1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,239 Man, aren't you glad you're in the House of the Lord? 6 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,720 This is a good place to be. Amen. 7 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:21,960 Beautiful singing this morning, beautiful worship, beautiful 8 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:26,120 songs and entering into the presence of the Lord and singing 9 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:28,680 that last song. I thought about Lamentations 10 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:31,240 323. Because of the mercies of the 11 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:36,040 Lord, we are not consumed. His compassion's fail not. 12 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:40,840 They are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness. 13 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:44,040 Aren't you glad that you serve a faithful God today, man? 14 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:46,320 Even when we are. Faithless. 15 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:51,840 He is faithful and so I'm I'm so thankful to the goodness of the 16 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,160 Lord. He's a good, good father and we 17 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,160 celebrate him today and honor the blessings of the Lord. 18 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,800 And always good to be to be with you. 19 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,000 Always good to come. And whether I'm, I'm filling in 20 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,080 for pastor, whether he's gone or whether he's here, it's just 21 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,120 always a delight to come and share with you. 22 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,360 And, and we do, we do feel like family. 23 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,640 You've made us feel feel like family, except for brother Gary, 24 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,280 but but we're still praying for him. 25 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,280 He's still working. The Lord's still working on him. 26 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,760 Work in progress. Are we all a work in progress. 27 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:28,960 Amen. Amen. 28 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,360 Look over and tell your neighbor you look better than you did 29 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:47,000 last week. This is an exciting time to to 30 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,440 be a Christian, to be alive, to, to live and to see, see what God 31 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,840 is doing. And, and there's so many great 32 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,840 things that God's doing around the world, so many powerful 33 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:03,200 testimonies of the spirit moving and different places and 34 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,160 revivals breaking out and, and just spontaneous. 35 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:11,920 Not, not, you know, not the scheduled revivals like we like 36 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:14,640 we've had in the past. And, and I'm thankful for that. 37 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:21,480 And, and, but just to see spontaneous, you know, outburst 38 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,200 and, and outpouring of the spirit in so many different 39 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:28,360 places and unusual places. I just just, it just confirms 40 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,800 that God's word is true, that God's in charge. 41 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,920 Don't let the negative news discourage you. 42 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,360 It's all, it's all, it's all working out the way God planned 43 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,360 it. And we're, we're in his time and 44 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,200 he's got, he's got a plan, He's got a time and he's, I'm just, 45 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,400 I'm just thankful for what God's doing. 46 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,920 Don't give up, Don't lose hope because he's working it all out 47 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:58,120 and, and, and, and, and it's, it's exciting. 48 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,920 Every time we come, there's new faces, Lord's adding, adding the 49 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:06,160 church and blessing you. And it's always, always a joy to 50 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:10,040 come share with you. Going to share this morning from 51 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,480 first John chapter 4 few verses I believe Lord laid on my heart 52 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:20,680 for today for you familiar. These should be familiar For 53 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,000 those of you been in church a while, if you're new, it might 54 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:29,440 might not be as familiar, but it should be familiar First John 55 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:34,720 chapter 4, verse 7. Beloved, let us love one 56 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:39,840 another, for love is of God, and everyone that loveth is born of 57 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,520 God and knoweth God. He that knoweth. 58 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,880 Not He that loveth not knoweth, not God. 59 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:52,120 For God is love. In this was manifested the love 60 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:56,720 of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son 61 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,680 in the world, that we might live through Him. 62 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:11,640 Herein is love, not that we love God, but that He loved us and 63 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:15,440 sent his Son to be. The propitiation or the 64 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,279 atonement or the appeasement or the sacrifice? 65 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:24,800 That's what that word propitiation means for our sins. 66 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:32,520 What if I were to tell you this morning that a wealthy man sent 67 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:38,880 me to tell you go everywhere? To who? 68 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,960 Everybody I spoke to? Everybody I came in contact 69 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,960 with. That if you would. 70 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,920 Knock on his door and he opened that door and let you in. 71 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,920 And if you believed he could. Forgive you. 72 00:04:54,480 --> 00:05:02,080 Of whatever bill, whatever debt, financial obligation you had, he 73 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:07,240 would forgive you of that. He'd give you financial freedom 74 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:13,480 if you'd believe he could do it. Somebody would say, well, no, I, 75 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:19,680 I, I'd be too embarrassed. I'd be too ashamed to, to let 76 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:21,560 him do they. He doesn't know, doesn't know 77 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:23,880 how I lived. He doesn't, he doesn't know what 78 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:32,600 I've, what I've done and things how, how I've squandered and I'd 79 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:34,640 be too embarrassed. You, you think people would say 80 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,360 that? They'd be lined up down the 81 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,920 street. They'd be. 82 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:46,640 Lined up around the. Block waiting to receive a free 83 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:52,920 gift, but God has. A greater gift? 84 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:57,960 For us to receive then the release of a medical bill or a 85 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:02,640 mortgage debt or a car payment or a loan or some kind of 86 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:08,440 financial obligation. But he would. 