Living in the Power of God’s Love

00:00 welcome ru zealously desiring to live in
00:04 the power of the gospel all that God's
00:08 grace has provided for you through Jesus
00:11 Christ's work on the cross the
00:13 forgiveness of all your sins the healing
00:16 of all your diseases the redemption of
00:18 your life from destruction and every
00:21 other form of salvation for everything
00:23 you'll ever need in this life if so I'm
00:26 really glad that you can join us for our
00:28 Psalm 103 series entitled living in the
00:33 power of the gospel this is our second
00:36 session session 2 entitled living in the
00:38 power of God's love and it's the Holy
00:41 Spirit the one who inspired King David
00:45 to sing about God's everlasting faithful
00:48 love throughout Psalm 103 and he desires
00:53 for you to know and to believe the love
00:55 of God and to abide eternally in the
00:58 reality of God's love for you why would
01:01 he want that so that you can live in the
01:06 power of his love so that your life can
01:09 be transformed into the living image of
01:14 Jesus Christ who is the representation
01:17 of God who is love tonight we're gonna
01:23 take a look at God's Hesed love in Psalm
01:26 103 we will begin by looking at four
01:30 different divisions in Psalm 103
01:34 we'll begin our first division is Psalm
01:38 103 verses 1 through 2 which is
01:41 basically an exhortation of King David
01:43 where he is exhorting his own soul to
01:47 bless the Lord now many of you know this
01:50 but King David is known as a man after
01:54 God's own heart and he was zealous to
01:57 experience all that God's grace had
02:01 provided for him in his lifetime and he
02:05 knew he wanted to experience this
02:07 because he knew of how much God loved
02:10 him and he wanted all that the
02:13 grace provided that was available to him
02:16 through God's love
02:17 therefore as he's standing in the midst
02:20 of this assembly worship time he begins
02:24 by singing over his own soul awakening
02:28 it to the reality of who God is and what
02:31 God has done so let us all declare Psalm
02:35 103 verses 1 through 2 together bless
02:39 the Lord O my soul and all that is
02:42 within me bless His Holy Name
02:46 bless the Lord O my soul and forget
02:50 none of his benefits we're gonna take a
02:54 look now at some of the key words in
02:56 this first division okay we're gonna
02:59 look at the word soul bless and the Lord
03:02 let's first take a look at the word soul
03:06 we don't know exactly when King David
03:10 wrote and sang the song but every one of
03:14 us can relate to moments of days or
03:18 weeks or months where our soul that's
03:22 our mind our will and our emotions is
03:25 blinded to God's presence and his power
03:31 before you became a born-again believer
03:34 your soul was used to ruling over your
03:37 life with all of its discouragements its
03:40 fears its doubts sorrows its pains
03:43 sparked by your own dark and sin nature
03:47 and Hyden by other negative influence
03:50 influences in the fallen world around
03:53 you now I have this red vase with a
03:57 candle in it and this represents your
04:03 life your spirit man on the inside of
04:05 you once you be invited Jesus Christ
04:08 into your heart so after you receive
04:11 Jesus Christ into your heart your spirit
04:14 man which is the real you went through a
04:17 radical rebirth becoming the dwelling
04:21 place for the Spirit of the Living God
04:25 the Father
04:27 the Son and the Holy Spirit are now
04:30 living inside of you yes God is dwelling
04:35 on the inside of you but your five
04:38 natural senses often aren't aware of
04:42 this living reality that is within you
04:46 because they're used to ruling over your
04:49 life now these red glasses that I have
04:55 here they represents the new lens in
04:58 which you're to view your life they are
05:01 to remind you of what the blood of Jesus
05:04 Christ has done for you through the work
05:08 of the cross daily your mind your mind
05:15 needs to be renewed to the reality of
05:18 the new you so that you can walk in the
05:21 reality of who you are in Christ and
05:24 walk by the leadership of the Spirit of
05:28 God the Holy Spirit who is living inside
05:31 of you so that your flesh or unredeemed
05:35 soul will not rule over you over who you
05:40 are in Christ and over the Spirit of the
