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So we continue today our .

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Series called love letter from God . Today we are talking about . Leviticus . And it is our .

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Fourth message in the series . We started with a message on John 3:16 .

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And then we have moved from Genesis to Exodus and now we find ourselves in Leviticus .

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As always we start with our Key verse for the entire series which is John 3:16 .

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For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life . And then I'll ask you to stand as we read the verses for today's message . They’re .

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From Leviticus. Chapter 19 verses 1 and 2 and then Leviticus Chapter 19 Verse 18 . The Lord said to Moses speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them be holy because the Lord your God and holy .

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Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people but love your neighbor as yourself . I am .

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The Lord .

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Let us pray . Hide me behind your cross Lord . May my words be your heart . You have told us You love us . Help us to know your love and live it every day of our lives . Amen . You may be seated .

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I presently have three animals at home .

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Two guinea pigs and a dog named Bear . I know that some of you have more . Some of you might have less. My dog Bear is an older dog . He is about 13 and when we got him he was already 5 . So he came to us with some very bad habits . Some of which we have been able to help him out of and some of which we have not . He was a rescue .

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And at first when we first got him he was very afraid of us . He was particularly afraid of my husband but he was very afraid of us generally .

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We had to teach him that we wouldn't hurt him and that everything that we did was actually for his benefit . We taught him that. And even though we taught him that, and he is much better now sometimes he still gets afraid or worried and he came with a cage .

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And when he gets like that he'll put himself in there and sometimes he'll stay there for a couple of days and he only come out at night and get food but then he'll go back to his cage . We never know why we made him mad . Or what we did . Maybe to frighten him but . He he does that every now and again . And . He puts himself back in that cage because that's where he's most comfortable and in many ways teaching our dog to trust us .

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Is very similar to what God is trying to do here for the Israelites . Reading Leviticus is not an easy task . I know of many people who have said they started trying to read through the whole bible they are going to do the whole Bible in an entire year and they start reading Leviticus and they say . What . Happened? .

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This is hard . Genesis is great . It has lots of story we talked about Genesis stuff happening every single page . Even exodus . There's all kinds of really good stuff in there too right . We read of God's rescue of the Israelites from Egypt . We read of everything that's happening in there . There's so much stuff happening and then we get to Leviticus – I almost want a screeching brakes sound .