Justice and Mercy [Part 2]

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He would fall.

I taught them how I taught my people what it is like to be free. I showed them live. I show them grace. I just wanted them to be able to grow up with anniversary but they did not know that I healed him.

They didn't know what I done for them. They didn't know all the mercy was I got understand that there people there human they can have a mind to build understand the same way their father is not too disappointed as little Tyler doesn't understand what daddy did that day to go out and make a living, so that little one could have some food. It's all right but I do not want you to reject my love. They didn't know that I had done for them. I led them versatile with cords of kindness. What is interesting about this is that this literally says I led them with a human's unusual thing and so was the translational rendered his way, but some would say that makers were referencing Moses who was a human mediator and maybe it's just prophetic sign.

This is the way that only way that I could leave them is, I must become flesh with the bands of love. I let them go on leave from his love is the kindness of God leads us to repentance.

I became the one who uses the yoke on their jaws. I lifted the bird. I'm not a burden giver on the burden lifter bent down to feed high student I came to their level in order to be able to feed them and the agency just turns it verse five said to go back to Egypt.

They probably ought to just go back to Egypt, but instead will be another nation, there will be another exile there's going to be punishment for this because they were turned to me in the social rate gives their cities the justice of God. The righteousness of God is speaking out here and then impersonated to shift back again. But how can I give you up for now. How can I hand. How can I make you like autumn Ma how can I treat you like the Boheme online & eating with other smaller cities along side of Sodom and Gomorrah that were discussed were worried over their wickedness. How can I do that the end of her site. My heart recoils within me the word for recoil is actually a Hebrew word that means to overthrow and what is interesting about this is another place where the word is used on Ma & Lim also referenced as Deuteronomy 29, 23 will reread the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt nothing so nothing growing were no plant can sprout and overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah on minds Abilene, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath that word overthrow in his anger and wrath all the nations will say why is Lord done thus to the land. What caused this heat of this great anger. So on minds Abilene were overthrown in the God's righteous wrath, but here at the verse at the end of verse eight. God says my heart is overthrown within me. Evidently when there's wickedness something someone is going to be overthrown is either going to be us is going to God himself.

Compassion grows warm and tender.

I will not cannot execute my burning anger. I'll not again destroy Ephraim for I am God, and not a man, the holy one in your midst, I will not come in wrath. Probably a more literal translation is better. Here I will not come into the city like I did. Sodom and Gomorrah in this Abilene autumn Ma where if the holy one comes in close to the sin, the sin and those who committed could not survive. God is saying I am in in word conflict because I am righteous and I have declared my righteousness and I cannot let wickedness go unpunished again. I am loving.

I love this people and I can't let them go.

What can be done and you must understand this tension. If you're going to understand the gospel. The nature of God is infinite. If you have ever seen of great offense or contemplated a great wickedness.

The enslavement of girls for prostitution. The abuse and neglect of children intentionally by great wickedness. What whatever you might conceive of that you and your heart know that this cannot be that instinct towards righteousness is in the heart of God to an infinite degree and if you've ever had someone in your life a child, a spouse, friend, you could say I think I love this person enough to lay down my life. Everything in my life bends towards wanting the well-being of this other. If you've ever tasted of a love that keeps no record of wrong a love that is patient and kind of love that is everlasting.

If you've ever tasted of that even a glimpse of it. Please try to measure it out in your mind to an infinite degree you will know the heart of God.

All the attributes of God are always God is not a time in which God is just, but is not loving is not a time which is loving but is not just instead of every attribute of God is totally God at every point in God's life and he who preexisted creation and has made all things is therefore outside of time and so there was never a time in which God was one but not the other. So there's absolutely no sense in being able say the Old Testament God was a God of judgment, but the New Testament God is a God of grace. He's the same God and you always been the same God and he always will be the same God. He is at all times and all places and all eternity. Both holy and loving. Both just and merciful. It is his nature and he is infinite will have more teaching moment from today's important series being filled with the Holy Spirit shutting off your mind hearing for a wonderful surprise God's word and God's spirit were never meant to be separated spirit always belong together to keep your abundant life in Christ knowing your Bible. The secret of being filled with the spirit, the answer is both word and spirit subjugation studying Scripture, and some traditions emphasize the spirit to real Christian growth both word and spirit as someone once said Pollard never spirit you dry all spirit. No word both word and spirit you Barela you make a gift to support this man will send you Allen Wright's newest album on CD or digital download word and spirit rights, embrace the fullness of God's word and his spirit realm like never before with wording spirit realm up helping someone else grow as well. And remember, when you partner with Alan Wright Ministries to be broadcasting the love of God, 2000 every day, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website past Rowan.work. Today's teaching now continues once again is the love of God is not somehow distinct from the justice of God but is connected to the justice of God.