05:43 Living God inside of you you're reborn
05:46 spirit has become one spirit with God
05:50 according to 1st Corinthians 6:17 your
05:56 spirit man is to have dominion over your
06:01 soul your spirit is to be dominant in
06:03 your decision-making and in your thought
06:07 processes but in reality does this
06:11 always happen
06:12 no because before you were born again it
06:17 was like you were living in the land of
06:19 Egypt
06:20 your soul was dominant in your
06:22 decision-making and so even though you
06:25 have left the land of Egypt like the
06:26 Israelites you feel it's hard for you
06:30 get to get Egypt out of your mind
06:33 so you allow it at times to rule over
06:36 you rather than the spirit of the Living
06:38 God the one the same
06:40 power that raised Jesus Christ is living
06:43 within you so that you can be empowered
06:47 to rule over all the darkened evil stuff
06:52 that used to rule over you but you have
06:54 to tap into the power of God into the
06:58 power of the gospel into the power of
07:01 God's love for you so in Psalm 103 1
07:06 through 2 King David is voicing this as
07:09 he's living under the Old Covenant
07:11 how much more for us who have the Spirit
07:15 of God within us right now I wanted to
07:20 share with you a story that might be
07:23 hard for you to wrap your minds around
07:25 it happened to me it as a born-again
07:30 believer I was really sick at that time
07:33 it's over you know but you're 2,000 and
07:38 I'm walking into this church now at that
07:41 point in time I was sick I had a lot of
07:43 dark and thoughts but Barty me and I
07:46 believe that all those thoughts were
07:49 originating from soup who soo was and
07:54 that night before I haven't dreamed that
07:57 where I told you guys about before that
08:00 I saw Jehoshaphat written on a
08:02 blackboard and he went out and said the
08:04 worshippers on the front line of the
08:06 battle and they won the battle by
08:08 worshiping God
08:09 well they had just started worship in
08:10 church here and during the middle of the
08:13 day and so there's all these ladies up
08:15 on stage and I'm not one that gets up on
08:18 stage and sings but I was determined I
08:21 was gonna do this I was gonna worship
08:23 God so I came and I sang really softly
08:26 on the mic afterwards one of the ladies
08:30 shared with me the story and she shared
08:34 something that it was hard for me to
08:36 wrap my mind around but I got really
08:38 excited afterwards because I thought
08:42 that the battle I was in with my
08:44 sickness was just in the physical realm
08:47 and I thought all these thoughts that I
08:50 was thinking was just sue but she said
08:52 to me
08:53 she had a vision an open vision like
08:57 you're seeing a movie being played out
08:58 in front of you so as I walked into the
09:01 church she's seen thousands of demons
09:03 surrounding me yakking into my ears and
09:07 guess what she would even tell me a lot
09:11 of the things that the demons were
09:12 saying that I actually heard inside of
09:16 sue do you understand this if you
09:21 understand the only reason I'm sharing
09:23 this story is because I believe there's
09:25 some of you that are needing to be
09:28 empowered with the reality of the
09:30 spiritual realm and how the demonic
09:33 realm can actually speak thoughts into
09:35 your mind that you own now if you start
09:37 to verbalize them over and over and over
09:40 again yes they become your own but
09:44 that's how when you speak them out of
09:46 your mouth that the enemy has authority
09:48 over you so when King David says bless
09:51 the Lord O my soul and all that is
09:53 within me bless your holy name we don't
09:55 know what's going on in his life do we
09:59 but he's trying to get his soul under
10:03 the Dominion of the lordship of Jesus
10:06 Christ and each one of us need to do
10:09 that we need to come in agreement with
10:11 who God is and not in agreement with the
10:14 demonic realm that wants to control us
10:17 okay so let's go on to the word bless in
10:22 Psalm 103 verses 1 and 2 the second word
10:26 we take a look at is bless it comes from
10:29 the Hebrew word Barak which can be
10:32 translated to pronounce blessings to
10:35 give praise to give thanks so when you
10:38 think of the word blessed think of two
10:40 other words praise thanks we're to give
10:45 God blessing or to give them praise
