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 --> 00:00:20,960 pastors, please visit us at keylifefellow-ship.com. 6 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:28,560 As we continue looking in Exodus 34 at the verse that we have 7 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,040 been covering for the last several weeks, we were going to 8 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:38,440 wind this little miniseries up here today with a message that I 9 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,520 feel will be of great importance. 10 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:42,880 To those of you who. Are paying attention this 11 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,480 morning. We begin with the same verse 12 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:48,280 that we began the series with. In fact, it's the only verse 13 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,680 that we have looked at in our last two other messages, this 14 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,720 being the 3rd. And we have been exposing here 15 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,080 not a book of the Bible, not even a verse of the Bible, but 16 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:02,640 one theme from this one particular verse here in Exodus 17 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,320 3414, and that is the jealousy of God. 18 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:10,400 He says this in verse 14 of that 34th chapter. 19 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,120 I'm sure you have it highlighted or underlined at this point in 20 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,400 time. But he says, do not worship any 21 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:22,880 other God, for the Lord whose name is jealous is a jealous 22 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:24,360 God. Let's pray together. 23 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,360 Father, in the name of Jesus, we come to you, thanking you for 24 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,880 your word, thanking you that your word reveals you to us. 25 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,360 Lord, it is in your word that we see who you are. 26 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:38,640 Lord, we have spent the past several weeks saying that you 27 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,680 are truly, as your word declares, a jealous God. 28 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:47,280 Not an envious God, and not an insecure God, but a God who is 29 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:51,640 jealous, protecting us by that jealousy, preserving us by that 30 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,720 jealousy, passionately loving us by that same jealousy. 31 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,160 God, I pray as we have that clear understanding, that that 32 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,920 understanding would. Spur us along that it would 33 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:03,920 propel us in our Christian lives to live. 34 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,800 Lives that bring you glory do your name that bring you glory 35 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,720 due to the. Fact that you have loved us and 36 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,000 you have jealously pursued us since before the creations of 37 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,840 the earth. God, we thank you and you have 38 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,360 revealed this to us. May we meditate on it. 39 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,520 May we focus on it. May it change us. 40 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,320 Lord, I pray for the lost soul who is here today. 41 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:32,600 I pray that as he or she hears about the jealous love of God, 42 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:39,840 that that love would propel that person to surrender to Christ as 43 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:43,360 Lord and Savior today, knowing the extent of that love as 44 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,840 revealed in Scripture as the gospel goes forth. 45 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:48,040 God, we thank you again for this time. 46 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:49,280 We thank you for this opportunity. 47 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,120 We ask that Your Spirit would teach us, enlighten us to the 48 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,000 truth today, and we pray these things in Christ's name. 49 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,480 Amen. We jump right in this morning 50 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:03,320 because we have some ground to cover, but as you can tell, we 51 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:08,520 are continually continuing to discuss the jealousy of God and 52 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,480 what we have labeled. Did this series, The Forgotten 53 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,240 Jealousy of God and oh, how it has been forgotten and 54 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,320 misunderstood. But I want us to gain 55 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,480 understanding. And I and I hope in the past 56 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:23,040 several weeks that you have gained some clear understanding 57 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:27,280 into the jealousy of God, right? And this is the time that you 58 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,280 give me some feedback, right? I don't want to do what I do and 59 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,000 feel that everything that I do is in vain. 60 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,800 I'm asking you, have you come to understand God's jealousy just a 61 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,040 little bit more and understand what that means? 62 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,880 Good, because we talk about it and we will review what we have 63 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,720 kind of covered up into this point so that we can get into 64 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,320 what we're going to get into today. 65 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,760 But we talked in our first lesson about what provokes God's 66 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,640 jealousy of the idols and the things in our lives and the 67 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,000 immorality that we participate in, how it provokes a God who 68 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,320 loves us with with an incomparable love and provokes 69 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,080 him to jealousy. It provokes him to act even in 70 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,560 that jealousy. And then we saw last week what 71 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:10,600 his jealousy proves, right? I know many people think that if 72 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,480 we talk about God being jealous, that somehow separates Him from 73 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,440 being loving. And that's not the case at all, 74 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:17,760 is it? In fact, the fact that He is 75 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,760 jealous for us proves the depths of His love for us. 76 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,320 And I'm thankful that I can know this, that God has loved me with 77 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,800 a deep love I love, that I can't fully comprehend, though I pray 78 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,800 each day. Lord, I want to comprehend this 79 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:33,640 all the more. I want to know how, how wide and 80 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,840 how long and how vast your love is for me in Christ. 81 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:39,600 I want to know these things and I want to know them to a greater 82 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,800 degree. But I do know this. 83 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,800 As we've looked at his jealousy, we see that this jealous love 84 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,280 proves that He doesn't love his children deeply. 85 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:55,160 So as we close this series out today with one last message, 86 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,360 many of you know this if you were paying attention. 87 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,600 I intended on preaching on the jealousy of God for one week. 88 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,920 And as God began to reveal to me things that I I was not so clear 89 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,240 on things that that I had not understood the depths of these 90 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,600 things, I said, there's no way that I can preach this for just 91 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:17,280 one week. And so today will serve as what 92 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:20,160 it would have been in the original message. 93 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:22,800 It would have been the the last or the Third Point to that 94 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:28,880 message, but it's actually the third week looking at the 95 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,200 forgotten jealousy of God. And I want us to look today at 96 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,560 how God's jealousy propels, how it propels as well. 97 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,680 As we close this teaching, I want us to see jealousy and the 98 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:43,480 jealousy of God as a great motivator, not a deterrent to 99 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:47,440 trusting God and following God and obeying God, but as a 100 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,400 motivator to do just that. In fact, when we have a proper 101 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,800 understanding of God's jealousy that he has had for his children 102 00:05:55,080 --> 00:06:00,880 throughout the ages, we'll see that his jealousy actually has 103 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:06,560 been revealed to us so that it would propel us in certain areas 104 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,200 of our lives for his glory. We're going to talk about some 105 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,960 of those areas today. In fact, specifically four of 106 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,680 those areas. And the first one is this, as we 107 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:21,280 contemplate and we concentrate on the jealousy of God once 108 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:25,680 again, but now seeing it as something that motivates, 109 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:30,400 something that propels us. I want you to see this first, 110 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,520 that God's jealousy and his jealous love for his children 111 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,720 should prepare, propel us to surrender. 112 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,320 We live in a day where many people would argue the 113 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:49,720 importance of surrender, right? There are some who would teach 114 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,200 you this, that Jesus can be your Savior and then at some point in 115 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,880 time later you could surrender and he would then become your 116 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:57,520 Lord. Can I tell you that is 117 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:02,280 dreadfully unbiblical? Jesus, when one came to him and 118 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:04,040 said, what must I do to be saved? 119 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,240 He said deny yourself. What was he saying? 120 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,840 Submit to me, surrender to me, deny yourself and take up your 121 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:14,360 cross daily and follow me. He's saying surrender to the 122 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:19,440 lordship of Christ our Savior. That is what you need to 123 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,920 understand today as you have been learning about God and His 124 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:28,080 jealous love for His children. It should move us and propel us 125 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,080 to surrender. First, to surrender to the 126 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:36,280 Lordship of Christ as our Savior, submitting to Jesus as 127 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:41,760 the true King of your heart and as a lover of your soul, the one 128 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,920 who has pursued you since before the foundations of this earth, 129 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:51,200 with a jealous and unending and undying love, so that you could 130 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,160 be saved from your sin. I want you to understand, when 131 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,280 we see the magnitude of God's jealousy, our response ought to 132 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:04,800 be to bow and surrender to such an amazing and loving God. 133 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:12,120 Why would anyone ever pursue this Wretch, this scoundrel, 134 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,000 this filthy rotten center? Why would anyone pursue all of 135 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,720 you in this room who are exactly the same? 136 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:23,880 It is because of His jealous love. 137 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,720 And our response when we see the depths of that love ought to be 138 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,960 to bow ourselves in humility toward Him. 139 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,360 He being. Lord of all. 140 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:43,640 Bow hearts, bow our minds, bow our knees, bow every fiber of 141 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,680 our being in humility to Christ. Why? 142 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,040 Because He is worthy of our surrender. 143 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:52,560 Did you know that He is worthy of our surrender? 144 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:55,640 In fact, Scripture tells us this, that one day every knee 145 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,360 will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is 146 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:01,560 Lord. One day everybody is going to 147 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:04,760 realize His worth. They are going to see His worth. 148 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,760 The unbeliever and the believer alike in every knee will bow and 149 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:12,000 every tongue confess that He is Lord. 150 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,520 There will be no unbelievers in hell. 151 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,920 You say what? Yes, there will be no 152 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,800 unbelievers in hell. In hell, they will have full 153 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:28,760 knowledge that they did not bow to Jesus Christ while they still 154 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:30,720 had time on this. Earth. 