JESUS THE CENTER OF IT ALL, EVEN THE LOVE OF GOD:
John 3:16- 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
There are 25 words in our text verse;
This verse starts with God and ends with Life, and right in the center of the verse is the word Son; the truth of this verse is centered around the Son.
John 3:16- 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The words or thought centers majestically around the Lord Jesus Christ.
This Illustrates the position God has given to his Son, He is the Center of it all...
It has been said that this is one of the greatest verses in the entire Bible. It contains so much that it is virtually inexhaustible, for example we can see in this verse the Revelation or the unveiling of the Heart of God, it says, "For God so LOVED the world." And we should be truly grateful that He is a God of Love, and my little finite mind could not even begin to describe the Love that God has for every person on the planet.
But let me be mindful to add that according to Heb.12: 29For our God is a consuming fire and also in Heb.10: 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
But Gods plan, & Gods Love evolve around His Only Begotten Son; Why is that?
col.1:15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
And God will never take His Love from us; who are His children
Rom. 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
When God removes His true church from the earth and the [grace] dispensation has run its course, then instead of experiencing Gods marvelous grace, the earth dwellers that are left here will expererance Gods wrath, not His love.
But back on the thought of His love, in 1 John 3:1 " Behold, what manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God."
He has given to you and I this same kind of Love, Agape Love, a love with no strings attached, notice the word Manner,
Over in the book of Mark 4:35-41, we’re told that when Jesus got into the boat and told his disciples Let us Pass over to the other side, and when they set sail a storm arose it was so fierce that the ship began to take in water, and his disciples began to panic, and then they realized that the Master was in the hinder part of the ship asleep, and they went to awake him and asked him, carest thou not that we perish?
The Bible says that he arose and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace Be Still, and at that moment the storm ceased and there was a great calm.
And their response was, they feared exceedingly and said one to another what MANNER of man is this.
And that’s when they realized that they were not dealing with an ordinary man, they realized that this man Jesus was an out of this world kind of man, and that is a good description of Gods love for you and I, because it certainly is an out of this world kind of Love, Gods Love is an extraordinary kind of Love, aren’t we glad that he even loved us even when were unlovable, that describes God’s Love.
But not only does this verse show us the Revelation or the unveiling of God’s Heart which is Love, but it also gives us the Revelation or un veiling of God’s Will, notice it says " that whosoever believeth in him should NOT PERISH."
God doesn’t want a single person to die and be for ever in hell, he doesn’t want a single person to Perish, 2 Peter 3:9 it says " The Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness, but is Longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance." Do You know why he is longsuffering to us ward? Because of his Love.
YOU SEE GOD HAS NO PLANS, and NO PURPOSE FOR YOU AND I WHICH DO NOT CENTER IN THE PERSON OF HIS SON, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, EVERYTHING HINDGES ON THE SON OF GOD...
For instance:
#1 OUR SALVATION-
Notice it says that whosoever believeth in him, who is the him? It is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ
Acts 4:12 " Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we MUST BE SAVED
Acts 10:43 " To HIM give all the prophets witness, that through HIS name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins."
There has never been but one plan of salvation preached by every prophet of the O.T. or N.T... Salvation was not by keeping of the ceremonial law, not by sacrificing, but by putting your faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The same today; it is not by putting a new lease on life, it is not by church membership, it is not by baptism, it is not by performing some church ritual, no it is by putting your faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus himself said in John 14:6 " I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE NO MAN COMETH TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME.
1 Peter 2:24 "WHO HIS OWN SELF BARE OUR SINS, IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE TREE THAT WE BEING DEAD TO SIN SHOULD LIVE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS BY WHOSE STRIPES YE ARE HEALED."
Titus 3:5 "NOT BY WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH WE HAVE DONE BUT ACCORDING TO HIS MERCY HE SAVED US BY THE WASHING OF REGENERATION."
It is not what we do but according to what he has already done on calvary, and then trusting in him. Notice to what it says in
Romans 10:9 THAT IF THOU SHALL CONFESS WITH THY MOUTH THE LORD JESUS AND SHALT BELIEVE IN THINE HEART THAT GOD HATH RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD THOU SHALT BE SAVED."
Nowhere does it say anything about what I have done. GOD HAS NO PLAN, NO PURPOSE FOR YOU AND I THAT IS NOT CENTERED AROUND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
#2 OUR VICTORY IS CENTERED AROUND HIS SON.
1 Cor. 15:57 "BUT THANKS BE TO GOD, WHICH GIVETH US THE VICTORY THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST."
We base our victory or our circumstances. If we have good health, good job, good marriage and everything is going the way we want it to, then when we come to church on Sunday and they choose to sing that song O VICTORY IN JESUS, we’ll sing it loud and clear, just shouting away, but if the circumstances should change we’ll sing it with our heads hung low.
Victory should not be based on our feeling but in Jesus.
1 John 4:4 "YE ARE OF GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN, AND HAVE OVERCOME THEM; BECAUSE GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD."
YOU SEE GOD HAS NO PLANS< NO PURPOSE FOR YOU AND I WHICH IS NOT CENTERED AROUND HIS SON
#3 OUR GOING TO HEAVEN is certainly centered on His Son.
1 Cor 15:20 " BUT NOW IS CHRIST RISEN FROM THE DEAD AND BECOME THE FIRST FRUITS OF THEM THAT SLEPT."
Because he rose from the grave that gives you and I the assurance that we to will rise to meet him in the air
THE SECOND COMING Jn 14:1-6 1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 5Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me
one day, at His foreordained time, he is coming back to take his bride out of this sin cursed world. God will not come back for us to early or to late, He has a number in His church that only He knows and when that particular number is met, He will call us out, right now its whosoever will, but there is a cutting off time, be not deceived.
Are you ready to meet him? Heb. 10: 37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 38Now the just shall live by faith:
1 John 2:28 " And now little Children abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming."
GOD HAS NO PLANS OR PURPOSE FOR YOU AND I THAT IS NOT CENTERED AROUND HIS SON
#5 OUR JUDGEMENT Jn. 5:22 "FOR THE FATHER JUDGETH NO MAN, BUT HATH COMMITTED ALL JUDGEMENT UNTO HIS SON."
Whether your saved or lost you will stand before Him and give an account of your life. Rom. 14:10-- for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. 12So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
Jesus is the Center of it all, GOD HAS NO PLANS< OR PURPOSE FOR YOU AND I WHICH IS NOT CENTERED AROUND HIS SON>>>>>
Have you trusted in him as your personnel Savior? Do you base your Victory in him? Are you ready to stand before him?----