10:47 we're to give him thanks now this word
10:50 praise we all kind of have heard more
10:54 than we've heard this word bless right
10:59 so when Psalm 103 when it was translated
11:03 Barack in the New King James that says
11:05 bless the Lord many of the other
11:08 translations don't translate it like
11:10 that they translated praise the Lord and
11:13 all that is within me praise the Lord
11:17 but something that transformed my life
11:20 and I didn't realize that that was one
11:22 of the definitions of Barack is in Psalm
11:25 103 when I was reading it and everything
11:28 was is crystal clear as it could be of
11:31 what Jesus did for us on the cross I
11:33 wrote these words I don't know if I
11:36 heard them or where I got them but
11:38 they're in my Bible I wrote it means to
11:42 thankfully come in agreement with God's
11:47 Word you and I are - thankfully come an
11:52 agreement with what Psalm 103 is
11:56 declaring of what Jesus Christ has done
11:58 for us on the cross
12:01 work thankfully to come an agreement
12:04 with all of God's word for us and then
12:07 we're to resist the demonic thoughts
12:11 that are trying to rage war over our
12:14 soul and take dominion over our lives
12:16 amen okay the third word I want to cover
12:21 is a word Lord it actually occurs 11
12:25 times in Psalm 103 and in Hebrew it's
12:30 Yahweh why H wh
12:35 I'm not going to go into the fullness of
12:37 its meaning right now but I want to tell
12:39 you that in the New Testament it's
12:41 mentioned 100 times this word Lord Jesus
12:47 is called Lord so now when you read
12:51 Psalm 103 you can actually read Jesus's
12:55 name throughout Psalm 103 I just love
12:58 that you and I need to be passionate
13:03 about blessing the Lord what does that
13:06 mean thankfully coming in agreement with
13:09 him confessing with our mouth that
13:12 Jesus is Lord of our salvation our
13:16 all-inclusive salvation that we
13:18 discussed last week Romans 10:9 says
13:21 this if you confess with your mouth the
13:25 Lord Jesus and believe in your heart
13:28 that God has raised him from the dead
13:31 what you will be saved so what does it
13:35 mean to call Jesus Lord this is really
13:39 really good just think it means when you
13:42 say Jesus is Lord
13:44 it means I'm allowing him to have
13:46 dominion or rulership over me now when
13:51 it comes to some bad habits that we all
13:53 seem to have in one way or the other we
13:57 need to have those things come under the
14:01 rulership or the Dominion the lordship
14:04 of God himself and we can do that
14:08 because we have the power of God living
14:11 in us so we can say lord I believe what
14:16 you're telling me help me
14:18 I want to obey what you're telling me
14:21 help me he will strengthen you he will
14:25 help you but we need to call upon his
14:28 name
14:28 so that the lord of our salvation can
14:30 come and help us in whatever need we
14:33 have the second division of Psalm 103
14:41 that we're going to look at now is
14:42 verses three to five and we covered that
14:44 a little bit last week Psalm 103 is the
14:48 apex of the Lord's Hassen his
14:51 loving-kindness for the individual and
14:54 it's shown through the cross I had
15:00 mentioned this earlier but by when I
15:03 read Psalm 103 and I came across where
15:08 it says who forgives your sins who heals
15:14 all your diseases it was like some
15:19 people were telling me when I would go
15:21 to the altar sometimes God would heal me
15:24 and sometimes he
15:25 doesn't heal people and I'm reading and
15:28 I'm going some of these things I was
15:30 reading was too good to be true but this
15:32 was so clear so crystal clear who heals
15:36 all your diseases I wasn't in need of
15:39 healing and I'm going this is who my
15:44 lord is who redeems your life from the
15:48 pit of destruction are fewer in a pit
15:51 and you feel like any area of your life
15:54 is being too destroyed it says he the
15:58 Lord is the one who will redeem your
16:02 life from destruction
16:04 so after David commands his soul to
16:07 bless the Lord he shifts his focus from
16:12 telling himself what it needs to get in
16:16 linemen with who God is he shifts his
16:19 focus to the everlasting faithful love
16:23 of God which in Hebrew is the word Hesed
16:27 verses three through five the Lord's
16:31 hasit is revealed to the individual in