155 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,960 And they will spend eternity, and part of the torment of hell 156 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,480 will be reconciling that in their own minds, because that 157 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:41,480 soul will last forever. And they will have to again and 158 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,160 again think of every opportunity that they heard the gospel, 159 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,960 every opportunity that they saw his love on display and did not 160 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,840 vow the needs of the lordship of Jesus Christ. 161 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:57,000 Oh, I'm thankful. Today and before that time, God 162 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,760 has rescued many of us. Allowing us to see his great 163 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,480 worth, knowing that he is worthy of our. 164 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:10,360 Surrender. Oh, let us see him as the one 165 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:16,520 who, by his own jealous love, sought us, and he sought us with 166 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:19,280 the intention to save us. And He sought us with the 167 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,680 intention to save us so that we can then reciprocate the love 168 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:26,160 that we have received. By surrendering to Christ, we 169 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:32,040 can turn and love Him in return. There are many. 170 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,600 People who profess to know Christ, yet they have not 171 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,720 surrendered to Him. I would simply say this to you. 172 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,280 I don't think that you understand the depths of His 173 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:47,920 love, because when we see His jealous love, it drives us to a 174 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:52,920 place of surrender, seeing Him as that one who loved us and who 175 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,680 sought us, and bowing at His feet and embracing him and 176 00:10:56,680 --> 00:10:59,040 thanking Him for the love that He has given us. 177 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:04,680 And in return, we give love back to Him reciprocating that. 178 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:09,640 Love in the form of surrender, seeing how much He has loved us 179 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,280 and responding by saying, Lord, I see the love that you have 180 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:16,240 given me and I love you, and because I love you I will do 181 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:20,760 whatever it is that the lover of my soul desires that I do. 182 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,200 That is full surrender to Christ. 183 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:27,200 In fact, in first John chapter 4 verse 9 it says this. 184 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:28,920 This is how God showed his love among us. 185 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,800 He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might 186 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,600 live through him. This is love, not that we loved 187 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,840 God. But that he loved us and sent 188 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,960 His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sin. 189 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,840 What is he saying here? He's saying God has shown us the 190 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,960 depths of his love because He has pursued us in Christ atoning 191 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:52,600 for us. And then if you drop down to 192 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,560 verse 19, there in that 4th chapter, first John, it says 193 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:58,040 this. We love because he first loved 194 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,000 us. What do we see there? 195 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,440 We see him as the one who sought us. 196 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,520 And the one who sacrificed himself for us, and the one who 197 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:08,880 gave himself on a cross in our place, dying and bearing the 198 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,920 wrath of God that belonged to us, the Sinner, and then 199 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:13,880 exchanging his righteousness to us. 200 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,720 But then we have the opportunity to then love him in return. 201 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,800 Why? Because he first loved us, Owen, 202 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:28,840 when you see his first love, his jealous love, that love that has 203 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:34,360 pursued you before you were ever born, before the foundations of 204 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:40,880 the earth, It is in that love that we are drawn to reciprocate 205 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:47,480 love unto him, to finally be what we were before sin entered 206 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:51,720 in vessels created to love God and to bring him glory. 207 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:58,560 Now in Christ restored to that, but sadly many and even many in 208 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:03,600 this room, they're not swooned or unimpressed by the love of 209 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,880 God. Now I know that I make myself 210 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,720 dated and old when I use the term swoon. 211 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,920 But to swoon someone is this. Back in the day when you would 212 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,600 court someone, what you would do is you would actually court this 213 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,960 person and express your love to them, giving them gifts, saying 214 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:28,720 kind words, romanticizing them, romancing them so that they 215 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:33,120 would be then drawn to love you in return. 216 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:36,680 Church, let me make this very clear. 217 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:43,880 In His jealous love, God has swooned us in Christ Jesus. 218 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:49,320 He has shown us over and over and over the depths of His love. 219 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,600 And sadly, as I said, some of you are just not impressed with 220 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:58,000 that which I say, how can you not be impressed with the fact 221 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,600 that the God of this universe, the creator of all things? 222 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,960 Would love you enough that he would demonstrate this love by 223 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:11,520 sending his only son to die on a cross to show you the extent of 224 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,480 his love. More than flowers, more than 225 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,400 gifts, more than words of kindness, He sent his only son 226 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,400 to show you the deaths of his jealous love for you. 227 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,400 How could you not be swooned? How could you not be propelled 228 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,200 to to love him in return and to surrender to him? 229 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:35,960 Oh, you've shown us. The greatest of love, hasn't he? 230 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:40,920 That's what John records in John 15 verse 13, as he's recording 231 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,000 for us the words of Christ. He says greater love has no one 232 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:48,440 than this, that he laid down his life for his friends. 233 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:53,360 There's no greater love than the love of Christ that laid down 234 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:57,280 his life for those of you who are in Christ, his friend and. 235 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:05,040 That love ought to cause us. To surrender to Him, the one who 236 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:09,760 has loved us, according to Paul in Ephesians chapter 5, verse 2, 237 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:14,600 and given himself for us. Oh, to think for a moment just 238 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,560 on those words, that He loved us, and He gave himself for us 239 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:25,880 the willingness of God to love the wretched. 240 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,320 And the wicked, and to give himself for us, ought to bring 241 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,120 us to surrender. God's jealous love, as it's 242 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,680 revealed in the Scripture, ought to propel us to that point of 243 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,240 surrender, surrendering to the lordship of Christ as our 244 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,440 Savior. I pray today as you hear of his 245 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:45,480 jealous love once again, I pray that He propels you to surrender 246 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:48,680 to Him as Lord and Savior. Perceive forgiveness of sin and 247 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:52,960 eternal life. Receive the hope that comes with 248 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,800 knowing Christ. So God's jealous love for his 249 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,400 children should propel us to surrender, to surrender to the 250 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:03,440 lordship of Christ, but also to the leadership of the Holy 251 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:06,560 Spirit now surrendering to the Lordship of Christ. 252 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,520 We know that in that and in faith in Christ and in that 253 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,800 alone and he alone, we are saved. 254 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,560 But for those of you who have already in your life surrendered 255 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,960 to Christ, there is a continual surrender that must go on. 256 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:25,120 And when we really understand God's jealous love in regard to 257 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:30,360 this, that He has loved us so much that He has sent the third 258 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:34,000 person of the Triune Godhead to live inside of us, to actually 259 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,960 indwell us and make us a temple through the blood sacrifice of 260 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,440 Jesus Christ. That is clean and is acceptable 261 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:45,480 for the Spirit to dwell in, so that He can do what continually 262 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:51,080 express His love, His jealous love for us and to us. 263 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,160 How does he do this? How does the Spirit who lives in 264 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,600 US constantly remind us of God's jealous love for us? 265 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,680 How about this? By constantly convicting us 266 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,680 toward obedience and surrender to the Savior as we walk with 267 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,640 Him. Is that not what the the Spirit 268 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,119 does as we walk with Christ? He lives in US and He lives in 269 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:09,880 us. To do what? 270 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:15,160 To bring conviction, to assure to us that He is never going to 271 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:19,440 let us ever go back to where He has rescued us from. 272 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,640 I'll see the beauty of the jealous love of God there. 273 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,000 That God loved us so much that He sent his only begotten Son to 274 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,680 this world to die for us. And we are to surrender to 275 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,880 Christ as Lord and Savior. But that love is expanded when 276 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,080 we think about the indwelling Holy Spirit. 277 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:36,880 Now I notice some of you again. You're so afraid of being 278 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,440 charismatic or Pentecostal that you don't even like to 279 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:43,680 contemplate the Holy Spirit. But you must, because it is the 280 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:47,760 Spirit, and it is God in the third person living in US. 281 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,640 It is He who brings us to constant conviction, reminding 282 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:53,680 us that God is so jealous and His. 283 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,080 Love for us? That He will not let us return 284 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:04,400 to that which we once were, always reminding us of His word, 285 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:07,800 always empowering us by His strength. 286 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:14,360 Walk obedience to Christ. They die to our flesh. 287 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:17,600 Galatians 516 Paul reminds the Church of Galatia. 288 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,320 He says this, so I say live by the. 289 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,480 Spirit and you will not gratify. The desires of the. 290 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,320 Sinful nature, we all know it's true. 291 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,920 All of us still have those fleshly sinful desires in US, 292 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,640 and the only cure for those fleshly and sinful desires as we 293 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,600 are being sanctified is to walk in the Spirit of God, the Holy 294 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:39,240 Spirit who lives in you as a believer. 295 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:41,880 Let me just make this ever so clear. 