87 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:14,920 God pays a debt he didn't know. But we owe a debt we couldn't 88 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,560 pay. And like the old song says, I 89 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,720 needed somebody to wash my sins away. 90 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,600 And now I. Sing a brand new song, Amazing 91 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:31,040 Grace. Christ Jesus paid a debt he 92 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,240 didn't know. You see, that's that's why we're 93 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:36,320 here today. That's why we're celebrating. 94 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,880 That's why we're worship because we're serving a God who paid a 95 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:44,480 debt he didn't know. But we owed a debt we couldn't 96 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,960 pay, and we needed somebody to pay. 97 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:49,960 That debt? We needed somebody. 98 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,400 The Bible said the wages of sin is dead, but but the gift of God 99 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,280 is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 100 00:06:57,280 --> 00:06:58,680 Now I want to ask you a question. 101 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,120 How many? Let's take a little. 102 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,560 Poll here for a moment. How many? 103 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:04,640 Grew up, I know some of you did, but. 104 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,000 How many grew? Up as a child, you either grew 105 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,200 up in church. Or you. 106 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,440 Went to church or you were taken to church when you were young 107 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:17,560 and you went to Sunday school or VBS or kids church when you were 108 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:18,960 young. Let me let me see, let's see. 109 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:20,720 Let's see that. Wow, that's that's a lot of 110 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:22,160 that's great. Awesome. 111 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,800 So if you did you, you you grew up like. 112 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,320 Krista and I we we grew up in church. 113 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,120 We both grew. Up in pastors homes. 114 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:32,520 And so we grew up in church our whole lives. 115 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:35,400 Now that didn't save us. But we grew. 116 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,440 Up in church, we had to. We had. 117 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,120 You know being a pastor's kid does not save you. 118 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,280 Right, but but growing up in. Church. 119 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:48,440 We kids church there were. Songs that that we learned in 120 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:49,400 kids church. Now let's. 121 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:50,840 See. Let's see, let's see. 122 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,640 If you if you remember something, I'm going to. 123 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:54,280 Start. And let's see if you can finish 124 00:07:54,280 --> 00:08:04,310 this. The BI Good job. 125 00:08:04,430 --> 00:08:05,830 All right, good. You got that one. 126 00:08:05,830 --> 00:08:07,030 All right, let's check that one off. 127 00:08:07,550 --> 00:08:11,550 What about this one? Deep end. 128 00:08:17,670 --> 00:08:18,550 Good job. Good job. 129 00:08:18,550 --> 00:08:21,510 All right, you got that one. All right, here's here's here's 130 00:08:21,510 --> 00:08:36,840 another one, Father. All right, we're not going. 131 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:37,280 All right. All right. 132 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:38,039 That's good. That's good. 133 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:39,600 That's good. All right. 134 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:41,120 I'm going somewhere. Trust me. 135 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,600 All right. If you're saved. 136 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:53,120 If you're saved. If you're saved. 137 00:08:53,120 --> 00:09:00,800 And you know it. All right, how about this one? 138 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:15,920 He's got the. All right, y'all get an A for 139 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:17,440 all those. Y'all get an A for all those, 140 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:25,440 but there's probably one that we all know that I think you see 141 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:26,480 all. Of these, all of these. 142 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:31,160 Songs were important. Because they were teaching song 143 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:33,560 is a powerful. Way to learn, right? 144 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,360 We learn through. Singing, especially when you're 145 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:37,680 a child. It's it's. 146 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:43,160 Important because you can teach. Biblical and theological truths 147 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:43,880 as. A. 148 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:47,360 As a child. Through songs, when they can't 149 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:51,400 read, they learn songs and those songs begin teaching. 150 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,480 So as as children, those of us that that grew up. 151 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,800 In going to church. We begin to learn biblical 152 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:02,400 truths and Bible stories, often times through songs we learned 153 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,760 about Father Abraham. We learned that that God's got 154 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:05,960 the. Whole world in his hand. 155 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:07,760 We learned about Shadrach, Meshach and. 156 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,800 Abednego and then the fiery Furnace. 157 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,880 We we learned all kinds of of of biblical truths, often times 158 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,160 through songs, but one of the most powerful, powerful 159 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:22,640 biblical. Truths is this Jesus loves me? 160 00:10:39,460 --> 00:10:47,580 Yes. A great. 161 00:10:47,580 --> 00:10:49,420 Theologian from the 20th century. 162 00:10:49,420 --> 00:10:54,180 His name was Karl Barth. He was in the University of 163 00:10:54,180 --> 00:10:59,520 Chicago giving a lecture and at the end of his lecture questions 164 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,000 were were being asked and a student stood up in the 165 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,360 auditorium and said. What is the? 166 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:12,800 Greatest theological statement or that you could share with us? 167 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:17,360 What do you believe is the most? Theological profound statement. 168 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:22,760 That you could share with anybody without hesitation, he 169 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:30,400 said. Jesus loves me this I I know for 170 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:33,680 the Bible. Tells me so how? 171 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:43,800 Simple, but yet how profound. That God loves us, it's one 172 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,200 thing to. Read that God loves. 