Summary: How to have intimacy with God

INTIMACY WITH GOD

Is. 1:18

INTRO:

I. IS KNOWING THAT HE LOVES YOU NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE

A. Even if you consider yourself a sinner

1) Is. 1:18 ““Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

B. “Even if you don’t consider yourself worthy

C. Even if you believe that your sins will never be forgiven or forgotten

1) Micah 7:19 “El volverá a tener misericordia de nosotros; sepultará nuestras iniquidades, y echará en lo profundo del mar todos nuestros pecados

II. IS KNOWING THAT YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO WIN HIS LOVE

A. It isn’t “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours”

B. It isn’t about keeping score

C. He already did it all at the cross

1) Rom 5:8 “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

III. IS KNOWING THAT HE SHARES EVERYTHING WITH YOU

A. 1 Cor 2:10 “but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.”

B. God will not have secrets from you

1) 1 Cor 4:1 “So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God.”

C. He will entrust us with what is His

IV. IS KNOWING THAT HE WILL ALWAYS STAND BY YOU

A. He will never forsake

1) Joshua 1:5 “No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

B. Though other will, God never will

1) Ps. 27:10 “Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.”

“Aunque mi padre y mi madre me dejaran, Con todo, Jehová me recogerá.”

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