1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,720 You're listening to Key Life Fellowships Pulpit Ministry 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:08,920 podcast. We thank you for tuning in as we 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:12,280 learn from God's Word together. If you would like more 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,760 information regarding Key Life or to speak with one of our 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,920 pastors, please visit us at Key Life Fellowship. 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,320 If you have your Bibles, if you would turn to Exodus and the 7 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,640 34th chapter and we will continue our study. 8 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,240 I told you last week when we dove off into the the forgotten 9 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,640 jealousy of God that I intended on preaching one message that I 10 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:44,720 realized I would not be able to do in one message because the 11 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:51,160 subject is just so big and unfortunately so neglected in 12 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:53,920 the church these days. And that is again the subject of 13 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,600 God's jealousy. And last week in our message, we 14 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,000 discussed what provokes God's jealousy. 15 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:02,960 Not going to do that again to you. 16 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,520 Because I realized when we understand that we provoke God's 17 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,600 jealousy and many places in our lives, it brings great 18 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,240 conviction upon our lives. And very heavy that conviction 19 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:21,200 becomes as we think about all of the things that distract us from 20 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:25,520 Christ, how those things can quickly become idols in our 21 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,920 lives. And so today I'm not going to 22 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,960 revisit that, though we, we, we may occasionally mention those 23 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:35,520 things. Today I want us to look at what 24 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,920 God's jealousy proves. We we saw how God's jealousy is 25 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:47,240 prove that the fact that God is a jealous God and before I get 26 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,440 to the details in that I'm just going to tell you that 27 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:54,720 everything that God's jealousy proves has to do with his love 28 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,040 for his people. In fact, when we think about 29 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:03,240 God's jealousy. We must be is jealous because he 30 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,720 loves us. And if you're a good husband in 31 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:11,320 this room and you saw some man flirting with your wife or your 32 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,680 wife of flirting with another man as we dismissed this morning 33 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,680 and it doesn't bother you as her husband. 34 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,080 Well, I would question your love not to question the love of God 35 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,880 because God is always jealous in his love for us. 36 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,120 Why? Because he is a jealous God. 37 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,800 And we're going to see today that God's jealousy proves his 38 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,800 love, and we're going to see the depths of that, I hope, in our 39 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,440 time together. I overheard someone saying last 40 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,760 week, and I think they were kind of maybe trying to defend me a 41 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,320 little bit because the way that it usually goes here at Key Life 42 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,560 Fellowship is we'll begin at verse 1, chapter 1 of some book 43 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,160 and we'll walk all the way through that. 44 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,640 And I heard someone speaking, I don't remember exactly what they 45 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:02,920 said, but but they said something that normally here we, 46 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:05,600 we're strict in expository teaching. 47 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,480 Let me just help you with some of the confusion around 48 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,960 expository preaching. Expository preaching doesn't 49 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,960 mean simply just verse by verse, though verse by verse is very 50 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,120 important. Sometimes in our exposition, we 51 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:23,920 can actually really focusing on one verse and in fact 1 theme 52 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:26,760 from that one verse as we're going to continue to do. 53 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,240 And so we go back to the same verse that we were at last week, 54 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:32,760 right? No, no new reading for you, 55 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,200 though. I pray that you would read all 56 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:38,440 the things around it. And I want us to focus again on 57 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:42,160 God's jealousy. Going to see God's jealousy 58 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:46,520 proves His love. He says this in Exodus 34 verse 59 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:52,400 14. Do not worship any other God for 60 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,840 the Lord. Whose name is jealous is a 61 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,840 jealous God. So you learned last week that he 62 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:04,560 is tell you he is immutable and he's still just as jealous this 63 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:06,960 week. Let's pray together, Father, in 64 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,680 the name of Jesus, we come to you, thanking you that Your Word 65 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,760 teaches us the things that we need to know as believers, that 66 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,959 it is Your word that sanctifies us and sets us apart from the 67 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:23,720 rest of the unbelieving world. Look at your jealousy again this 68 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,680 morning. But I pray that you continue to 69 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,080 teach us the depths of that, exactly what it means and 70 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,520 exactly what it proves to us as your children. 71 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,600 That I pray also that that that jealousy be seen today by the 72 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,720 unbeliever and that you show them how jealous you are for 73 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:44,600 them and sued them as since eternity passed. 74 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:47,920 To bring them to this place this morning, that they could hear 75 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:53,000 about your love and your mercy found in Christ, that you would 76 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,280 compel them to believe and to repent this morning due to that 77 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,040 jealous love that you have chased them. 78 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:07,240 God, we pray as we learn in Your word these things, and we would 79 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,720 appreciate them all the more that we would praise You all the 80 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,640 more that you would be glorified through this. 81 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,000 And we pray, and we ask all these things in the mighty name 82 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:22,440 of Jesus, Amen. You will be a first for me. 83 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,360 It will probably be a. Last, for me, many times in the 84 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,320 sermons that I preach, I might open with a quote from some 85 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:34,800 Puritan or from some church father or from some theologian 86 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,480 in the past. This morning I'm going to do 87 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:42,800 something a little different, and I'm actually with something 88 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:47,040 from Oprah. I know, gasp, but get it all out 89 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,960 faint. There's a reason and there's a 90 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:57,200 purpose behind that. Oprah in the interview on the 91 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:03,360 topic of God in her side of the conversation went something like 92 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:09,520 this, which is very disturbing. She says, and I quote, she said, 93 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:13,920 I happen to be sitting in church in my late 20s and I was going 94 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,560 to this church where you had to get there at 8:00 in the morning 95 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,080 or you couldn't get a seat and a very. 96 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,480 And everybody was just, you know, into the sermon, she says. 97 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,280 And this great minister was preaching about how great God 98 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:30,720 was and how omniscient and how omnipresent. 99 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,320 And God is everything. And then he said, And the Lord 100 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:41,720 thy God is a jealous God. And I was, she said, caught up 101 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,480 in the rapture of the moment until he said, jealous. 102 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:47,640 She goes on to saying something struck me. 103 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,240 And I was like, I, I think about 27 or 28. 104 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,320 I don't know why she went back and revisited what age she was. 105 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,120 It really is insignificant. She's still just as lost. 106 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,080 She says. I was thinking God is all 107 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,840 present and God is, and God's also jealous. 