God's Unwavering Love: Abounding, Lamenting, and Abiding

"when thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou walkest through the fire Thou shalt not be burned neither shall the flame Kindle upon thee for I am the Lord thy God the Holy One of Israel thy savior I gave Egypt for thy Ransom Ethiopia and siba for thee since thou was precious in my sight thou Hast been honorable and I have loved thee therefore will I give men for thee and people for thy life" [00:00:20]

"but thou Hast not called upon on me oh Jacob but thou Hast been weary of me oh Israel thou Hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings neither hast thou honored me with thy sacrifices I have not caused thee to serve with an offering nor wearied thee with incense thou Hast brought me no sweet cane with money neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices but thou Hast made me to serve with thy sins thou th H has wearied me with thine iniquities" [00:00:57]

"remember these oh Jacob and Israel for thou art my servant I have formed thee Thou Art my servant oh Israel Thou shalt not be forgotten of me I have blotted out as a thick Cloud thy transgressions and as a cloud thy sins return unto me for I have redeemed thee sing oh ye heavens for the Lord hath done it shout ye lower parts of the earth Break Forth into singing ye mountains oh forest and every tree therein for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob and glorified himself in Israel" [00:01:38]

"so this morning if my words should seem to be very Poor and Powerless what fullness there is in these three texts here you have a dainty meal of three courses you ought to be well-nourished this morning for I have set before you in these passages of scripture quite as much as the largest capacity will be able to mark learn and inwardly digest here is good posture for the flock wherein they may not only feed but lie down" [00:02:53]

"the Lord mentions both the natural and the spiritual names of his servants and this he does out of love to them as tender parents will lovingly repeat all their children's names sometimes calling them by one and sometimes by another as different memories arise in their minds so the Lord remembers Jacob the name of his chosen given him at Birth by which he was known as the supplanter and then he repeats that higher name of Israel the prevailing Prince which he won in a great spiritual struggle" [00:05:11]

"the Lord mentions this to show his exceeding love he hath respect unto the work of his own hands he that has made you with so much care will not break you he will not abore that which his infinite compassion has fashioned in his great love he dwells upon his relationship to us as our maker and says I created Thee I formed thee this is as true of our second creation as of the first the Lord flashed into our soul the first Ray of repentance he created in us the first look of Faith" [00:15:34]

"oh the love of God that in the foresight of every grief and every sorrow that can ever befall his children he pledges himself never to forsake them he pledges his word that he will be at their side in every trying hour and this word he pledges to them even though he has felt bound to chasten them he says fear not I am with thee be not dismayed I am thy God he ha said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee come life come death come Temptation come poverty come sickness come assault of Satan come Whatever May from heaven or Earth or Hell" [00:22:59]

"the Lord has done great things for us and heaped honor upon us but how seldom has his name been joyously Upon Our tongue how little have we spoken of him or to him it takes a world of trouble to drive some of God's children to their father they live without him and are tolerably comfortable and even when darkness lowers they are slow to run to him alas they hasten to some human friend instead of returning at once to him who has dealt so bountifully with them" [00:31:39]

"the Lord says I have not caused thee to serve with an offering nor weared thee with incense but thou Hast made me to serve with thy sins thou Hast wearied Me With Thine iniquities the Lord is thoughtful of us but we are not thoughtful towards him he considers our feelings but we treat him with heartless brutishness God has made us honorable but we have not made him honorable he has treated us as dear friends but we have made a servant of him made him to serve with our sins" [00:38:02]

"if the Lord did not love us very much he would not care so much about our love towards himself True Love Alone knows how to burn with jealousy how greatly God must love me since I see that he desires to have my whole heart what condescending tenderness that the Lord Of Glory should complain thou Hast bought me no sweet cane with money it is the plaint of Love remember the Lord does not need our sweet sweet canes nor our money the silver and the gold are his and the cattle Upon A Thousand Hills" [00:40:00]

"notice in the 21st verse of the 44th chapter how the Lord still calls his people by the same name remember these oh Jacob and Israel still are the names of his elect like music in the ears of God one would have feared that he would have dropped the Israel that honorable name which came of prevailing prayer since they had not called upon him why call him a prevailing prince who had grown weary of his God God we should not have marveled if the Lord had only called them by their natural and carnal name of Jacob" [00:42:56]

"see how our text closes with the Lord's own precept to be glad sing oh ye heavens for the Lord hath done it shout ye lower parts of the earth Break Forth into singing ye mountains oh forest and every tree therein for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob and glorified himself in Israel out of all dejection arise out of all sorrow sore aoft there is more cause for gladness than for sorrow what you have done should cause distress of heart but what the Lord has done is cause for Rapture" [00:48:32]