16:34 verses 6 through 19 the Lord's hasit is
16:38 faithful love is shown towards the
16:40 Israelites as a nation and then in
16:43 verses 20 through 22 all of God's
16:47 creation is shown the Hesed love of God
16:51 and they're beckoned to then bless the
16:54 Lord along with King David as King David
17:00 takes command over his own soul and
17:03 begins to bless the Lord we are given
17:07 divine insight of what to do when soul
17:12 issues begin to bind our view of God's
17:16 love for us King David he United his
17:22 heart with God's heart in verses three
17:28 through five and what I believe to be
17:30 the song of all songs the song of the
17:35 Lamb
17:36 this is
17:39 what Jesus the Lamb of God did for you
17:43 and I in verses three through five
17:46 through the work of the cross and it is
17:49 to be the pinnacle the high point of all
17:53 of our praise to God because without
17:57 Christ there would be no salvation
18:01 now remember King David is speaking to
18:04 his own soul as he declares six core
18:08 realities about the grace of God these
18:12 realities make up what we now understand
18:15 to be and we talked about last week as
18:18 the gospel of the grace of God which is
18:22 the core message of the Cross which is
18:26 according to Romans 1:16 and 17 the
18:30 power of God for your salvation because
18:34 King David is speaking to his own soul
18:37 he uses the personal pronouns you and
18:41 you are so when you start declaring this
18:45 over your own life you will want to
18:48 address yourself likewise as you get
18:53 these core gospel benefits into your
18:56 conversation with God you will actually
18:59 begin to tap in to the power of God and
19:04 the power of his love for your life for
19:08 your salvation and you'll be able to
19:10 live in the reality of God's love for
19:14 you more and more and more so it's not
19:19 just every once in a while but it
19:21 becomes I have it just like driving a
19:23 car where you at first you know I had a
19:25 stick shift car you know and I was so
19:27 afraid to go up hills and San Francisco
19:29 and and you know different cities that
19:33 have these you know just real steep
19:35 hills with this stick shift carcass I
19:37 was afraid of rolling backwards but
19:39 after you start actually practicing
19:41 something over and over and you start
19:43 saying these six core benefits of the
19:46 cross over and over in your heart it
19:49 just becomes automatic
19:52 you begin to live in God's love for you
19:55 so in a moment we're going to actually
19:57 declare these six core benefits by
20:00 reading out loud each one of these
20:03 according to that sentence where I kind
20:05 of personalize it for you okay so let's
20:09 begin and we're going to begin with sit
20:11 forgiveness and we're just gonna insert
20:12 forgiveness in there and then the line
20:15 after forgiveness so why don't you all
20:17 stand up get the blood circulating in
20:20 your body and voted to declare these and
20:23 say them with passion you know bless the
20:28 Lord O my soul and don't forget this
20:31 benefit of his forgiveness as Jesus has
20:36 forgiven you of all your iniquities past
20:40 present and future bless the Lord O my
20:43 soul and don't forget this benefit of
20:47 his healing Jesus has healed you of all
20:52 your diseases remember you're talking to
20:55 yourself that's why you're saying you
20:57 it's like you're looking yourself in the
20:59 mirror and you're going yeah it's you
21:02 okay
21:03 redemption bless the Lord O my soul and
21:05 don't forget this benefit of redemption
21:08 as Jesus has redeemed your life from
21:11 destruction bless the Lord O my soul and
21:15 don't forget this benefit of the crown
21:19 Jesus has crowned you with
21:21 loving-kindness and tender mercies bless
21:25 the Lord O my soul and don't forget this
21:28 benefit of his satisfaction
21:31 Jesus has satisfied your mouth with good
21:35 things and some versions actually say
21:38 life instead of mouth so you can put
21:41 that in there bless the Lord O my soul
21:44 and don't forget this benefit of his
21:47 renewal Jesus has renewed your youth
21:50 life the Eagles sit down now if your
21:54 soul is warring wait a minute that's not
21:57 how it's like in my life then your
22:00 spirit man is gonna need to speak some
22:03 things to your soul
22:04 so it starts ruling and reigning