108 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,120 God is jealous of me. And something about that didn't 109 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:15,040 feel right in my spirit, because I believe that God is love and 110 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:18,280 that God is in all things. And so that's when the search 111 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:25,400 for something more than doctrine within me, search for something 112 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,960 more than doctrine, she says. Because the doctrine that says 113 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,800 that God is jealous confused her, didn't it? 114 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,720 She thought that God was going to be humanistic in his jealousy 115 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:43,440 and somehow be be envious of her or her well, and so she thought 116 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:47,840 in that moment that God's jealousy has to be the direct 117 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,720 opposite of his love, right? Because she was all about his 118 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:52,280 love. And isn't everybody all about 119 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,160 his love? Unfortunately, they're all about 120 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,680 his love because they don't have a biblical understanding of his 121 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:03,920 love because his love. Unfortunately, like many, she 122 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:08,120 believed that God's jealousy somehow nullified God's love, 123 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,840 when in fact. As we're going to see today, in 124 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,440 our time together, we're going to see that God's jealousy 125 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:20,080 proves his love. God's jealousy. 126 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,280 And solidifies his love for his people. 127 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:26,800 And I want us to understand that. 128 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,280 I don't want us to be confused like Oprah. 129 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,880 I don't want us to be confused over the fact that God's 130 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:39,520 jealousy is a great evidence of God's love for His people. 131 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,960 And so we look at this this morning, you're taking notes. 132 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:49,000 I want you to write this down. God's jealousy proves some 133 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,080 things to us concerning His love. 134 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,360 We're going to look at the depths of that and what that 135 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,760 means. First, God's jealousy proves His 136 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:02,520 covenantal love for His people. Week I mentioned His covenantal 137 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,160 love and I said we will talk more about that in the weeks to 138 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,920 come. Well, here we are, and I want us 139 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,520 to talk for a moment about His covenant love for His people so 140 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,760 that we understand that God's love is based on the covenant 141 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:18,040 that He has made with His people. 142 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:26,560 It is not based on any, and God's jealousy for us is 143 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:28,720 evidence of that covenantal love. 144 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:33,560 When we look at covenantal love and in regard to God, we must 145 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:37,440 see this. It is covenantal love is a 146 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:42,280 faithful love. Speak for all of you, but I can 147 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,520 speak for myself. I am thankful that God loves me 148 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:49,480 with a covenantal faithful love because I'm not always faithful 149 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:51,960 to the things that I need to be faithful to. 150 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,880 But I can rest assure of this, God is always faithful unto 151 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,840 himself. He's always faithful to fulfill 152 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:03,760 every Thomas. In fact, Titus Paul says to 153 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,680 Titus, God cannot lie there in the book of Titus. 154 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,080 And so I know that when God says something, God means something, 155 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:14,400 and he doesn't. Mean it just temporarily, He 156 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,920 means it forever. And so when we think about His 157 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:22,440 covenant love for His people must be reminded that it is a 158 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:30,040 faithful love based on His faithfulness to His promises. 159 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,320 Fact Deuteronomy Chapter 7 verse 9 says know therefore that the 160 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:39,560 Lord your God is God. He is the faithful God keeping 161 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:45,320 his cup of to 1000 generations of those who love him and keep 162 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:49,160 his commands. He is a God who loves 163 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:57,040 faithfully, and his faithful love proves His covenant alone. 164 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:05,920 And the jealousy of God, that. US displays for us evidence that 165 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,880 He has loved us with this faithful covenantal love. 166 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:15,480 Williams first, though, a rather obscure Puritan who wrote a book 167 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,760 that I've read recently and entitled The Wells of Salvation 168 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:23,680 open this book's promises of God, and in fact, in a way that 169 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:28,040 I have never contemplated the depths of God's promises in my 170 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:32,120 life. Espersto said this. 171 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,040 He said that the same love that moved God to make a promise 172 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:41,600 moves him still to perform it. For his love knows no very nor 173 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:46,960 the least shadow of turning. We can bank on that church that 174 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,600 because God is immutable, he doesn't change. 175 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:54,320 He doesn't turn, He doesn't shift like the shadows that we 176 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,040 are. Secured by his covenantal and 177 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:02,640 faithful love for his people. It's based on his faithfulness 178 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,400 to his promises. It's not based on anything you 179 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:06,720 do. It's not based on anything you 180 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,080 don't do. It's based on him and him alone. 181 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,560 The word that he has spoken, He is faithful and he is true to 182 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:15,880 that word. We look at his faithful love, 183 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,360 knowing that it's based on his faithfulness to keep his 184 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:19,240 promises. But. 185 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,560 I want to also make you aware of this, or to remind you if you're 186 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:26,680 not aware that it's. Separate from our performance, 187 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:34,680 God doesn't love me based on me, He loves me based upon Him. 188 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:40,040 And his faithfulness unto himself God doesn't love. 189 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,400 My performance, it's a message that we need to hear in the 190 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,280 American church that is so inundated with this idea that if 191 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,280 you do XY and Z, God will then do whatever it is that you want 192 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:54,160 him to do for you. That's simply not the case. 193 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,560 God is a God of covenant, of love, and he has made that 194 00:12:57,560 --> 00:12:59,720 covenant and he's made that promise to love you with 195 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:04,960 inevitable an enduring love. It's completely separate from 196 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,480 our performance because if it was based on my performance, I 197 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:12,120 promised you this, I've let God down enough that I do not 198 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,280 deserve to receive any more love from him. 199 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,400 But thanks be unto God. This covenant of love is not 200 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,720 based on Paul's performance. It's not based on the 201 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:24,400 performance of any of you here today. 202 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:28,120 It is based upon his promises alone. 203 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,880 Titus chapter 3 verse 4, it says this. 204 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,600 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He 205 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,480 saved us. Not because of righteous things 206 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:42,760 we had done, but because of His. When His kindness and His love 207 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,280 appeared to us. He didn't save us because of any 208 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:46,720 of the things that we had done. Why? 209 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:49,480 Because all we had done up until that point is sin. 210 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:53,200 And so if He were going to base His covenant of love upon us, we 211 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:59,200 would definitely not be. Candidates to receive it he 212 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:04,800 still promised even separate from our performance completely. 213 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:09,600 Psalm one O 3 verse 10. The psalmist says he does not 214 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,800 treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our 215 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,560 iniquities. I wish Christians were listening 216 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:21,200 to that this morning. And why not for his high door 217 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,920 above the earth. So great is his love for those 218 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,760 who fear him. Why do you fear him? 219 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,320 Because by His grace He has ushered you into a covenant and 220 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:37,040 a promise that He has made unto you on His faithfulness to keep 221 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:42,560 His promises on His covenantal love, faithful love that 222 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,240 Spurgeon talked about when he preached the message entitled 223 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,640 The Drawings of Love. And he said this in that sermon. 