I wish the whole world could understand this. There's great confusion because in the spirit of the age. People who have seen judge mentalism in the church labeled the church as a place of judgment, dualism, and in the spirit of the age. There are many who would notoriously say that they are exceedingly bothered by the fact that the Bible calls God a jealous God because in human terms. Jealousy is something that points to insecurity or immaturity, but jealousy in its purest sense is actually demonstration of love, if it didn't bother Hosea that Gomer ran after others. If you didn't have any jealousy for her you would question his love.

If a husband had a wife of unfaithfulness and he learned of anything that's fine I don't mind sharing it with anybody you wouldn't say that was noble. You say there was something that was badly wrong.

That's the sort of jealousy that is in the heart of God. Is it his love for you is so intense is love is so pure. His love is so powerful that he cannot be content to share you and I and his children with others you don't want to. God is not a jealous God because of you. God is not a jealous God, you have a God who didn't know how to love is jealous for you to know the abundance of life you jealous for you to know that he is the only true God, because every other lesser love will lead you into destruction. And so it is that there is a dilemma. How can God be both just and merciful in human terms.

If you've ever had conflict with someone. Let's say the husband and one has committed some sort of offense. Thankfully, most of our marriages.

We just work your way through these things and we find a way to know how to forgive but the forgiveness that you grant is not easy and is not free in the transaction of forgiveness somebody pays you can think of it this way if you had your car parked at the restaurant after church today and you saw somebody back up and they just ran right into your car and scrape down the whole side of it halfway demolished for your well you got pretty much two choices. You could say you're going to need to pay for the repair my car or you could say I forgive you just going away but if you say I forgive you your pay for the repair of your car, but somebody's going to pay for the repair. The Bible says there is no forgiveness without the shedding of blood. This is something I design the fabric of the cosmos sin has to be paid for. That's the dilemma is human sin.

Human sin must be punished. Most pressing store part of the story of Hosea is what happens in chapter 3, because Gomer has run off. Maybe the text implies sold herself back into slavery or maybe is having her life controlled by some Bodies Taken over Business and God. And Maybe Hosea and Chapter 2 Are Wrestling What Shall I Do, God Says about Israel, She Should Be Punished.

Gomer Should Be Punished with a Woman of Adultery and That That You Could Take Just Publicly Shame Her. The Law Will Even Allow for Publicly Stoning Her Hosea Chapter 2 Got Back and Forth, Back and Forth, until Finally Dresses You Know What I'm Gonna Do Undertake around the Wilderness and on the Allure and Speak Tenderly to Her We Were Back so It Comes a Hosea Is Hosea Now That You Have Felt What It's like to Be Committed to Someone Is Not Committed to You. Here's What I Want You to Do. I Don't Want to Shame Her.

