“GOD couldn’t be everywhere…” OH WAIT, YES, YES HE IS!

                                                                       PS. 103:13

Pastor Rick Jackson

It is Mother's Day and a little over a month from Father's Day. The wrong kind of parents will break your heart, the right kind of parents were given by God as the closest picture of Him you will ever have on this earth. But even the best, most godly of parents fall short of God's Love.

I. GOD'S LOVE IS SIMILAR TO PARENTAL LOVE

1. Think of God's Compassion [Ps. 103:13] -Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

2. Think of God's Provision [Pr. 3:12]

-For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

3. Think of God's Protection [Lk. 13:34]

-O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

II. GOD'S LOVE IS STRONGER THAN PARENTAL LOVE

1. Parents May Forsake [Ps. 27:10] -When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

2. Parents May Forget [Is. 49:13-16]

-Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

3. Parents May Act Selfishly [Heb. 12:9-11]

-Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

III. GOD'S LOVE IS SURER THAN PARENTAL LOVE

1. God’s Love Reaches the Lost Soul [Rm. 5:8, 10:9-13]

-But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

-That if thou shalt 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. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

2. God’s Love Redeems the Lone Sinner [Jn. 1:6-13]

-There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

3. God’s Love Realizes the Lasting Solution [2 Jn 4, 3 Jn. 4, 1 Jn. 3:1-3]

-I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

-I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

-Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.