THE AMAZING LOVE OF GOD - Carter Conlon — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hallelujah, hallelujah.
2. 0:02Thank you so much for singing that song.
3. 0:04That's one of my favorite songs, you
4. 0:06know,
5. 0:07of all time. I love that song. Thank
6. 0:08you, worship team.
7. 0:10Very, very much appreciate. You may be
8. 0:11seated here in the house.
9. 0:14And for those that are listening with us
10. 0:16online, we're going to have communion at
11. 0:17the end of the short sharing of God's
12. 0:19word.
13. 0:20And for those who know Christ as Lord
14. 0:21and Savior, we're encouraging you
15. 0:24uh to get some some juice and some bread
16. 0:27or crackers, whatever you have in your
17. 0:28house,
18. 0:29and celebrate with us as we remember the
19. 0:32incredible sacrifice of God's son
20. 0:35on a cross over 2,000 years ago to pay
21. 0:37the price for our sin.
22. 0:40I'm going to
23. 0:42approach a topic tonight and I feel like
24. 0:44the Apostle Paul
25. 0:47once did when he was lifted into the
26. 0:48third heaven
27. 0:50and he said, "I I heard things." And
28. 0:52perhaps he saw things and I he said, "I
29. 0:54feel like it's
30. 0:55it's not lawful to write about it."
31. 0:57That's exactly the way I feel
32. 0:59this evening.
33. 1:00I'm going to speak to you about the
34. 1:02amazing love of God.
35. 1:04But I don't have the words to describe
36. 1:05it.
37. 1:06And I don't think any of us have the
38. 1:08minds to fully receive it.
39. 1:10The depth of God's love.
40. 1:12That the
41. 1:15the weight of God's love, the power of
42. 1:17God's love, the
43. 1:18I don't know what would happen if we had
44. 1:20a full revelation of it tonight. I don't
45. 1:22know if we could even draw our next
46. 1:23breath. I I don't know if we could
47. 1:25continue to sit sit in our seats. I
48. 1:27really don't know.
49. 1:29But I do I can tell you this one thing.
50. 1:30The first time I
51. 1:32heard
52. 1:33the first time that the reality of God's
53. 1:35love for me ever got into my heart, I
54. 1:36cried for 3 days.
55. 1:38It was an amazing experience and I just
56. 1:40felt like the presence of God was just
57. 1:42washing me and washing me and washing
58. 1:45me. And as the love of God washes away
59. 1:48is a self-image maybe we've garnered
60. 1:50over the years that's not according to
61. 1:53what his heart is for us. Love of God,
62. 1:56according to John the beloved, casts out
63. 1:59all fear.
64. 2:00Fear of the future, fear of failure,
65. 2:01fear of rejection. Now, you name the
66. 2:03fears.
67. 2:05When you and I discover finally how much
68. 2:07we are loved of God,
69. 2:09and how much we are actually sealed in
70. 2:11the hand of God the Father, as Jesus
71. 2:13Christ once said, and nobody can take us
72. 2:14out of that hand, then there's no fear
73. 2:17that can get a a grip on our hearts.
74. 2:19It's not not the fear of dying, the fear
75. 2:21of tomorrow, the fear of provision, none
76. 2:23of these fears, the fear of failure,
77. 2:25none of it can get a hold of you when
78. 2:27you and I fully understand
79. 2:30the amazing love of God. Father, I thank
80. 2:33you, Lord, for this evening. I thank you
81. 2:35for
82. 2:35the ability to share this
83. 2:38word with those that are with us online
84. 2:39this evening from around the world and
85. 2:42those that have gathered in this
86. 2:43sanctuary today at our Bible school.
87. 2:46Father, I'm at your mercy.
88. 2:48For I confess, as the Apostle Paul once
89. 2:50did, I feel it's it's almost unlawful to
90. 2:53speak on this topic because I don't have
91. 2:55words to describe the depth of your
92. 2:58love.
