He's A Keeper
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· 136 viewsGod's people are careful to obey the LORD God because God chose us- the LORD God loves us, fulfilled his oath, and the LORD brought us out.
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Main Idea
Main Idea
God's people are careful to obey the LORD God because God chose us- the LORD God loves us, fulfilled his oath, and the LORD brought us out.
Introduction
Introduction
“He’s A Keeper” Phrase
informal. someone with good qualities, who you can have a long relationship with: If he introduces you to all his friends, he's a keeper.
a term used to describe a guy that you love very much and plan to "keep",
makes you laugh, has the best personality, funny, cute, and sexy
cheers you up when you are sad, makes you smile constantly by just being him.
always on your mind and just the thought of him brightens up your entire day,
being with him makes you the happiest girl in the world, and there is not one thing you would change about him.
he is the first thing you think of when you wake, and the last thing at night,
if your guy is a keeper hang on to him he makes life worth while
Illustration: Rosie Greaves writes at www.bolde.com
If Your Guy Does These 10 Things, He’s A Keeper
1. Even when life gets crazy hectic, you always feel like his number one priority
2. He’s there for you even when you don’t realize you need him
3. He can’t imagine a future without you in it
4. He wants to get to know the other people you know and love
5. Your success brings him joy
6. He actually listens to you because he cares about your day to day life
7. He helps you become the best possible version of yourself
8. He makes you smile even you want to cry
9. He has his life together and is truly ready for a mature relationship
Illustration: When He’s A Keeper (But You Feel Like Throwing Him Away) by Francis Vidakovic
In a nutshell a Keeper is someone who is:
Kind
Honest
Trustworthy
Reliable
Treats you and others with respect
Contributes fairly to the finances
Loves you despite your flaws
With whom you have chemistry
A Keeper is NOT someone who:
Physically abuses you
Emotionally abuses you
Cheats on you
Is irresponsible
Makes you or others feel worthless and unloved
Has an addiction (such as gambling, drugs or alcohol) which negatively impacts your life and he refuses to do anything about it
Remember it’s commitment that precedes happiness and not the other way around.
When you are committed to someone you give yourself, in whole, to the other person and the relationship. You stay faithful and loyal to that other person, are present in times of need, and stick with them through the inevitable rougher waves, no matter what.
Transition To Body
Transition To Body
Moses preaching to the children of Israel about the faithfulness of the LORD their God...
Body- The LORD your God is a Keeper Because...
Body- The LORD your God is a Keeper Because...
9 Remember that the Lord your God is the only God and that he is faithful. He will keep his covenant and show his constant love to a thousand generations of those who love him and obey his commands, (GNT)
The LORD Your God Has Chosen You
The LORD Your God Has Chosen You
6 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,
Deuteronomy: An Introduction and Commentary d. The Conquest of Canaan: An Aspect of the Holy War (7:1–26)
a people for his own possession
Deuteronomy: An Introduction and Commentary d. The Conquest of Canaan: An Aspect of the Holy War (7:1–26)
‘holy’ comes to mean in a secondary sense ‘set apart’, i.e. for God.
Holiness; Holy- A fundamental element in the distinctive nature of God as revealed in Scripture and a basic response to His grace
The LORD Your God Has Liberated You
The LORD Your God Has Liberated You
8 but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. 35 The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
The LORD God Is Loyal (Faithful) Towards You
The LORD God Is Loyal (Faithful) Towards You
The LORD Your God Keeps Covenant With You
The LORD Your God Keeps Covenant With You
keep= cause a state or condition to remain
keep= cause a state or condition to remain
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary Covenant
A “covenant” is an agreement enacted between two parties in which one or both make promises under oath to perform or refrain from certain actions stipulated in advance. As indicated by the designation of the two sections of the Christian Bible—Old Testament (= covenant) and New Testament—“covenant” in the Bible is the major metaphor used to describe the relation between God and Israel (the people of God). As such, covenant is the instrument constituting the rule (or kingdom) of God, and therefore it is a valuable lens through which one can recognize and appreciate the biblical ideal of religious community.
Illustration: Tim Keller Posts on the Gospel Project’s “What Is The Importance Of Covenant Marriage
Contemporary Western societies, such as the one we live, make the individual’s happiness the ultimate value, and so marriage becomes primarily an experience of romantic fulfillment.
But the Bible sees God as the supreme good—not the individual or the family—and that gives us a view of marriage that intimately unites feeling and duty, passion and promise. That is because at the heart of the Biblical idea of marriage is the covenant.