296 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,720 If the Holy Spirit is not indwelling and abiding in you, 297 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,120 you are not a believer. You're deceived. 298 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,480 Romans 8 makes it very clear that if you're in Christ, the 299 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,080 Spirit lives in you, and if the Spirit does not live in you, you 300 00:18:56,080 --> 00:19:02,360 are not in Christ. And so we must surrender to the 301 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:05,040 leadership of the Holy Spirit constantly. 302 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,280 Well, some of the people in the room you get surrendering to 303 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:09,800 Christ that. Salvation. 304 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,280 But unfortunately in your life right now, you're not 305 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,680 surrendering continually to the Holy Spirit who is sanctifying 306 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,720 you and conforming you to the image of Christ. 307 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:27,120 And so we must surrender to the leadership of the Holy Spirit. 308 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,320 That's what the jealous love of God does. 309 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,200 Constantly reminding us that God is not through with us, that He 310 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:38,920 will finish the work that He has started in US, and along with 311 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:42,320 that what He does by the indwelling Spirit as we follow 312 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,840 His leadership in our life, He confirms that we really belong 313 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:50,120 to Christ. Romans 8 verse 12, it says, 314 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:52,560 therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the 315 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:54,760 sinful nature to live according to it. 316 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,640 For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die. 317 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:01,680 But if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, 318 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:06,440 you will live, because those who are led by the Spirit of God are 319 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:13,440 sons of God. If you have no spirit living in 320 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,560 you, leading you, guiding you, if you were not surrendered to 321 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:22,880 the Holy Spirit in your life, Scripture says there you're not 322 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:27,240 a son of God, because the sons of God are equipped. 323 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,600 With the presence of God, did not Jesus promise that He will 324 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,440 never leave us nor forsake us? And His Spirit lives in US. 325 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:41,880 His Spirit lives in US to lead us to guide us. 326 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,880 To confirm constantly that we do belong to Christ. 327 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,800 First John 4 verse 13. He says we know that we live in 328 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:55,000 Him and he and us because he has given us his Spirit. 329 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,840 You know what He didn't say? We know that we live in Him and 330 00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:59,880 He and us because we go to church on a Sunday morning, 331 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,320 because we read our Bible, because we attend Read Streets 332 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,760 on Wednesday nights, or because we go on Thursday nights to 333 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:11,720 men's Bible study. He says no, we no, and we can 334 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,960 have confidence that we live in Him and He and us because he has 335 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:20,480 given us his spirit. The Spirit confirms to us just 336 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:26,880 how jealous God is for us. He wants our lives, He wants our 337 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,320 love, and He wants our obedience to His Word. 338 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:37,160 And His Spirit is our constant and present reminder to lead us 339 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:41,160 into the will of God, into the plan of God, into the glory of 340 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:44,720 God, never letting us return back to what we once were. 341 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,760 God's jealous love should propel us to surrender to the 342 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,920 leadership of the Holy Spirit in our lives. 343 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,120 So we see God's jealous love for His children should propel us to 344 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:57,960 surrender, to surrender to the Lordship of Christ as Savior. 345 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,720 I would implore you, if you've not yet surrendered to Jesus 346 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,560 Christ as Lord and Savior, today is the day of salvation. 347 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,120 Now is the appointed time, surrender to Christ. 348 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,360 He is the only one worthy of surrender. 349 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,720 He's the only one that has pursued you up into this point. 350 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,520 He is the only one who's allowed you to live up into this point 351 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,160 so that you can hear this message and so you can believe. 352 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:23,160 Surrender to Him, and then upon surrendering to Him, surrender 353 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,000 to the third person of the Triune Godhead who lives within 354 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:30,640 all believers, the Holy Spirit of the same essence of the 355 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,960 Father and the Son, a distinct person doing a distinct work in 356 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,880 the believer. Surrender Him. 357 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,480 Why? Because he's worthy of our 358 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:45,400 surrender. Isn't. 359 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,600 He, Jesus, is not any more worthy than the Father, the 360 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,400 Father not any more worthy than the Son, the Son not any more 361 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,680 worthy than the Spirit. If you understand the Trinity, 362 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:57,920 you know this. When you submit to Jesus, you 363 00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:59,800 submit to God. When you submit to the Holy 364 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,120 Spirit, you submit to God. When you submit to the Father, 365 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:05,280 you submit to God. Because God is 1 represented in 366 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:10,240 three persons, distinct persons, all the same substance and so 367 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,560 when we understand that the Trinity, we know this that God's 368 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:18,400 jealous love is a constant motivator for us to surrender to 369 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,160 the leadership of the Holy Spirit in our. 370 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:26,880 Lives as believers again, some of you so afraid of the Holy 371 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,960 Spirit, so afraid of learning of the Holy Spirit, and you leave 372 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:35,120 him out of the equation. Be warned that leave the Holy 373 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:37,600 Spirit out of the equation of sanctification and there is no 374 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,240 sanctification in the life of the believer. 375 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:42,840 It's this power that is doing this work. 376 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:44,840 And how does he do it? By constantly reminding us that 377 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,640 God loves us continually with a jealous love. 378 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,760 Have you ever been to that point where the enemy has whispered a 379 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,840 lie to you that you've done so much wrong that God could never 380 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:59,120 ever love you again, and you might have believed that lie? 381 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,440 But if you're a true believer, at some point in time, the Holy 382 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,400 Spirit who lives in us, he wells up with inside of you, and he 383 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,720 reminds you of what the word of God says. 384 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,760 That you are in Christ, and if you were in Christ, no man shall 385 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:15,240 pluck you from his hand. What confidence you have there, 386 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,880 knowing that this love has not. Ceased. 387 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:19,640 And how do we have this confidence? 388 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,640 The leader of the Holy Spirit, the leadership of the Holy 389 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,240 Spirit. And if you're not surrendered to 390 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,440 the leadership of the Holy Spirit, you walk around just 391 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,680 flailing around hoping that all things work out for you in the 392 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,160 end. We don't have to be that way, do 393 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,280 we? His jealous love through the 394 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:35,800 Holy Spirit brings us confidence. 395 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,160 So we see God's jealous love for his children should propel us to 396 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:43,760 surrender. Secondly, God's jealous love for 397 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,560 his children should propel us to stay to stay. 398 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,000 Many people know about the doctrine of perseverance, but 399 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,040 most people don't understand the reason that we persevere. 400 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,040 We we persevere because we were first loved. 401 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,320 God loving us in eternity past with a jealous love allows us to 402 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:03,280 persevere. Why? 403 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,880 Because those He foreknew, those He foreloved, He did predestined 404 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,560 and predestined that they be conformed to the image of His 405 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,240 Son. God is not going to stop. 406 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,000 He's not going to stop loving us. 407 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,040 So what do we need to do? We need to stay in His love and 408 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,320 when you see how great His love is and that will be your 409 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,760 response. And the problem with many people 410 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,920 who abandoned the faith, and you know why they abandoned the 411 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,200 faith? Because they were never of the 412 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,680 faith. They never truly experienced the 413 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,840 jealous love of God because if they would have experienced the 414 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,280 jealous love of God personally, they would stay. 415 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:44,600 They would stay abandoned to His love finding their life and the 416 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,080 reason for their existence in the love of God revealed in 417 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:49,440 Christ. That's what Paul says in 418 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,040 Galatians chapter 2 verse 20. He says I have been crucified 419 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,720 with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. 420 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,080 The life I live in the body. I live by faith in the Son of 421 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:04,640 God who loved me and gave himself for me. 422 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,280 We see there again the the the extent of God's jealous love and 423 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,320 the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. And Paul is saying this is the 424 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:15,360 whole reason that I live. So I've been crucified with 425 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:17,040 Christ and my life doesn't matter. 426 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,320 I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. 427 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:26,200 He's abandoned to the love of Christ I I would to God that we 428 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,640 would find a group of people in our day that were just 429 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:32,040 abandoned. The jealous love of God that 430 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:36,600 that all that mattered is the love of Christ in their life and 431 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:43,000 sharing that and living that. So we must stay abandoned to His 432 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:48,080 love, finding life in the love of Christ alone in His jealous 433 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,120 love, finding fulfilment and the love of Christ alone, no longer 434 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:55,800 seeking after the toys of this world, the things of this world, 435 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,800 the pleasures of this world, the desires of our flesh. 436 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:06,880 The finding true fulfillment in Christ's love is on ending His 437 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:11,360 undying and His jealous love for His own. 438 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,320 Oh, I pray that God would raise up a group of people. 439 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:22,320 In this room, who would be like Paul abandoned to Christ's love 440 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:28,240 In first John 215 he gives us instructions and he says do not 441 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:29,880 love the world or anything in the world. 