173 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,520 Us It's one thing to. Hear the statement God loves us, 174 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:50,840 but. God didn't just. 175 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,800 Say it. He demonstrated it. 176 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:58,440 He showed it. He, he performed that love. 177 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,160 He God, God declared. His love, you see. 178 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,520 Jesus loves me this. I know. 179 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,000 Life is filled with. Uncertainty. 180 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,200 There's a lot of things about life. 181 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:14,000 We don't know we, we there's things that we face. 182 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,760 Life is filled with troubles. It's filled with trials, filled 183 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:17,960 with. Tribulations filled with. 184 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,680 Testing ups and downs. Success, failures, highs, lows, 185 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:24,280 mountains, valleys. I mean life is filled with all. 186 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:26,920 Kinds of things there's. All kinds of certainties. 187 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,200 About uncertainties. About life. 188 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:35,280 But no matter the uncertainties, if you know for if you have this 189 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,720 this thing know in your. Heart. 190 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:48,480 I am loved by God. Jesus loves me. 191 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:53,320 You see if you understand and you know, you know when you're 192 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,040 knower, you know in the heart of hearts you, you know beyond the 193 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:59,880 shadow the doubt that you are loved by God. 194 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,400 It don't matter what you face, it doesn't matter what 195 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,600 uncertainty comes, It doesn't matter what sickness, it doesn't 196 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,520 matter what trial, it doesn't matter what hurdles you have to 197 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,480 go through. It doesn't matter what comes in 198 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,480 life. If you know beyond a shadow of a 199 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:22,240 doubt I am loved by God, you can make it through anything because 200 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,840 you have and you know the love of God. 201 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:31,160 You see, today begins what we call Holy Week, the, the, the, 202 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:36,560 the Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry of Jesus coming through to 203 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:39,040 Jerusalem and they're waving palm branches. 204 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:40,800 They're throwing them down on the ground. 205 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:45,440 He's coming, he's fulfilling prophecy, riding on a young colt 206 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:47,880 into Jerusalem. And they're, they're, they're 207 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,080 singing hosanna. Blessed is he who comes in the 208 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:55,080 name of the Lord. And and this week begins what we 209 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,880 call Holy Week, where we remember what Jesus came now 210 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:02,720 they they thought he was coming to conquer by conquer Rome and 211 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,000 take over it and overthrow the government, but they didn't 212 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,840 understand what what that he was going to the cross. 213 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,680 He'd been telling them, he'd been preparing them, but they 214 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:16,880 didn't get it, that he was going to lay his life down, that he 215 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,440 was going to sacrifice himself. And we, we go through this week 216 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,040 and we know that the, the events that take place and the, the 217 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,320 arrest and the trial, the mockery, the betrayal, the, the 218 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,800 rejection and the beating, the, the horrible things that took 219 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,720 place and hanging on the cross on on Friday and, and, and, and 220 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:39,240 his death and being buried but resurrected on Sunday morning 221 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:42,480 that we'll celebrate next week. A great celebration. 222 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:47,000 But but, but it all began on on this this, this day, this poem 223 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,320 Sunday. As we, as we. 224 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,480 Reflect and think about what he did. 225 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:53,280 But I, I got thinking, well, should I preach a poem? 226 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,800 What, what can I preach today? And there's all kinds of 227 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,480 messages that I could preach on on this Sunday. 228 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,360 And I thought, you know what, I'm just going to sum it all up. 229 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:05,240 I'm just going to sum up all of these events and, and just put 230 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,160 it all together. And then, and it really just 231 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:12,440 sums up in these words, God loves us. 232 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,440 That's what it's all about. That's what it, that's what all 233 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:18,440 of it. When you when you mesh all of it 234 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:23,200 together, the the that scarlet thread that runs from Genesis 235 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:27,000 all the way through the Scripture, it's all about God 236 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:33,520 loving us and demonstrating his love toward us. 237 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,280 That's what it's. About this this this this. 238 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:39,720 Celebration this coming together. 239 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:40,880 This, this. We're here. 240 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:42,640 Today the. Songs we sing. 241 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:46,000 And the, and the time that we spend together and the, and all 242 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,800 the things that we do, it's all because God loves us. 243 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,600 Let me just just just show you a few things about, about the love 244 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,200 of God and, and give you some, some dimensions and some, some 245 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,440 attributes about God's love. First of all, it's real simple. 246 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:07,640 His love is unconditional. There's no conditions to the 247 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,920 love of God. God loved us before He ever 248 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,480 created the world. We were already in the thought 249 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:16,920 of God when God created the world. 