Throughout history there have always been consumer relationships. Such a relationship lasts only as long as the vendor meets your needs at a cost acceptable to you. If another vendor delivers better services or the same services at a better cost, you have no obligation to stay in a relationship to the original vendor. In consumer relationships, it could be said that the individual’s needs are more important than the relationship.
Sociologists argue that in contemporary Western society the marketplace has become so dominant that the consumer model increasingly characterizes most relationships that historically were covenantal, including marriage. Today we stay connected to people only as long as they are meeting our particular needs at an acceptable cost to us. When we cease to make a profit—that is, when the relationship appears to require more love and affirmation from us than we are getting back—then we “cut our losses” and drop the relationship. This has also been called “commodification,” a process by which social relationships are reduced to economic exchange relationships, and so the very idea of “covenant” is disappearing in our culture. Covenant is therefore a concept that is increasingly foreign to us, and yet the Bible says it is the essence of marriage, so we must take some time to understand it.
There have also always been covenantal relationships. These are relationships that are binding on us. In a covenant, the good of the relationship takes precedence over the immediate needs of the individual.
The LORD Your God Keeps Loving You
The LORD Your God Keeps Loving You
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,
hesed (steafast) is a Hebrew word
SURE, HEART, SETTLED, “those who endure”; NEB also “fixed steadfastly,” LOYAL, “hold a steady course,” FAITHFULLY, HEART, FIRM, SURE, “those who stood firm”;
loyal love, unfailing kindness, devotion, i.e., a love or affection that is steadfast based on a prior relationship
We have seen that there are three elements constitutive of the ḥeseḏ concept: it is active, social, and enduring.
Thus the most appropriate translation of ḥeseḏ is “goodness,” “grace,” or “kindness.
Illustration: Lot (Genesis 19) & Rahab (Joshua 2)
19 Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die. 20 Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!”
14 And the men said to her, “Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the Lord gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”
Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, Volumes I–XV 1. Formulaic Usage with ʿāśâ and ʿim
The demonstration of ḥeseḏ consists in the sparing of Lot and the family of Rahab, or the release of the man from Bethel, who might have been killed
Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, Volumes I–XV 1. Formulaic Usage with ʿāśâ and ʿim
It is often stated expressly that the one who receives an act of ḥeseḏ responds with a similar act of ḥeseḏ, or at least that the one who demonstrates ḥeseḏ is justified in expecting an equivalent act in return.
7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,
8 but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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,
With Those Who Love Him
With Those Who Love Him
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Transition To Close
Transition To Close
Edith Adeline Gilling Cherry United Kingdom 1872-1897. Born at Plymouth, Devon, she was disabled from the age of 16 months by poliomyelitis and walked with crutches. The death of her only sister, who died at age 4, when Edith was age 6, devastated her. She had a gift for poetry and wrote much before the age of 15.
Kept For Jesus
1 Oh, to be "Kept for Jesus!"
Kept, by the power of God;
Kept, from the world unspotted,
Treading where Jesus trod.
Chorus:
Oh, to be "Kept for Jesus!"
Lord at Thy feet I fall;
I would be "nothing, nothing, nothing;"
Thou shall be "all in all."
2 Oh, to be "Kept for Jesus!"
Serving as He shall choose;
"Kept" for the Master's pleasure;
"Kept" for the Master's use. [Chorus]
3 Oh, to be "Kept for Jesus!"
Kept from the world apart;
Lowly in mind and spirit,
Gentle and pure in heart. [Chorus]
4 Oh, to be "Kept for Jesus!"
Oh, to be all His own!
Kept, to be His forever,
Kept to be His alone! [Chorus]
Illustration: "International Players Anthem (I Choose You)" by the Underground Kingz featuring OutKast
So, I typed a text to a girl I used to see
Sayin that I chose this cutie pie with whom I wanna be
And I apologize if this message gets you down
Then I CC'd every girl that I'd see see round town and
I hate to see y'all frown but I'd rather see her smiling
Because the LORD God is a keeper!
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Is there anyone here today who wants to put a smile on the LORD, your God’s, face...
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
I just want to put a smile on the LORD’s face, because Jesus, He’s a keeper...
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Close- He’s a Keeper because...
Close- He’s a Keeper because...
He’s keeper because he redeemed you from the place of slavery
Passover Lamb of Exodus chapter 12
Passover Lamb of Exodus chapter 12
Jesus Christ’s atoning work on the cross
Jesus Christ’s atoning work on the cross
28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.