93. 2:59It can be experienced, but how do we
94. 3:01describe it?
95. 3:03I'm asking tonight, Lord, that you would
96. 3:04open every heart, not just our ears, but
97. 3:07our hearts,
98. 3:08to be able to receive a love that is so
99. 3:11incomprehensible, there is nothing in my
100. 3:14vocabulary to describe it. I can't
101. 3:17describe it. I've only received it. I
102. 3:20walk in it, Lord, but I can't describe
103. 3:22it. I don't have the vocabulary.
104. 3:25All I can say is it's amazing. It's
105. 3:27absolutely
106. 3:28amazing.
107. 3:30And I thank you for this love in Jesus'
108. 3:32name.
109. 3:33Amen.
110. 3:34I'm going to start in John chapter 3 at
111. 3:36verse 16.
112. 3:39Very familiar verse for very, very many
113. 3:41people.
114. 3:42For God
115. 3:44so loved
116. 3:45the world
117. 3:47that he gave his only begotten Son,
118. 3:51that whoever believes in him should
119. 3:52perish, but have everlasting life.
120. 3:56For God did not send his Son into the
121. 3:57world to condemn the world,
122. 4:00but that the world through him
123. 4:02might be saved.
124. 4:04He who believes in him is not condemned,
125. 4:07but he who does not believe is condemned
126. 4:09already,
127. 4:10because he has not believed in the name
128. 4:12of the only begotten
129. 4:14Son of God.
130. 4:17He who believes in him is not condemned.
131. 4:18He who believes that God loves
132. 4:21him or her.
133. 4:22The person that finally opens their
134. 4:24heart and says, "God,
135. 4:26if you love me that much, how can I
136. 4:28resist any longer?
137. 4:31How can I push away
138. 4:32a God that loved me enough that before
139. 4:35the foundation of the world, it says in
140. 4:37the New Testament, before the foundation
141. 4:39of the world, Jesus Christ was
142. 4:41preordained to go to the cross.
143. 4:44God loved us before we breathed our
144. 4:46first breath. God loved us before Adam
145. 4:48committed and Eve committed their first
146. 4:50sin.
147. 4:51God loved us when we were walking into
148. 4:54bars. I Well, hope I say we, but a lot
149. 4:57of you are just too young to know that
150. 4:59kind of an experience, and some of you
151. 5:00aren't. You know that experience. Some
152. 5:03of you You know it, but your parents
153. 5:04don't know that you lived that kind of a
154. 5:06life.
155. 5:07But God was with you.
156. 5:10Never forsake you.
157. 5:11Never whitewashed his hands of you.
158. 5:13Never got fed up with you. Never stopped
159. 5:15longing for you. Never stopped following
160. 5:17you everywhere you went. You and I both
161. 5:21because he loved us.
162. 5:23In John 1 John chapter 4,
163. 5:25verses 9 and 10, the scripture says,
164. 5:29"In this, the love of God was manifested
165. 5:31towards us, that God has sent his only
166. 5:33begotten Son into the world that we
167. 5:35might live through him.
168. 5:36In this is love, not that we loved God,
169. 5:39but he loved us
170. 5:41and sent his Son
171. 5:43to be the propitiation, that means the
172. 5:45atoning sacrifice for our sin. Not that
173. 5:47we loved God, but he loved us. Isn't
174. 5:50that an amazing thing? I remember as a
175. 5:51police officer years ago walking the
176. 5:54beat one particular day. I remember this
177. 5:56day.
178. 5:57And I I'm I'm suddenly thinking thoughts
179. 5:59about God and I'm wondering why am I
180. 6:01thinking about God? I don't really care
181. 6:03for religion. I'm not much interested in
182. 6:06this my world is different than people
183. 6:08that go to church. That's what I
184. 6:09thought. They go to church because they
185. 6:10I guess they need to. My world is
186. 6:12different than theirs.
