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They are in wonder that they have ALL spiritual blessings, and

everything that Father has is theirs. They can’t begin to grasp the

grace of God. They are fascinated with how God works through

them, like the vine works through the branch (John 15:1-5). They
want their relationship with God to increase more, and to make

him known more.

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RULES. If you talk to a rules-person about love, you will usually
get ‘the greatest commandment’ quoted back to you. We must

love the Lord God with all our mind, heart, soul and strength, and

love others as ourselves. Then you might get a list of 5 or 6 ways

they have been showing love, or if they are repentant, how they

have not been showing love.

RELATIONSHIP. If you talk to a gospel guy about love, all they

talk about is God’s love for them, and how Father loves them like

crazy. They know Father is well pleased with them because they

are in Jesus, and not because of all the good things they do, or

the bad things they don’t do. They talk about God’s increasing
love in them until they’re full to overflowing. Then you will hear

how they spill the love of God over on to everyone else around

(the model of I Thes 3:12). But they know it’s all Father’s love

working in them. It’s not about their human love.

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