250 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,800 He already knew the plan. He already knew that that that 251 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,800 after He created man, man was going to fall. 252 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,240 You see? You see, salvation is not an 253 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,040 afterthought. Salvation, the cross and Jesus 254 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:34,080 coming is not God reacting to sin. 255 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,880 It was already in the foreknowledge of God that God 256 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,760 would have to redeem the creation that he created. 257 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:46,920 But God loves so much that he was willing to do it for us. 258 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,160 You see, we live. We we we live in a world where 259 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:56,440 love is mostly conditional. We like to think that we love. 260 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,560 Unconditionally. But most of the time we put, we 261 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,400 put limits and we put, we put. Boundaries on our love. 262 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,280 But God's love doesn't have boundaries. 263 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,880 God's love doesn't have restrictions. 264 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,160 There, there's no rules to the love of God. 265 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:17,599 God loved us before. God loved us, even though God's 266 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:21,040 love is unconditional. It's it's it's first John 410 267 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:25,400 that we were hearing is love not that we love God. 268 00:17:25,839 --> 00:17:29,760 God loved us. You didn't love God. 1st and 269 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:33,160 then God says I'll save you. You didn't, you didn't come to 270 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:37,560 God first and and say Lord, if you'll do this and this, No, God 271 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:41,520 says I love you. I love you and your sin. 272 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,880 I loved you and your mass. I loved you and your failures. 273 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:46,760 I loved you and your wretchedness. 274 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,920 I loved you in the condition, the sinful fallen condition you 275 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:53,360 were in. I loved you even then. 276 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,440 See, God's love is unconditional. 277 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:00,080 You see, for some that's it's hard for them to grasp the love 278 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:04,040 of God because they, they, they've lived in environments, 279 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:08,440 they lived in atmospheres where, where if they didn't do good, 280 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,520 they weren't loved. You've got children that have 281 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:13,800 been raised, some of you may have been raised in a, in an 282 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,960 environment where you were punished and, and he and if you 283 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:19,760 didn't, if you didn't, do, you know, if you didn't follow all, 284 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,440 all the rules and you didn't, the love was conditional. 285 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,520 Not that punishment is conditional because we, we, we 286 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,800 discipline. That's part of a bridge. 287 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,000 But some were, it was beyond that. 288 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,360 They, they, they were, they were abused and neglected and 289 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:36,400 rejected. And so the only, the only 290 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,440 knowledge of love they have is from the environment in which 291 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:43,040 they were raised. And some of it wasn't a loving, 292 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:45,800 nurturing environment. So when when you tell some 293 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:49,040 people that God loves them, that they're, they're trying to 294 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,480 equate that love with human love. 295 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,440 But God's love doesn't equate in human. 296 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:58,600 Terms. God's love doesn't measure in 297 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:02,480 humans. God's love far super exceeds 298 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:06,080 human love. God loved us even though God 299 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:10,320 loved us in spite of ourselves, in spite of our our failures and 300 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,960 our mistakes. God's love is unconditional. 301 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,320 That's why we love the prodigal. The story of the prodigal son. 302 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,600 The prodigal thought, you know, my father's a good man. 303 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,800 If I, if I go back, he, he'll surely he'll accept me as a 304 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,840 slave, as a servant. I'll just serve him. 305 00:19:30,120 --> 00:19:34,320 But what Jesus was was illustrating wasn't that he was 306 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,800 going to come back as a servant. Jesus told that story to, to, to 307 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,040 give us the picture of the love of the father. 308 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,920 No, I'm not going to just accept you as a servant. 309 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,200 You're going to be accepted as a son again because, because the 310 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:51,560 love of the Father, that's the Father's love for us. 311 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,600 His love is unconditional. Not only only is his love God's 312 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,240 love unconditional God. 'S love is undeserved. 313 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:05,800 There's nothing we can do to deserve the love of God, you. 314 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,480 Can't earn it. It's not performance based. 315 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,840 You see so many, so many other religions in the world. 316 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,040 There, there. It's it's all performance. 317 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,200 You have to do this you. Got to say this penance, some of 318 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,000 you, some of you may have been raised in the Catholic. 319 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,840 Church and you, you know that was part of your your religious 320 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:26,960 culture religious. Experience and you've got. 321 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:28,840 You've got to do this. You got to do that. 322 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,840 Jews, they got to keep, you know, they've got to keep the 323 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:33,720 law. You can't keep the law. 324 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:37,800 There's too many that that's that was the thing that was the 325 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,000 law had all of these things you had to do and everybody was 326 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,280 breaking the law except the scribes and the Pharisees who 327 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,560 thought they were above the law because they fulfilled. 