187. 6:14I I don't feel that there I don't
188. 6:15belong, but yet I couldn't shake the
189. 6:17thoughts about God that were coming into
190. 6:18my heart. Not that we loved God, but he
191. 6:21loved us.
192. 6:23Not that we cared about God, but he
193. 6:25cared about us. Not that we were seeking
194. 6:27God, but he was seeking us. That's the
195. 6:29context. That's what this the
196. 6:30connotation of of this scripture is.
197. 6:33I walked into a church that that
198. 6:35particular day. I sat down in the back,
199. 6:38took off my hat. I somehow felt that you
200. 6:40should do that
201. 6:41in the presence of a God that I didn't
202. 6:43fully know existed.
203. 6:45And I said out loud, I was the only one
204. 6:47in the church. I said, "If you're real,
205. 6:49I wouldn't mind knowing who you are."
206. 6:52He answered my prayer. Hallelujah.
207. 6:54Hallelujah. Not that we love God, but he
208. 6:57loved us. Was seeking us the whole time.
209. 7:01Was whispering when we could when we
210. 7:02could scarcely hear him because of the
211. 7:04love that was in his heart.
212. 7:08Perfect love cast out fear.
213. 7:10Years ago
214. 7:12I had the privilege of speaking in the
215. 7:14at the border of uh Kosovo and Macedonia
216. 7:16right after the war was finished there.
217. 7:19And we went into a town and built a
218. 7:20bridge for this particular community to
219. 7:23be able to get to their fields.
220. 7:25The only condition was I shook hands
221. 7:28with the mayor and I said, "We'll build
222. 7:29you your bridge, but if we do
223. 7:32I want you to allow me to come back and
224. 7:34preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to
225. 7:36this town of 8,000 people at which is
226. 7:40100% Muslim."
227. 7:42He hesitated for a moment, but he needed
228. 7:44his bridge to get to the field really
229. 7:45bad cuz that's was their that was their
230. 7:47food supply, that was their economy. So,
231. 7:49he reached out and shook my hand and the
232. 7:51good man was actually true to his word.
233. 7:53The bridge was built, I went back and
234. 7:56in that particular community
235. 7:58the Islam the um
236. 8:01Islam was really strong and the women
237. 8:03were not allowed to come out of the
238. 8:04yard. That's how strong it was. You
239. 8:06know, they had to dress with these
240. 8:08coverings and they're not allowed out of
241. 8:09the yard. And so, the only people were
242. 8:11allowed to listen to me were soldiers
243. 8:13who had fought in this war. Now, this
244. 8:14war was a very vicious war. There was a
245. 8:18a partial genocide that went with this
246. 8:19war and many of the people I was about
247. 8:21to speak to had committed war crimes.
248. 8:25So, this is the audience. They set up a
249. 8:27stage outside, I cut the ribbon,
250. 8:29dedicated the bridge.
251. 8:32Then I began to speak to them. The
252. 8:34deputy mayor of that particular
253. 8:35community was so nervous. He kept
254. 8:37hitting me on the side of my leg the
255. 8:39whole time I was speaking. He He kept
256. 8:40doing this and he shook so bad he shook
257. 8:42the whole platform.
258. 8:43Now, I wasn't scared he was scared, I
259. 8:45wasn't scared. It was an interesting
260. 8:47scenario because all of Now, these are
261. 8:50armed soldiers, you understand. They are
262. 8:52literally duty bound by their religion
263. 8:54to kill me because of what I was about
264. 8:56to tell them, but they were also
265. 8:58culturally bound to be kind to me
266. 9:00because I built them a bridge to their
267. 9:01field. So, they were really stuck
268. 9:03between a rock and a hard place.
269. 9:06So, I began to speak to them.
270. 9:08And I started by saying, "Why did I Why
271. 9:11did we come here?
272. 9:13Why did we build a bridge for you to
273. 9:16your fields? You know that we are
274. 9:18Christians and you are Muslims. You know
275. 9:21that we we have a different belief
276. 9:23system.
