Where's the Love?

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Where's the law John chapter 3 in verse 61 single superlative sentence in the Bible John 316 Way Way back there was a man who was on a search for truth search for love. He was a religious VIP in Jerusalem. He was a man who spent his life studying God's whole life was God. God and more God. He was credentialed he was powerful he was a man among men in the city of Jerusalem. He was known as Nicodemus and Nicodemus.

This man Nick came at night to meet Jesus. There were questions in his heart, a longing for love a longing for God that he could not answer so we came to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Galilean carbon sums that he was the Messiah and Nicodemus wanted to know where is the love what is reduced to everything in the Scriptures, if you only had this one amazing sentence if you just had this statement that came from the lips of our Lord. If you only had this, there would be enough grace and love and salvation provided for everyone on planet Earth, past, present and future to know the love and the grace of the forgiveness of the salvation that comes in Christ this man Nicodemus he came with these questions, wanting to know became initially own intellectual plane. He said we know that you're a teacher come from God and that he was keeping it at that level. But Jesus is always went right for the heart and he said to Nicodemus, you must be born again. It's time limit staggered him because he said how is that possible how can an old man like me start over.

How can I be born again. How can we possibly go back and change what is happened and how can we change our future because now it seems that many of us have set our course and I'm too old to change.

I'm too difficult. My heart is to set to change.

That's when Jesus spoke to him these words for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life. We tell our children this most basic and simple truth about life. God loves you, but the love of God is not simple child's play. While it is reachable impeachable to the smallest of children. It is also an ocean to swim in for all of us who have known and are experiencing this love every day. Carl barred a well-known German theologian came to America and spoke on a seminary campus in the wild. The students with his words and and that the depth of the profundity of his ideas and one young stated at the end of the discussion ask a question, said Dr. Bart. What is the most profound thought that is ever entered your mind.

Bart doubt his head for a moment and thought quickly said, Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so. So wherever you are in line whatever season of life wherever you are in your terms of understanding spiritual things. John 316. This is it for God so loved the world.

It begins with God. Of course we meet a God who loves us not arranging God an angry God.

But a loving God who loves every person on planet Earth.

The God who is holy, creator and sustainer of the universe. The everlasting God were times when men would come in the presence of God and shake with fear when Isaiah stood before the Lord, holy, high and lifted up, he saw his own sinfulness in the presence of a holy God and as a result, his whole life unraveled leak.

He had a spiritual meltdown in the presence of a holy God. How can a man see God and live. He was undone.

His life was torn apart, but that he discovered he been there altar of God, the forgiveness and the grace and the healing touch of God. God's love is everywhere in the Bible from the beginning pages when Adam and Eve sinned against God, and ran from his presence and hid in the garden and God came searching God came looking for the sinful man and his wife and his lovely promise, salvation and hope and a future. God's love is everywhere. We see it in his goodness in the Scripture we see the Bible describing God's faithfulness in God's mercy and God's loving kindness and God's patience and God's grace. All of these explorations of God who is love for God is love. So you want to know where is the love. This is where you start, for God so love the world, a world filled with thieves enteric purveyors of flesh and pornography. A world filled with sin and shame, abusers and addicts and hypocrites and druggies then people like you and me. God loves the world the claim of Jesus is that God loves people with an everlasting love so much that he gave himself by giving his only son, that whoever believes in him would not perish but have ever lasting life that whoever this is the welcoming word and will. God. Whoever I said must be one of God's favorite words is not his favorite whoever whosoever will. Jesus said it so often.

Whoever confesses me.

I will confess before my father in heaven for God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life perish. The terrible word, what a sobering word here Jesus meets a potential disaster had on said is possible for a person for that God love to die and be separated from that love forever in the place called hell. But Jesus tells us, Jesus shows us in the Scripture that if a person is going to hell, which was never made for a human being, but made for the devil and his angels. But if a person goes to hell. It will be over the dead, crucified and bloodied body of the Lord Jesus Christ who loves you enough to dial the cross and that whoever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life. Whoever believes, not simply believing a little bit but to believe with all your heart and to put your faith in your list of trust on how impossible it is to describe the love of God we can imagine how God could love a sin. Staying sends garden world. People like you made. How could God love me.

We can understand how God could love little children, we can understand how God could love hurting people. We can understand how God could love the religious types, but how could God love me because we all know our own hearts blows my mind to sit and think and contemplate one little to letter word in this alphabetic grace.

