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God Has Loved You a Long Time

Aug 30, 2026    Pastor Bernard

What if the love we have been searching for our entire lives was already secured for us before we ever took our first breath? That is the staggering reality Paul lays out in Ephesians 1:3-4, where he describes a God who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places and chose us before the foundation of the world. This message invites us to stop measuring God's love by the standard of human relationships, which are marked by rejection, disappointment, and conditions, and instead anchor ourselves in a love that is proactive, eternal, and unshakeable. The spiritual blessings Paul describes are not material gains to be chased or earned. They are heavenly, eternal, and already given. We do not need to beg for what God has already reserved for us. We simply need to walk in it. If we have ever felt like outsiders, like we have done too much or been away too long to be accepted by God, this passage speaks directly to that fear. God did not choose us because of a perfect record. He chose us knowing every mistake we would ever make, and He made a way through Jesus Christ anyway. That is not a love we can lose, because it is not a love we ever had to win.

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