277. 9:24And yet if we should be enemies to you,
278. 9:26why would we do what we just did? Why
279. 9:28would we build you a bridge?"
280. 9:30And I said,
281. 9:31"We built you a bridge because God loves
282. 9:34you.
283. 9:36We built you a bridge because he's
284. 9:38allowed our hearts to experience his
285. 9:41love for you because we have a personal
286. 9:44relationship with him.
287. 9:47And God
288. 9:48came to this world and he became a man.
289. 9:50You couldn't say God had a son, they'd
290. 9:51consider that blasphemy, then I'd really
291. 9:53be in trouble. I said, "But God came to
292. 9:55this world and he became a man and he
293. 9:57gave himself a name." The name he gave
294. 10:00to himself was Jesus.
295. 10:03And Jesus made a bridge for me and for
296. 10:06you to get to his field
297. 10:09where we're going to live forever, a
298. 10:11place called heaven.
299. 10:12We built a bridge for you because Jesus
300. 10:15built a bridge for us to get to where
301. 10:17God is and we love you because God loves
302. 10:22us and he has allowed his love to be The
303. 10:24scripture says shed abroad in our
304. 10:26hearts.
305. 10:27And as I begin to speak about the love
306. 10:29of God, the soldiers begin to weep. I'm
307. 10:31talking about all the soldiers.
308. 10:34Probably 150, 200 soldiers in that crowd
309. 10:37that particular time and they started
310. 10:39wiping their faces and they they were
311. 10:41wiping away the tears because they had
312. 10:42never heard of a God who loves them.
313. 10:45They'd never They were hearing it, but
314. 10:48not just hearing it, they were
315. 10:49experiencing
316. 10:51the searching of God, the seeking of God
317. 10:54for their souls and I know
318. 10:57that men were sitting there standing
319. 10:59there probably saying, "How could God
320. 11:01love me? You see, I've been in Kosovo,
321. 11:03I'd seen the mass graves. How could God
322. 11:05love me for what I have done? What we
323. 11:07have been part of?
324. 11:09The numbers of of cries that came our
325. 11:11way, but we ignored them and just shot
326. 11:13the people and put them in these pits
327. 11:15and and such like that had been dug."
328. 11:18Why would God want us?
329. 11:20I was walking one time in New York City
330. 11:22with a man
331. 11:23who's now a wonderful
332. 11:25follower of Jesus Christ, but he wasn't
333. 11:26fully in back then and we walked around
334. 11:29the block I don't know how many times
335. 11:31that evening and he kept asking me, "Why
336. 11:33would God want me?
337. 11:35After all that I've done,
338. 11:37after the kind of a life that I've
339. 11:39lived, after all the people that I've
340. 11:41hurt, why would God want me?"
341. 11:44And finally, after all of the scripture
342. 11:46I was able to throw at him, I finally
343. 11:48came to this point. I said, "He wants
344. 11:50you just because he does.
345. 11:53There's not any deeper than that. He
346. 11:55sees you. He loves you. He went to a
347. 11:57cross. He allowed himself to be beaten,
348. 12:00bruised, whipped, mocked, falsely tried,
349. 12:03falsely convicted, falsely put to death
350. 12:06because he loves you.
351. 12:08There is no other reason. For God so
352. 12:10loved the world that he gave his only
353. 12:12begotten son, that whoever believes in
354. 12:15him should not perish."
355. 12:17That perishing is spending an eternity
356. 12:19in a place where God is not.
357. 12:23Suffering the wrath of of being in a
358. 12:25place
359. 12:26that we willfully turned away from.
360. 12:28Whoever does not
361. 12:30believe in the son of God is already
362. 12:32condemned. God's Why would we not
363. 12:34believe that kind of love? Why would we
364. 12:36not open our heart to that kind of love?