22:05 over your mind your will and your
22:08 emotions Romans 12:1 through 2 tells us
22:10 don't be conformed to this world don't
22:13 be conformed to what your soul is
22:14 telling you but be transformed by the
22:17 renewing of your mind according to the
22:19 Word of God how often are you to
22:21 proclaim the good news of his salvation
22:25 for you Psalm 96 3 says this proclaim
22:30 the good news of his salvation 1 time of
22:36 year know from day today today don't
22:42 forget his benefits daily do that this
22:49 week
22:50 the third division of Psalm 103 is
22:52 verses 6 through 19 this is the Lord's
22:55 hasit is loving-kindness for the
22:58 community you can see in that this
23:01 section is very short because I start
23:03 really talking about it more Roman
23:05 numeral 2 on your handout we'll get to
23:07 that in a minute but King David he
23:12 spills over from addressing his own soul
23:15 to bless the Lord to addressing the
23:18 entire congregation highlighting aspects
23:22 of God's grace that they had all
23:24 witnessed throughout their history you
23:28 can see this transition from his change
23:32 of personal pronouns he changed from
23:35 speaking to his own soul you you're me
23:39 my to the pronouns of our us we and them
23:45 in this section he recounts who God is
23:48 and what God has done in the redemptive
23:51 history of Israel the fourth division or
23:54 final division of Psalm 103 is verses 20
23:58 through 22 this is you the universal
24:02 exhortation to respond to God's Hesed to
24:06 his faithful love David's soul it may
24:10 have been faltering in response to God
24:12 at the beginning of this Psalm but as he
24:15 recalled all the benefits of God's grace
24:18 in his own personal life and in the
24:20 history of Israel their redemptive
24:24 history what happens David soul begins
24:28 to soar at such Heights that he starts
24:32 to beckon all of God's creation join me
24:35 and blessing the Lord he preaches to
24:40 God's angels all the hosts of heaven all
24:44 the works of God's hand to join him in
24:47 this ever-increasing crescendo of praise
24:52 wow he must have been full have you ever
24:55 done that we could get to that point
24:59 filling ourselves with God so fully that
25:02 we're calling everything around us to
25:05 bless the Lord you laugh because it
25:07 seems this picture seems like so
25:10 ridiculous but it's so ridiculously
25:14 great and awesome and the Lord's
25:17 probably looking going that's my son
25:19 that's my son he is after my heart amen
25:31 when David ends a song he speaks again
25:36 to his own soul don't forget now he
25:39 doesn't say that but he says bless the
25:41 Lord O my soul he ends the psalm the
25:46 same way he begins he is once again
25:49 telling his soul from this day to the
25:53 next day to the next day you will
25:55 worship God in a worthy fashion because
26:01 his life is faithful his love is from
26:06 everlasting to everlasting his love is
26:10 abounding his love knows no end it's
26:14 limitless and his love is for me and
26:18 it's for you okay Roman numeral 2 what
26:24 is hesed hesed we're going to talk about
26:27 this word hasit God's everlasting love
26:30 as you can see by
26:32 103 God's love had so impacted David
26:37 that it really became the theme song for
26:40 his life as well as the overarching
26:42 theme of Psalm 103 and it's silenced any
26:48 negative soul melodies that we're trying
26:51 to sing a song over his own life
26:54 yes David had soul issues as we clearly
26:58 see in the songs that he sung repeatedly
27:01 his soul wanted to play first ring in
27:04 his life just like they do for you and I
27:08 but david touched them with songs like
27:11 Psalm 103 and words about who God is and
27:14 what God has done as King David did this
27:17 over and over and over again in his life
27:21 singing about God's limitless love guess
27:25 what happened to his fears and his
27:26 doubts as anxiety as his pains and
27:29 sorrows and his discouragements they
27:32 disappeared right and his enemies were
27:35 subdued by the Lord the Lord of his
27:38 salvation as a Christian whose élysée
27:41 desires to live in the power of the
27:44 gospel all that God has made available
27:47 for you through the finished work of the
27:49 cross it is imperative that you stay
27:53 connected to God's hasent the power of