224 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:52,320 He said He who has loved you and pardoned you will never cease to 225 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:58,240 love you. His love was not set upon you 226 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:03,320 because of anything in you, not be removed because of anything 227 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:07,560 in you. Oh, you see the depths of that 228 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,200 covenantal love? It wasn't based on you to begin 229 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,080 with. That's for all of you who think 230 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:17,120 that you did XY and Z right and so God then saved you, No, when 231 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:22,600 you were doing everything wrong, asking in your sin where you 232 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:29,320 were swimming in your filth. God, due to His faithful love, 233 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,360 brought you into His covenant of promise in Christ. 234 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:39,120 There's nothing you can ever do to be removed from that love 235 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:44,640 because it's a forever love. Oh, we see it's a faithful love, 236 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,720 but it's also a forever love, a love that is everlasting. 237 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,960 Oh, how many times does Scripture talk about God's love 238 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:54,040 being everlasting? Now please know this He's not 239 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,480 talking about God's common and benevolent love that goes out to 240 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:01,320 everyone when we talk about God. Love. 241 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:05,000 This is His covenant of love to His people of promise. 242 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,000 We will always remain in His love because it is a forever 243 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,760 love, an everlasting love. Psalm One, O 317, as you read a 244 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:18,080 moment ago, it said, But from everlasting to everlasting, the 245 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:22,200 Lord's love is with those who fear Him, with their children's 246 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,200 children, with those who keep His covenant and remember to 247 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,160 obey His precepts. Please know what he's saying. 248 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,760 Those who really understand His covenant of love will keep His 249 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,960 promises and obey His precepts. That is a mark of a true 250 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,400 convert. That is a mark of someone who 251 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:43,320 was truly in this covenant. They will enjoy that everlasting 252 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:45,640 love. Isaiah, 5410. 253 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,240 It says this about his everlasting love. 254 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,920 Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my 255 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:55,640 unfailing love for you will not be shaken, nor my covenant of 256 00:16:55,640 --> 00:17:02,080 peace be removed, Says the Lord, who has compassion on and he 257 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:07,359 loves you, and he has compassion upon you based on his faithful 258 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,720 love, based on his forever love, that everlasting covenantal 259 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:14,720 love. Not only is that covenantal love 260 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:18,240 everlasting, but it's also enduring. 261 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:24,720 Oh, and I could and tell time after time after in time that 262 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:29,040 God has proven in my life that his love endures beyond my 263 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:33,520 stupidity and beyond my sin. His love is an enduring love. 264 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:35,760 That's why Paul in Romans chapter 8. 265 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:41,560 They're toward the end of that chapter, gives promised, he 266 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:43,520 says. For I am convinced in verse 38 267 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:47,520 that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, 268 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:52,600 neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, either 269 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:56,840 height nor depth or anything else in all creation will be 270 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:00,000 able to separate us. Who is he talking about? 271 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,000 He's talking about God's covenantal people, the believer. 272 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,120 He said, I'm convinced that there's nothing that can 273 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:10,720 separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our 274 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,480 Lord. The covenantal love of God has 275 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:16,960 us and will never, ever, ever let us go. 276 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:19,640 It's everlasting and it is enduring. 277 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:25,520 Not all creation, height, nor death, nor life, nor death, nor 278 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,920 demons, nor angels. He's saying this nothing. 279 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,800 Nothing is going to. Separate you from God's 280 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:38,960 covenantal love for His people. When we talk about God being 281 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:45,040 jealous, he reminded that he is jealous because of his 282 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:50,520 covenantal love for His people. God's jealousy proves that that 283 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:55,360 covenantal love is true. So God's jealousy proves that 284 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:59,240 covenant of love, and it is that love that secures His people. 285 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:04,880 Let me just set this out there for you so that you can meditate 286 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:06,840 on it and just ponder it for a moment. 287 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:11,800 No matter what you could ever bring against you. 288 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,480 Whatever charge you could bring against you. 289 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,280 It is not big enough to disqualify you from the covenant 290 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:26,400 of love that we in Christ Jesus because He is a jealous God. 291 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:32,400 He proves that jealousy by that covenant of love, faithful love 292 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,520 and forever love. Secondly, God's jealousy proves 293 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:38,800 His uncompromising love for His people. 294 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,200 Not compromised in the area of His love. 295 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:53,000 He won't allow us to entertain or to continue in meaningless 296 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:58,480 things that we love from this world and only take His place 297 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:03,280 and replace Him in our lives. God is uncompromising in this. 298 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,600 In fact, He rescues us from these things. 299 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,200 Now, I told you that I'm not going to go back and I'm not 300 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,720 going to revisit all of the idols that we. 301 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:18,400 Are susceptible to because they grow increasingly every day, but 302 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:23,200 I will take the time to remind. That God displays for us His 303 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:28,320 uncompromising love in this way by refusing to share His people 304 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:33,200 with idols. He will not tolerate it if you, 305 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,920 as a believer, attempt to give yourself to an idol. 306 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:39,720 Please know this God will discipline you and he will bring 307 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,280 you back. Idol is nothing to you again and 308 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:45,440 that he is everything if you were truly in Christ. 309 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,280 Why? Because God desires and He 310 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:55,440 deserves all of our affections. He desires and He deserves to be 311 00:20:55,440 --> 00:21:00,040 loved 1st and to be loved supremely in our lives. 312 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:07,320 Therefore he refuses to share His covenant people with their 313 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:11,320 idols. Matthew 22 verse 37 Jesus gives 314 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,520 the command to his people. He says Love the Lord your God 315 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:18,840 with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your 316 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:22,920 mind. All that you have to offer other 317 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,160 than your sinful flesh. And He says everything that you 318 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,080 have to offer, He says offer it to God in love. 319 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,440 Why? Because that is a response that 320 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,840 we will naturally have when His true love has been lavished upon 321 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:41,200 us, when we began to understand His covenantal love for us based 322 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,520 on His faithfulness, the fact that it is forever. 323 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,960 Our response to that kind of love ought to be to shun every 324 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:53,040 idol and to love Him supremely in our lives above all. 325 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:59,120 Things first and foremost, God desires, and all of our 326 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:03,040 affections belong. Why do you think that when he 327 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,760 gave the 10 commandments there in Exodus chapter 20 verse 328 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:10,200 three, he said you shall have no other little G gods before me 329 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:17,040 because all of those false little G idols, they're not 330 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:22,160 worthy of love. They're not God's people, giving 331 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:26,400 themselves their time and their energy toward these meaningless 332 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,840 demonic. Fallacy. 333 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,600 God refuses to share us with idols. 334 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,320 He's not going to do it. He's uncompromising in his love 335 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:45,000 for us, covenantal love, so that we can come out from this world, 336 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,440 so that we can come out from serving those idols, so that we 337 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,520 can come out from our sin that we once loved so much. 338 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:55,640 God is not going to share us with these idols. 339 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,920 Be that immorality, be that greed. 