442 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,720 If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in 443 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:36,880 him. Oh, it doesn't take a very wise 444 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,640 person to interpret that passage of Scripture, does it? 445 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,240 What he's saying is this, if you're still finding fulfilment. 446 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,160 In loving the things of this world, you do not yet know the 447 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,960 depths of God's jealous love for you, because you would drop 448 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,000 those things quickly, you would release those things quickly. 449 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,320 You would abandoned yourself to the love of God as. 450 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,040 Revealed in Christ Jesus, no longer to play around with those 451 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,120 things because you know those things are fleeting, they don't 452 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:06,040 matter, they're not eternal. You'll quickly leave them, 453 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,160 desiring completely to abandon yourself. 454 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:17,680 And to stay in God's fierce, jealous and undying love. 455 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,880 So we see that His jealous love propels us to stay and to stay 456 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,160 abandoned to His love, but also to stay abiding in His love. 457 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,920 John, Chapter 15. We see a great. 458 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,320 This course there is. Jesus pours out what it means to 459 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,000 abide in God's love. I'll start at verse 9 and we'll 460 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,400 go back and look at the top in a moment. 461 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,320 But it says this in chapter 15 verse 9 of John. 462 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,480 As the Father has loved me, so I so have I loved you. 463 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,480 Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you 464 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,240 will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's 465 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,720 commands and remain in. His love. 466 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,840 Now let me just ask you this before you try to say this is a 467 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,800 text that means someone can lose their salvation. 468 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,880 Can Jesus lose salvation? No. 469 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:04,600 Jesus is not saying that it's possible to somehow lose the 470 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,720 love of the Father once that you gained it. 471 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,800 What He is doing here, He is teaching that abiding in His 472 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,600 love is proof that you truly have been saved. 473 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,760 It is the evidence that you can have. 474 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,800 In fact in John 15, the 1st 6 verses, He makes this very 475 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,920 clear. He says I am the true vine and 476 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,480 my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me 477 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,320 that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he 478 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,840 prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 479 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,000 You already cleaned because of the word I have spoken to you. 480 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,320 Remain in me and I will remain in you. 481 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:40,600 No branch can bear fruit by itself. 482 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,960 It must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit 483 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,080 unless you remain in the vine. I am the vine, you are the 484 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,440 branches. If a man remains in me and I in 485 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,320 him, he will bear much fruit. Apart from me you can do 486 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:53,120 nothing. What is he saying? 487 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,920 Apart from him, you can't bear fruit. 488 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:56,800 Why? Because the fruit that comes out 489 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,120 of the life of the believer is the fruit of the Spirit. 490 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,520 I told you before, Romans 8 tells us that if we're in 491 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,600 Christ, the Spirit lives in us and we will be producing fruit. 492 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,400 We will be profitable to the vine, He goes on. 493 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:12,000 And he says this, he says if anyone does not remain in me, he 494 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,160 is like a branch that is thrown away in Withers. 495 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,280 Such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 496 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,040 This is for all the people who think that because you made some 497 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,760 profession of faith with your mouth, you prayed a little 498 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,000 prayer, you ask Jesus into your heart that that means you were 499 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,960 saved. That is not the case. 500 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,840 Something that they never did in the New Testament and we should 501 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,480 not do it as well is assume that just because someone made a 502 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:38,400 profession that they are truly saved because even Jesus himself 503 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,480 in Matthew Chapter 7 verse 21 said not everyone who says to me 504 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,120 Lord, Lord shall enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only he 505 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,360 who does the will of my Father and what is the will of the 506 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,040 Father? The will of the Father in the 507 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,960 context of John 15 is that you produce fruit. 508 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:57,760 And Jesus is simply saying this, If you abide in His love, proof 509 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,080 of salvation will be this, that you produce fruit from abiding 510 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,680 in His love. And if you don't abide in His 511 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,640 love, it proves that you aren't truly in Christ. 512 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:12,720 So let's not be confused about that. 513 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:20,720 He's encouraging us here to abide in His love, those who 514 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:25,640 abide in His love. Have proof that they have been 515 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:31,120 preserved by His love, that His jealous love has ran them down, 516 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,400 has traced them out, has sought them, has rescued them, has 517 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,480 cleansed them, has saved them, and then their response of. 518 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,120 Course, you believers you're going, yeah, they only response 519 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,280 and that could happen is that we love in return and that we abide 520 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,440 in his love. That is exactly what Jesus is 521 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:53,120 saying, that those who truly know Him will abide in His love. 522 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,880 They will stay there. They have no other option. 523 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,040 They have tried to fill that void with love for everything 524 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,240 under the sun and nothing worked. 525 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,280 They have tried religion, they have tried relationships, they 526 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,920 have tried money, they have tried fame, and none of those 527 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,240 things work. But yet when they understand the 528 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:19,480 jealous love of God, they see the magnitude of that, and He 529 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,840 demonstrates His love for us and the fact that while we were 530 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:26,360 still sinners, He died for us. Their response then is to abide 531 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,800 in that love. Where else could they go? 532 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,240 Where else would they go? That's what we see in John 533 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,200 chapter 6 that Peter says when Jesus addresses the the 534 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,800 disciples, he says they're in verse 67. 535 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,200 You do not want to leave too, do you? 536 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,160 Why does he ask this? Because there were many who were 537 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:48,000 professing Christ that are now leaving because they didn't 538 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,960 fully understand salvation, because they got to the part of 539 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,560 the message that it was not easy for us to grasp, to hold on to 540 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,920 the tough stuff. And So what happened is they had 541 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,000 a profession from their lips, but they were never saved. 542 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,040 And So what happened is they didn't abide in his love. 543 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,200 They abandoned. And he asked the disciples, are 544 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,320 you guys going to leave too? Y'all going to belt too? 545 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,800 And Simon Peter being the spokesman for the group, it says 546 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,960 this Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? 547 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,480 You have the words of eternal life. 548 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,040 We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God. 549 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,480 What was he saying? Where will we go to find love 550 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,400 like this? Where will we go to find eternal 551 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:28,760 life? Eternal life? 552 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,200 That that stems from your love? Is that not what John 316 says? 553 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,320 That God still loved the world, that He gave His only begotten 554 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,880 Son, That whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have 555 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:37,840 eternal life. He said. 556 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,800 You have the words of eternal life. 557 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,680 And those words come from God's jealous love to us. 558 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,800 Where else would we go? Where else could we go? 559 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:50,000 No, we're going to abide in you. Why? 560 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,640 Because the jealous love of God when properly understood. 561 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:59,680 Moves us and propels us to stay. Where else could we go? 562 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:04,400 As the psalmist said in Psalm 7325, whom have I in heaven but 563 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,440 you? And earth has nothing I desire 564 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,840 beside you. My flesh and my heart may fail, 565 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,000 but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 566 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,360 The psalmist declaring exactly what Peter said. 567 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:21,159 Where else would we go? There's nothing else out there 568 00:34:21,159 --> 00:34:25,800 that offers us the greatness of God's jealous love toward us. 569 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,560 We'll stay. That's why the believer, the 570 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:36,199 true believer, perseveres in in faith, because God first loved 571 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,800 them and they understand the magnitude of that love, and they 572 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,199 love him in return and they abide in that love. 573 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:45,320 They are propelled to stay there. 574 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,560 It isn't true that when his jealous love is properly 575 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,120 understood, that is the only good response. 576 00:34:54,040 --> 00:35:00,400 See that God would love people like us, and to love us to the 577 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:05,400 depths that He has loved us. The only sensible response. 578 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:12,160 Is to abide in that love. Where else could you find love 579 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:18,080 in this world that would send their only begotten Son to die 580 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,640 in your place? When you don't care? 581 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:23,240 When you're still in your sin? When you're still in your 582 00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:24,840 blasphemy? When you're still in your 583 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,440 drunkenness? When you're still in your drug 584 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:27,960 addiction? When you're still in your sexual 585 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,480 immorality and your paganism and your idolatry. 586 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,960 Where in the world would you find that kind of love? 587 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,720 Let me just help you out. You won't find that love 588 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,120 anywhere else other than the jealous love of God revealed in 589 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,680 Christ Jesus. Abide there. 