27:57 God's love internalizing his love deep
28:01 within your own heart what does this
28:03 mean it means that you don't allow
28:05 anything to stand in your way of abiding
28:09 in a continual flow of God's love for
28:13 you as discussed in the psalm and
28:15 discussed throughout the Bible for it's
28:18 through the power of God's love that you
28:21 will conquer all things the Apostle Paul
28:26 was fully persuaded that nothing would
28:29 separate him from God's love and we know
28:32 that Paul just like King David he went
28:36 through a lot of opposition and
28:39 difficulties so if they could do it how
28:44 about you
28:46 how about me Romans 8:35 through 39 who
28:52 or what shall separate you from the love
28:57 of Christ shall tribulation or distress
29:01 or persecution or famine or weakness or
29:04 nakedness or peril or sword what's
29:07 standing in your way of you receiving
29:09 God's love in any area of your life
29:12 today God says to you yet in all these
29:16 things we are more than conquerors
29:20 through Jesus Christ who loved us I am
29:26 persuaded that then he goes on to this
29:28 long list so I'm gonna sum up this list
29:30 as nothing shall be able to separate us
29:34 from the love of God which is in Christ
29:37 Jesus our Lord the entirety of Psalm 103
29:42 reflects the greatness of God's
29:46 steadfast love as King David calls
29:50 himself to bless the Lord and begins to
29:52 sing about all that God is love has done
29:56 for him and for the Israelite his soul
29:58 unites to the truth of God's love and
30:02 you can feel and see and hear his
30:06 heartfelt praise
30:07 there's no hypocrisy in his heart in
30:10 Psalm 103 he has united his heart
30:14 falling with God's heart and God says
30:18 yes David you're a man after my heart
30:21 and that should be what we want God to
30:24 say about our heart you yes you are
30:29 after God's heart you're a man you're a
30:33 woman after God's own heart that's why
30:36 you are here
30:39 God's love is the foundation for all of
30:43 our praises to God without an
30:46 understanding of the Hebrew word hasit
30:48 God's faithful covenant love which
30:51 always demands an expression you cannot
30:55 fully understand Psalm 103 nor can you
31:00 understand the gospel of Christ nor can
31:04 you understand God himself
31:06 King David uses the word house it four
31:09 times in the psalm and expands upon it
31:12 throughout the psalm to describe who God
31:15 is and how God relates to him as an
31:18 individual to the nation of Israel and
31:21 to all of God's creation you see this in
31:25 verses 4 8 11 and 17 and they're listed
31:29 there on your handout because there is
31:32 not one English word that comes close to
31:35 describing hesed is often translated in
31:38 many different ways loving kindness
31:41 mercy grace gracious love faithful love
31:45 unfailing love steadfast love loyal love
31:48 and rich love the essence of Hesed is
31:55 God faithful love in action God's
32:02 faithfulness to his covenant to his
32:05 people into his promises is seen
32:07 throughout scripture but it's epitomized
32:10 through the offering of Jesus Christ His
32:13 only Son for the salvation of you and I
32:16 for mankind on the cross we are able to
32:21 see that hasit is not just a word it is
32:26 a person it is Jesus Christ it is God
32:30 himself Roman numeral 3 crowned with
32:35 Hesed Psalm 103 verse 4 who redeems your
32:42 life from destruction so he takes you
32:45 from the pit and then he crown
32:50 Jew with his loving-kindness and tender
32:53 mercies that's past tense he has already
32:58 done that for your justification but
33:02 it's an ongoing present tense for your
33:05 sanctification wherever you need
33:07 Redemption from the pit he's there to
33:11 lift you out of the pit and to show his
33:15 loving-kindness and his tender mercies
33:17 the crowning thoughts that you should
33:21 always have is I know his love will not
33:25 fail me in this circumstance I'm crowned
33:28 with his loving-kindness and tender
33:30 mercies the devil he would say that the
33:37 crowning word of your life is your
33:39 mistakes and sins and mistreatment of
33:42 others but don't buy into those lies
33:46 rather get your heart connected to the
33:49 power of the gospel the power of God's
33:52 love for you let's all declare this
33:56 together the crowning word over my life