340 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:05,680 Idolatry. He will not share us with idols. 341 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,160 The psalmist understood this in Psalm 24. 342 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,720 When he wrote this, he said in verse three, Who may ascend the 343 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,680 hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy? 344 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,680 Place he who has clean hands and a pure heart, and who does not 345 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:24,160 lift up idol or swear by what is false. 346 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,400 Oh, see what the psalmist wrote there under the inspiration of 347 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,040 the Holy Spirit. That God is refusing to share 348 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,760 His people with idols because God is relishing and being our 349 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:43,640 only source of satisfaction. Be a list on our list of things. 350 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:50,680 He wants to be loved above all things and he will not share us 351 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:57,720 with anything else because he refuses to do so and he relishes 352 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,080 and being our only source of sad. 353 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,960 How can we stop there for a moment and just simply come to 354 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,120 the conclusion that God is worthy to relish, that we would 355 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,640 only be satisfied in Him That is His desire. 356 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,880 And isn't He worth that? The One who would give His only 357 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,080 begotten Son to show us the magnitude and the extent of His 358 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:20,000 love. For. 359 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:26,400 Isn't He worthy of us relishing in Him, finding satisfaction and 360 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,760 nothing that this world has to offer, finding satisfaction and 361 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:33,280 no pleasure of the flesh, but finding satisfaction in Him and 362 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,360 in Him alone? Oh, we sing about it a lot in 363 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:37,880 the church, but we don't live about it very much, do we? 364 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:46,080 Raise up a group of people that would simply just be satisfied 365 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:51,960 with his sufficiency to be satisfied in him. 366 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,680 He's uncompromising in his love for his people, desiring the 367 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,120 same thing. There's a psalmist in Psalm 73 368 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,040 says this. He says in verse 25, Whom have I 369 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,840 in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire 370 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,400 besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, 371 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,680 but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 372 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:22,160 What is the psalmist doing here? Being the only source of his 373 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,960 satisfaction, he's relishing it and God being the love of his 374 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:30,960 life. He's content and he's satisfied 375 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,280 in his relationship with his creator. 376 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,960 I wish that the American church would once again become content 377 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:44,040 and the fact that the Creator desires a relationship with us. 378 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:51,320 That he sent his son die on a cross brutal death so that that 379 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:57,520 relationship would exist. Knowing that he relishes and 380 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,840 being our only source of satisfaction. 381 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,840 Well, please know this church. His uncompromising love for His 382 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:15,200 people will not allow him to watch you continue to find 383 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,640 sufficiency in things that are outside of Him. 384 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:24,000 That means, by the things of this world, satisfaction, by the 385 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:30,080 urges of your flesh. Surely those of you who know 386 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:36,240 Christ know that He's worthy being seen as sufficient for 387 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:41,360 every need that we have. That's what Paul came going. 388 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:47,200 And His grace is sufficient for all my needs, and I find 389 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,560 satisfaction in Him and Him alone. 390 00:26:56,490 --> 00:27:02,410 Psalm 60. 3 says this, Oh God, you are my God. 391 00:27:02,410 --> 00:27:06,090 Earnestly I seek you, my soul thirsts for you, my body longs 392 00:27:06,090 --> 00:27:09,650 for you, and a dry and weary land where there is no water. 393 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,640 I have seen you in the sanctuary and behold your power and your 394 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,560 glory. Because your love is better than 395 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,240 life. My lips will glorify you. 396 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,320 Long as I live and in your name I will lift up my hands, my soul 397 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,880 will be satisfied as with the richest of foods, with singing 398 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,120 lips, my mouth will praise you. The Psalm is there completely 399 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,800 satisfied in the love of God, completely satisfied with that 400 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,120 relationship. In fact, it just began to pour 401 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:42,360 off of his lips praise for how truly is. 402 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:48,600 God desires us. From us, He relishes the fact 403 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,640 that we would be satisfied with Him as our only source of 404 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,920 satisfaction. So God's jealousy proves the 405 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,200 fact that His love is uncompromising. 406 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:04,160 He's not going with godless things, godless idols. 407 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:10,440 He desires that we find true satisfaction in His perfect 408 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,840 love. Oh Church, when you began to see 409 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:18,040 just how perfect His love is for you, you won't be satisfied with 410 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,080 anything less than the perfect love of God. 411 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,920 You'll no longer be satisfied by the empty substitutes that this 412 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,600 world provides. You'll no longer be satisfied 413 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,880 with the yearnings of your flesh when you see the true deaths of 414 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:36,120 His love. The fact that He is jealous for 415 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:43,400 you because of this love for Him, all the more you'll find 416 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,560 satisfaction in Him. All the more He will be your 417 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,760 everything. Isn't that the problem with so 418 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,960 many who claim to know Christ? Christ is just another thing, 419 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:58,920 not their everything. Unfortunately, we've settled for 420 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,960 that Heaven. Can I submit to you this? 421 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:08,240 God has not settled for that. He is not lavished as covenantal 422 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:13,120 love upon you so that He can just be something else on your 423 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,560 list of somethings. He sent His Son to die on a 424 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:23,680 cross to be your everything. Surely He's jealous for us. 425 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,960 God's jealousy proves His uncompromising love for His 426 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,840 people. God's jealousy proves His 427 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,480 covenantal love for His people. Thirdly, God's jealousy proves 428 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,640 His committed love for His people. 429 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:43,360 Isn't it in? His jealousy that we see clear 430 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:48,560 evidence of God's commitment to love His people and to make that 431 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:53,600 love known to us. He went to the extreme to the 432 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:59,000 greatest extent so that we would know the love that I am Speaking 433 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,800 of. This very did love. 434 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:07,640 Please know this God's committed love is not His reaction to our 435 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:12,320 love and our commitment toward Him, right ladies? 436 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:18,160 It's not his reaction to our commitment and our love for. 437 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:27,320 Him love is based solely on His grace toward us, shown to us in 438 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:33,320 Christ Jesus, and He is jealously committed to love us 439 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,600 no matter. What? 440 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,840 Let me just prove that to you. Please pay attention to this. 441 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,640 He's rescuing those he has chosen. 442 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,080 In fact, in your Bibles, you know and you were familiar, I 443 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,800 hope with Romans chapter 8 verse 29 says this. 444 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,240 For those God foreknew that is to for love. 445 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,480 That means He loved you and eternity passed before you ever 446 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:02,200 existed. He says God foreknew He also 447 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,120 predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, that He 448 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:10,120 might be the first born among many brothers. 449 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:17,520 God's choosing on our lives is based on His preordained love 450 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:22,600 and nothing else. He didn't wait till you got a 451 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:27,040 few things right and then decide that He was going to love you. 452 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:32,440 Please understand this church. Before you were ever a sparkle 453 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:37,600 in your parents eyes, his affections had already been set 454 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,080 upon you. Oh, and please know this, He 455 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,720 down through the halls of time to see you make some good 456 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,320 decision and then love you based on that good decision. 