365. 12:39But you would say to me tonight, some
366. 12:41people that are listening online,
367. 12:43you would say to me, "Well, what if I'm
368. 12:45weak?
369. 12:46What if I'm resourceless? I've got
370. 12:48nothing to give to God. What if I'm a
371. 12:50captive? I'm addicted to pornography.
372. 12:54I'm addicted to drugs or alcohol or just
373. 12:56addicted to wrong thinking. What What if
374. 12:59I'm broken?
375. 13:01Seemingly beyond repair. I've lost
376. 13:03heart. I've lost hope. I feel like I'll
377. 13:05never heal. What if I'm bound
378. 13:08by things in this world and I I I I I
379. 13:11can't see a way out. I can't see a way
380. 13:14forward. I feel useless.
381. 13:17I've done things I shouldn't have done.
382. 13:20Why would God want me?"
383. 13:23Jesus Christ
384. 13:27was 30 years old.
385. 13:29He was God in the flesh and he stepped
386. 13:31into a synagogue.
387. 13:33And the scripture says it was his turn
388. 13:36to open the scriptures and read.
389. 13:38The people in that synagogue were about
390. 13:40to hear something they've never heard
391. 13:41before
392. 13:43in a way they've never heard. They might
393. 13:44have heard the scriptures read, but
394. 13:45they've never heard it this way.
395. 13:47Just like sometimes
396. 13:49we speak about the love of God. We've
397. 13:50heard the words before,
398. 13:53but we're now hearing it in a way we've
399. 13:54never heard it before.
400. 13:57God so loved
401. 14:00the world.
402. 14:01You know, you can take the world out of
403. 14:02there and put your name in there.
404. 14:04God so loved
405. 14:07I want you to do that right now, okay?
406. 14:08I'm And we're going to do that.
407. 14:10And you're going to say your name with
408. 14:11me, okay? You ready?
409. 14:13For God so loved
410. 14:16It's amazing, isn't it?
411. 14:18That he gave his only begotten son.
412. 14:22That because I believe in him, I should
413. 14:23not perish.
414. 14:25But have everlasting life.
415. 14:28For God did not send his son into the
416. 14:29world to condemn me.
417. 14:31But that through his son
418. 14:33I might be forgiven.
419. 14:35I might have a hope of heaven.
420. 14:37I might have a newness of life.
421. 14:39I might have a song that I could never
422. 14:41have sung on my own.
423. 14:42Hallelujah. A future I never could have
424. 14:45had.
425. 14:46A hope in a life not just for time, but
426. 14:48for eternity. God sent his son so that I
427. 14:51could have life and I could have it more
428. 14:53abundantly.
429. 14:54God sent his son so that no weapon
430. 14:56formed against me could ever prosper.
431. 15:00God sent his son so that I could become
432. 15:02as clean as God is through Jesus Christ.
433. 15:05I could become the righteousness of God
434. 15:07in CHRIST JESUS.
435. 15:09GOD SENT HIS SON
436. 15:12BECAUSE HE LOVED US. THERE'S NO OTHER
437. 15:14REASON.
438. 15:15NOT that we had earned it. We didn't
439. 15:16deserve it. There's nothing we could do.
440. 15:19WE COULD GO TO CHURCH UNTIL YOUR KNEES
441. 15:21are worn OUT ON YOUR PANTS. YOU CAN READ
442. 15:23YOUR BIBLE UNTIL YOU GO BLIND. YOU STILL
443. 15:26CAN'T PLEASE GOD WITH ANYTHING IN THE
444. 15:27FLESH. GOD LOVES YOU. THAT'S WHY WE KNOW
445. 15:31WE ARE SAVED. THAT'S WHY WE KNOW OUR
446. 15:33SINS ARE WASHED AWAY. NOT BY WORKS OF
447. 15:35RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH I HAVE DONE, BUT
448. 15:37ACCORDING TO HIS MERCY HE HAS saved me.