328 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,720 But there was only one who kept the law, and it was Jesus, 329 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,360 because if he, he was the sinless, spotless 1, he would, 330 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:59,520 he never sinned so that he could be our Savior, so that he could 331 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:04,120 be the sacrifice. But you see, you see love, it's 332 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:06,440 his love is is. We can't. 333 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,280 We don't. We don't deserve it. 334 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,280 We, we don't deserve this love. There's nothing we can. 335 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:14,400 We can't. Buy it We. 336 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:19,240 Can't do penance for we can't we can't say there are a formula or 337 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:24,040 anything to deserve the love of God, God's love, Paul writes in 338 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:28,000 Romans 85. He says but, but God 339 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:35,600 demonstrated his love toward us while we were yet sinners. 340 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:41,800 Christ died for us. Think about it. 341 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:47,720 John 1513 says, says Jesus said this. 342 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,560 He said no greater. Love than this than a man lay 343 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,880 down his life for his friends. Paul also writes in. 344 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,840 In he writes about scarcely will a good. 345 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,680 Man, a righteous man, die for somebody. 346 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:12,480 They know, but who dies? For the ungodly only one Jesus 347 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,000 Paul. Writes in Ephesians 2, four and 348 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,200 five. But God, who is rich in mercy 349 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:25,080 because of his great love while we were dead in trespasses, 350 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,000 that's us before we came to Christ. 351 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,840 We're dead. In fact. 352 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:33,120 In fact, there's The Bible even uses terminology as. 353 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,120 Enemies. We were enemies. 354 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:40,480 To God we were. We were cast, separated from God 355 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:45,320 because God is holy and God is Justin and he's pure. 356 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:51,360 And so in our sin, we're enemies to God, but because of the blood 357 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:55,600 of Jesus, but because she's God loved us so much, he sent his 358 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,800 only begotten Son into this world, that whosoever would 359 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:03,520 would come to him, whosoever would repent of their sins, 360 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,800 whoever would would accept Jesus as their Savior, wouldn't 361 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,080 perish, but have everlasting life. 362 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:15,400 And so and so this this love. Is undeserved, but God. 363 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,720 Gave it God loved us so much. It's it's unconditional love. 364 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,760 It's it's, it's, it's undeserved love, but it's also it's 365 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:28,160 unrelenting love. That word, unrelenting means 366 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,600 undiminished. Undiminished in effort. 367 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,720 It doesn't fade. It doesn't weaken the love of 368 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,280 God over over all these thousands of years of human 369 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,320 history. God's love is not less today 370 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,240 because of time. God. 371 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,320 God doesn't age. He's ageless. 372 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,080 He's from beginning to end. He's from everlasting to 373 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:53,440 everlasting, and so is his love. It's from everlasting to 374 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,640 everlasting. It's unrelenting. 375 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,240 That means God has been pursuing. 376 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:03,760 He's a pursuing God pursues us. He's unrelenting and his passion 377 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,160 for souls. He's unrelenting and his passion 378 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,960 and his love for us, no matter what we've done, no matter how 379 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,680 many times we fail, no matter how many times we mess up, no 380 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,520 matter how many times we get up and we fall down. 381 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,120 His love is unrelenting. It's passionate. 382 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:26,600 And he pursues, and he pursues, and he pursues, and he rescues, 383 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,360 and he picks us up, and He cleans us all. 384 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,600 And He wants, which is us again and again and again. 385 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,160 Why? Because of His love for us. 386 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,440 Think about the woman in. John chapter 8. 387 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:45,400 It's an interesting story. A woman. 388 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:49,920 Who was caught in the Bible says in an act adultery? 389 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:55,880 It was a setup. Don't talk much about the men 390 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,720 who were watching and waiting to catch her in that act. 391 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,600 That's a whole another sermon. But they catch her. 392 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,320 They were waiting. They knew Jesus. 393 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,640 Was by, so they. Bring her to Jesus and throw her 394 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,760 down. And says. 395 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,440 What does the law? Says she should be stoned. 396 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,200 That's what the law says. What do you say, Jesus? 397 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:29,360 He said nothing, but he stooped down on the ground, no doubt 398 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:31,720 beside her, and begin to write something. 399 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,800 Oh, we always want to speculate what he wrote. 400 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,200 We preach our own sermons there, but we don't know what he wrote. 401 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:53,160 But whatever he wrote you without sin cast the first stone 402 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,480 and one by one they dropped their stones because the law 403 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,160 said she's to be stoned. But Jesus said, if you're 404 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,840 without sin, go ahead, throw that stone. 405 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,600 One by one they dropped their stones, you see, but that's 406 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,200 Jesus. And then he told the woman, get 407 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:17,200 up, go your way, sin no more, you've been forgiven. 