34:00 is his loving-kindness and tender
34:03 mercies every thought I think and word I
34:08 speak will come an agreement with God's
34:11 hazard his steadfast love for me do you
34:15 know that this is the helmet of your
34:16 salvation his crowning words for your
34:20 life his loving-kindness and tender
34:22 mercies and it was given to you because
34:26 it was bought with Jesus's precious
34:29 blood and it can never be taken away
34:31 from you believing and knowing that he
34:34 has crowned you with this Hesed allows
34:37 you to rule and reign with great
34:41 confidence as a king and a priest to God
34:45 forever and ever
34:47 revelations 1:6 surround is another word
34:50 for crown as Jesus's beloved bride as a
34:53 child of God you are surrounded by his
34:58 love he has placed you into the kingdom
35:03 the son of his love a verse that kind of
35:07 complements verse four Psalm 103 is
35:10 Colossians 1:13 through 14 he delivered
35:14 you from the pit the power of darkness
35:16 and conveyed you into the kingdom of the
35:19 son of this love Roman numeral 4 verse 8
35:23 the Lord is merciful and gracious slow
35:26 to anger and abounding in mercy about
35:29 him and hesed now you see he there they
35:33 used mercy in the New King James Version
35:35 version 4 hesed now King David he's
35:40 actually quoting from exodus 34:6
35:45 through 7 and it says and the Lord
35:48 passed before Moses and he proclaimed
35:52 his own name before Moses and said the
35:54 Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious
35:58 long-suffering and abounding in goodness
36:03 Hesed and truth you know when this the
36:09 Lord proclaimed himself like this it's
36:11 just like amazing because the Israelites
36:16 had just went ahead and made and
36:20 worshipped the golden calf and Moses in
36:27 Exodus 33 13 he actually says something
36:30 very similar is verse 7 in Psalm 103
36:34 Moses said show me now your ways that I
36:37 may know you and then I might find grace
36:40 in your sight listen to Psalm 103 verse
36:44 7 King David said he made his ways known
36:47 to Moses and his acts to the children of
36:51 Israel so in verse 8 when King David is
36:57 declaring who God is that he is the one
37:01 who is hasit abounding in hessin we know
37:06 that he's thinking because verse 7 talks
37:09 about this incident where they had just
37:13 worshipped the golden calf
37:15 so we have to ask herself what was gods
37:19 away what was God's response when the
37:23 Israelites sinned against God and failed
37:26 miserably after all of God's miraculous
37:28 signs and wonders performed on their
37:31 behalf to deliver them out of the
37:33 bondage of Egypt what was God's response
37:37 when the Israelites blatantly sinned
37:41 against God's commandment that they had
37:44 just promised to uphold he didn't get
37:48 angry but his anger did not last instead
37:52 of punishing the Israelites according to
37:55 their sin God demonstrates his hesed his
38:00 covenant love towards them and he
38:03 declares his name to them now Psalm 103
38:07 verse 10 you kind of have to see this in
38:10 context it actually says this and this
38:13 is how God deals with you he has not
38:17 dealt with us according to our sins nor
38:20 punished us according to our iniquities
38:23 he did not obliterate the Israelites
38:28 from Planet Earth this is what he says
38:33 to Moses this is who I am this is my way
38:37 of dealing with my beloved children the
38:41 Israelites this is my way of dealing
38:44 with you and I the Lord is merciful and
38:48 gracious slow to anger and abounding in
38:53 mercy God chose to forgive the
38:58 Israelites and God chooses over and over
39:03 and over and over again to forgive you
39:07 and I God's name hasit love it has not
39:14 changed from the Old Testament to the
39:18 New Testament to today
39:22 God's name is always the same and what
39:27 is it it's faithful love in action acid
39:32 the core reality of who God is is why
39:37 hasset and it's perfectly demonstrated
39:41 in jesus's life and what he endured
39:44 through the cross so that you and i
39:47 could come into a living knowledge of
39:49 God's love for us
39:51 John 3:16 you know it well what is it
39:54 God so loved the world that He gave His
39:59 only begotten Son
40:02 the Apostle John alludes to the Hebrew
40:05 words hasit and Emmett in exodus 34:6
40:09 as I showed you there on your handout