John 316 for God so loved the how much you love is in that kind of love he so he so love the world, inexhaustible, eternal, unending, he so love you and me. The apostle Paul who had certainly one of the greatest minds in history the great theologians he gave us so much of the New Testament, he sought to describe and define the love of God in the of Ephesians chapter 3. He spoke of its height and its debt with Britt's like measuring the immeasurable incident. How hot is the love of God. How high does ago. How deep does the love of God plunge how how and why is this love how broad is this love, and if you want to know how much is in this word. So they stand at the foot of the cross stand and see Jesus, suspended between heaven and earth, as if he was not good enough for God is not good enough for man, his arms extended his heart burst gives love for now and why he was made sin for us, he who knew no sin became sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in those hands that form the universe and put the planets in those hands touched, broken lives, those hands and lifted little children and embrace them. Those hands which lifted a fallen woman from this breaks those hands are nail now nailed to the cross, all to demonstrate the love of God, because God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself with one hand, Jesus took holy God in the other hand, sinful man and love and grace and truth, kissed at the cross of the Lord Jesus mercy was poured out at all of this. Love this so kind of love was for you and for me, the word is agape in the New Testament which is love, which is active and aggressive and committed God.

God gave because God love them because God gave we live forever listening to PowerPoint Jack Graham in today's message which the length we set aside daily time to connect with God to give you the ability to live a godly life and fulfill his plans for you in the coming year and we'd like to help me walk even more closely with the Lord in your head by sending you pastor grams 180 day devotional moments in the word our way to thank you for your gift today to help proclaim the gospel to more people around the world to PowerPoint.

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This used often especially used to describe what Christ did for us and showing the love of God is the word hyper HYP ER it means in place of or on behalf of, in the New Testament writers repeatedly turn to this proposition to describe the work of the cross.

For example, Christ died for hyper our sins. First Corinthians 1513 Jesus gave himself for hyper our sins. Galatians 14 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for hyper us. Galatians 313. Jesus himself prophesied the good shepherd lays down his life for hyper. He or she John 1011. Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for hyper his friends.

John 1513. Before his death, Jesus took the bread and broke it, and then he explained this is my body which is given for hyper you and presenting the copy said this is the cup of the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out hyper for you.

So just in case I'm sounding a little hyper this morning. Let me remind you how radical this is what God did for you in behalf of you in your place undeserving of their he died taking our place upon the cross, Jesus made me exchange of the disease. Heart a sinful life and he took that upon himself to yours, mine the sins of the whole world and God demonstrated his love for hyper us that we might be saved, that we might know this love.God demonstrated his love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

The Lord laid on him all of our sins and all the punishment for all the evil that we've done that's how much and that's just the beginning of how God so loved you gratefully is the love that you can never lose what will separate us from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, there's nothing you can do to earn it. There's nothing you can do this part is nothing you have done to gain it. And there's nothing you can do to give it away. Nothing that you've done to win it. There's nothing you can do to lose it. He perfectly loves you what attacks for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life. We deserve death have life. We deserve judgment have forgiveness we deserve hell have salvation in heaven. The Bible says God's love is from everlasting to everlasting, his love came down to the vilest of sin and shame is not penetrated the darkness, so that our lives could be changed. The psalmist said I was in a terrible, horrible. But he brought me up and set my feet on a solid rock and we were living in that pit, unable to climb out, but by his love, he reached down and put us on solid rock and never replace or a person that would keep you from God's love.

There's only one thing that would keep you from the love of God and that is your own. Resist your own rebellion, God moved heaven and earth to save men from perishing. I said this word parish was a sobering word. It's really a startling order because it is a word which means dying never die, perishing, and yet never perish. What a horrible thought. Only a fool, a very foolish person would try to rule hell out of existence. Jesus said there is a place of perishing but I love you and I want you to be with me forever save a holy God did not judge sin. God himself would be breaking his own commandments, we speak of justice and fairness within the justice of God in the Hardison perfection of God, he must judge sin or else God himself would cease to be holy. It was a dilemma. But God solve the dilemma in the person of Christ when he gave his only son. I can't describe this love for you, but you can experience it. Recently I had the opportunity to be at the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

The thrill I been there on several occasions before this time, we were just looking at the history of baseball and and all the grapes and immortals of the game.