457 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:52,000 No, He committed himself to love you in spite of you before you 458 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,480 ever existed. That's the kind of love that I'm 459 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,000 talking about today. That is why God's jealousy is so 460 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:04,320 amazing when we contemplated biblically so much more than 461 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,640 just our human envy and our human insecurity. 462 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:14,000 God's jealousy proves to us He's committed love for His people 463 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,360 even before they had been rescued. 464 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:25,640 He committed himself, rescuing those He had chosen, choosing us 465 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,640 based upon His love and His love alone. 466 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,240 According to Ephesians chapter one verse 4. 467 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:35,520 It says for He chose us in him before the creation of the world 468 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,760 to be holy and blameless in his sight. 469 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:44,320 If you read the last part in Love and Love. 470 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:53,840 It is his committed love. That shows us that committed God 471 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:58,720 to rescuing those He had chosen. And because the Father has 472 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:05,640 chosen us, he'll rescue us, and he'll rescue us through Jesus 473 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,600 his Son. How many people get caught up in 474 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,160 all this? Well, if God chooses certain 475 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,720 people, how will they know? They'll know when God 476 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,480 regenerates them to new life and he gives them faith to believe 477 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,840 in the trust in Jesus Christ and as Lord and Savior. 478 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,080 And as they surrender to Christ. You can just check that. 479 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:25,960 And one of God's chosen elect people, He made that known to 480 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,400 you in time and space what occurred in eternity past. 481 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,720 So when we look at that, I want you to see the magnitude of this 482 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:38,240 in light of God's jealous and committed love for His people. 483 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:44,440 We see very thoroughly in John's gospel in the 6th chapter. 484 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,800 He says this in verse 37. All that the Father gives me 485 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:51,240 will come to me, and whoever comes to me, I will never drive 486 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,800 away. So Jesus comes to this 487 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,000 conclusion. Everyone that the Father desires 488 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,520 to give to me will come, and I will drive 0 away. 489 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,560 Who come to come to me? They're one of the ones that the 490 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,480 Father has given to me. He goes on and he explains it 491 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,000 like this. For I have come down from heaven 492 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,480 not to do my will, but to do the will of Him who sent me. 493 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,400 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none 494 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,719 of all that He has given me. Why will He lose none of all? 495 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:24,199 Because of He love for his people, he's jealous for us. 496 00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:28,560 He says I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise 497 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:32,760 them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that 498 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,920 everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have 499 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,639 eternal life. And I will raise him up at the 500 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:49,199 last Jesus there explaining to us God's committed love for his 501 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:52,199 people. That committed a love that 502 00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:56,520 rescues the chosen, those who were marked out in eternity 503 00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,680 past. Who now? 504 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,800 You because of Jesus Christ, because the committed love of 505 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:10,760 the Father. Because God is a jealous God and 506 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:16,680 He chooses us and he will rescue all that he chooses because he's 507 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,400 committed to doing that. He's also committed to redeeming 508 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,520 those he called. He's going to fulfill and to 509 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:28,560 finish everything that he has begun in our lives from eternity 510 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:33,240 past all the way until glorification. 511 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,040 Romans in chapter 8, if we continue reading after 29 and we 512 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,240 get into 30, he says in those he predestined. 513 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,800 Why did he predestined and elect us? 514 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:48,080 Because He was committed to love us, and those he predestined he 515 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,000 also called. And those he called he also 516 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,120 justified. And those he justified he also 517 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,520 glorified. It's as good as done in the mind 518 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:59,600 of God, because in his committed love he has committed himself to 519 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:04,600 redeem. He has called the work that was. 520 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:09,000 Begun in eternity past through His sovereign grace and the 521 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,960 eternal infinite mind of a triune God, that work that was 522 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,960 determined comes to fruition because He's committed to 523 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:22,800 redeem, all those that He calls to Him will be raised. 524 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,160 On the last day. Oh, the author of Hebrews 525 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:31,040 reminding us of this, that the Lord himself is the author and 526 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,120 the perfector or finisher of our faith. 527 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:38,280 What? Does that mean it means that a 528 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,160 jealous God and His committed love things undone? 529 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,560 If He started the work in you by off offering that work by His 530 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,520 sovereign hand and eternity past, He will carry it all the 531 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,680 way to glorification where you are perfect in His presence for 532 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,200 all eternity. What kind of love is? 533 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,840 This What kind of love is this? This is not sappy human. 534 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,960 This. This is love beyond even our own 535 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,800 human comprehension. But it is the love that the Word 536 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,680 of God describes for us over and over and over again. 537 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:16,600 Is his committed love committed to rescuing those he has chosen 538 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,600 committed to redeeming those he has called say to the 539 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,480 Philippians so confidently in Philippians chapter one verse 6, 540 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:29,480 the verse that I have clinged to many times in my life where Paul 541 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,680 says being confident of this that he who began a good work in 542 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,120 you will carry it unto completion until the day of 543 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,480 Christ Jesus. Now let me help all of you if 544 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,080 you think. That God began this good work in 545 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,080 you at some church service where you prayed a prayer and you 546 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,520 walked an aisle and you asked Jesus into your heart. 547 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:55,040 You were missing the entire story when it says that He began 548 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,400 a good work in you and that He who began that good work in you 549 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:03,040 will carry it on to completion. God speaking in eternal terms, 550 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:08,640 that means in eternity past He began a work in you before you 551 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:12,040 ever existed. He set His love upon you and He 552 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,360 was committed to rescuing you, and He was committed to 553 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:19,320 redeeming you in Christ Jesus, and He did everything that He 554 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:23,480 had to do work. He is the author and He is the 555 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:27,760 perfector. So be confident of that, that He 556 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:31,760 who has begun this good work will carry it on to completion. 557 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,840 He's not through. With you, Aren't you thankful 558 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,880 for that? That those who he foreknew he 559 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:43,400 predestined to conform to Christ, and those he predestined 560 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,800 he called, and those he called he justified, and those he 561 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,200 justified he did also glorify. That is all in the past tense, 562 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,760 in the original language, and it means it is done. 563 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,080 And it is done because God has spoken it. 564 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,480 Why? Because He is committed to love 565 00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:02,160 His people, and so He jealously pursues us our lives. 