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We are at the summer conference at Brunstad in Norway,
Brunstad Christian Church's international conference center.
Almost 1000 Dutch conference particpants have come here to hear the Word of God
and to be strengthened in their personal faith.
How many of us have received a living faith
that this is possible for us, as long as we are here in our life on earth?
Living faith that you will be filled with the whole fullness of God,
and experience the capacity of the love of Christ?
How great do you think that capacity is?
It is so large that He took the entire fall into Himself!
So there isn't a single person who has lived on this earth
who has sunk down so deeply, that the love of Christ doesn't encompass him!
That is truly great!
Kåre Smith spoke about the love of Christ that encompasses all things.
That message touched many hearts.
Yes, this was something really special.
It made a deep impression on my heart,
in a way that you don't experience so often.
It was about the love of Christ,
that you can partake of it — and then you think about your relationship to other people.
You can easily pass judgment on other people.
But if Jesus had done that, He wouldn't have been able to save the whole of humanity.
What we heard about today, was that we can be partakers of divine nature.
When you see yourself and your own failings,
yes, today I received faith that it can be different,
and that goodness and love for the others can come in.
It means that God has such a great love; God wants it to go well with each single one.
In this way God has hope for all sinners,
even for all those who have fallen most deeply into sin;
to them He has said, "If you want, you can get God's nature in your inner man!"
Bernt Stadven continued with this theme and spoke about the promise we have
if we carry out the word of God in our life.
We believe in complete victory in all of life's circumstances!
We believe in the Word of God,
and we carry out the Word of God in our life, so that it becomes flesh.
Then the glory can radiate from us,
and we are enabled to particpate in the building of the body of Christ.
That is truly glorious!
Thanks and praise to our God for His mercy so great,
For the new, living hope that He gave,
Because Jesus, His Son, over death has prevailed.
With great pow'r He arose from the grave.
Jesus has redeemed us — complete liberty,
so that we can be holy before Him.
If I only have an ear for HIm — for what He has to say,
than I partake of the whole promise!
I'm passionate about that, and it's a huge promise!
I have very many examples around me, in whom I can see that God's Word is true,
that we can be changed, and that God's promise of divine nature actually is possible!
I see that around me, and it encourages me to walk on this way myself, and to partake of it.