590 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,120 Doesn't an understanding of that love propel us to do that? 591 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:54,120 Thirdly. As we began to have a deeper 592 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:58,680 understanding of God's jealous love for His children, it should 593 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:05,400 propel us serve. I know this is not popular in 594 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:11,800 many modern evangelical church movements because what we like 595 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:15,320 to do is we like to come in late, sit at the back, don't 596 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:16,840 really care if anyone knows our name. 597 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,800 We like to get out anonymous, never be asked to do anything, 598 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:24,200 never give any effort or any time to the Lord or to His 599 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,640 people. Can I make this clear to all of 600 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,760 you today at the risk of offending some of you? 601 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,000 And I pray that if you are offended that you understand 602 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,800 this is not me and this is not coming from me and this is 603 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,920 simply coming from God and the truth of His Word. 604 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:43,320 All of you who have been saved in this room, you have been 605 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,320 saved and not so that you can sit on a chair on a Sunday 606 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:52,400 morning feasting from the Word of God, only to go out and never 607 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:56,320 burn the spiritual calories that you have fed up to burn. 608 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:57,800 Isn't that what happens in the church? 609 00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,880 That's why we have spiritual obesity. 610 00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:02,720 We come on a Sunday morning. We're we're fed the word of God, 611 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,720 we go out and we never use any. Energy from what we have 612 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:11,240 received to actually burn the things that we have consumed. 613 00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:12,920 Did you know this? That's the same with your body. 614 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,280 You. You in just too many calories 615 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,840 without burning them. Before you know it, you're going 616 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,560 to gain weight. You keep doing it, you're going 617 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,360 to be obese before you know it. You know what we have? 618 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,320 We have a bunch of obese Christians running around, 619 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:29,760 spiritually obese, never burning off the intake of the spiritual 620 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,000 calories that they receive serving the Lord. 621 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:36,680 You have been saved so that you can leave this church service. 622 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:42,040 And use what you have learned in this instance about the jealousy 623 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,480 of God. God does not want you serving 624 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,360 the things of this world and using your energy for that. 625 00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:51,600 He wants you serving things that have eternal value, serving 626 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,160 things that bring glory to His name. 627 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:57,880 That is why He saved you, so that you will bring glory to 628 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,040 Him. You don't bring glory to Him, 629 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,240 not serving Him. You don't bring glory to Him and 630 00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:06,640 coming in here and sitting down and remaining anonymous. 631 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,280 By design, we bring glory to Him by how we serve him. 632 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,080 We offer ourselves, as Paul tells us to offer ourselves, as 633 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:21,080 living sacrifices when our whole life becomes about serving the 634 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:22,040 Lord Jesus. Christ. 635 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,800 And why do we do that? Why would we be propelled to do 636 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,640 that, to lay our whole lives down when other people don't 637 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,760 even want to consider that? Because we understand this 638 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,360 jealous love for us, that had He not pursued us by that love? 639 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,360 We would have spent an eternity in hell, separated from the 640 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,040 goodness of God, only to experience His wrath and His 641 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,000 justice. Therefore, we serve Him. 642 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,600 We serve Him with every fiber of our being. 643 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:48,920 You understand God's jealous love. 644 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,480 You don't have to tell me you understand it. 645 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:56,080 I'll see that you understand it. I'll know that you're a part of 646 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,760 that 20%, right? Because I don't care what church 647 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,360 I've been in. Every church that I've ever been 648 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,920 in, 20% of the people do 80% of the service. 649 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,360 You know what that confirms to me? 650 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,520 Are you listening to congregation that confirms to me 651 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,040 only 20% of you are really saved? 652 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,560 That's startling, isn't it? Because if you really understood 653 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,000 the depths of His jealous love for you that He reveals to you 654 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,920 in Christ, he would be driven to serve Him. 655 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:27,080 It would be your every motivation. 656 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,080 But the reason that you wake up every day, every tick on the 657 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,520 clock, would be understood as time that belongs to Him, not 658 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,520 you and the things that you have, the things that you 659 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,360 desire. But completely to him. 660 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:44,160 So are you propelled to serve him? 661 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,120 Are you well? Let's just ask it. 662 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,440 This way, has he loved you enough? 663 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:57,720 Then it constitutes serving him. Oh, we've been talking several 664 00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:00,440 weeks about the depths of Islam. We're talking about it now. 665 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,560 Is his love deep enough to move you to serve him? 666 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,760 Surely it is because in the past, when we look at at 667 00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,800 Christianity historically, not only did his love propelled him 668 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:17,160 to serve him, his love propelled them to serve him even unto 669 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,960 death. You know, that's how Peter 670 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,360 served him. He started into the point that 671 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,040 they said, OK Peter, because you will not stop preaching this 672 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:26,800 exclusive gospel of Jesus Christ. 673 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:30,400 We are going to crucify you just as your master was crucified. 674 00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,240 And you know what Peter said? The servant of the living God 675 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,320 who had been lavished with his jealous love all of his life. 676 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,360 You know what he said? I'm not even worthy to be 677 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:42,240 crucified in that manner. Turn me upside down and you 678 00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:44,720 crucify me upside down. Because I'm not. 679 00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:48,520 Worthy be crucified as Christ, the lover of my soul was 680 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,720 crucified. Oh, that's true service. 681 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:53,840 That's true devotion to the Lord. 682 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,080 That's that devotion to the Lord that we see in the life of Paul. 683 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:03,600 He surrenders this whole life to service to the God who loved him 684 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,280 and who gave himself for him. You know how his life ended. 685 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,920 It ended with him retiring in Costa Rica in a nice little 686 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,000 home. There on the beach. 687 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,800 No, unfortunately, that's Americanized ideology. 688 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,520 His service to the Lord lasted until they chopped his head off 689 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:30,120 in 67 AD because he would not stop preaching the Gospel of 690 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:35,480 Jesus Christ and serving Him with every oz and every fiber of 691 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:39,640 His existence. So when we understand the 692 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,800 jealous love of God, it should propel us to serve just as it's 693 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:46,680 propelled to those throughout history to serve Him and to 694 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:52,320 serve Him even unto death, to walk and loving service to the 695 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,400 Lord. Isn't that what it means? 696 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,120 Loving service to the Lord? And we're simply staying by our 697 00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:59,640 service. Lord, I see that you have loved 698 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:04,840 me, and I'm going to love you in return by obeying you and 699 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,520 serving you wherever you would have me to obey and to serve. 700 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,640 And I'm going to serve you with zeal, just as Paul told the 701 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,680 Romans. Romans chapter 12 verse 11, to 702 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,760 never be lacking in zeal. But. 703 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,520 Keep your spiritual fervor. Watch what he says, serving the 704 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,960 Lord. He says never be lacking in 705 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,720 zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor. 706 00:42:23,720 --> 00:42:27,360 You know what that is fire. He says keep your fire lit, 707 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,200 serving the Lord. You know what? 708 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,680 When we contemplate the jealous. Love of God, it lights our fire, 709 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,280 doesn't it? If you're a believer, it does. 710 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,280 It lights your fire. If you're a believer in this 711 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,120 room right now and you're not actively serving the Lord in 712 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,720 some capacity right now, there is a fire in you that is driving 713 00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:46,440 you to say, Lord, show me where I need to serve. 714 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,200 You have done so much for me. You have loved me so much. 715 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,160 Lord, show me what I can do for you. 716 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:57,520 Isn't that true love? Isn't that what happens when we 717 00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:02,440 are lavished with love? It propels us to serve with fire 718 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:10,880 and zeal. God's jealous love for us ought 719 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,840 to be the reason that we are zealously serving Him, shouldn't 720 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:16,760 it? Pearson? 721 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,320 Thomas Watson said. His jealousy should quicken us 722 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,360 to be zealous for him. You see how the 2GO hand in 723 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,000 hand? You know why I believe. 724 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:30,520 And we see a lack of zealousy in the church? 725 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,640 It's because we don't understand God's jealous love. 726 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,960 We don't understand the depths of his love for us because when 727 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,000 we talk about love in the church, we talk about sappy love 728 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,600 and we talk about syrupy love and we talk about teddy bear 729 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,160 love, Right? You just hug God the right way. 730 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:46,000 He'll hug you back and he'll give you the things that you 731 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:47,680 want. All your dreams will come true. 732 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:52,480 That's Disney World. No, when we talk about the 733 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,800 jealous love of God, we have to understand is the jealous love 734 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:58,720 of God is how God has propelled his people. 