566 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,800 In fact, truth be told, He pursued us before we ever 567 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,680 existed. Every element of your life was 568 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,040 so that He could draw you unto Himself. 569 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:18,480 What kind of love Father has lavished upon us? 570 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:28,840 This is committed love for His people, a rescue, a redemption. 571 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:35,400 Our glorification is all guaranteed. 572 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:43,760 Why Oprah? Because God is a who loves even 573 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,880 a godless Pagan who does not and cannot understand him. 574 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,600 But he loves his children, has an even deeper love, doesn't He? 575 00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,560 Oh, it is beyond just a simple, common, benevolent love. 576 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:02,280 It is a love that is committed to us, eternity past, and it 577 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,120 will continue for all eternity future. 578 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:13,480 A wise man once said, there's nothing that you can do to make 579 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,600 God love you anymore. There's nothing you can do to 580 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:22,560 make him love you any less. He is committed, loving you, and 581 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:26,080 he has jealously pursued you. Because of that commitment to 582 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:30,480 love you, so jealousy proves that committed love. 583 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,680 Oh, don't be afraid of the doctrine of the jealousy of God. 584 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,480 Know that it is his jealousy that proves that he is committed 585 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,280 to love his. Well, that's good news if you're 586 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,440 any way like me, right? When we're constantly being 587 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,720 stubborn, we're constantly being drawn away and straying away. 588 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,480 Aren't you thankful that he's committed to us even when we're 589 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:58,680 not so committed to him? That's because he's jealous. 590 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:06,560 He's committed to love us even in spite of us. 591 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:12,720 So God's jealousy proves his covenant of love for His people, 592 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,520 His uncompromising love for His people, and His committed love 593 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,920 for His people. I told you His jealousy is about 594 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:25,560 His, not opposite of that. In fact, His jealousy proves it. 595 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,040 We have one more aspect that I want to cover before we depart 596 00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:33,200 today and that is this. God's jealousy proves His 597 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:40,120 compelling love for His people. Let us not forget this. 598 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,200 Let us not neglect this in our understanding or in our 599 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:50,880 realization this morning. We are saved because of the 600 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:55,560 compelling love of God. You're saved because of that 601 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:59,520 compelling love. It is God who pursued us. 602 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:04,040 It is drew us. It is God who wooed us unto 603 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,720 himself. And how does? 604 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,560 He do this because he does do this. 605 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,720 In fact, John chapter. 6 Verse 44 tells us this. 606 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,800 It says no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me 607 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:26,080 draws him up at the last day. How does the Father draw us? 608 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:32,720 How does He compel us but by His compelling love, That compelling 609 00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:36,560 love revealed to us in the gospel, That compelling love 610 00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,960 revealed to us in the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ that 611 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:48,480 God told love us, and in His love for us, He compels us to 612 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:57,840 love him in return. God compelled me by his love and 613 00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:03,560 I know this to be true. Been looking for him and I 614 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:08,680 didn't love him. I love myself and I love my sin 615 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,160 and I love the pleasure of my flesh. 616 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:18,200 I was an enemy of God. Aren't you thankful this morning 617 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:24,400 that the compelling love of God, even his enemies to His feet to 618 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:29,600 receive His unending, undying, covenantal love for them. 619 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:36,480 He draws us unto Himself by this love compelling us. 620 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,840 He seeks us due to His love. Isn't that how He does it? 621 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:46,040 God compels us by His love. How Seeking us due to His love 622 00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:49,960 He seeks us. Is that not what Jesus says? 623 00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,880 I came to seek and to save that which is lost. 624 00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,960 For all you people who thought you went on some quest looking 625 00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,120 for God and you finally found Him, you didn't. 626 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:08,680 You can't find Him in your flesh because a natural man cannot 627 00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,360 understand the things of the Spirit. 628 00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,800 They are spiritually discerned. God must find you. 629 00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:18,440 So if your testimony all these years has been when I found 630 00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:22,600 Jesus, stop lying. You didn't find Jesus. 631 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,040 You know how I know you didn't find Jesus? 632 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:28,200 You weren't looking for Jesus. You're looking for the next 633 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,000 thing that would satisfy your flesh. 634 00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,760 But know this even while you were looking for sin. 635 00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:41,360 He was looking for you. What a lover of our souls for 636 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,080 me. When I wasn't looking for him 637 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:49,440 seeking me. In fact, if we have the gospel 638 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:58,240 right, and we do, God Incarnate came to this earth, walked 639 00:44:58,240 --> 00:45:02,760 through the filth of the sinful, offered himself. 640 00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,760 As a sacrifice when he didn't deserve to die, because he was 641 00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:11,720 perfect in all of his ways so that he could compel us by that 642 00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:17,760 love. His love is compelling, seeking 643 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:27,400 us due to the is that love that allows Him to seek and to pursue 644 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,680 dead sinners. Why would anyone ever go looking 645 00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:35,320 for a dead carcass? That's what we all were 646 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,920 spiritually. Isn't it? 647 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:42,960 Oh, in fact, what we would do is we would go as we possibly could 648 00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:47,040 from something that was dead and something that did not have any 649 00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,600 evidence of life. In fact, it smelled. 650 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:57,880 It stunk. But God being officed of us, 651 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:06,520 pursued us while we were dead, wallowing in the stench of our 652 00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:12,200 own filth. He left the throne room on high. 653 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:23,160 He came here seeking us due to His Ephesians. 654 00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:26,920 Chapter one verse 5 says this. In love. 655 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,880 He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus 656 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,120 Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will. 657 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:36,800 The praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given 658 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,760 us from the 1 He loves. And Him we have redemption 659 00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:43,200 through his sins in accordance with the riches of God's grace 660 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:47,600 that He lavished on us. And He made known to us the 661 00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,160 mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He 662 00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,320 purposed in Christ. What is he saying there? 663 00:46:55,960 --> 00:47:03,280 He's letting you know that God loved you so much this earth to 664 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:07,680 seek you out due to His love for you. 665 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,800 And his expectation of that love is that you would be compelled 666 00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,400 to love him in return. Isn't that the natural reaction? 667 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,960 Isn't that the reaction that that John experienced when he 668 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,800 said that I love him because he first loved me? 669 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,240 Hear about that compelling love that when we were dead in our 670 00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:30,480 sins. Christ Jesus died for us. 671 00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,200 That's what he says in the 2nd chapter of Ephesians, isn't it? 672 00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:37,280 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and in your 673 00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:42,320 sins, which you used to live when you follow the But because 674 00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:44,680 of His great love for us. Why? 675 00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:49,480 Because of his great love for us, God, who's rich in mercy, 676 00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,720 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in 677 00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:54,400 transgression. It is by grace you have been 678 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,680 saved. It is His compelling love that 679 00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:02,120 has saved you. Compelling love. 680 00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:08,480 That is the reason why you reciprocate love in return to 681 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:12,640 Him. He sought us due to His love 682 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:17,400 again, not because we were worthy, because we had anything 683 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:21,440 to offer. Let's all be moment. 