408 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,120 You see, that's the passionate pursuit, John chapter 4, when he 409 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:25,800 goes to the well, Jews didn't go through through Samaria, but 410 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:30,280 Jesus said he had need to go to Samaria because he knew who was 411 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,960 going to be there at high noon. You don't draw water at high 412 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,080 noon. You went early in the morning or 413 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,360 you went in the evening, the early evening, the cool of the 414 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:39,480 day. You didn't go at 12:00 when it's 415 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,040 the hottest in the Mediterranean sun to draw water. 416 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:46,320 But this woman did because she went secretly. 417 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:52,640 She went because she had been living she had 6 husbands and 418 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,080 was 5 husbands and living with the 6th 1. 419 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,440 So she was an outcast that Jesus went because he needed to go. 420 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:07,240 He pursued and that woman end up leaving her pot going into the 421 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,320 city, becoming the first woman evangelist in the scriptures 422 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,160 going and tell everybody come see a man, come see a man that 423 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,280 knew everything about me, come see a man. 424 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,480 With joy. Shall you draw waters out of 425 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,360 the? Out of the living, living water, 426 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:23,040 the well of living water. He gave her, he gave her fresh 427 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:24,600 water, He gave her a new beginning. 428 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,040 He gave her New Hope. He gave her a new start. 429 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,960 He gave her salvation of joy in life and, and gave her a new 430 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,320 experience and she became a new creation. 431 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,480 You see, He's the pursuing God. He pursues us. 432 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,680 He's unrelenting. He won't give up pursuing if 433 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,040 you've got unsaved children. No, he's the unrelenting 434 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,200 pursuer. He won't give up. 435 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,120 He doesn't give. It doesn't matter. 436 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,360 It doesn't matter how, how bad, how far down they go. 437 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:57,120 He, his love is unrelenting. Aren't you glad He was 438 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:01,160 unrelenting when he pursued you and he came after you. 439 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,160 You didn't come to him on your own terms. 440 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:06,000 You didn't come to him on your own accord. 441 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,560 It was the Spirit of God that was pursuing you. 442 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,160 It was the Spirit of God that was convicting you. 443 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,400 It was the Spirit of God that was taking this and that and 444 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,840 this and that and this word and that word and scripture and and 445 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,680 all these things and people and was placing seeds in your heart 446 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,640 and drawing you to that place. When you said, Lord, I 447 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,920 surrender, I give my life to you. 448 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,840 I confess you as Lord and Savior. 449 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,880 That was because he was pursuing, suing you. 450 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,520 And even when he catches you, even when he when he come, when 451 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:38,560 you accept him, he doesn't stop. The love doesn't stop. 452 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,400 He doesn't stop pursuing. He keeps pursuing us day after 453 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,520 day, moment after moment in life. 454 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,040 Why? Because his love. 455 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,840 Is unrelenting. It's unconditional. 456 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,360 It's undeserved. It's unrelenting. 457 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,960 But it's also unfathomable. How do you? 458 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:02,600 Explain this. How do we explain? 459 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:11,840 How do we comprehend? This kind of love words can't 460 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:17,640 explain it words. So many. 461 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,800 I've, I've reread this just just recently, just, well, just in 462 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,120 the last day or two, is just preparing for this morning. 463 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,000 So many. I found that so many 464 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:37,440 theologians. Have wouldn't even take John 316 465 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:44,960 as a text and just preach on John 316 because how do you 466 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:51,360 preach John 316? How do you add anything to that? 467 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:56,960 You know, Tim Tebow, that was his you know, John 316 three 468 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:01,080 sixteen was on all of this, all of his gear, all of his stuff. 469 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,320 And they even even said that, you know, a lot of his numbers 470 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:10,720 even matched up to 316, a lot of the touchdown passes, whatever, 471 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,080 all all the all the things several years. 472 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,480 Added up to. To that number, because that 473 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:21,120 was, that was his. That's what he took is his motto 474 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,840 greatest, probably the one of the greatest scriptures in all 475 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,880 of the word of God for God. So. 476 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,800 Loved the world that he. Gave his only begotten. 477 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,080 How do you explain that? Or how do you? 478 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:46,320 Comprehend it His love that God would, would send his only 479 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,720 begotten Son. You see, it's unfathomable. 480 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,240 It's an unfathomable love. And so we try. 481 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,200 We try to put it in words. We, we, we try, we. 482 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:01,040 Songs have been written. We we, we, we sing songs and we 483 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,960 write about poems and. And and and things have been. 484 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:08,920 Written about the love of God, but how do you measure it? 485 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:15,320 How do you measure this? Love you can. 486 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:20,240 Better measure the ocean. Than the love of God you can. 487 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,040 Better measure the sands of the Seas. 488 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,680 Than to try to measure the love of God. 489 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,120 So Paul writes in Ephesians 3 in a prayer. 