God In Love
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Rebekah also looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she jumped down from the camel. She said to the servant, “Who is that man who is walking through the field to meet us?”
The servant said, “It is my master.”
She took her veil and covered herself. The servant told Isaac everything that he had done. Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took her as his wife. He loved her, and Isaac stopped mourning his mother’s death.
So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is present with me. I certainly delight in God’s law according to my inner self, but I see a different law at work in my members, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me captive to the law of sin, which is present in my members. What a miserable wretch I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my sinful flesh I serve the law of sin.
“Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Billy Sunday
Prior to beginning a meeting in a large city, famed evangelist Billy Sunday wrote a letter to the mayor in which he asked for the names of individuals he knew who had spiritual problems and needed help and prayer. How surprised the evangelist was when he received from the mayor a city directory.
World works against you
Work requires managers
Home
Parents manage kids
Marital Relationships
Paul
“When I want to do good, evil lies close at hand…I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind…”
Sense the frustration?
Sense of sin=Good thing
A flippant youth asked a preacher, “You say that unsaved people carry a weight of sin. I feel nothing. How heavy is sin? Is it ten pounds? Eighty pounds?” The preacher replied by asking the youth, “If you laid a four-hundred-pound weight on a corpse, would it feel the load?” The youth replied, “It would feel nothing, because it is dead.” The preacher concluded, “That spirit, too, is indeed dead which feels no load of sin or is indifferent to its burden and flippant about its presence.”
Flesh of our hearts
Can’t get rid of it
Always have sin nature
Things you struggle with will always be a struggle
Personal example=Wrong thinking
God would make me into a fort of super-Chrisian
God actually overcomes it
Leaves it as is, and overwhelms that nature through grace
John Sandford, Transforming the Inner Man - “The Lord wants us to accepts ourselves as we are, rotten and unchanged, and then let Him express His goodness and righteousness in us through the Holy Spirit.”
Gal 2:20 0 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.
All we can do is surrender
Four things that keep us from spiritual surrender
No trust
Don’t trust that God can change us
No hope for future
People give hardly a thought for the future that is to come
Love of sin
Humanity prefers darkness to light
Seems hard
Jesus = Gentle and humble
Yoke is light
Love
Change is always a work of God’s love
Infuses us with love
His love becomes our love
Dr. Creasman
God doesn’t just love us. He’s in love with us.
Church is the Bride of Christ
Think of that…Christ loves you like a groom loves his bride
God as a mother Is 49:15 - The LORD answered, "Could a mother forget a child who nurses at her breast? Could she fail to love an infant who came from her own body? Even if a mother could forget, I will never forget you.
Change
That’s the kind of love that overwhelms sin
A groom’s who lays down his life
A mother who nursed a child and gave birth
Could you surrender to a love like that?
God doesn’t just love you
He’s in love with you, and our journey, our struggle, is to surrender to God so fully that we become overwhelmed by that kind of love
Prayer