449. 15:40GOD SO LOVED
450. 15:43ME.
451. 15:45God so loved me.
452. 15:47"Why would he want me?" the man said. I
453. 15:49said,
454. 15:50"Just because he does."
455. 15:52And there's a point where you just have
456. 15:54to receive it. There's a point where you
457. 15:55have to believe it. And thank God he
458. 15:57did. And thank God he does.
459. 16:00Jesus was handed the
460. 16:02book of the prophet Isaiah.
461. 16:05And when he had opened the book it said
462. 16:06he found the place where it is written.
463. 16:09I guess they had to.
464. 16:11I love it.
465. 16:12He found the place.
466. 16:15The spirit of the Lord is upon me
467. 16:17because
468. 16:19He was saying, "I am empowered by the
469. 16:22spirit of God for this reason."
470. 16:26Remember the verse, "God so loved the
471. 16:27world that he gave his only begotten
472. 16:29son." The spirit of the Lord is upon me
473. 16:32because
474. 16:34for this reason.
475. 16:36Not so that I can
476. 16:38may I take it in the present tense,
477. 16:39speak in tongues
478. 16:41or have a fuzzy feeling
479. 16:44in the presence of God or or be stronger
480. 16:46than other people.
481. 16:48The spirit of the Lord is upon me.
482. 16:50Remember, Jesus said, "As the Father has
483. 16:52sent me, I'm now sending you."
484. 16:55He has anointed me
485. 16:57for what reason?
486. 16:58To preach the gospel to the poor.
487. 17:02Number one, to preach the gospel
488. 17:05of this redemption, this love, this
489. 17:07hope, this future to those of us who
490. 17:10don't have the strength, the resource,
491. 17:11the power, anything to get through to
492. 17:13God in our own strength. We can't get
493. 17:15there. We know we can't get there. We
494. 17:17don't deserve it. We know we can't earn
495. 17:19it.
496. 17:21God sent his son and anointed him to
497. 17:23preach the gospel first to the poor.
498. 17:26First, he says, that's the first thing
499. 17:27is listed in the scriptures. I preach to
500. 17:30you because Jesus said because you can't
501. 17:32get to me in your own strength. You
502. 17:34don't have the money, the power, the
503. 17:36influence. I don't care if you're
504. 17:37politically connected or whatever you
505. 17:39got, you can't get to me through any of
506. 17:41those things. You don't have the
507. 17:42resource. You can't afford the ticket,
508. 17:45so I'm going to pay the price for you.
509. 17:48To preach the gospel to the poor, he
510. 17:50sent me to heal the brokenhearted and to
511. 17:52proclaim liberty to the captives.
512. 17:54Freedom.
513. 17:56Freedom to those that are CAPTIVATED IN
514. 17:59BODY, CAPTIVATED in mind, CAPTIVATED
515. 18:01BECAUSE OF PAST EXPERIENCES, CAPTIVATED
516. 18:04by words THAT WERE SPOKEN BY SOMEBODY
517. 18:07that shouldn't have spoken them over
518. 18:08your life.
519. 18:10THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS UPON ME, Jesus
520. 18:12said, to come and get you
521. 18:15out of your prison and out of your
522. 18:16stronghold.
523. 18:18To recover sight to the blind, the
524. 18:20spirit of God is upon me to help people
525. 18:23see a way forward, a purpose for life.
526. 18:27What their lives are going to be not
527. 18:29just in time, but for all of eternity.
528. 18:32And to set at liberty, to set free those
529. 18:34who are oppressed, those that the devil
530. 18:35has just gotten into their MINDS AND
531. 18:38YOU'RE NOBODY, YOU'RE NOTHING, YOU'LL
532. 18:40NEVER BE ANYTHING.
533. 18:42YOU'RE A LOSER. JUST REMIND YOURSELF
534. 18:44JUST GO OUT AND DRINK. GO OUT AND BUY
535. 18:46SOME MORE DRUGS. DON'T TRY TO EVER HAVE
536. 18:48A NORMAL LIFE OR A normal relationship.
