

We get a piece of heaven through the church with one another and the blessings that Christ showers upon us.

But Jesus said, he's going to come again and take him home.

Take us home.

To his Heavenly Kingdom, where is Father resides?

And so we're going to see God, we're going to see Jesus.

We're going to see the Holy Spirit.

We're going to see all those who never gone on before, they're literally in our very possession.

And so as we have been saying, this is the second to the last lesson from the book of 1st, John 1st, John is such a grand book.

And today we're going to be talking about God as my witness.

And so before we get there, let's go back.

I want to go back to the to the scripture that I read.

I read from the new King James.

Now.

I'm reading from the New Living Translation.

I kind of like the New Living Translation.

It's a little iffy in some spots.

But for today's lesson, it's certainly apropos.

It's very fitting.

But here the that translation says everyone who believes that Jesus is.

The Christ has become a child of God and everyone who loves the father, loves his children.

We know, we love God's children.

If we love God and obey his Commandments.

Let me read that one more time.

We know we love God's children.

If we love God and obey his Commandments who are God's children.

You and me, we all are right.

And so he says if you love your children, if you love my children, if you love your brothers and sisters, then you love God.

So, you have to question yourself this morning.

Do I love God?

And do I love my brother?

And if I don't love my brother and then do I really love God?

And if I love God, I'm going to keep his Commandments and one of The Commandments that he has given to us, is to love the Brethren the member 15 times in five chapter five, little chapters in his one little book, 15. 15 times.

He says, love one, another love one another and that phrase has found some 70 times throughout the entire New Testament.

So it's quite a phrase, but it has an extensive meaning to it.

So if we know that we love, so we know we love God's children.

If we love God and obey his commandments.

So, loving God means keeping his Commandments.

And his Commandments are not burdensome.

So as the new King James translation says, this is the love of God that we keep his Commandments and I said last week actually I quoted this for last week and and I said you might want to underline that particular passage because there is a definition of love too often.

We think of love as just an emotion, but it's not just an emotion.

It's a motion that propels us.

It compels us to move forward and motivates us to do those things for God.

So loved is an action verb.

What's a verb?

It's an action word.

And so, therefore it carries doing something.

And so that's why it says this is the love of God, love is defined as keeping his Commandments.

And again one of those come in with his loving one another and his Commandments are not burdensome.

I want to think about that.

I can't help, but think about Matthew chapter 11, where Jesus says, take my yoke upon you and learn from me.

For my yoke is easy and my burden is like he's comparing his burden with that of the Pharisees and the Sadducees without of the law, without of all the Traditions that were found upon the Jews and the people of the day.

And Jesus says, you compare what, I'm offering you as far as Commandments with what you have to deal with now and it's nothing.

It's like It's not burdensome for every child of God, defeat, the evil world and we achieve this Victory through our faith.

Faith is the victory.

Who sing that song from time to time and who can win this?

Battle against the world?