490 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,560 He was praying a prayer to the the the. 491 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:38,240 Christians in Ephesus. And he says, he says, I want you 492 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,080 to be able. To try to comprehend. 493 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:48,920 With all the Saints, what is the height and the depth? 494 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,920 And the width and the length. Of the love. 495 00:31:53,920 --> 00:32:02,040 Of God that passes all knowledge pipe. 496 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,280 His love is so high, it comes from heaven. 497 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,960 His love is so long you can't outlast. 498 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:16,600 It it's forever and ever and ever. 499 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,760 It's so deep. It reaches. 500 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:23,640 Which are the lowest you've ever? 501 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,440 Been and they'll ever go and beyond. 502 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:32,040 And it's so wide. It goes around the world again 503 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:36,120 and again and over and over and over and over again. 504 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:43,120 The love of God. It's higher than any any of, 505 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,000 It's longer, it's wider. It's deeper than any of your. 506 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,480 Failures. No sin is too great. 507 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:53,440 No distance is too far. No mountain is too high, no 508 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,240 valley is too low. The the this love, this 509 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,480 unfathomable love of God, you can't measure it. 510 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,680 You can't calculate it. You can't comprehend it. 511 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,840 It stretches wider than you're seeing. 512 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,000 It runs longer than your lifetime. 513 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,720 It reaches higher and deeper than your pain, your brokenness, 514 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:17,120 your rebellion, your mistake. You can't measure it. 515 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,560 So what do you do with it? You just got to look at the 516 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:28,200 cross and say that's love, that a man would be willing his blood 517 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,600 wasn't spilled when you spill something. 518 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,760 That's an accident. I know the. 519 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,640 Songs have. Been written and and were we, 520 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,080 we've used the word broken and spilled out. 521 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,520 I understand, I understand what we mean. 522 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,560 But when we really think about it, when we if we really want to 523 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,240 be a theological, if we really want to be biblical, if we 524 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,880 really want to be correct, it wasn't spilled. 525 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,360 He didn't spill it. He gave his life. 526 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,120 He poured out his blood. He allowed. 527 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:01,040 He laid down his life. He gave his life. 528 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,160 They didn't take his life. Hear me. 529 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:08,440 The Romans didn't take his life. The Jews didn't take his life. 530 00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:14,000 He gave up his life. He willingly laid down. 531 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,400 He knew he was going to have to die. 532 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,320 He came. The purpose of the Son of Man. 533 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,880 What's to seek and to save that which was lost? 534 00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:29,000 It was in the Father's plan that Jesus would lay down his life, 535 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,199 just like Isaac lay down on the altar. 536 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,280 Abraham didn't make him lay down Isaac. 537 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,440 He was old enough. He crawled up on that altar. 538 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,040 He watched his father build the fire. 539 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:45,719 Abraham or Isaac watched his father place the logs under the 540 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:50,080 altar, and they had the altar. And he and Isaac got up on that 541 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,679 altar and he laid his own life on that altar. 542 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:58,880 And then he said, Father, I see the wood, I know the sacrifice, 543 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,040 but, but, but where? Where's the lamb? 544 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,400 And he said, God will provide a lamb. 545 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,400 God will provide A and he provided that lamb. 546 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,160 And that lamb was Jesus, who came to die for us. 547 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:17,360 Unfathomable love. I can't explain it, but oh I can 548 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,840 accept it. I just got it. 549 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:24,040 That's why he says believe if you'll just believe, if you'll 550 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,400 confess with your mouth and believe in your heart the Lord 551 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,160 Jesus, that God raised him from the dead. 552 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:35,080 It's when you're saved. You see, it's as simple as 553 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:40,080 believing if we'll just believe this love, that he loves us so 554 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,360 much. But oh, here's the last one. 555 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,880 I'll finish with this. It's unbreakable. 556 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:49,640 Love. It's a covenant. 557 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:55,400 God's love is a. Covenant But you see covenants 558 00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:00,320 and vows, they don't mean a whole lot today 'cause people 559 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:05,360 break their vows, they stand in an altar and get married in the 560 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:09,360 name of God. But those vows don't mean a lot 561 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,600 to a lot of people. They break them. 562 00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:16,200 People, you know used to buy cars and mules and horses and 563 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:22,800 cows and and bland by handshake because a man's word was his 564 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,440 bond or a handshake wasn't. It was an agreement. 565 00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:28,800 Not today. You can't trust that today. 566 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,280 Promises are broken. Promises are made, but they're 567 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,280 broken. Vows are made, but they're 568 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,640 broken covenants. People go into contracts and 569 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,040 covenants, but they break them. But you see, God's love is 570 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,240 unbreakable. God's love is. 571 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:46,000 Unbreakable God's love is. Unbreakable. 