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What's Wrong With God
Scripture Passage:
Jeremiah 2:4-9 Attached audio files:
Introduction: People today have no concept of loyalty. We are wishy-washy. Today you love something and tomorrow you will hate it. That business down the road has treated you so good that you would never go elsewhere until they do something you don’t like one time, and then you’ll never go back. We make decisions quicker than you can blink and then forsake them just as fast. The bad thing is that this has rolled over into our relationship with God. He did something spectacular today so you are ready to do it all for Him and tomorrow something bad happens and it is all God’s fault. Today God would plead with you. He wants you to show Him what He has done wrong. The conclusion of the whole matter will be that we have done wrong by denying such a God complete authority over our life.
- God’s Character
- He is Just (Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
See All...; Psalm 89:14Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
See All...; Isaiah 45:21Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
See All...) - He is Holy (Isaiah 6:3And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
See All...; Revelation 4:8And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
See All...; Psalm 99:9Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
See All...) - He is Righteous (Psalm 145:17The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
See All...; Ezra 9:15O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
See All...) - He is Love (1 John 4:16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
See All...; 1 John 4:8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
See All...) - He is Gracious (Exodus 34:6And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
See All...; Psalm 116:5Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
See All...) - He is Merciful (Psalm 86:5For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
See All...; Psalm 107:1O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
See All...) - He is Good (Psalm 25:8Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
See All...; Psalm 119:68Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
See All...) - He is Faithful (1 Corinthians 1:9God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
See All...; 1 Corinthians 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
See All...) - He is Longsuffering (Numbers 14:18The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
See All...) - He is Compassionate (Psalm 145:8The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
See All...; 2 Kings 13:23And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
See All...) - He is Omniscient (All-Knowing) (Psalm 139:1-6 [1] O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
[2] Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
[3] Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
[4] For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
[5] Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
[6] Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
See All...) - Why Wouldn’t You Get Saved
- Knowing that He is Just – God would not be right to allow a person into Heaven based upon their own merit
- Knowing that He knows all – God knows every secret thing about you including your innermost thoughts and has more than enough on you to sentence you to an eternal damnation
- Knowing that He is Righteous - God is the standard by which all things are judged and one must obtain His righteousness to gain eternal life
- Knowing that He is Love – God manifested His love for sinners openly when the Lord Jesus Christ gave His life. God’s justice could only be satisfied by His own righteousness and through Christ’s death on the cross that righteousness is available to whosoever.
- Knowing that He is Compassionate – God looks down at the lost soul today pleading for you to come. You are as a sheep without a shepherd wondering aimlessly through life and He wants to be your Lord.
- Why Wouldn’t You Serve Him
- Knowing that He is Love – God has given all for you. Jesus Christ humbled Himself and took on a body of flesh to take the wrath of God for you. What is there that He could ask of you that you shouldn’t do?
- Knowing that He is Gracious – God has cleared our past sins and failures and made us a new creature in Christ. We gave much time and effort to the work of Satan whilst we were lost why not redeem the time for Christ? What could He ask of us that He doesn’t deserve for us to respond with yes?
- Knowing that He is Longsuffering – God put up with us rejecting Him day after day and year after year, yet He kept dealing with us. Why make Him wait for you to surrender to serve Him? Hasn’t He done enough waiting?
- Knowing that He is Faithful – God has promised us that He will never leave us nor forsake us. He has been there when you felt good and wanted to fellowship with Him and He has been there when you have ignored Him. Why not give yourself to the One who has already given Himself to you?
Conclusion: Why wouldn’t you give up everything for God? What is keeping you from it? Is it a friend? They will forsake you. Is it a spouse? They will fail you. Is it some sort of besetting sin? It will leave you miserable. Are you afraid you will have to change something about your life? You never give up something for God here that you don’t receive much more in return from Him. Why not give yourself to Him right now? Surrender to Him for service, come get saved. Just come. He pleads with you.
Proverbs 30:25
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;