Worship Call 0526 God so loved the World

John 3:16 (NASB95) — 16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

God so Loved the world

When was it that God so loved the world?

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth.

With Each divine act the God of Love created that which God loves.

As much and more as you and I who have capacity for the beauty and majesty of God’s creation could love the world, God loves that which comes from his creative hand And it is not just for those in it, but all that had created

Revelation 4:11 (NASB95) — 11 “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.

The whole creation was like a Man who is romancing his love. God is the great courtier. All that God created in those 6 days would appeal to the senses which God would create in man. His seeing, his hearing, taste, touch and smell. and when God had finished setting the atmosphere he brought on the scene, man.

Genesis 1:31–2:3 (NASB95) — 31 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. 2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

God equated value to all that He had created and made.

Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 2896 טָבַב, טִבָּה, טֹוב, טֹוב, טֹוב, טֹובָה

2896 טָבַב, טִבָּה, טֹוב, טֹוב, טֹוב, טֹובָה [towb /tobe/]

Good acceptable, the creation met the divine standard of God who himself is Good.

God Loved his creation. with ever divine act God put his divine approval upon it. It was pleasing to Him until sin entered into the world.

Read Job 38 the greatness of Creation that God lays reminds Job of.

We have a God who is a person. Often we either forget that or we reject that. we have a God who is passionate, who does feel, who does respond. He is not an aloof insensitive God. Some may think that we are just equating to God what is of Man, but those things are a part of our souls. Were we not created in the image of God.

Now, God’s very being is infinitely greater than ours of course, and maybe even that could inspire us to believe that compared to how we do respond to God’s creation that God responds to much greater debts.

Jesus stood outside of the tomb of Lazarus and wept. (John 11:35) Jesus was not weeping for his dead friend which the people around thought he was. He was weeping because of their absence of faith.

Yes the same one who stood outside of the Tomb weeping is the one who said to Philip

“He who has seen Me has seen the Father” (John 14:9)

Maybe I am wrong. Who knows God but the Son of God? Who can say that God has feelings or not? But I tell you this, to believe that I can evoke a response from God, that what I do, say think in regard to bringing him glory, I like to think that I can provoke is some very minute way, pleasure to our heavenly father. and that the Love that the Father has for me is a personal, caring and compassionate, That he does not love me mechanically but loves me personally and compassionately.

When we get to Genesis 6, what did we find as a response to the evil in the world that God saw?

Genesis 6:6 (NASB95) — 6 The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

And I have yet to know what to do with Ephesians 4:30

Ephesians 4:30 (NASB95) — 30 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

But God’s love cannot compromise God’s Justice. What the righteousness of God demands it is the Justice of God that must execute. thus God had to destroy that which He once saw was very good and wipe out every living creature which God loved and cared for to satisfy God’s righteous demands.

Matthew 10:29–30 (NASB95) — 29 “Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

God loves His creation. and God loves man even more.

Genesis 2:4 (NASB95) — 4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.

The narrative that follows the creation story is how things got messed up and sin and evil and death entered into the world.

But within the narrative there is interwoven another narrative of God is taking that which has fallen and redeeming it for His own glory.

What God had purposed and loved in the beginning, God restoring back.

God first demonstrates by the Flood that there is God’s Justice. That God cannot allow the perpetuation of sin without God Condoning it. and even now the world which God loves is being reserved for destruction by fire (2 Peter 3:10-12) all that does not meet God’s righteous standard will have its day in court. and will find no more grace and mercy in the great and terrible day of the Lord.

We all get our day in court.

Salvation is God motivated by His Love is snatching those for Himself out from the deluge of fire.

But God cannot redeem those that he loves, arbitrarily. God has to do it in a way that satisfies God’s own perfect Justice.

Christ is the Key to God’s the redemption program.

it is our Lord that will reverse all the ill effects that is from satan. beginning with the recovery of the souls of those who will believe and then restoration of an environment that is compatible to the eternal life of man.

Yes, this current Heavens and Earth will be destroyed. but a new one will be made.

Not only what God Purposed, but what God loved, is being brought back to God’s own Joy and glory. He will start with the redemption of man’s soul. Creating new creatures for the new world which is yet to come.

Stop and think of this as well.

God destroyed the earth by water but had not yet dealt fully with the souls of man. How did God describe the heart of man?

Genesis 8:21 (NASB95) — 21 The Lord smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

A new Heavens and a new earth are in a works, but prior to those new heavens and new earth God is creating a new man. Placing in us a new heart

Ezekiel 36:26 (NASB95) — 26 “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NASB95) — 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

Ephesians 2:10 (NASB95) — 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.