I Want You to Go Love Her. Go Find Her and Take Her Back and That's What He Does, How He Finds Her. I Don't Know. But in Verse Two of Chapter 3. Hosea Said. So I Bought Her for 15 Shekels of Silver, Homer and Lisa Varley and I Said Are You Must Well Is Mine for Many Days You Shall Not Play the Horror Belong to Another Man so Will I Also Be to You I Guess It When They Found Her and Her Boss Said You Can't Have Her. She Works for Me. She Belongs to Me. If You Take Her As Will Cost You and so Hosea Had to Reach Deep in His Own Pocket and Take out His Treasure and Thought Back. The Wife That Was Already His, and in so Doing, the Holy Spirit Must've Whispered in the Profiteer and Said Now You Can Preach the Gospel for in the Fullness of Time. 11 God the One Who Had Been Betrayed, Revealed His Redemptive Plan Plan so Marvelous and Beautiful That the Angels Had Stooped to Look into It and No One Had Been Able to Fully See It and Those Who Did Were Surprised and Shocked by God Indeed Came to Lead Them by Human Whose Name Was Jesus That He Was God Himself. The Church, Jesus Said, Is like a Bride and He Is Are Grown and God Came in This God Man Jesus with This Express Purpose That in Jesus, God Had an Answer for the Dilemma of How Can One God Be Both Just and Justifier Be Both Righteous and Merciful and As Jesus Hung on the Cross and As He Bled the Scripture Says That He Who Knew No Sin Became Our Sin so That Whoever Would Trust in Him Would Be Given Imputed with the Righteousness of Jesus Christ so That God Would Not Be Made out to Be a Liar but Instead, His Word Would Have Its Integrity and Human Sin Would Be Punished in a Row Being Poured out upon a Human Being and Jesus Himself. He Took the Punishment That You and I Deserve and in That Cross. You See, Therefore, Demonstrated the Unspeakable Justice of God, Marvelous and Never Ending Balancing the Mercy of God in the Cross of Jesus Christ. You See, in His Love and His Mercy. Cross of Calvary. Jesus Paid It All and We Are in Christ, Therefore, Been Utterly Set Free Forever and Ever. I Knew Him Love Eternity to Be Rejected.

He Is Our Beloved We Are. He Is Husband and We Are the Bride D Is the Will Love Him and We Worship Him and We Honor Him Because He's Done for Us What We Could Imagine God Would Do No World Has Anything like This Is Our God Is Holy Will Not Quit the Wickedness of This Is Loving Loving Loving so Much. So You Lay down His Life so He Could Demonstrate His and Justifier, and Everyone Who Accepts Them Is Forever and Ever and Ever. The Gospel Live in That Light. Today It's Our Teachings Were Wrapping up This Particular Moment of Justice and Mercy. But the Continuing on in the Series. The Beauty of Balance in Our Next Broadcast and Alan Wright Will Be Back Here in the Studio with Us in a Moment with Additional Insight on This for Your Life and the Final Word Being Filled with the Holy Spirit Shutting off Your Mind Hearing for a Wonderful Surprise God's Word and God's Spirit Never Meant to Be Separated Spirit Always Belong Together to Keep Your Abundant Life in Christ Knowing Your Bible. The Secret of Being Filled with the Spirit, the Answer Is Both Word and Spirit Subdivisions Emphasize Studying Scripture, and Some Traditions Emphasize the Spirit to Real Christian Growth Is Both Word and Spirit As Someone Once Said Pollard Never Spirit You Drive All Spirit. No Word Both Word and Spirit Umbrella.

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We Are Happy to Send This to You As I Thanks from Alan Wright Ministries, Seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 Come to Our Website past Rowan.Work Alan Somebody's Listening Right Now and in Boy. This Seems to Just Really Hit Home. This Is a Celebration Moment They Could Hear That Worship Service and Boy They Want to Celebrate. There Is Having Trouble Figuring out This Good News Also Applies to Them to Yes Yes Yes I Think That Many, Many People, Including Some Christians Are so Aware of the Demand for Justice That Runs throughout All of the Cosmos That We Have an Understanding Deep down within Us That There Must Be Just Just Have Somebody Pull out in Traffic in Front of Him Right Our Break in Line or Steal Your Pocketbook and You'll Know There's Something inside Always like That's Not Fair That's Not Right in Knowing That Things Somehow Need to Be Just or Else We Have Nothing but Chaos. We Yearn for It and We Tend to Condemn Ourselves Because We Know That We Have Erred and Fallen Short. On the Other Hand, There's the Mercy of God, and We Speak of God in Tender Terms and Loving and People Find Themselves in Conflict with in Their Own Hearts. How Can God Be Both, and Thus the Gospel Is Such Joyous News Because in Christ. God Is Just and Justifier Be Is Executing Justice and Pouring out Mercy through the Cross of Jesus Christ.

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