735 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,720 Throughout all of redemptive history, how he has propelled 736 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:06,800 his people to serve Him. I love because He first loved 737 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:08,960 me. I served because He came to 738 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,360 serve me. Do you not remember John chapter 739 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,760 13? Does anyone not remember John 740 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:18,840 chapter 13? Jesus there expressing his 741 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:22,160 service number one to the. Father, but also to the other 742 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:26,600 believers there were He after the mill took a basin and took a 743 00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:30,120 towel, and he washed The Dirty feet of his disciples, and He 744 00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:35,400 dried them, and he told them to do the exact same thing to 745 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:39,880 others. In fact, the first verse of John 746 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,080 chapter 13, it tells us what this was all about. 747 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,120 It's just having loved his own who were in the world. 748 00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,360 He now showed them the full extent of his love. 749 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:50,880 What was the full extent of his love? 750 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,240 Service. And so shouldn't we express the 751 00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:57,440 same thing in our loving service to the Lord, but also in our 752 00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,520 loving service? To the people that the Lord 753 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,400 loves first. John, 316. 754 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,600 It does this. This is how we know what love 755 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,200 is. Jesus Christ laid down his life 756 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:12,080 for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 757 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,880 Oh, please see that in the context of what we're talking 758 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,240 about today. Because Jesus loved us so much 759 00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:18,720 that he laid down his life for us. 760 00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,880 We ought to love others the same, laying down our lives for 761 00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,000 them. In case you don't understand 762 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,840 what he's talking about here, watch If anyone has material 763 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,760 possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him. 764 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:36,240 How can the love of God be in him? 765 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,800 What what John is saying there is the love of God is not in 766 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,040 him. He does not know the jealous of 767 00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,160 of God because if he knew the jealous love of God he would do 768 00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,240 something about the brothers need. 769 00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:52,680 He's doesn't. 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or 770 00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:58,120 tongue. But with actions, and in truth 771 00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:03,920 it ought to be. Seen that we understand God's 772 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,680 jealous love by how we serve the. 773 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,440 Lord, and how we serve others. Do you know this? 774 00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,280 When you serve others, in essence, what you were doing, 775 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:13,920 you were serving the Lord himself. 776 00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,240 He says, If you've done it unto the least of these, you've done 777 00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:21,000 it unto me. We ought to be expressing love 778 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,320 to others in our service to them first. 779 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:28,120 John 4/21 it doesn't. He has given us this command. 780 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,680 Whoever loves God must also love his brother. 781 00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:35,880 You have. Received that kind of jealous 782 00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:37,480 love, he says. Take that love that you have 783 00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:39,760 received, just as I have taken the love that I've received from 784 00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:41,720 the Father and given to you. You take that love that you've 785 00:46:41,720 --> 00:46:45,240 received from me, and you give that to others in. 786 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:54,720 Service, serving the Lord. Fervor, Zeal and passion this is 787 00:46:54,720 --> 00:46:58,640 what Paul prayed for the church at thessalonica thessalonians 788 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:00,800 the first letter in chapter 3 he. 789 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,600 Says May the Lord make. Your love increase and overflow 790 00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:09,760 for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you, 791 00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,360 he says. As we've loved you because we 792 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,480 receive love from Christ, you love those among you. 793 00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:20,480 You love others. And how do we express that love? 794 00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:26,280 Can we just tell people? No, absolutely not. 795 00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,160 Did you know this? Jesus didn't just tell people He 796 00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,160 got up from the table that night and he took the basin and he 797 00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:33,520 took the towel and he washed their feet. 798 00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:36,960 And he displayed for them the fact that he loved them enough 799 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:42,680 to serve them. You love others enough to serve 800 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:46,920 them in a day and a time in the American church, what's all 801 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,440 about us being served, right? That's the whole purpose of the 802 00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,160 church, isn't it? For you to come in and the 803 00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:55,520 minister's here to serve you. Did you know that's not the New 804 00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,880 Testament church? The New Testament church is that 805 00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,640 the ministers of this church, the pastors here, equip you to 806 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:05,240 do the work of the ministry. We teach you by our example how 807 00:48:05,240 --> 00:48:08,040 you are to love and how you are to serve others. 808 00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:15,000 Just as you have been loved and served by Christ, you find 809 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:19,200 yourself propelled to serve due to an understanding of God's 810 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,040 love, his jealous love for his children. 811 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,840 Are you expressing that through your service to others? 812 00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:31,080 This is Christ expressed that John 13. 813 00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,800 Are you propelled to serve? Because if you get his jealous 814 00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,440 love that we've been talking about, you'll be asking someone, 815 00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,840 how can I serve? Where can I serve? 816 00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:45,880 What can I do? Let me just prepare you. 817 00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:49,200 The answer might be this. Clean the restroom. 818 00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:53,880 Clean the restrooms, work in the nursery. 819 00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:56,960 Go out and share the gospel with the lost. 820 00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:58,960 In the world, go out and feed the hungry. 821 00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:01,720 It's going to cost you time. It's going to cost you energy. 822 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:03,720 Was it not worth it? Let. 823 00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:05,600 Me just tell you if it's not worth it. 824 00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:09,560 You don't yet understand His jealous love for you, because if 825 00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:15,280 you understood it, you would do anything, anything that the 826 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:17,360 lover of your soul requires that you do. 827 00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,440 May you be propelled to serve by God's jealous love. 828 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:27,680 And lastly, God's jealous love for His children should propel 829 00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:34,360 us to surrender, to stay, to serve, and then to speak, to 830 00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:41,160 speak, to open our mouths and to tell what we know. 831 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,560 Because when we understand God's jealous love, when we understand 832 00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,520 the depths of his jealousy for his people, you can read about 833 00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:53,080 an author's scripture. When you understand the depths 834 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,760 of this, you will speak of it. Why? 835 00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,200 Why do you think that we have Exodus 30? 836 00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:04,400 Four, that reminds us that God is a jealous God because Moses 837 00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:08,440 was propelled to speak of God's jealous love for his people, 838 00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,840 reminding them for generations to come who he is. 839 00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,640 Are you speaking that you're speaking that to your Co 840 00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:18,480 workers? To your children? 841 00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:22,640 Are you propelled to speak as you have been commanded? 842 00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,440 Is isn't it true? We speak of so many trivial 843 00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:30,240 things, don't we? Oh, I know what yesterday was. 844 00:50:30,240 --> 00:50:31,920 It was Saturday. It was college football day in 845 00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:35,880 America. You talked a lot about football 846 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:42,840 yesterday, many of you, which is fleeting and earthly and 847 00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:47,360 temporal, and it doesn't matter. You said, well, how dare you say 848 00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:49,200 college football doesn't matter? Watch me again. 849 00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:54,160 It doesn't matter if college football ceased tomorrow. 850 00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,720 The jealous love of God is eternal, and it will remain that 851 00:50:57,720 --> 00:51:01,080 matters. The gospel is eternal. 852 00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:06,120 It will remain that matters, but unfortunately, we've been a 853 00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,480 country where we focus and major on things that don't matter. 854 00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:12,880 Why? Because we don't really 855 00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,600 understand the fullness of the jealousy of God. 856 00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,800 Because when we understand that, we're going to be speaking. 857 00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,960 Of God we're. Going to limit ourselves to 858 00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:25,400 Speaking of trivial, non eternal, unimportant things. 859 00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:28,840 We're not going to allow ourselves to again be consumed 860 00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,560 by those things. We speak of all these things, 861 00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,560 but isn't it saddened the church we rarely outside of the 862 00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:38,800 building. Speak of God, I found myself 863 00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:42,880 just last night in a restaurant looking at family after family 864 00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,200 after family. Not in a judgmental way at all, 865 00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:50,840 just in my own curiosity. Watch them sit down. 866 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:57,680 Table after table, eating from the very hand of God, not even 867 00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:02,520 thanking him for it, not even thinking you remember. 868 00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,400 Some of you remember when when Holmes, the dad, would lead them 869 00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:08,080 in prayer and say thank you before every meal because he 870 00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:10,040 knew that it came from a loving God. 871 00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:16,200 I watched family after family. My family of course, usually 872 00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:17,920 when they eat with me, they wonder what is wrong with you 873 00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:19,520 because I am observing everything. 