I was looking at some of the memorabilia from Mickey Mantle commandments my heroes kid growing up in the 50s as many of you and nothing quite like the Mick the farm boy from Oklahoma he could hit a baseball. This was before the steroid generation before baseball players even lifted weights. We were told to John baseball players when I was coming up playing ball don't lift the weight in a bulky up and do so before weightlifting and so on. This guy could crush a baseball and we just all lovely with the outside playing. There was just one game of the week it was typically the Yankees and we go running in and we figured Mickey was up just to see the Mick hit some believe will, of course, Mickey by his own testimony wasted so much of his talent. Alcohol consumed him. He ultimately ended up dying of liver disease that would receive the transplant liver cancer took over as dying here in Dallas and Baylor Hospital in several of his friends. He loved them share Christ with him and and Nikki always lived in fear of death, his father's brothers had died of Hodgkin's disease and he figured that he wouldn't live very long. I think it was probably Mickey Mantle, he first said if I know I was in a live this long to take better care of myself. But now he's dying in some friends were coming in.

Nikki always accepted death and yet was running freight from – some people said he drank just to numb the pain of the possibility of an early death. He was dying several friends share Christ with him. Among those was Bobby Richardson paying second baseman of the Yankees and Bobby is a strong believer just wanted to really nail it down with the Mick that he knew Christ that he was going to heaven because it wasn't going to be long. Mickey and his wife came to the city of share Christ with him and Mickey said yes I I believe I'm trusting in Christ and the next day Bobby's wife came and said no Mickey one more time. Do you know that you're going to have if you stand before God and God were to Sadie. Why should I let you know I have a Mickey what are you gonna tell God when you stand before God.

Mickey looked up and said for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him about. But have everlasting life, is averse to die by this verse to live by. You know, Mickey Mantle received Christ in the bottom of the ninth, I received Christ in the top of the first when I was just a young boy and I'm grateful for that.

If somebody get us as well. How fair is that is not fair.

I mean, a person receives price of the top of the first, because they haven't somebody receives Christ in the bottom of the night goes damn. Is that fair when not talking about failure because it would talking about fair all of us would go to hell every one of us were not talking about what is fair where talking about what God is done for us in this whoever means what ever whatever you done whatever sins you have committed this whoever means wherever wherever you've been for the grace of God, long way down the road like the prodigal son or maybe even sitting in your church today with your heart far from God wherever you are.

Whoever means wherever whoever means what ever and whoever means you have in the bottom of the ninth of the first of the first God loves you will believe in him and put your trust in your faith and way love gifts. Love listening to PowerPoint attack. In today's message which the land.

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What is your PowerPoint. In my estimation, the greatest is ever uttered was spoken by Jesus in John 36 for God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. As we saw in today's message Jesus spoke these life-giving words during a conversation he had with a man by the name of Nicodemus Nicodemus was a lot like people in church today. He knew about God he pursued God he championed God, and in many ways he please God. Yet Nicodemus had a longing for something more something else, something better.

He desired a relationship with God.

Nicodemus had a longing for love that he knew had never been fulfilled. This is what led him to engage Jesus in a personal one on one conversation, Nicodemus reacted to Jesus in a way that a lot of people react to Jesus. He thought that it sounded too good to be true. He wondered aloud how can an old man be born again. How can I possibly start over. Maybe you've had the same kinds of thoughts when it comes to accepting Jesus love and acceptance of you. One of Satan's greatest tricks is to make you believe that you're too far gone that your two loss that your sin is too great, or that God could never love you. You know what I have to say about that. Nothing could be further from the truth. You're never too far gone for God to love you he loves you. According to the Scripture with an everlasting love. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's son cleanses us from every sin that means because of what Christ has done for us on the cross and now in the power of his life.

Our sins can be forgiven, past, present and future. We can be totally transformed because God loves us that much.

The fact is, when you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Your life is forever changed. So don't live in guilt don't live in the past but embrace Christ in the future that he has for you while our sins do have consequences for our God is able to deliver us from every sin and that is today's PowerPoint. Remember when you give a gift to PowerPoint will send you Dr. Graham 180 day moments. Thanks. Call one 800 791-800-7954 67 also text the word PowerPoint 3131 PowerPoint 31 Dr. Graham brings a message about the results wards and responsibility go along. Next time on PowerPoint PowerPoint with Jacaranda sponsored by PowerPoint ministries