40:13 okay so when there's a Bible called the
40:18 Greek Septuagint Bible and it takes the
40:20 Hebrew and translates it all into Greek
40:24 and so we see exodus 34:6
40:29 showing up in John 1:14 and the word
40:34 that's Jesus he became flesh right and
40:39 then it says he's full of what grace
40:42 Hesed and truth Emmet so this theme is
40:49 from the old to the new today he's still
40:51 full of grace and truth
40:53 showing grace upon grace Jesus Christ is
40:58 the embodiment of Hesed he's full of
41:02 half that he's full of grace he's
41:05 abounding in grace
41:10 I want to share a testimony with you I
41:14 know we're running a little light but
41:18 it's about a me on that I bet four years
41:22 after we started the healing rooms in
41:24 2006 I met him at the International
41:26 House of Prayer and he was a young man
41:29 in his 20 and he was basically diagnosed
41:33 that he was going to die if this cancer
41:36 was not seen to in his body he had a
41:40 growth it was a testicular cancer and he
41:43 growed from point nine centimeters to
41:45 four point nine centimeters in seven
41:48 days they'd had surgically removed it
41:51 but it had already spread to his lungs
41:55 and to his lymph nodes and throughout
41:58 his body so he decided to make the
42:02 decision to go to Kansas City to their
42:05 prayer house and to fast and pray and to
42:11 ask God to heal him when he went to the
42:16 House of Prayer somebody says do you
42:19 just want to be healed or do you want to
42:22 know the healer and he thought I want to
42:26 know the healer so as he started to read
42:29 the Bible he came across this God of
42:33 love this God of compassion and he says
42:38 I want to know you like that and so
42:42 after the week of fasting and prayer he
42:45 went back to the doctor and they wanted
42:48 to put the port in his chest to begin
42:51 the chemotherapy and they he said I need
42:56 to have you take the you know whatever
42:59 it is to show that it's still there I
43:03 said why did you ask to do that and he
43:06 says because I had looked into the eyes
43:08 of the car
43:10 who loves me he said the pain in his
43:18 body had not changed but it had worsened
43:22 but he had looked into the eyes of God
43:26 and loved him so they went ahead and we
43:31 did the test and they found no cancer in
43:36 his body the symptoms were there but no
43:43 cancer in his body what happened
43:49 the Lord had crowned him with
43:54 loving-kindness and compassion he was
43:56 taken from the pit of destruction and
44:00 raised up to the kingdom of God's love
44:05 so that he could experience the love of
44:09 God and that is what God has for each
44:12 one of us he wants us to live in the
44:15 reality of his life and I challenge you
44:19 this week to look into the eyes of God's
44:24 lives and to know and believe and abide
44:29 in his love for you
44:34 Psalm 103 11 through 12 Roman numeral
44:38 five for as high as the heavens are
44:42 above the earth so great is his mercy
44:46 his hasit his love towards those who
44:50 fear him as far as the east is from the
44:54 west so far has he removed our
44:58 transgressions from us God's hasit his
45:03 love is unfathomable it feels all the
45:08 possible space from heaven to earth from
45:12 east to west it will always surpass your
45:16 ways and your thoughts God's ways and
45:20 thoughts emanate from NASA from the core
45:25 reality of who he is so when God says in
45:29 Isaiah 55 9 forth the heavens are higher
45:34 than the earth so are my ways higher
45:37 than your ways he's talking about you
45:41 will never ever ever ever understand the
45:46 fullness of my Hesed for all eternity we
45:50 are going to be discovering different
45:52 realms of God's Hesed for us Roman
45:57 numeral six Psalm 103 17 but the mercy
46:02 hasit of the Lord is from everlasting to
46:06 everlasting on those who fear Him God's
46:12 love will never end
46:15 there's a song called one thing remains
46:19 by the Jesus culture and this echoes the
46:22 truth of Hasek of Psalm 103 in
46:27 modern-day language and it personalizes
46:30 it and it says your love never fails and
46:35 never gives up and never runs out on me
46:39 amen thanks for joining us tonight and
46:42 tomorrow next week Tuesday we're going
46:45 to talk about the power God's
46:49 forgiveness I hope to see you invite a
46:52 friend