Valuing Life Through God's Perspective and Grace
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Life doesn't gain value as a person learns more, develops more, and has more to offer. That does not make life more valuable. Life is just valuable. So, what does that mean about Jesus' and God's thoughts towards us? This is amazing. I hope you swim in a pool of grace with this thought. In verses 17-18, it says, God does not think about you more and value you less. Think about that true statement. God does not think about you more and then value you less." [49:03]
2. "I can be really, really ambitious sometimes and I can think that my achievement is what makes me precious in the value of God. Okay? I don't have to have a drive to get there. You are precious because of God's definition of you. The more he thinks upon you, the more of his fondness of you increases. It's amazing. God has a purpose for the unformed substance that we see in verse 16. So resist the urge or the temptation to sovereignly look at a person's value through what you think is going to play out in their life. You don't know." [53:06]
3. "When we're not aware of our situations, we're not aware of our surroundings when we're asleep, that God in His sovereignty, even when we are out of control, He is in control. He's still with us. He doesn't leave. He stays. That's the power of the Gospel. It's a sticking power." [56:06]
4. "If you are a teenager, I want you to know that when God thinks of you and He thinks of you more and longer and harder, He doesn't value you less. He values you more. Watch how the passage breaks down here in verses 17 and 18. It says, How precious to me are your thoughts, O Lord. How vast are some of them. If I could count them, they are more than the sand. I awake and I'm still with you. Isn't that amazing?" [49:33]
### Quotes for Members
1. "You are precious because of God's definition of you. The more he thinks upon you, the more of his fondness of you increases. It's amazing. God has a purpose for the unformed substance that we see in verse 16. So resist the urge or the temptation to sovereignly look at a person's value through what you think is going to play out in their life. You don't know. Leave that for the Holy Spirit. You don't know. Oh my goodness, if you could have seen Paul and what he was doing, you would say, that guy is totally against everything that God has. And he was. But what happened? God changed his life. Amazing what can happen." [53:06]
2. "Our desire for justice needs to lead us to the feet of Jesus. And this is what you're going to see out of this. What do we say when the love that we have of humanity collides with the sin of men? That's a tough space, right? What do we say to that? Which often than more brings injustice to others. There are people who were fearfully and wonderfully made, who have made choices that have consequences, and the choices they make each and every day affects people's lives around them, bringing injustice. And the psalmist knows that all together." [59:38]
3. "Search me oh God know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. See if there's any grievous way some of your translations may say wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. The psalmist flips again and the way of justice is not pointed to those bloodthirsty men. No. That's what he was doing earlier. He's like look at the bloodthirsty men but now he points that to him. He says search me. The audience changes and the psalmist does not indicate that justice was ever delivered. He doesn't say oh you have taken care of my enemies now look at me. No. He directs God's thoughts on two things his heart and his thoughts and he asks that God would search his heart and mind to see if there's wickedness in him." [01:05:45]
4. "We must say to ourselves something like this, when Jesus looked down from the cross, He didn't think, I'm giving myself to you because you're so attractive to me. No. He was in agony. He looked down at us, denying Him, abandoning Him, betraying Him in the greatest act of love in history. He stayed. He said, Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. He loved us, not because we were lovely, but He's going to make us lovely. This is His thoughts towards us, what He can do. It's amazing." [56:36]
5. "Life is valuable because God has made that life valuable. There is in this passage an emphatic use of the word you. You are the one who has done it. The Creator God, you have done this. He's formed us not only as physical beings but as spiritual beings, in the inmost being. Proverbs 8, 22 through 24 said, The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His work, the first of His acts of old. Ages ago I was set up at the first before the beginning of the earth." [44:30]
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1. "Life doesn't gain value as a person learns more, develops more, and has more to offer. That does not make life more valuable. Life is just valuable. So, what does that mean about Jesus' and God's thoughts towards us? This is amazing. I hope you swim in a pool of grace with this thought. In verses 17-18, it says, God does not think about you more and value you less. Think about that true statement. God does not think about you more and then value you less." [49:03]
2. "I can be really, really ambitious sometimes and I can think that my achievement is what makes me precious in the value of God. Okay? I don't have to have a drive to get there. You are precious because of God's definition of you. The more he thinks upon you, the more of his fondness of you increases. It's amazing. God has a purpose for the unformed substance that we see in verse 16. So resist the urge or the temptation to sovereignly look at a person's value through what you think is going to play out in their life. You don't know." [53:06]
3. "When we're not aware of our situations, we're not aware of our surroundings when we're asleep, that God in His sovereignty, even when we are out of control, He is in control. He's still with us. He doesn't leave. He stays. That's the power of the Gospel. It's a sticking power." [56:06]
4. "If you are a teenager, I want you to know that when God thinks of you and He thinks of you more and longer and harder, He doesn't value you less. He values you more. Watch how the passage breaks down here in verses 17 and 18. It says, How precious to me are your thoughts, O Lord. How vast are some of them. If I could count them, they are more than the sand. I awake and I'm still with you. Isn't that amazing?" [49:33]
### Quotes for Members
1. "You are precious because of God's definition of you. The more he thinks upon you, the more of his fondness of you increases. It's amazing. God has a purpose for the unformed substance that we see in verse 16. So resist the urge or the temptation to sovereignly look at a person's value through what you think is going to play out in their life. You don't know. Leave that for the Holy Spirit. You don't know. Oh my goodness, if you could have seen Paul and what he was doing, you would say, that guy is totally against everything that God has. And he was. But what happened? God changed his life. Amazing what can happen." [53:06]
2. "Our desire for justice needs to lead us to the feet of Jesus. And this is what you're going to see out of this. What do we say when the love that we have of humanity collides with the sin of men? That's a tough space, right? What do we say to that? Which often than more brings injustice to others. There are people who were fearfully and wonderfully made, who have made choices that have consequences, and the choices they make each and every day affects people's lives around them, bringing injustice. And the psalmist knows that all together." [59:38]
3. "Search me oh God know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. See if there's any grievous way some of your translations may say wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. The psalmist flips again and the way of justice is not pointed to those bloodthirsty men. No. That's what he was doing earlier. He's like look at the bloodthirsty men but now he points that to him. He says search me. The audience changes and the psalmist does not indicate that justice was ever delivered. He doesn't say oh you have taken care of my enemies now look at me. No. He directs God's thoughts on two things his heart and his thoughts and he asks that God would search his heart and mind to see if there's wickedness in him." [01:05:45]
4. "We must say to ourselves something like this, when Jesus looked down from the cross, He didn't think, I'm giving myself to you because you're so attractive to me. No. He was in agony. He looked down at us, denying Him, abandoning Him, betraying Him in the greatest act of love in history. He stayed. He said, Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. He loved us, not because we were lovely, but He's going to make us lovely. This is His thoughts towards us, what He can do. It's amazing." [56:36]
5. "Life is valuable because God has made that life valuable. There is in this passage an emphatic use of the word you. You are the one who has done it. The Creator God, you have done this. He's formed us not only as physical beings but as spiritual beings, in the inmost being. Proverbs 8, 22 through 24 said, The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His work, the first of His acts of old. Ages ago I was set up at the first before the beginning of the earth." [44:30]
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