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Welcome
Good Morning!
I’d like to welcome you all to the gathering of Ephesus Baptist Church!
Are you happy to be here this morning?
Look at your neighbor and tell them you are happy to be hear and eager to worship the Lord!
Why have we gathered here this Sunday morning (Pause)....That’s right!
The same reason we have gathered on Sunday’s since 1880!
We gather to worship and exalt the name of Jesus Christ, our risen King.
Today, provides us another opportunity to fall more in love with Jesus Christ as we seek to follow Him as His disciples.
If you are visiting with us this morning, we want you to who we are here at Ephesus...
We are all one family of faith: “giving our all to love God, love people, proclaim Jesus, and make disciples in our generation.”
That is our mission, our purpose, why we exist as a church.
We have a connect card in the pew in front of you.
I invite you to take one and fill it out!
If you have prayer needs, you can let us know about those as well.
I promise, our prayer team will lift you up your request confidentially.
You can place those cards in the offering plate when it comes around.
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Opening Scripture Reading
Introduction
Ephesus, I have a question for you this morning:
Does God really love you?
We’ve gathered to worship Him!
We sing the praises of God for all of creation to hear.
We declare the greatness of God’s love and faithfulness from His inspired Book the Bible!
Why, some of us even declare His love to others.
But… Does God really love you?
The Bible says....
Despite being the Lord of the Universe, high and lifted up, God regards the lowly!
Who are the lowly?
All of us!
That word “regards,” means that God sees us with understanding and revels in us with pleasure.
Literally, it pleases God to watch the lowly in need of His great love and assistance.
While He knows the haughty, that is those filled with prideful arrogance who have no desire or need for His love and assistance, He only knows them from afar.
In other words, they get from Him only the basics of His love need for survival, because He knows they care nothing for their Creator and therefore they don’t ask because they don’t see the need.
They can’t understand the love God has for them.
But the lowly, cry out to God for help, and verse 7 says God preserves life and delivers us from the wrath of our enemies by the power of His right hand.
Who or what is our enemy?
Oh, some of you will say Satan, and you would be right.
Some of you would say S…I…N… Sin, and you would be right.
But the greatest enemy we face is ourselves, mired in that sin nature allowing ourselves to be tempted by Satan to believe that God doesn’t care!
That God doesn’t regard us!
That God doesn’t love us!
Church!
Do you know who sits at the right hand of God the Father?
It’s Jesus!
It has always been Jesus!
When David said, “and Your right hand delivers me,” he didn’t know it then, but it was Jesus that he need all along!
Jesus delivers us because He loves us!
The Father sent Jesus to deliver us because He loves us!
The Holy Spirit guided Jesus to deliver us because He loves us!
God loves His people!
To paraphrase, what the Psalmist David was saying in verse 8, was “Lord, I know You will finish what You started in me, Your love is sure and eternal.
Don’t give up on me now!”
God will fulfill His purpose for me and for you!
Are you simply surviving in life?
Or are you thriving as you allow God to fulfill His purposes for you?
Last week, we saw our need to Trust God in all things!
But how do we trust God if we don’t understand that He loves us?
And if He loves us how do we respond to that great love?
To word this in another way.
If God loves us, not only can we trust God in all things, but we can also respond to Him by humbling ourselves before Him and allowing Him to create in us a masterpiece for His glory!
We are just diving straight in this morning!
Truth No. 1.
1. God’s will demonstrates God’s love for you!
Jesus told us what the Father’s will was!
God loves us as dear children, and does not wish that any of us should perish.
He wants us to all have eternal life with Him!
That is why He sent Jesus!
Peter reminds us that true belief requires repentance.
Again, we see that God’s will is that none should perish, but to believe on Jesus and repent!
The Bible says that God is the one… 1 Tim 2:4........
The Father is still persuading the people of our day to come and love Him.
God loves us all and wants us to believe in His Son, Jesus, for salvation!
Some of you know what that means!
Others among you are still not sure of God’s love.
My prayer is that you realize the great depths of God’s love for you this morning.
Love is what our God extends to us.
It is a love relationship that transcends our shackles of sin and self-dependence.
God chooses us out of His perfect love, fully displaying His glory.
His very character is that of love.
An anonymous saying expresses this thought well:
Love is the spark that kindles the fires of compassion.
Compassion is the fire that flames the candle of service.
Service is the candle that ignites the torch of hope.
Hope is the torch that lights the beacon of faith.
Faith is the beacon that reflects the power of God.
God is the power that creates the miracle of love.
He loves us first, He chooses us first, He rescues us, He seals us, and He continually sustains us.
God alone has the right to sovereignly direct our relationship.
In return, He simply asks for our love.
We have seen that God’s will demonstrates God’s love for you!
Now we see that......
2. God desires that His love be reciprocated.
There is no better place to see this than on the shore of the Sea of Galilee during a very personal encounter between Peter and the Risen Christ!
In contrast to Peter’s three earlier denials of Christ, Jesus restores Peter demonstrating His love for His disciple by asking Peter three questions and giving three responses.
Each one begs of a response on Peter’s part to reciprocate the Love demonstrated to Him by Jesus!
1st Question: “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”
Answer: “Yes, Lord you know that I love you.”
Response: “Feed my lambs.”
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