572 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,000 You can't break that bond of God. 573 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,600 'S love. You can't break it. 574 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,680 Your sin can't break it. Your failure can't break it. 575 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:54,840 Your mistakes can't break it. No matter. 576 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,080 You can't break that love. God loves us now. 577 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,120 He, He loves us. He doesn't want us to stay, stay 578 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,880 in our mess and stay broken and stay bound and stay in sin. 579 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,720 He loves us enough to rescue us and to bring us out. 580 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,400 But you can't change the love of God. 581 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,320 You can't break the bonds of God's love because it's from 582 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:19,560 everlasting to everlasting. God's covenant can't be broken. 583 00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:22,800 That's why Paul. Writes and I'm I'm done, he 584 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,720 says. Romans 8. 585 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:32,320 Who can separate us? From the love of God What can 586 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,960 separate us from God's love? Shall persecution, he said. 587 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,080 He names all these things. Famine, distress, nakedness, 588 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,600 peril, sore persecution, all these things, He said. 589 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,040 He said. We're more than conquerors, he 590 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:46,840 said. He said. 591 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,520 For I am persuaded. Here's that. 592 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,480 This is what he says. This is what I know. 593 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,120 Jesus loves me, this I know, I'm persuaded he loves me, this I 594 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,000 know, and that I can't be separated from the love of God. 595 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:02,560 He says neither, not not death, not life, not angels, not 596 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:06,480 principalities, not powers, nor things present, nor things to 597 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:07,680 come. You know what all that means? 598 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,280 That means that that means in a world full of deception and a 599 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,840 world full of lies and a world full of temptation and the devil 600 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:18,520 and and the onslaught of the enemy, there is nothing that can 601 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,000 separate you. There's no lie, there's no 602 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,600 deception, there's no evil, there's nothing that can 603 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,640 separate you from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus 604 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,440 our Lord. God loves us. 605 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,680 He loves us. His love is an unbreakable love. 606 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,160 Somebody needs to hear this today. 607 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,400 That what you thought you did broke it. 608 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,760 You thought that your failure cancelled it. 609 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,240 You thought that your past disqualified you. 610 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,640 But you're the love of God can't be broken. 611 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,040 We live in a cancel culture. You can't cancel the love of 612 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,000 God. You can't cancel it. 613 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:56,520 You can't erase the love of God. It's the strongest force in the 614 00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,520 universe. The ocean is powerful, it's 615 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,920 mighty. There's nuclear power, there's 616 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,880 there's hydropower, there's electric power. 617 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:10,120 There are strong forces in this world and in this universe that 618 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,280 are natural forces. But there is nothing that is 619 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,600 compared to the power of the love of God. 620 00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:21,080 And the love that rescues you is the same love that'll hold you, 621 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,400 and it's the same love that'll keep you. 622 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,040 It's the same love that'll see you through. 623 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,040 It's the same love that gets you saved. 624 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:33,360 But it's the same love that'll take you all the way to the 625 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:37,520 pearly gates of heaven. And you'll meet the one who died 626 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:42,720 for you and gave his life for you and says, well done my good 627 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:45,280 and faithful child. Enter in. 628 00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,320 That's the love of God that'll take you all the way home. 629 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,520 It won't just take you part of the way. 630 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,160 His love will take you all the way if you'll embrace His love 631 00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,840 and accept His love. Hallelujah. 632 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,360 Hallelujah. Can we just get a little excited 633 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,480 about the love of God today? Hallelujah. 634 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,440 Come on, stand with me if you would. 635 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,360 Come on, let's just put our hands together and praise Him. 636 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:17,600 Thank Him for His love today. Thank you for loving me. 637 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,120 Thank you for come on, tell him. Maybe it's been a while. 638 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,960 Tell him, Lord, thank you for your love. 639 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,760 Thank you for your love. I didn't deserve it. 640 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,080 I didn't earn it, but you love me anyway. 641 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,320 It's unrelenting. It's unfathomable. 642 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,600 It's unbreakable. You can't get. 643 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,880 You can't get. Away from it. 644 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,520 Oh, thank you. For your love, Hallelujah. 645 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,600 Thanks for listening to the Cross Power Church podcast. 646 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:52,560 May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be 647 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,960 found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 648 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,080 would love for you to join us in person. 649 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,680 You can find service times at crosspowerchurch.com.