The Steadfast and Enduring Love of God
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· 4 viewsGod's love is permanently fixed on his people, and offers hope for their descendants!
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God’s mercy will last longer than we live. It will extend even after we die. God will continue to shower mercy on you even after your life is long gone. He will show his love to you even blessing your children.
The Span of God’s Love
The Span of God’s Love
Everlasting to Everlasting
Everlasting to Everlasting
Meaning from eternity past to eternity to come.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
There has never been a time when it wasn’t God’s purpose to love and save his people, and that will never cease.
This Was Proven Definitively When Christ Died!
Who Does God Love This Way?
Who Does God Love This Way?
Those Who Fear Him!
Those Who Fear Him!
The unbeliever has no promise of blessing and love. Those who do not fear God have no promise of favor.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
2 Thess. 8
To fear him means to reverence him, to honor him. To fear doing anything displeasing him!
Who Are Those Who Fear God?
Who Are Those Who Fear God?
Keep His Covenant
Keep His Covenant
God has chosen to relate to men, on the basis of a covenant. Agreement/ contract. A Promise of Fidelity on both parties. Serve me only/ and I will be your God!
In , that refers to the covenant with Moses. It’s the instructions God gave to moses and the commandments the Israelites were to follow. The covenant of circumcision, observing the feasts, sacrificing only at the Altar of the Lord in the prescribed ways. In a word Being Devoted to God.
Remember to Do His Commandments
Remember to Do His Commandments
Be mindful to obey his rules. This is how we express devotion to God, we obey him.
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
We now relate to God on the basis of a New Covenant, one that was instituted by Jesus. While God doesn’t require us to worship at a particular temple or offer sacrifices and keep feasts, he does require us to do two things.
Approach him in his instituted way, the New Covenant.
Approach him in his instituted way, the New Covenant.
Through Christ!
Obey Him, be devoted to him!
Obey Him, be devoted to him!
To Fear Him!
A Wonderful Promise
A Wonderful Promise
God’s favor will extend even to my Children and grandchildren!
If I am devoted to God, give myself to walking in his ways, loving him from the heart, God’s favor will extend even to my Children.
9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
21 “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children’s offspring,” says the Lord, “from this time forth and forevermore.”
Thy seed's seed - Thy descendants; thy posterity.
From henceforth and for ever - This is in accordance with the promises which everywhere occur in the Scriptures, that God would bless the posterity of his people, and that the children of the pious should partake of his favor. See : 'Showing mercy unto thousands (that is, thousands of generations) of them that love me and keep my commandments.' Compare ; ; ; , ; . There is no promise of the Bible that is more full of consolation to the pious, or that has been more strikingly fulfilled than this. And though it is true that not all the children of holy parents become truly pious; though there are instances where they are signally wicked and abandoned, yet it is also true that rich spiritual blessings are imparted to the posterity of those who serve God and who keep his commandments. The following facts are well known to all who have ever made any observation on this subject:
1. The great majority of those who become religious are the descendants of those who were themselves the friends of God. Those who now compose the Christian churches, are not those generally who have been taken from the ways of open vice and profligacy; from the ranks of infidelity; or from the immediate descendants of scoffers, drunkards, and blasphemers. Such people usually tread, for a few generations at least, in the footsteps of their fathers. The church is composed mainly of the descendants of those who have been true Christians, and who trained their children to walk in the ways of pure religion.
2. It is a fact that comparatively a large proportion of the descendants of the pious themselves for many generations become true Christians. I know that it is often thought to be otherwise, and especially that it is often said that the children of clergymen are less virtuous and religious than others. But it should be remembered that such cases are more prominent than others, and especially that the profane and the wicked have a malicious pleasure in making them the subject of remark. The son of a drunkard will be intemperate without attracting notice - for such a result is expected; the son of an infidel will be an infidel; the son of a scoffer will be a scoffer; of a thief a thief; of a licentious man licentious, without being the subject of special observation. But when the son of an eminent Christian treads the path of open profligacy, it at once excites remark, because such is not the usual course, and is not usually expected; and because a wicked world has pleasure in marking the case, and calumniating religion through such a prominent instance of imperfection and sin.
But such is not the common result of religious training. Some of the most devotedly pious people of this land are the descendants of the Huguenots who were expelled from France. A very large proportion of all the piety in this country has been derived from the 'Pilgrims,' who landed on the rock of Plymouth, and God has blessed their descendants in New England and elsewhere with numerous revivals of religion. I am acquainted with the descendants of John Rogers, the first martyr in Queen Mary's reign, of the tenth and eleventh generations. With a single exception, the oldest son in the family has been a clergymen - some of them eminently distinguished for learning and piety; and there are few families now in this land a greater proportion of whom are pious than of that. The following statistical account made of a limited section of the country, not more favored or more distinguished for piety than many others, accords undoubtedly with similar facts which are constantly occurring in the families of those who are the friends of religion. The Secretary of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society made a limited investigation, in the year 1838, for the purpose of ascertaining the facts about the religious character of the families of ministers and deacons with reference to the charge so often urged that the 'sons and daughters of ministers and deacons were worse than common children.' The following is the result.
In 268 families which he canvassed, he found 1290 children over fifteen years of age. Of these children 884, almost three-fourths, are hopefully pious; 794 have united with the churches; sixty-one entered the ministry; only seventeen are dissipated, and about half only of these became so while with their parents. In eleven of these families there are 123 children, and all but seven pious. In fifty-six of these families there are 249 children over fifteen, and all hopefully pious. When and where can any such result be found in the families of infidels, of the vicious, or of irreligious people? Indeed, it is the great law by which religion and virtue are perpetuated in the world. that God is faithful to this covenant, and that he blesses the efforts of his friends to train up generations for his service.
3. All pious parents should repose on this promise of a faithful God. They may and should believe that it is his design to perpetuate religion in the families of those who truly serve and obey him. They should be faithful in imparting religious truth; faithful in prayer, and in a meek, holy, pure, and benevolent example; they should so live that their children may safely tread in their footsteps; they should look to God for his blessing on their efforts, and their efforts will not be in vain. They shall see their children walk in the ways of virtue; and when they die, they may leave the world with unwavering confidence that God will not suffer his faithfulness to fail; that he will not break his covenant, nor alter the thing that is gone out of his lips .
From Barnes’ Notes on Is. 59:21