Unbreakable Love: The Promise of the New Covenant
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To know that you are loved like this is your food and your drink and your honey in life, to know that God has made a promise that one day he would move in power by his Spirit to put the love of God and the fear of God and trust in God into the hearts of his people and that he would so do that as to keep them from leaving him. [00:07:20]
If you only know yourself loved with a general love that applies to everybody in the world and not a distinguishing Love by which you were coveted into a love relation to God by which he vowed to give you himself and to keep you for himself through all the exigencies of Life what do you feed on, where do you get any Assurance you're going to make it to Glory? [00:08:00]
There are millions who go to hell loved by God in the broad General way. Where do you get any comfort if you don't know the Covenant Love of God this distinguishingly setting his favor upon you making you his own, putting his Spirit within you and sealing you for the day of redemption unbreakable because of the blood of Jesus. [00:08:36]
A young man came up to me after the first service and he said appreciated your reference to the Old and New Covenant and to the keeping power of the New Covenant. I'm Jewish and I'm a convert, and I wonder if you know he said the Jew who led me to Christ, he's pretty famous he said, and he's 58 years old today, Bob Dylan. [00:09:15]
Not interesting I love that heart. I don't know either. I just read an article about him and he was interviewed recently and asked about his once very prominent Christian faith and less prominent now. Who is it Bob Dylan and the answer was It Ain't Me Babe, It Ain't Me Babe, which opens the door cracked doesn't it, it opens the door crack. [00:10:04]
Let's pray for him he and I just we prayed for Bob Dylan come on home Bob, Jesus if he's yours bring him home, bring him home don't let him go there can be backslidings in the Christian Life I'm not saying the Covenant of Love of God the Covenant Love of God does not permit backslidings. [00:10:38]
I'm saying it's like Luke 22 32 where Jesus looks Peter right in the face and says Peter, Satan has demanded to have you that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail, and when you have turned, strengthen your brethren, for before the crows three times or before the crows you will deny me three times. [00:10:58]
The Covenant Love of God lets that sort of thing happen, but when you turn I prayed for you I prayed for you Jesus is in heaven praying for his Saints pleading the blood that he shed on the cross for his own and if they backslide he will have them back, and that's the way we pray for those who we believe were once Believers and seem to be straying God bring him home. [00:11:34]
Verse 35 in Romans 8 who will separate us from the love of Christ, now do you see what that is asking, that is asking, can the New Covenant be broken, that's what that's saying, the New Covenant says I will put the fear of you in your heart so that you will not leave me, I will take responsibility for keeping you and now Paul raises the question will something separate us. [00:13:02]
He gives some specific examples of things that might tribulation distress, persecution famine nakedness Peril sword, he asked Godot separate us from the love of Christ would that jeopardize the New Covenant would that make Jeremiah 32 40 not come true, and he answers now in verse 37 his answer is so exuberant that he leaves out the word no, but it's really there no no they will not separate fragility. [00:13:36]
In all these things that is in all the tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and Peril and sword every problem in your life that is threatening to draw you away from the love of God and make you an unbeliever and cause you to doubt, God will overwhelmingly conquer how, what's the next phrase, through him who loved us now listen Christian you got to know this love. [00:14:18]
I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor things present or things to come nor powers no height nor depth or anything and all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. [00:17:09]
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If you only know yourself loved with a general love that applies to everybody in the world and not a distinguishing Love by which you were coveted into a love relation to God by which he vowed to give you himself and to keep you for himself through all the exigencies of Life what do you feed on, where do you get any Assurance you're going to make it to Glory? [00:08:00]
There are millions who go to hell loved by God in the broad General way. Where do you get any comfort if you don't know the Covenant Love of God this distinguishingly setting his favor upon you making you his own, putting his Spirit within you and sealing you for the day of redemption unbreakable because of the blood of Jesus. [00:08:36]
A young man came up to me after the first service and he said appreciated your reference to the Old and New Covenant and to the keeping power of the New Covenant. I'm Jewish and I'm a convert, and I wonder if you know he said the Jew who led me to Christ, he's pretty famous he said, and he's 58 years old today, Bob Dylan. [00:09:15]
Not interesting I love that heart. I don't know either. I just read an article about him and he was interviewed recently and asked about his once very prominent Christian faith and less prominent now. Who is it Bob Dylan and the answer was It Ain't Me Babe, It Ain't Me Babe, which opens the door cracked doesn't it, it opens the door crack. [00:10:04]
Let's pray for him he and I just we prayed for Bob Dylan come on home Bob, Jesus if he's yours bring him home, bring him home don't let him go there can be backslidings in the Christian Life I'm not saying the Covenant of Love of God the Covenant Love of God does not permit backslidings. [00:10:38]
I'm saying it's like Luke 22 32 where Jesus looks Peter right in the face and says Peter, Satan has demanded to have you that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail, and when you have turned, strengthen your brethren, for before the crows three times or before the crows you will deny me three times. [00:10:58]
The Covenant Love of God lets that sort of thing happen, but when you turn I prayed for you I prayed for you Jesus is in heaven praying for his Saints pleading the blood that he shed on the cross for his own and if they backslide he will have them back, and that's the way we pray for those who we believe were once Believers and seem to be straying God bring him home. [00:11:34]
Verse 35 in Romans 8 who will separate us from the love of Christ, now do you see what that is asking, that is asking, can the New Covenant be broken, that's what that's saying, the New Covenant says I will put the fear of you in your heart so that you will not leave me, I will take responsibility for keeping you and now Paul raises the question will something separate us. [00:13:02]
He gives some specific examples of things that might tribulation distress, persecution famine nakedness Peril sword, he asked Godot separate us from the love of Christ would that jeopardize the New Covenant would that make Jeremiah 32 40 not come true, and he answers now in verse 37 his answer is so exuberant that he leaves out the word no, but it's really there no no they will not separate fragility. [00:13:36]
In all these things that is in all the tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and Peril and sword every problem in your life that is threatening to draw you away from the love of God and make you an unbeliever and cause you to doubt, God will overwhelmingly conquer how, what's the next phrase, through him who loved us now listen Christian you got to know this love. [00:14:18]
I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor things present or things to come nor powers no height nor depth or anything and all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. [00:17:09]
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