874 00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:29,520 And I thought to myself how sad that our God and our Creator has 875 00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:35,120 been so gracious to so many and yet they neglect to thank Him 876 00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,360 for the very food that will sustain them until the next day. 877 00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:44,720 Not Speaking of His provision and His love at all. 878 00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,120 Speaking of trivial things, I'm an eavesdropper too, and let me 879 00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:50,560 just tell you, all their conversations were trivial, if 880 00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,000 there were conversations at all. Most of them just had a device 881 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:57,320 in their hand. Why do I say this? 882 00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:02,200 Because I believe this according to Scripture, that when we truly 883 00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:05,400 understand God's love for us, we can't help but speak of that 884 00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,920 love. We will be like that soldier in 885 00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:12,880 that war. Across the oceans, who has that 886 00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,320 little picture tucked away of that one who his heart belongs 887 00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:21,000 to and he pulls that picture out every opportunity that he has to 888 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:24,800 learn to long for and to yearn for the 1 he loves and who loves 889 00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:25,800 him. And you know what else he's 890 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:29,320 going to do when that buddy? Beside him asked, Hey man, what 891 00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:30,880 are you looking at? He's going to roll it over and 892 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,280 he's going to say that's Brandy. That's what I would say. 893 00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,720 That's Brandy. And she's home. 894 00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:41,280 She loves me and I love her. And he would begin to tell his 895 00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:43,800 buddy in that foxhole about that great love. 896 00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,120 Why are we not Speaking of the great love that Christ has for 897 00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,760 us, the very lover of our soul, who has jealously pursued us 898 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:52,160 before? We were ever. 899 00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,960 Born. Why do we not speak of him? 900 00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,720 Is it shame? Oh, I think not. 901 00:53:57,720 --> 00:54:01,000 That we need to go back to our lessons on the one true Gospel 902 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,600 and talk about what it means to be ashamed of the gospel. 903 00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,600 Well, if you have been loved like I have been loved by God. 904 00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,880 You can't shut up about it. In fact, you were literally 905 00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:14,440 going to get on people's nerves. They are going to think you're a 906 00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:17,520 fool because all you talk about is how God has loved you and how 907 00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:20,400 God has saved you and how God has forgiven you and how God has 908 00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:21,960 lavished this great love upon you. 909 00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,040 And and all you do is try to convince them. 910 00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:26,600 That he would lavish that same love upon them if they would 911 00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,560 just believe and repent of their sin and turn to Christ. 912 00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,480 Why do I do this? Because I'm a fool? 913 00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:38,440 Not at all. Because I have been loved. 914 00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:43,480 I've been loved with a love that I cannot even begin to fully 915 00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:47,160 comprehend that I would never be able to deserve. 916 00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:53,560 And I love him in return. I will not be ashamed to tell 917 00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:57,080 everyone about my love for Him and His love for me. 918 00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:00,160 Why? Because someone who really 919 00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:04,080 understands God's jealous love, they will be propelled to speak. 920 00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,720 It will speak of the greatness of God's love. 921 00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:09,440 Are you doing that? Are you Speaking of the 922 00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,640 greatness of God's love in your life? 923 00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:16,960 Because it is because of His great love that you have any 924 00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:20,760 hope of eternal life, that you have any hope of forgiveness of 925 00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,200 sin. Are you praising Him from the 926 00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:26,720 fullness of your heart? Matthew chapter 12, verse 34. 927 00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:29,040 Jesus gives us a little tidbit that we need to understand. 928 00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:33,240 He says from the overflow of the heart, the mouth will speak. 929 00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:35,000 You know, he's saying what your heart is full of. 930 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:36,280 That's what's going to come out of your mouth. 931 00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:37,800 That's that's who. You're going to praise, that's 932 00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:39,320 what you're going to praise. That's what you're going to talk 933 00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:40,400 about. That's what what you are 934 00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:44,920 consumed with. Why are we not talking about the 935 00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:49,200 God who has loved us as He has? It's very simple, isn't it? 936 00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,920 When we talk, other things flow out, other things overflow out 937 00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:55,400 of our heart. Why? 938 00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:56,640 Because our heart is not for God. 939 00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:58,840 Our heart is for those other things. 940 00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:01,400 Well, see it for what it is. You can get mad at me if you 941 00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:02,720 would like. I'm only just telling you what 942 00:56:02,720 --> 00:56:04,560 Jesus said from the overflow of your heart. 943 00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,880 Your mouth will speak if you were speaking praise for the for 944 00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,400 the God who has loved you in the greatness of that love to 945 00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:12,480 others. You get it in your heart. 946 00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,880 But if you don't get it in your heart, you're OK with not 947 00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:20,720 talking about it. You're. 948 00:56:20,720 --> 00:56:22,080 OK with talking about the weather? 949 00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:26,480 You're OK with talking about the latest and greatest conspiracy 950 00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:30,080 theory in politics? You're OK with talking about 951 00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,840 whether the earth is flat or round, like it even matters. 952 00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:39,080 Speak of him and his love, because from the overflow of the 953 00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:43,160 heart the mouth will speak. Aren't we always going to talk 954 00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:44,800 about what? What's most important to us? 955 00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,320 Huh? Yes. 956 00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:50,760 Measure your life. Examine your life. 957 00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:54,680 You know, it wouldn't even be a stretch today if I stepped out 958 00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:56,120 here and I said this about the psalmist. 959 00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,600 I would venture to say that if we went through the Psalms, we 960 00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:01,680 would find him praising God for a lot of things. 961 00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:04,160 But I don't think anything would compare to how much the psalmist 962 00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:05,960 praises God for the greatness of his love. 963 00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:08,000 His love is steadfast. His love is enduring. 964 00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,840 His love is everlasting. He goes on and on and on and on 965 00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:13,280 and on about his love. Why? 966 00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,440 Because he understood God's jealous love. 967 00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,560 And understanding God's jealous love, you see the greatness of 968 00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:21,520 it, and you want to tell others from the overflow of your heart 969 00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:23,400 about the greatness of God's love. 970 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,120 How He has loved you when you didn't deserve it. 971 00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:28,640 How He loved you when you were in the filth of your sin, when 972 00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,440 you were rolling around in your own vomit, when you were rolling 973 00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:33,800 around in your own addiction, when you were rolling around in 974 00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:37,040 your own sexual immorality. He loved you with this great 975 00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:39,800 love that has pursued you and has rescued you. 976 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,160 How do you not talk about that to others? 977 00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,240 The only explanation that I can give you is that you don't yet 978 00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:51,920 really know about that love. Because if you truly knew about 979 00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:53,680 that love, you would speak of the greatness of it. 980 00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:57,880 You'd proclaim it from the mountain tops how he has loved 981 00:57:57,880 --> 00:57:59,640 you and how He has rescued you by that love. 982 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:04,280 Tell how he sought you when you didn't seek him, how he found 983 00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,360 you, how he drew you unto himself, how he showered his 984 00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:09,120 love upon you. That's what John says. 985 00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:12,160 And John, the first epistle verse chapter 3, verse 1, he 986 00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,440 says how great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that 987 00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:17,320 we should be called children of God. 988 00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:20,520 He saw the privilege in it. The greatness of it. 989 00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:24,600 How great is the love the Father has just lavished on him? 990 00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:28,400 He has dumped that on us. John can't help but speak of it 991 00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:30,560 that God would even call him his. 992 00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:34,640 Child. And he says this, and this is 993 00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:39,520 what we are. Reminding those who received his 994 00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:44,480 letter that that is what we are. People who have had the great 995 00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:49,320 love of the Father lavish upon us in Christ Jesus, adopting us 996 00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:53,120 into his family, making us children of God. 997 00:58:55,440 --> 00:59:00,560 And yet I find no time to talk about that great love. 998 00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:09,760 Houston, there's a problem. And the overflow of your heart. 999 00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:16,880 The mouth will speak, if you have received great love, that 1000 00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:20,480 great love has been lavished on you, you will speak the 1001 00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:23,920 greatness of his love. Not only that, in reference to 1002 00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:29,200 God's jealous love, propelling us to speak the greatness of 1003 00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:31,520 God's love, how about this, the gospel of God's love. 1004 00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:36,640 I love when I run into the believer or I spend time with 1005 00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:44,360 believers who they can't help. But proclaim the gospel of God's 1006 00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:45,840 love. Did you know that that is what 1007 00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:49,840 the gospel is, is it is the expression of God's love to the 1008 00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:54,280 center, the fact that is in that love that we see. 1009 00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:58,360 He demonstrates that love in the fact that while we were still 1010 00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:00,440 sinners. Christ died for us. 1011 01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:09,400 Why are we not Speaking of that? Why do we claim to know and to 1012 01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:15,440 understand the depths of God's love as displayed in the gospel 1013 01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:18,600 and never offering that to anyone else. 1014 01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:24,320 Selfishly holding it in. Not only selfishly holding it 1015 01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:27,720 in, but watch this, willfully disobeying the Savior who has 1016 01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:31,360 commissioned us to share it. Oh yes, that's what I said. 1017 01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:33,240 He has commissioned to us to share it. 1018 01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:38,240 Matthew chapter 28, He gives us what we know as the Great 1019 01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:40,320 Commission, where he tells us to do what to go in all the world 1020 01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:44,520 and make disciples. How do we make disciples? 