684 00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,680 Does anyone here have anything to offer a God who is in need of 685 00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:32,400 nothing? So it can't be that God saw. 686 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,240 That Kirk Hall had something to offer him. 687 00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,080 I was dead. Dead people have nothing. 688 00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:42,840 We put them in the ground and we throw. 689 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:46,280 Dirt over the top of them. They have nothing to offer 690 00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:53,400 anyone in this life any longer. However, God in his great mercy 691 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:59,480 chose to love me anyway. Deuteronomy 7. 692 00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,480 He speaks of his and he says this, The Lord did not set his 693 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,240 affection on you and choose you, verse 7 because you were more 694 00:49:05,240 --> 00:49:08,160 numerous than other people, for you were the fewest of all 695 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:09,520 peoples. What is God saying? 696 00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:14,080 You had nothing to offer me, but it was because the Lord loved 697 00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,200 you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that He 698 00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,720 brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the 699 00:49:19,720 --> 00:49:22,520 land of our Pharaoh, king of Egypt. 700 00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:24,040 What is he reminding us of there? 701 00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:28,240 He's reminding us of the fact that God seeks us to do to his 702 00:49:28,240 --> 00:49:35,320 love and nothing else, and the fact that he seeks us ought to 703 00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:43,200 draw us unto him, shouldn't it to know that I and had nothing 704 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:49,240 to offer and he sought me that he may lavish his love upon me. 705 00:49:49,240 --> 00:49:53,680 Now I want to go to a biblical illustration that I intend to go 706 00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:58,800 to, but I'm going to now Lazarus, the brother of Martha 707 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,080 and Mary. Oh, just thank for a. 708 00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,040 Physically brought back the life from the dead. 709 00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,320 Now if we would have read about that or if we had would have 710 00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,280 witnessed it as those did in his day. 711 00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,720 Lazarus come forth and Lazarus coming out of the tomb now 712 00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:16,480 alive. He's been dead for four days. 713 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:21,960 Scripture says he was already stinking in graves close and 714 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,680 Jesus said unwrap him, set him free. 715 00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,920 Why he's alive. Jesus making it very clear to 716 00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:28,360 all who are there. I am the resurrection and the 717 00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,960 life. We would think that there was 718 00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:37,960 something wrong with Lazarus if he wasn't grateful for the fact 719 00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:39,960 that Jesus raised him from the dead, wouldn't we? 720 00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:45,320 And those of you who are in Christ, please know this. 721 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:46,880 He's done oh so much more for you. 722 00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:56,000 He raised Lazarus temporarily. He eventually died just like we 723 00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:57,160 all do. It is appointed on to die. 724 00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,760 A man wants to die after this the judgement. 725 00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:03,920 But to us who are in Christ, guess what he did when He sought 726 00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:09,480 us by His compelling love? He raised us a new life forever. 727 00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:14,840 He raised us and promised us eternal life because of our 728 00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:21,600 risen Savior based completely on His love. 729 00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:26,040 If that doesn't compel you to bow down and to worship Him and 730 00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:32,960 to thank Him and to praise Him, you have no criticism toward 731 00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:37,200 Lazarus if he wouldn't have been thankful because Lazarus was 732 00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:39,920 thankful for the temporal and you won't be thankful for the 733 00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:44,080 always. Love compels because it is 734 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,760 compelling in its nature, and God's jealousy proves His 735 00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,840 compelling. Love compels us by His love 736 00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:56,440 seeking us due to this love. It's showing us the depths of 737 00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,760 His love. I'm thankful that God has truly 738 00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:04,200 shown His love, at least what we can contain in our humanity. 739 00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:08,760 Now we can't fully know the depths of His love because some 740 00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:10,680 of it is just still a mystery, isn't it? 741 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:17,440 I find that it's a mystery and rightfully labeled and described 742 00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:24,000 as a mystery because most days I wake up yourself, God, why would 743 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:28,240 you ever love me? God, how could you ever love me? 744 00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,920 God, I have nothing to offer you and you've been so good and so 745 00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:47,920 kind and so gracious to me. I don't fully understand it, but 746 00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:51,560 I do understand that this part of it that He's allowed us to 747 00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:55,360 understand and reveal to us in His words so that we can begin 748 00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:58,200 to grasp the depths of His love. Is that not what Paul prayed for 749 00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:01,600 the church that they would be able to grasp how why vast is 750 00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:05,560 the love of God? I pray constantly. 751 00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,400 Well, let me see more of this. Let me understand this just a 752 00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,520 little bit more because the more that I dive off into His love, 753 00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:13,200 the more that I am consumed by it. 754 00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:18,680 He's made known the depths of His love. 755 00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,280 Through the gospel if you're incredible. 756 00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:25,240 Don't you that it is through the gospel that He has made known 757 00:53:25,240 --> 00:53:27,960 the depths of His love? In fact, first John chapter 4 758 00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:32,680 verse 9 says this. This is how God showed His love 759 00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,720 among us. He sent His one and only Son 760 00:53:35,720 --> 00:53:38,000 into the world that we might live through Him. 761 00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:47,280 Verse 10 says love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us 762 00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,360 and send his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 763 00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,880 You want to begin to understand the depths of God's love. 764 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,280 It begins right there. The fact that God would love you 765 00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:01,520 enough even though you didn't deserve it, to send his to this 766 00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:05,680 world as an atoning sacrifice for your sins. 767 00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:11,680 Jesus Christ the sinless 1 He who knew no sin, who became sin 768 00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,720 so that you might become the righteousness of God. 769 00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:17,880 Oh, you want? To begin to understand that the 770 00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:26,990 depth of His love starts there with start in Romans chapter 5 771 00:54:26,990 --> 00:54:32,150 verse 8 where plainly says this, but God demonstrates his own 772 00:54:32,150 --> 00:54:36,710 love for us in this while we were still sinners, Christ died 773 00:54:36,710 --> 00:54:38,350 for us. Oh, what compelling love. 774 00:54:39,430 --> 00:54:44,870 Why am I Christ? Because He loved me when I was 775 00:54:44,870 --> 00:54:48,840 at my worst. When I'm talking to people about 776 00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:52,480 Jesus on the street or in the stores or wherever I may find 777 00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:56,360 myself, I begin to share the gospel with them. 778 00:54:56,360 --> 00:55:02,080 And I get to this part, Romans 58 to do something for me right 779 00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:03,160 now. Don't say it out loud because 780 00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:04,040 I'm not going to tell you what my. 781 00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:08,400 Darkest Hour is But I want you to think of the worst thing that 782 00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,400 you've ever done, something you've never told anyone else, 783 00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,000 something that you were dreadfully ashamed of. 784 00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:15,640 And generally they'll close their eyes. 785 00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:17,880 I'll see you got it in your mind. 786 00:55:18,240 --> 00:55:22,080 Oh yeah. Began to tear up because they 787 00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:25,920 know how detestable they have been, as I know the same. 788 00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:35,520 And I remind them of this, that that is where Christ Jesus died 789 00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:37,440 for you. Not when you've got it all 790 00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:39,440 together, where you had everything right, where your 791 00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:42,320 life was. Looking He died for you, and he 792 00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,320 demonstrates his love for you in this that while you were a 793 00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:51,120 Sinner, while you were the worst of the world, he died for you. 794 00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:55,240 Oh, is that not compelling? Is that not compelling love? 795 00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:58,000 Is that not love that draws us unto Him? 796 00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:05,840 Oh, who can love us like that? No one but God, no one showing 797 00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:07,840 us the depths. Of his love is a cross. 