The Basis of God's Acceptance Romans 8 36-39

Read the passage: Romans 8

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+8&version=ASV

(For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that 

whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.)

John 3: 16

There is something about the love of God that exceeds man’s 

comprehension, surely exceeding any deservedness on man’s part.

v.35 1. A love exceeding human understanding.

(Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? …)

2. A love exceeding sins’ debt.

pictured in John 3: 16

v.35 3. A love exceeding human experience.

(shall tribulation, or distress, …)

v.38 4. A love exceeding human authority.

(For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor

principalities, nor powers, …)

v.39 5. A love possessing perfect liberty.

(Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us

from the love of God, which)

v.39 6. A love God infuses into the life of the believer.

7. A love man cannot know or experience on his own.

Faithful in the Battle Joshua 10 8

Read the passage: Joshua 10

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=joshua+10&version=ASV

(And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.)

1. God’s people fail in multiple ways, God never fails.
    i.e. Ch. 9
   
   
2. Pressures mount against God’s people because of their omissions, yet, God abideth still as the God of His people.
   v. 1-6
   
   
3. The victory is not in the hands of men but in the hands of God.
   
   
4. God is still the initiator, though His followers sought to be the initiator.
   
   
5. God still brings peace, though His followers made a wrong choice.
   
   
6. God still brings the victory though His followers encumbered their freedom.
   
   
7. God is still the opposer to His enemies and to their untruthfulness. 
   

None Good but One Luke 18 19

Read the passage: Luke 11

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+11&version=ASV

(And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.)

1. No man can claim goodness.
   
   
2. To claim goodness is to usurp God’s position of good.
   
   
3. To lie against the truth is to fall on the truth in judgment.
   
   
4. The character of good is applicable only to the one who redeems man from his sin.
   
   
5. The one trapped in sin could never be called good.
   
   
6. Apart from the goodness of the Lord, there is no increase possible to man’s life
   .
   
7. The term good is restricted to the work and person of deity; it is not man’s description at all.
   It is not to be misapplied by men. 
   

The Precision of Prayer Luke 11 11, 12

Read the passage: Luke 11

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+11&version=ASV

(If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish will he for a fish give him a serpent?) ( Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?)

1. Prayer to God does not get side tracked somewhere else, lost in space. 
   God hears.
   
   
2. God doesn’t have backorders or substitutes.
   
   
3. God doesn’t disappoint the one praying.
   
   
4. God doesn’t give something that has no value for the need. 
   (will he give him a stone?)
   
   
5. God doesn’t turn the believer’s petition to harm. 
   (give him a serpent?)
   
   
6. God responds in like kind, His law of harvesting.
   
   
7. God responds generously, His character of goodness. 
   God meets the need. 
   

The Provisions of the Lord Psalms 81 7-14

Read the passage: Psalms 81

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalms+81&version=ASV

v.1 1. The provision of joy, of strength.

(Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of 

Jacob.)

v.2,42. The provision of God’s word.

(Take a psalm, …For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of 

Jacob.)

v.6 3. The provision of God’s freedom.

(I removed his shoulder from the burden:)

v.8 4. The provision of God’s commitment.

(hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken 

unto me;)

v.10 5. The provision of God’s security.

(I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt;)

v.10 6. The provision of God’s supply.

(pen thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.)

v.14 7. The provision of God’s defense.

(I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand againsttheir adversaries.)

v.15 8. The provision of God’s peacefulness.

(The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto Him: but

their time should have endured for ever.)

v.16 9. The provision of God’s care.

(He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat:)

v.16 10. The provision of God’s satisfying.

(with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.)

The Generosity of God's Grace Luke 8 11-15

Read the passage: Luke 8

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+8&version=ASV

v.11 1. God gives generously of His word to the heart of man.

(The seed is the word of God.)

v.12 2. God gives the opportunity for all mens’ hearing of the truth of scripture.

(Those by the way side are they that hear;)

v.12 3. God gives the choice to man- to listen to the word of truth or to hear the

devil’s lies.

(Those by the way side are they that hear: then cometh the devil, and taketh 

away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.)

v.13 4. The word requires true believing, trust that endures in the truth that

  endures.

(They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with

joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of

temptation fall away.)

v.14 5. God permits no idolatry or worship of any other; His gift is exclusively

Himself, literally the life of Christ.

(And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth,

                and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to 

                perfection.)

v.15 6. God rewards an honest and good heart with His gift of life.

(But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart,

having heard the word, keep it,)

v.15 7. The reward to the believer is great indeed.

v. 8- and bare fruit an hundredfold)

(and bring forth fruit with patience.)

The Quickness of True Love Luke 7 37-50

Read the passage: Luke 7

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+7&version=ASV

v.38 1. Filled with tenderness (weeping) for Jesus.

(And stood at His feet behind Him weeping, and began to wash His feet

  with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed His 

feet, and anointed them with the ointment.)

v.38 2. Demonstrates its affection for Jesus.

v.38 3. Has no embarrassment for its expression.

v.38 4. Shows humility and so identifies with Christ.

v.38 5. Gives all of his/her heart to/for Jesus.

v.44 6. Has no little commitment.

(And He turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this 

woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but

  she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.)

v.45,7. Is genuine.

   47 (Thou gavest me no kiss but this woman since the time I came in hath not eased to 

                kiss my feet.)  (…for she loved much: …)

v.46 8. Bypasses man’s formalities.

(My head with oil thou did not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet 

with ointment.)

v.47 9. Relies on the generosity of Christ’s forgiveness.

(Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she

loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.)

v.48 10. Rejoices in the fruit of salvation.

(And He said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.)

Dwelling in Love 1 John 4 16

Read the passage: 1 John 4

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+john+4&version=ASV

(He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.) 

1) At salvation a believer is immersed in God's love.

2) Growing in grace involves growing in love.

3) The filling of love will result in an outflowing of love.

4) The out flowing of love will result in more infilling of God' s love.

5) God's way of loving a person is often through another person's life.

6) Love is not a reservoir to contain but a river to let flow. 
The source of supply has no limit.

7) The evidence of God's presence is the purity of the love consistently shared with others.