Embracing God's Passion: The Gift of Divine Love
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We will not have a passion for God the way we should until we see and rejoice in God's passion for God. Or say it another way, we won't have a passion for Christ the way we should until we see, understand, embrace, and rejoice in how committed Christ is to exalting Christ. [00:00:29]
Until you see and savor how God-centered God is, you don't know him as righteous. For example, you don't know him as righteous. What is God's righteousness? God's righteousness is his doing what's right all the time, feeling what's right, thinking what's right, doing what's right. [00:01:47]
God's happiness, long before you ever existed, consisted supremely in the joy that he had in The Fellowship of the Trinity. The Father beholding all the perfections of his glory echoed reverberating back to him in the perfection of his Son. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. [00:03:13]
You can't experience passion for God for what it really is until you realize that your passion for God is God's gift in you of his passion for God. I think that is the supreme work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit sheds abroad in your heart God's zeal for God. [00:05:21]
You won't know what it is to be loved until you know that God is God-centered. This is the one we're going to linger on, and almost everything else I have to say this morning is about this point because this is the hardest to get across, especially to the generation or generations represented in this room. [00:06:37]
Do you feel more loved by God when he makes much of you, or do you feel more loved by God when he frees you from the need to be made much of so that you can enjoy making much of him forever? That's a tough question because we have learned in America to define love as making much of somebody. [00:08:11]
I think that God's love to you is supremely manifested in doing whatever he has to do, and it cost him the life of his son, whatever he has to do to free you from the bondage of needing a good image in the mirror so that he becomes your absolutely ravishing, all-satisfying treasure. [00:09:31]
Why do people go to the Grand Canyon or the Alps or the Rockies? Why do people go on vacation, stand on the edge of a massive expanse of depth and width that took who knows how long to cut out of the Earth or that God cut out at a moment? [00:10:21]
They were made not to be made much of; they were made to make much of God and be satisfied making much of God forever. And written in little bitty letters because it's been so squashed down with sin is a mountain might get me what I'm after. [00:11:37]
If you want to know what it is to be loved by God, you've got to forget thinking you're ever going to be worthy of it. You'll never be worthy of it. It comes to you absolutely freely, and the form that it takes is to help you forget yourself in the experience of the all-satisfying Savior. [00:15:18]
This text has taught me that when Jesus loves us, he will do whatever it takes, whether it's his son's death or my brother's death, to show his glory to me so that I love his glory and not myself or my brother more than him. [00:21:05]
The love that the Father has for the Son will be in you, and he will be in you so that your passion will be his passion for God, and it is inexhaustible. [00:40:35]
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Until you see and savor how God-centered God is, you don't know him as righteous. For example, you don't know him as righteous. What is God's righteousness? God's righteousness is his doing what's right all the time, feeling what's right, thinking what's right, doing what's right. [00:01:47]
God's happiness, long before you ever existed, consisted supremely in the joy that he had in The Fellowship of the Trinity. The Father beholding all the perfections of his glory echoed reverberating back to him in the perfection of his Son. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. [00:03:13]
You can't experience passion for God for what it really is until you realize that your passion for God is God's gift in you of his passion for God. I think that is the supreme work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit sheds abroad in your heart God's zeal for God. [00:05:21]
You won't know what it is to be loved until you know that God is God-centered. This is the one we're going to linger on, and almost everything else I have to say this morning is about this point because this is the hardest to get across, especially to the generation or generations represented in this room. [00:06:37]
Do you feel more loved by God when he makes much of you, or do you feel more loved by God when he frees you from the need to be made much of so that you can enjoy making much of him forever? That's a tough question because we have learned in America to define love as making much of somebody. [00:08:11]
I think that God's love to you is supremely manifested in doing whatever he has to do, and it cost him the life of his son, whatever he has to do to free you from the bondage of needing a good image in the mirror so that he becomes your absolutely ravishing, all-satisfying treasure. [00:09:31]
Why do people go to the Grand Canyon or the Alps or the Rockies? Why do people go on vacation, stand on the edge of a massive expanse of depth and width that took who knows how long to cut out of the Earth or that God cut out at a moment? [00:10:21]
They were made not to be made much of; they were made to make much of God and be satisfied making much of God forever. And written in little bitty letters because it's been so squashed down with sin is a mountain might get me what I'm after. [00:11:37]
If you want to know what it is to be loved by God, you've got to forget thinking you're ever going to be worthy of it. You'll never be worthy of it. It comes to you absolutely freely, and the form that it takes is to help you forget yourself in the experience of the all-satisfying Savior. [00:15:18]
This text has taught me that when Jesus loves us, he will do whatever it takes, whether it's his son's death or my brother's death, to show his glory to me so that I love his glory and not myself or my brother more than him. [00:21:05]
The love that the Father has for the Son will be in you, and he will be in you so that your passion will be his passion for God, and it is inexhaustible. [00:40:35]
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