798 00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:15,120 It was sacrifice expressing that love for the sole reason so that 799 00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,560 centers will be compelled and drawn to believe. 800 00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:22,200 Oh, we, we speak of John all the time. 801 00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:26,600 Let's think of it in light of what we're saying here today and 802 00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:30,360 see the depths of it. John 316 simply says, For God so 803 00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:35,320 loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever 804 00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:39,680 believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal. 805 00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:47,920 What is that designed to do that is designed to compel a person 806 00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:52,640 to believe? It is that way by design to hear 807 00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:57,600 that God loved you and that he sent his Son to die on the cross 808 00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:02,600 to rescue you, and that whoever will not perish but have 809 00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:07,240 everlasting or eternal life. If that doesn't compel you, let 810 00:57:07,240 --> 00:57:10,720 me help you, ma'am. Sir, if that doesn't compel you, 811 00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:15,320 you are so lost in your sin that your conscience has been so 812 00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,320 seared that you are in a reprobate condition, and unless 813 00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:27,960 God intervene, there is no hope. But for those who God desires to 814 00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:34,520 lavish His love upon today, when they hear of the cross and they 815 00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:37,720 hear of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, it is in that message 816 00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:42,520 that the Spirit quickens them, the message that God births 817 00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:45,680 faith in them to believe and to trust in Jesus Christ. 818 00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:48,400 Why is he doing this? Because his love is a compelling 819 00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:49,120 love. Don't just. 820 00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:52,440 Read past John 316 because it's your good luck verse. 821 00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:55,920 What belongs not in the life of a Christian. 822 00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:59,640 We don't put our faith in luck, we put our faith in the 823 00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:05,000 sacrifice. I send in Him alone, thankful 824 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,640 for the compelling love of God that was demonstrated through 825 00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:11,640 Christ on the cross. It is that love that compels us 826 00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:18,800 to believe when we hear that God so loved us that He did the 827 00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:24,720 unthinkable. How many of you in this room 828 00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,960 right now have a son? You raise your hand, raise it, 829 00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:35,560 raise it high, give your son up for a worthless group of people 830 00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:39,440 who hate you and hate everything that you stand for. 831 00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:42,960 Oh no, it becomes real then, doesn't it? 832 00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,560 We began to see just what happened at the cross. 833 00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:52,200 God and His compelling love loved you with an unthinkable 834 00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:56,840 love. If that doesn't draw you to the 835 00:58:56,840 --> 00:59:01,880 feet of Jesus Christ and faith and repentance, nothing you, you 836 00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:08,240 are a hopeless case. Oh, but my prayers this that 837 00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:16,160 today God would compel you by that love that He would make 838 00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:23,880 known to you today. Love, the love of God in Christ. 839 00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:33,280 It came to this earth, it died on a cross, it was brutally 840 00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:39,200 tortured, then rose again on the third day. 841 00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:44,840 Promising you life, promising you life eternal. 842 00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:49,000 How could you run from that? How could you run from that? 843 00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,280 No, that's the kind of love that we run too. 844 00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:59,840 No one comes to him unless the Father who sent him. 845 01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:04,480 How does he draw you? He tells you the truth. 846 01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:09,600 God so loved you that He sent his only Son to this earth to 847 01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:13,560 die in your place if you will. Just believe. 848 01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,920 Believe and trust in Jesus Christ. 849 01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:22,960 Trust in the Capelli God has for His people. 850 01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:27,520 Also, we've taken the time to look at the jealousy of God for 851 01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:31,960 reason why? Because there's great proof in 852 01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:36,680 God's jealousy of God's love. God's jealousy proves His 853 01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,680 covenant of love, His uncompromising love, His 854 01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,320 committed, and His compelling love. 855 01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:46,640 May we be compelled by that love today, Christian. 856 01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:52,000 May you be compelled for maybe the first time in a long time, 857 01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:55,560 to humble yourself and get on your face. 858 01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:59,800 Thank God for his love like you haven't in a while, or maybe 859 01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:05,920 never, to thank him that he is a jealous God, Not to be afraid of 860 01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:07,800 that jealousy, but to be thankful for it. 861 01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:11,360 Thank you that you are a jealous God who has pursued me by your 862 01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:16,400 love even before my life began. And thank you that that love 863 01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:21,760 will continue to pursue me and I will enjoy that presence for all 864 01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:25,680 eternity because I one day will dwell with you and you with me. 865 01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:32,000 Thank you, Lord, for your love, your covenant of love, your 866 01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,680 uncompromising love, your committed love, and your 867 01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:38,640 compelling love. Because without that I would be 868 01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:44,160 lost. And were God not jealous, I 869 01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:47,520 wouldn't be loved. I'm thankful for that today. 870 01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:55,040 To the unbeliever here today, I pray for you this morning that 871 01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:59,480 you would be compelled, that you would be compelled not by the 872 01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:05,360 words of the, but that you would be compelled by the Word of God, 873 01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:11,040 Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ that has been shown to you today 874 01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:16,240 and has been revealed to you today, that you would see your 875 01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:19,880 need for His love. You would see your need for His 876 01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:25,400 and His mercy, and you would see His willingness to give it to 877 01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:28,760 all who will repent and trust in Him. 878 01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:32,840 I pray today that you would do just that, that you would repent 879 01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:36,400 of your sin, that you would trust in Jesus Christ by faith 880 01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:42,200 as your Lord and Savior, knowing full well that His love upon 881 01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:44,760 you. As John said, what manner of 882 01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:49,840 love is this? What manner of love is this and 883 01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:52,120 we should be called the children of God. 884 01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:58,200 He was overwhelmed by it. I pray that you're overwhelmed 885 01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:04,440 by his love Today, the faith in Jesus Christ and repentance of 886 01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:05,600 your sin. Let's pray together. 887 01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:07,840 Father, in the name of Jesus, we come to you, thanking you for 888 01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:15,400 your word. Lord, I am thankful that in all 889 01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:22,560 my insufficiencies and my inabilities, word is sufficient 890 01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:25,880 and able. Lord, as your word is gone forth 891 01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:29,120 today, I pray that your will be accomplished. 892 01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:33,200 And if it be your will today to rescue those who are lost in our 893 01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,920 midst, Lord, I pray that Your mercy would fall upon them. 894 01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:39,240 Lord I. Pray that your. 895 01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:43,960 Saints, your is even convicted today in their lives because of 896 01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:48,360 this word. I pray that we would rejoice 897 01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:55,160 that we do have a jealous God and that His jealousy simply 898 01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:57,920 proves just how much He loves us. 899 01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:04,560 Rest in that love. I would be thankful for that 900 01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:09,520 love that we tell of that love to others. 901 01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:13,880 We pray and we ask things in Christ's name. 902 01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:16,720 Amen. You've been listening to Key 903 01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:21,400 Life Fellowship's Pulpit Ministry podcast for more 904 01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:23,040 teaching from God's Word.