SF110 - Jesus Loves Me (John 3 16)

John 3:16

INTRODUCTION

The World's Greatest Love Story

Hannah Ruth's Favorite Song

1A.      JESUS LOVES ME THIS I KNOW

1B.       His Sovereign Love

1 John 4:19 (NASB) 19We love, because He first loved us.

2B.       His Sure Love

Romans 8:38-39 (NASB) 38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2A.      FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO

1B.       His Sovereign Word

2 Peter 1:21 (NASB) 21for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

2B.       His Sure Word

2 Timothy 3:16 (NASB) 16All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

3A.      LITTLE ONES TO HIM BELONG

1B.       His Sovereign Hold

Ephesians 1:4-6 (NASB) 4just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

2B.       His Sure Hold

John 10:29 (NASB) 29My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

4A.      THEY ARE WEAK BUT HE IS STRONG

1B.       His Sovereign Strength

Matthew 28:18 (NASB) All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

2B.       His Sure Strength

Philippians 1:6 (NASB) 6For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.:

Application

Stuart Briscoe writes…

Years ago when I was a young banker, we used big leather ledgers where all accounts were entered by hand. I remember daydreaming about those ledgers and God's ledgers in heaven. We are told those books will be opened. I imagined my name, David Stuart Briscoe, and God adding up the sum total of my indebtedness against him. I could never cancel the overwhelming indebtedness. In my mind's eye, I saw God take his pen and transfer the sum total of my indebtedness to the account of the Lord Jesus Christ. On the account of the Lord Jesus, he wrote, "Transferred from the account of David Stuart Briscoe."

I thought God was finished. But then I saw him do something incredible. He added up the total righteousness of Christ and against it wrote these words, "Transferred to the account of David Stuart Briscoe." That's love.