1021 01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:52,720 We proclaim the gospel of God's love to them, that God still 1022 01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:57,480 loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, and 1023 01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,600 whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal 1024 01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:01,760 life. For God did not send His Son 1025 01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:03,680 into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world 1026 01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:05,920 through him. Whoever believes in him is not 1027 01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:08,400 condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already 1028 01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:11,120 because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only 1029 01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:13,720 Son. That's the message that we 1030 01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:16,160 share. We share a message that says 1031 01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:17,680 this. You are condemned in your sin 1032 01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:25,200 already, as we all. Are there's a gun who has 1033 01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:27,160 jealously pursued all who will believe in Him? 1034 01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:34,040 He has jealously pursued you the entirety of your life as you 1035 01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:35,800 know it. When we know factually and 1036 01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:38,400 theologically He has pursued us before the foundations of the 1037 01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:40,040 earth. But as far as we are concerned, 1038 01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:44,280 from the moment we entered into this world, He has pursued us 1039 01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:49,200 for one reason and one reason alone, to reconcile us, to 1040 01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,000 reconcile us unto Himself, and to restore us to our proper 1041 01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,200 position. Restore us. 1042 01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:57,440 Back. To what he designed man to be 1043 01:01:57,440 --> 01:02:00,600 before sin entered in, and that is a vessel to bring him honor 1044 01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:03,960 and glory on this earth, to enjoy fellowship with him. 1045 01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:11,440 And he did that all by his jealous love, or to speak of 1046 01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:13,760 this and to share it with others. 1047 01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:18,040 I share that with you today that if you do not believe on the 1048 01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:20,760 Lord Jesus Christ and that is not had knowledge, that is a 1049 01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:24,040 trust that is abandoning yourself to Him as Lord and 1050 01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:25,600 Savior. That is you throwing your hands 1051 01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:28,240 up in the air in complete surrender today and bowing at 1052 01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:31,200 the feet of Jesus Christ. That is what true faith will do, 1053 01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:33,640 because you see the extent of His love, and when you see the 1054 01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:35,480 extent of His love, you surrender to Him. 1055 01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:37,920 And I share with you today. That when you surrender to Him 1056 01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:43,400 in true faith, believing. He truly is the Son of God who 1057 01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:46,360 came to this earth to die on a cross to rescue wretched 1058 01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:48,320 sinners. Who will trust in Him for that 1059 01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:50,720 rescue? He will rescue you this very 1060 01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:53,280 day. I speak to you the gospel of 1061 01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:57,320 God's love, that He loved you so much that He sent His Son to die 1062 01:02:57,520 --> 01:02:59,680 in the place. If you will believe in Him 1063 01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:07,400 today, you will be saved. Believe in Him today and of your 1064 01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:09,760 sin. Give evidence of that faith. 1065 01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:13,840 Turn from your life, surrender to Christ. 1066 01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:20,480 That's how we speak the gospel of love with urgency. 1067 01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:26,880 It should be urgent to us that others know about God's jealous 1068 01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:32,200 love that we have received. And if you understand it, you'll 1069 01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:36,320 be propelled. Propelled to speak it, won't 1070 01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:38,920 you? Well, if you want to argue the 1071 01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:40,920 fact, I'll remind you of what Jesus said. 1072 01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:44,920 If you love me, you will obey me. 1073 01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:49,640 And he has commanded us to share the gospel. 1074 01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:53,840 In fact, in Mark's Gospel, the 16th chapter, the 15th verse, he 1075 01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,760 says He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the 1076 01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:59,120 good news to all. Creation. 1077 01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:06,000 That's for all of us. We are to speak the good news to 1078 01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:09,200 all. Creation, to share the gospel 1079 01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,920 with everyone who we have the opportunity to share the gospel 1080 01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:16,040 and what motivates us. The fact that we've been loved 1081 01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:19,120 with that kind of love and we want to share that kind of love 1082 01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:23,600 with other people. That's how the jealous love of 1083 01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:28,720 God propels us to speak, offering others the same hope 1084 01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:31,600 and forgiveness and eternal lives that we have received in 1085 01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:34,400 Christ. And urging them and encouraging, 1086 01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:37,160 encouraging them to repent and to trust in Jesus. 1087 01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:40,880 And I know what you're going to say because man's fear of 1088 01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:42,760 rejection causes them to say this, but. 1089 01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:43,920 What if they don't? Listen. 1090 01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:45,080 It's not on you to make them listen. 1091 01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:48,120 What if they don't get saved? It's. 1092 01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:50,880 Not on you to save them. You know what? 1093 01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:52,160 I've never saved a single person. 1094 01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:55,320 I couldn't even save myself. Don't have the power in me to do 1095 01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:59,880 it. But what I can do is I can point 1096 01:04:59,880 --> 01:05:03,720 them the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I can share 1097 01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:07,080 with them the love that God has and the fact that while we were 1098 01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,680 still sinners, Christ died for us. 1099 01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:15,560 And I can urge them, don't miss out on God's jealous love that 1100 01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:21,640 you find only in Christ Jesus. Bow the knee, bow the heart, bow 1101 01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:24,600 the will. Today that Jesus as your Lord 1102 01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:27,920 and Savior and be saved. We must speak it. 1103 01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:33,120 May we see the seriousness of that. 1104 01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:36,880 To say we understand the love of God and to never open our mouth 1105 01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:39,280 and proclaim the gospel is to lie to ourselves, to lie to 1106 01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:40,800 everyone around us and to the light of God. 1107 01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:51,600 Amen. Are you being propelled by God's 1108 01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:55,520 jealousy? Be being propelled by God's 1109 01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:57,400 jealousy to speak. Oh, if you're a believer here 1110 01:05:57,400 --> 01:05:59,480 today, you're saying this. I can't remain quiet anymore. 1111 01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:02,120 If you're a believer here today, you're saying I can't just go 1112 01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:04,120 along and be a Pew warmer. I've got to serve the Lord. 1113 01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:06,160 How can I get involved serving the Lord in this church? 1114 01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:09,200 If you're a believer here, you're saying I've got to get 1115 01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:12,040 rid of the distractions of my life so I can stay and abide in 1116 01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:15,240 the love of Christ. Dwell there. 1117 01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:18,760 Live. There, let it be my entire life. 1118 01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:21,760 If you're a true believer here today, you'll say I'll surrender 1119 01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:26,200 to the Holy Spirit. If you're not in Christ today, 1120 01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:32,000 you have none of those desires. You don't yet know His love, not 1121 01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:33,280 in the way that I'm speaking about. 1122 01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:35,360 Oh, you have experienced His general love and you don't even 1123 01:06:35,360 --> 01:06:38,080 know it. I'm talking about the depths of 1124 01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:41,160 His jealous love. And I pray today that God would 1125 01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:44,440 reveal that to you. And He would reveal to you that 1126 01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:46,720 He has loved you since before the foundations of the earth, 1127 01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:51,400 and He has sought you. And this very day He is calling 1128 01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:54,200 you out of your sin and out of darkness into a right 1129 01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:56,200 relationship with Him in Christ Jesus. 1130 01:06:56,200 --> 01:07:01,200 And I pray that in seeing that as the true believer will, you 1131 01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:04,120 will surrender to Christ today as your Lord and as your Savior. 1132 01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:08,120 So God's jealousy does propel, doesn't it? 1133 01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:10,320 None of you in this room today would be saved had God's 1134 01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:12,320 jealousy not propelled you to surrender. 1135 01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:15,520 Whenever it was that you surrender, None of you would be 1136 01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:17,560 abiding in His love and enjoying it. 1137 01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:18,680 None of you would be serving Him. 1138 01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:22,640 None of you would be speaking the gospel, speaking greatness 1139 01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:26,520 of His love, but because of His love you have, because He has 1140 01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:29,280 propelled you by that love, by His design. 1141 01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:34,080 But you continually walk in your life being propelled by His 1142 01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:36,880 love. If you don't know Christ, again 1143 01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:48,360 a hearing of His love this very day propel you to Him as you 1144 01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:51,720 surrender and as you call in the name of Jesus to save you, 1145 01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:56,240 knowing that Scripture is true, that whosoever shall call upon 1146 01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:58,240 the name of the Lord shall be saved. 1147 01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:02,920 See your desperate condition and desperately call upon Jesus to 1148 01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:05,120 save you from your sin in the wrath that is to come. 1149 01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:07,520 Let's pray together. Father, in the name of Jesus, we 1150 01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:14,280 come to you, thanking you for your jealous love, love that has 1151 01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:19,279 pursued us before we ever had any idea that we were being 1152 01:08:19,279 --> 01:08:22,760 pursued. God, I pray today that someone 1153 01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:25,080 in this group of people would realize that you have been 1154 01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:28,200 pursuing them all this time as you unveiled that to their 1155 01:08:28,200 --> 01:08:29,880 heart, to their mind this morning. 1156 01:08:31,080 --> 01:08:34,240 That your desire is to save them and to forgive them. 1157 01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:38,040 And that this day, by the power of your Spirit, you would 1158 01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:42,080 regenerate them to new life. That they would believe and that 1159 01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:45,359 they would repent and trust in Jesus Christ and be saved this 1160 01:08:45,359 --> 01:08:48,399 very day. Lord, I pray also for every 1161 01:08:48,399 --> 01:08:53,160 believer in this room who has been taking your jealous love 1162 01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:56,760 for granted. God, that they would get on 1163 01:08:56,760 --> 01:08:59,920 their face, that they would confess that they have been 1164 01:08:59,920 --> 01:09:03,600 taking that love for granted. That it has not been propelling 1165 01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:07,840 them, as we have seen today, that they would trust You to do 1166 01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:13,439 a work in their life. That they would trust You to 1167 01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:17,439 remind them by Your word, the greatness of Your jealous love, 1168 01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:22,479 that it would propel them in every one of these areas that we 1169 01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:26,920 have spoken of today, to stay and abide in Your love, to serve 1170 01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:30,560 you. Speak of You every opportunity 1171 01:09:30,560 --> 01:09:32,640 they have as they are surrendered to Your Spirit in 1172 01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:34,160 their life. And we pray, and we ask all 1173 01:09:34,160 --> 01:09:36,520 these things in Christ's name, Amen. 1174 01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:41,279 You've been listening to Key Life Fellowships Pulpit Ministry 1175 01:09:41,279 --> 01:09:44,040 podcast. Join us each week for more 1176 01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:45,640 teaching from God's Word.