537. 18:50JESUS SAID, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS
538. 18:53UPON me to set YOU FREE.
539. 18:57I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A NEW MIND, A NEW
540. 18:59HEART, A NEW LIFE, NEW STRENGTH, NEW
541. 19:01FUTURE, NEW THOUGHTS,
542. 19:04new people
543. 19:05in your life.
544. 19:08And to proclaim the acceptable year of
545. 19:09the Lord. Then he closed the book and
546. 19:11gave it back
547. 19:12to the attendant and sat down.
548. 19:15And the eyes of all them in the
549. 19:16synagogue were fixed on him.
550. 19:19Because why? Because it's not that
551. 19:21others hadn't read scriptures, but they
552. 19:24never heard it read like this.
553. 19:26What was it What was it about what he
554. 19:28had just said that caused their eyes to
555. 19:30just follow him back to his seat? He
556. 19:32said he sat down and it says all their
557. 19:35eyes followed him and were fixed on him.
558. 19:38Like it's like, "Wow."
559. 19:41Why are we hearing this
560. 19:43like we've never heard it before?
561. 19:46It's not like he would be the first to
562. 19:47ever read these
563. 19:49verses in a in the synagogue. I'm sure
564. 19:51they're read hundreds of times
565. 19:53over the course of history, but why
566. 19:56did everybody follow him back to his
567. 19:58seat?
568. 19:59What
569. 20:00I would love to have been there,
570. 20:01wouldn't you?
571. 20:03I would have jumped up and said, "I know
572. 20:04why. I know why you followed him back to
573. 20:06his seat." I'd probably got myself
574. 20:08killed as well.
575. 20:11We got to fix this thing. I'm going to
576. 20:12get killed pushing this over the the
577. 20:13edge of the platform someday.
578. 20:17The eyes of all them in the synagogue
579. 20:20were fixed on him.
580. 20:22And he began to say to them,
581. 20:25"Today
582. 20:26this scripture
583. 20:28is fulfilled."
584. 20:30Not tomorrow, not next month, not next
585. 20:33year. Today.
586. 20:35Today the love of God has come for you.
587. 20:38Today the power of God can set you free.
588. 20:40Today you can have a new vision for your
589. 20:43own future, for your family, for your
590. 20:45marriage, ma'am and sir online, for your
591. 20:48children.
592. 20:49Today, not tomorrow. Tonight.
593. 20:51Right where you are. Tomorrow morning
594. 20:53when you hear this online,
595. 20:55you can be free. You can be Your broken
596. 20:58heart can be mended. Your eyes can
597. 21:01receive new sight. You can be given new
598. 21:03strength. You can be set free from your
599. 21:05captivity and the and everything that
600. 21:08oppresses your mind.
601. 21:12This is the acceptable time.
602. 21:15Why now?
603. 21:18Because God loves you.
604. 21:21God loves you so much
605. 21:23that he sent his only begotten son
606. 21:26that if you would believe in him
607. 21:29you will not perish but have everlasting
608. 21:31life. For God did not send his son into
609. 21:33the world
610. 21:34to condemn you
611. 21:37but that you through him might be saved.
612. 21:42I want to ask you my brother, my sister,
613. 21:43will you open your heart tonight?
614. 21:46And will you receive his love?
615. 21:48You can't earn it.
616. 21:50You don't deserve it, neither do I.
617. 21:54But the beauty of the amazing love of
618. 21:56God is that
619. 21:57he just loves us.
620. 22:00As much of a mess as we are.
621. 22:02You see, I know that's the reason why he
622. 22:04couldn't fold the world up in the Garden
623. 22:05of Eden when Adam and Eve sinned. If you
624. 22:07and I were God, we would have just gone,
625. 22:09"Okay, let's start all over. Let's do
626. 22:10this again.
