How many of you here are
married raise your hand if you are. How many of you are engaged? Imagine you are
being told that you will have to endure
something so horrible that it can only bring you pain, and shame from the one
you love! Would you endure it? What if you were
to give; give, and give, and never
get anything back, except complaints, and
unfaithfulness, that would be your reward? What if this was the person you’re
married to, in return for your love they give you shame and lies, destruction. What if it was your child in this situation
would you advise them to continue in this relationship filled with abuse
and no love being given to them?
I just described to you
the relationship between you and God. Yet God
loves us, even when we choose other gods to worship and follow. You probably
think not me Pastor Willis, A god is anything that you put first in your life.
It could be your car, your home, your job, your spouse, your children, or even a ministry.
(Hosea
1:2) When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He said to him, “Go
marry a prostitute who will
bear illegitimate children conceived through prostitution because the nation
continually commits spiritual prostitution by turning away from the LORD.
(Hosea 3:1) The LORD said to me, “Go, show love to1 your wife2 again, even though she loves3 another man4 and continually commits adultery.5 Likewise, the LORD loves6 the Israelites7 although they turn to other gods and love to offer
raisin cakes to idols.”
That’s a Crazy Love that nothing can separate
Him from you
(1
John 4:10) “This is love: not that we loved God, but
that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins.” Wait does that mean even
while I was yet His enemy? C.S. Lewis
said, “Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does
not.” So, God's love is unchangeable!!
That’s a Crazy Love that nothing can separate
Him from you
(Psalms
139:7-12)
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your
presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths,
you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the
sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me
fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around
me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
King David tells us that there is nowhere
he could hide from God’s love,
That’s a Crazy Love that nothing can separate
Him from you
In the song “Reckless
love”.
There's no shadow You won't light up
Mountain You won't climb up
Coming after me
There's no wall You won't kick down
Lie You won't tear down
Coming after me
That’s a Crazy Love that nothing can separate
Him from you
He left the ninety-nine for you and me!!! That is not logical most time you count that
sheep as a loss and protect the flock. Not your heavenly Father He has been
chasing after you and He wants to stop till He has all your heart! Even though
we don’t deserve His love He gives it to us freely not because we earned His
love, but because we couldn’t earn it, which is why the Gospel exists. For we
are depraved and have no hope outside of Jesus's never-ending love for us,
which is what brought Him to earth for a date on and cross on Calvary to buy
back that which He loved more than anything else in the universe.
That’s a Crazy
Love that nothing can separate Him from you
Romans 8:35, 38,39).
35 Who shall separate us from
the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or danger, or sword?
38 For I am
sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor
things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height
nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from
the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
That’s a Crazy Love that nothing can separate
Him from you
Love requires action. God poured out His perfect
love for us on the cross. He crushed His Son so that you may live. His perfect
love is not dependent on what we do, or what we are going to do. God’s perfect
love is greatly shown by what He has already done for you. I have heard it
said, “God loves you more in a moment than anyone could in a lifetime.”
I once heard
this said it was not the nails that held Him on that cross, but it was our sins
and His love for the Father who sent Him to introduce us to God’s perfect love and to demonstrate just how far
God was willing to die for us!
That’s a Crazy Love that nothing can separate
Him from you
It is so hard to grasp His love for us especially when we
look into the mirror and see all of our failures. Without knowing how much God
loves you, you are bound to feel like that red-headed stepchild.
God is patient and
kind. “God never
gives up. God never loses
hope, and never quits.” That's the kind of love we are dealing with when it
comes to how God loves us.
. The accuser tells me daily God can’t love me, that
I’m not good enough, how can I be a child of the King when I can’t stop
sinning? The better question I should be asking myself is do I believe God
would bring me this far and forsake me? Do I believe that He who started a good
work is not able to complete what He has begun in me? Sometimes I believe the
lies of the accuser more than the Father’s loving words. Perhaps the issue is
that I see God’s love through my darkly lite lens of conditional love. The
Father’s love is unconditional.
That’s a Crazy Love that nothing can separate
Him from you
(Romans 5:7-8). For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet perhaps for a good man, someone would
even dare to die. 8 But God
demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ
died for us.
We cannot escape His love nor can we hide from
it, He didn’t bring you this far to leave, so regardless of what your emotions
or even your head are telling you about your present plight. You’re not alone;
the enemy wants you to believe the lie that your Heavenly Father is absentee.
Our Father promised He would never forsake or leave you. It’s us who believes in
the lie of the enemy, we think our issues are not important to God! You are so
important to the Father that he sent his only begotten son down to pay the
price in our stay.
That’s a Crazy Love that nothing can separate
Him from you
God's love can’t be earned, and we certainly don’t
deserve it which is why He has given it to us!
We can never be good enough to earn our way
into heaven. Jesus makes it clear when
He says call no man good except the Father, meaning if we measure our good it
must be measured against God and our very best is as filthy rags meant to be
taken out and barred. God loves us despite our sinful nature. God’s love never
fails we fail Him.
That’s a Crazy Love that nothing can separate
Him from you
He is love and He is a just God meaning sin
will not go unpunished for anyone not willing to accept Jesus’s gift of Salvation.
(Joshua) No man shall be
able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses,
so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake
In (Jeremiah 31:3) God speaks about His everlasting love and faithfulness to us.
In the singing, You love
me Anyway part of the lyrics say
I am Judas' kiss
But You love me anyway
See how I am the man who yelled out from the
crowd
For Your blood to be spilled on this earth-shaking the
ground
But You love me anyway
Rejoice in the fact
that your Father never gives up on you and He wants all of you!!! After all, He
gave it all for you on a cross!!! Even then He asked the Father to give us!
That’s a Crazy Love that nothing can keep Him from
you
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