Pastor Ray Bentley says. So many think in the give and take of love, it's better to take rather than be taken. That's the world's idea of love. It's very much a 5050. What are you going to do for me? What have you done for me lately? And that's why it falls apart so many times. There's no commitment. There's nothing there. That's not what the Bible says. Love is. Love is saying what is important to you is important to me.

Pastor Ray Bentley wants to know if you're ready to step up to the next level in your faith. So what I'm asking you is I. I'm reaching out with my hands and saying, who will walk with me and say, let's move beyond the borders of what has been safe and where we have been comfortable, and let's go all the way deeply as far as we possibly can.

f heaven could come in the form of a book. Pastor Ray Bentley says it would be the Bible. I love God's Word. I love the Bible because it's filled with God. And why I encourage you to read the Bible. It's like when you open the Bible, you are opening a window to heaven into your mind and into your heart.

There's an undeniable relief having our sins forgiven. Pastor Ray Bentley explains what's going on. When you believe in Christ and ask Jesus in your life, the Holy Spirit comes in you. You are righteous in Christ. You are holy and complete in him. The utter relief of walking in holiness. That's what the grace of God teaches us. Spread. You see all of his people coming down before the King.

Pastor Ray Bentley says the gospel is sufficient to bring us into a productive relationship with God. Most people think that because they do not measure up, they are worthless to God. So they give up and give in to this world. The gospel says, you know what? God loves you just as you are, loves you, will forgive you by his grace and by His Spirit, and will come inside of you.

What do you hope to take away from today's Maranatha radio? Here's what pastor Ray Bentley hopes to give you my hope. And I guess if I had a two fold checklist of what I would like to accomplish every time we come together and spend time in the word number one to exhort you, which means to encourage you, to inspire you, to bless you, to comfort you, to hear you, on the other hand, to convict, to bring some sense of conviction spread.

Pastor Ray Bentley points out, it's wrong to think God wants us to keep our emotions bottled. It's all right to have intense emotions. Jesus felt raw, powerful, intense emotion. So take your passions and pour them out before God and let God order them. Because when God can take that intense, raw, powerful emotion and focus it according to his will, he can do great and mighty things.

Are you ready to experience eternal life? Pastor Ray Bentley says you can start experiencing it right here, right now. Eternal life is not just the duration of how long you will live with God in the presence of God, but it's a quality of life. And in that sense, eternal life actually has already begun. You don't have to wait till you die and go to heaven to begin experiencing eternal life.

Today on Maranatha radio. Pastor Ray Bentley explains why we need to live for God. Do you realize that you were bought God, first of all, made you so whatever you make you own, right? God made you. He owns you in that sense. But then, because we ran away, he had to buy us back. But if that is true, because we no longer belong to ourselves, we should no longer live for ourselves.

When we have Jesus in our lives. Pastor Ray Bentley explains how priceless that is. If you have Jesus, you have the grace of God. You have favor with God. Oh, how God loves His son. And wherever he sees His Son living inside of a human being, the father is deeply in love with you. So make sure that you walk with him and abide in him, and let his word abide in you and bear the fruit, the Spirit of Christ within you.