God's Joyful Generosity: Embracing Our Inheritance
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"Fear not little flock it is your father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom so I want to just take this Leng of God's truth and put it on the tongue of your heart and just roll it over six times until the juices just kind of seep down into your soul and sweeten your view of God because if you are willing to listen to this verse it is revolutionary." [00:03:43]
"Good pleasure not Duty good pleasure not necessity good pleasure not obligation it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom second let's look at the phrase your father fear not little flock it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom he doesn't say it's your employer's good pleasure to pay you your wage he doesn't say it's your slave master's good pleasure to give you a little house out on the edge of the plantation." [00:05:20]
"Your father is not acting out of sorts or out of character when you inherit his uh his estate that's what happens the there's something natural about it in fact in Matthew 25:34 King Jesus at the End of the Age says come oh blessed of my father inherit there's the word inherit the Kingdom prepared for you before the foundation of the world in other words before this world was created God prepared for his children an inheritance namely the kingdom." [00:09:40]
"God is a mountain spring not a watering trough and therefore the Delight of his heart is to overflow and to glorify his fullness by giving and giving and giving he does not need nor does he want a Bucket Brigade or sweaty Pumpers if God needed me to pour a bucket into his trough you know what I would say to God Bow Down and Worship me he is full he doesn't need water he doesn't need work he doesn't need me or you he is a fountain and he overflows." [00:12:55]
"Fear not little flock it is your father father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom he's not stingy he's not a screwed he's not miserly he's not tightfisted he's not parsimonious he's liberal he's open-handed he's generous that's his glory if you know God you know him as a God who is a bubbling Fountain of generosity and who laughs to give his kingdom to his children." [00:13:54]
"If I'm part of a flock then God is what to me Shepherd all right so we've got three things we've got a father we've got a king who has a kingdom and now we've got a Shepherd so the the metaphors are all jumbled together here a father with children a king with subjects a shepherd with sheep why what is it mean to you to be called The Flock Of God it means the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want." [00:14:42]
"Did he lay down his life under constraint was Jesus acting out of character when he chose to lay out his hands on the cross and his feet and expose his side to the sword was he acting out of character and really inside he was saying I hate this I hate to save Sinners I hate to die for Sinners no he said very clearly right there in that same text I have power to lay down my life no one takes it from me I lay it down of my own accord." [00:16:34]
"Fear not little flock why did he add that I Think Jesus is choosing these words for all their emotional power because he knows that there are people who are prone emotionally to be deaf to this message why did he say little flock why did when John wrote to his Christian converts why did he write them as my little children it's a term of endearment it's a term of affection it's a term of care." [00:17:53]
"My experience of the goodness of God is not dependent on my greatness we're a little fly at Bethlehem we're little in numbers if you compare us to the city little in the world we're little in righteousness we're little in hope we're little in love what if the goodness of God were dependent on our bigness we'd have no hope but it's not and therefore we can that's the point of the text." [00:19:18]
"He gives the kingdom of God that's all the kingdom of God just think of it what does it mean to be offered this morning freely with the heartbeat of God behind it The Sovereign Reign and omnipotent rule of God for you well choose which would you rather have 70 years of money popularity and security on the earth and destruction thereafter or 70 years of the accompaniment of God to give you peace." [00:22:00]
"Does he not show that not only he Delights to give but that he Delights to give big you can't think of anything greater than the kingdom of God this morning and it's just offered to you laughingly joyfully gladly according to his good pleasure he just lavishes the kingdom which of us could ever imagine what it is going to be like when that saying comes to pass which Jesus spoke at the Last Supper." [00:23:02]
"Oh Father in heaven we Delight to call you that name and we pray together as a congregation right now that if there are any here who have never put their trust in Jesus Christ as Savior that they would do it even now as I pray that they would be folded into the flock and welcomed into the family through Christ and then Lord we pray together as a congre ation for those of us who struggle to see you this way." [00:24:02]
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"Good pleasure not Duty good pleasure not necessity good pleasure not obligation it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom second let's look at the phrase your father fear not little flock it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom he doesn't say it's your employer's good pleasure to pay you your wage he doesn't say it's your slave master's good pleasure to give you a little house out on the edge of the plantation." [00:05:20]
"Your father is not acting out of sorts or out of character when you inherit his uh his estate that's what happens the there's something natural about it in fact in Matthew 25:34 King Jesus at the End of the Age says come oh blessed of my father inherit there's the word inherit the Kingdom prepared for you before the foundation of the world in other words before this world was created God prepared for his children an inheritance namely the kingdom." [00:09:40]
"God is a mountain spring not a watering trough and therefore the Delight of his heart is to overflow and to glorify his fullness by giving and giving and giving he does not need nor does he want a Bucket Brigade or sweaty Pumpers if God needed me to pour a bucket into his trough you know what I would say to God Bow Down and Worship me he is full he doesn't need water he doesn't need work he doesn't need me or you he is a fountain and he overflows." [00:12:55]
"Fear not little flock it is your father father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom he's not stingy he's not a screwed he's not miserly he's not tightfisted he's not parsimonious he's liberal he's open-handed he's generous that's his glory if you know God you know him as a God who is a bubbling Fountain of generosity and who laughs to give his kingdom to his children." [00:13:54]
"If I'm part of a flock then God is what to me Shepherd all right so we've got three things we've got a father we've got a king who has a kingdom and now we've got a Shepherd so the the metaphors are all jumbled together here a father with children a king with subjects a shepherd with sheep why what is it mean to you to be called The Flock Of God it means the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want." [00:14:42]
"Did he lay down his life under constraint was Jesus acting out of character when he chose to lay out his hands on the cross and his feet and expose his side to the sword was he acting out of character and really inside he was saying I hate this I hate to save Sinners I hate to die for Sinners no he said very clearly right there in that same text I have power to lay down my life no one takes it from me I lay it down of my own accord." [00:16:34]
"Fear not little flock why did he add that I Think Jesus is choosing these words for all their emotional power because he knows that there are people who are prone emotionally to be deaf to this message why did he say little flock why did when John wrote to his Christian converts why did he write them as my little children it's a term of endearment it's a term of affection it's a term of care." [00:17:53]
"My experience of the goodness of God is not dependent on my greatness we're a little fly at Bethlehem we're little in numbers if you compare us to the city little in the world we're little in righteousness we're little in hope we're little in love what if the goodness of God were dependent on our bigness we'd have no hope but it's not and therefore we can that's the point of the text." [00:19:18]
"He gives the kingdom of God that's all the kingdom of God just think of it what does it mean to be offered this morning freely with the heartbeat of God behind it The Sovereign Reign and omnipotent rule of God for you well choose which would you rather have 70 years of money popularity and security on the earth and destruction thereafter or 70 years of the accompaniment of God to give you peace." [00:22:00]
"Does he not show that not only he Delights to give but that he Delights to give big you can't think of anything greater than the kingdom of God this morning and it's just offered to you laughingly joyfully gladly according to his good pleasure he just lavishes the kingdom which of us could ever imagine what it is going to be like when that saying comes to pass which Jesus spoke at the Last Supper." [00:23:02]
"Oh Father in heaven we Delight to call you that name and we pray together as a congregation right now that if there are any here who have never put their trust in Jesus Christ as Savior that they would do it even now as I pray that they would be folded into the flock and welcomed into the family through Christ and then Lord we pray together as a congre ation for those of us who struggle to see you this way." [00:24:02]
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