well, good morning. So a church family. So good to be with you guys this morning. Um good morning to those of you tuning in on the live stream, we are excited for you guys this morning, we’re taking a two week pause on our series on the gospel of luke to tackle a series called Love Well and for those of you who are new here, welcome, welcome to Soar and I hope you take Alex up and connect with us. We would love for you to connect with us, let us know that you were here and let us kind of get you connected in some kind of way into this great community, that is my church home. So on that note, let’s get started with this series. Um why don’t you open your bibles to first, John Chapter four And I’m going to read verses seven through 9, but while you’re turning there, I do want to set this series up a little bit for us. Um, we know that we are approaching the holiday season where you know, thanksgiving christmas and then eventually New Year’s, a New Year man, a new year, another year is coming, another year is coming right. But during this holiday season we might find ourselves is some interesting conversations around the dinner table with extended family, with friends and those conversations can get really, really awkward if we’re not prepared. If we’re not ready to engage in them and if your struggle looks any where close to what this mean would convey, then this series is for you. My problem is I want to follow jesus and slap people too. If that’s your struggle, then this series is for you. Um if that if that isn’t your struggle, this series will still be a blessing to you. So don’t check out on us. But the point is is that we know as christians, that we are called to walk in love, that we are to love one another. But we also recognized that that can be very challenging at times. We’ve got to deal with our own sinful tendencies and we’ve got to deal with the sinful tendencies and others. And we’ve got to deal with our own imperfections and shortcomings of character. And we’ve got to deal with the imperfections and shortcomings and characters and others. So it just makes for a challenging process to consistently love others. Well, maybe one day we do it and it’s great. And then the next day I thought we were doing so well, what happened again because of these issues of sin and ourselves, sin and others? Um the imperfections that we have and imperfections that others have, the fact that we’re just human right, present a challenge. So we hope that this series will help you to love well, and so on that note, let me turn to our passage and let me begin the reading of the passage and from there, I’ll pray and we’ll jump into this teaching. So first, John four, Beginning in Verse seven, beloved Let us love one another for love is from God and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God and anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love in this, the love of God was made manifest among us that God sent his only son into the world so that we might live through him, father in heaven. We thank you for sending your only son into the world that we might live through him. And this morning as we look at your word, God, would you breed fresh life again into our souls so that we can walk into these difficult relationships and settings and image you more fittingly and God, I pray that you would use me during this time in christ’s name. I pray amen All right. If I, if I were to summarize for you. Kind of the argument that I want you to take away from this passage this morning and one that I believe that john is trying to make when he is consistently and repeatedly emphasizing it would be this God’s love motivated him to save us. It was God’s love that motivated God to save us in christ. And if God’s love is in us, then it is to b…