627. 22:12Let's start a new world." Because he
628. 22:13could have done it. And let's let's
629. 22:15start with two new people and let's do
630. 22:17this all over again. And if that failed,
631. 22:19let's do another one.
632. 22:20He could have done it any way he wanted
633. 22:22to but God so loved the world. God
634. 22:24foreknew you would be here. God foreknew
635. 22:27you would be listening online today.
636. 22:30God knew it and he so loved you that he
637. 22:31couldn't fold it up.
638. 22:33He so loved you he could not bring it to
639. 22:35an end back then. Now, he knew humankind
640. 22:38is going to bring itself to an end.
641. 22:41That the world would unravel into a
642. 22:42lawlessness that just staggers the
643. 22:44imagination. We know that's coming our
644. 22:46way in the not too distant future. But
645. 22:48God didn't fold it up because of the
646. 22:50depth of his love. Oh, I wish to God I
647. 22:54had the words to explain the depth of
648. 22:56his love.
649. 22:57But as I said in the beginning, I feel
650. 22:59like Paul.
651. 23:00I feel like to try to to try to Paul
652. 23:02said, "I saw things. I heard things that
653. 23:05there are no words. It would be It would
654. 23:07be unlawful for me to try to write it
655. 23:09down
656. 23:10what I heard there."
657. 23:12I wonder
658. 23:13if one of the things he heard was about
659. 23:15the love of God.
660. 23:17When the revelation finally hits, when
661. 23:20people finally understand
662. 23:22how much God
663. 23:24loves this world.
664. 23:26We can't earn it. We heard that tonight
665. 23:28through the testimony. We don't deserve
666. 23:30it.
667. 23:31It's just God.
668. 23:33I'm going to pray a prayer with you that
669. 23:34are online tonight.
670. 23:36And I'm going to ask you to open your
671. 23:37heart
672. 23:39and let him do what he said he was sent
673. 23:42to do.
674. 23:44You don't have to add to it and you
675. 23:45don't have to take away from it.
676. 23:48He told you,
677. 23:49"I came to set you free from your
678. 23:52poverty.
679. 23:54I came to heal your broken heart.
680. 23:56I came to open your prison doors.
681. 23:59I came to give your blinded eyesight.
682. 24:01And I came to set you free from the
683. 24:03oppressive thoughts
684. 24:05that have dominated your your life and
685. 24:06your mind.
686. 24:08And I came to tell you that you don't
687. 24:10have to wait till tomorrow.
688. 24:12You can be free right now."
689. 24:15Open your heart and pray this simple
690. 24:17prayer with me. We're all going to pray
691. 24:18it here tonight for the sake of those
692. 24:20online that are going to be praying
693. 24:22these words. Let's Let's say it
694. 24:23together.
695. 24:25Lord Jesus Christ,
696. 24:29thank you for loving me.
697. 24:31Thank you for coming to get me.
698. 24:36I ask you tonight
699. 24:39to come into my heart.
700. 24:42I give you my life
701. 24:45because you gave me yours.
702. 24:49Help me
703. 24:50to understand the depth of your love
704. 24:55because I know it will set me free.
705. 24:59I believe
706. 25:01that you died in my place
707. 25:04so that I could have life.
708. 25:07And so tonight
709. 25:09Jesus Christ
710. 25:11I confess you
711. 25:13as my Lord
712. 25:15and my savior.
713. 25:18From this day forward
714. 25:20you are my God
715. 25:24and I am your child.
716. 25:26I love you, Jesus.
717. 25:29Thank you for loving me.
718. 25:32In your precious name.
719. 25:35Amen. We're going to just sing one song
720. 25:38and I would encourage you to get some
721. 25:39bread and some uh
722. 25:41juice and we're going to have communion
723. 25:42together in just a moment.
724. 25:44And we're going to celebrate what God
725. 25:45has done in your life tonight.
726. 25:47Let's go ahead and do that.