December 9, 2024 • 25 mins
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you understand the nature of the One True God?
Here's Pastor Jeff Shreeve.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know what I am seeing in our world today?
Sinners accusing God of being unjust. So many of us
do that through the lens of the bad things that
happen to us. God must not be good because this
lens says He's not good. That's not how you view things.
(00:28):
You view everything through the lens of the good, gracious,
loving heart of God. And when you look through that
lens at the circumstances, you say, you know what. I
may not understand everything, but I know that God is good, good,
(00:49):
with real truth, real.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
From the heart.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
What pops into your thoughts when you count to God?
A w Tozer said, what comes into our minds when
we think about God is the most important thing about us?
Is that really true? This is from his heart with
Pastor Jeff Shreeve, and today he'll help us all get
a better perspective of what we should think about when
(01:18):
we think about God. And as aw said, that is
pretty important. Today we'll discover the foundational pillars of the
character of God. And part two of this message called
Introducing the One True God. It's from Pastor Jeff's six
lesson series Perspective Understanding God and Man. And we'll be
(01:39):
in this important and truly foundational series for the next
couple of weeks, so if you miss any once they've beared,
you can go back and listen again online at fromis
Heart dot org. A quick reminder before we get started,
today has been designated Giving Tuesday. It's a global movement
today when people all over the world are encouraged in
(02:00):
inspired to give to the causes that are most important
to them. And if from His Heart has been important
to you and bless your life and you've been able
to bless others because of it, we would appreciate you
considering a special gift too from His Heart on this
Giving Tuesday. To do that, just go to fromishart dot
org and I'll tell you more later. But first we
want to open our Bible to Exodus chapter thirty three
(02:22):
and get ready for a blessing. Here again is Pastor
Jeff to introduce the One True God Exodus.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'll begin reading in chapter thirty three, starting in verse eighteen.
Then Moses said, I pray you show me your glory,
and he said, I myself will make all my goodness
pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of
the Lord before you, and I will be gracious to
whom I will be gracious, and I will show compassion
(02:52):
on whom I will show compassion. But he said, you
cannot see my face, for no man can see me
and live. When the Lord said, behold, there is a
place by me, and you shall stand there on the rock,
and it will come about while my glory is passing by.
That I will put you in the cleft of the
rock and cover you with my hand until I have
passed by. Then I will take my hand away, and
(03:13):
you shall see my back, but my face shall not
be seen. Chapter thirty four. Now the Lord said to Moses,
cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the former ones,
and I will write on the tablets the words that
were on the former tablets, which you shattered. And Moses
shattered those when he came down off the mountain the
first time and saw that the people had made an
idol and were worshiping it. Verse two. So be ready,
(03:36):
God says, by morning, and come up in the morning
to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on
the top of the mountain. And no man is to
come up with you, nor let any man be seen
anywhere on the mountain. Even the flocks and the herds
may not graze in front of that mountain. So we
cut out two stone tablets like the former ones. And
Moses rose up early in the morning and went up
(03:56):
to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him. And
he took two stone tablets in his hand. And the
Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him
as he called upon the name of the Lord. Then
the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed
the Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger,
(04:19):
and abounding and loving kindness and truth, who keeps loving
kindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin. Yet
he will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting
the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the
grandchildren to the third and fourth generations. And Moses made
(04:39):
haste to bow low toward the earth and worship. In
this passage, God is presenting himself. He is introducing himself
so to speak to Moses and to us. And I
want you to notice three discoveries that we see from
this passage, namely verses five, six, and seven Discovery number one.
(05:05):
God is the one and only God. He's the one
and only God. So the Lord is passing by. He's
gonna make all his goodness pass by. He's passing by,
and he proclaims his name. When he proclaims his name,
he is proclaiming his nature, his character, his heart, who
(05:27):
he is. And he says, the Lord, the Lord God, Yahweh.
Lord is all in caps. That means it's yahweh y hwh,
the special name of God, the covenant name of God,
the memorial name of God. It's the name that God
gave to Moses at the Burning Bush when Moses asked
(05:48):
the question, Lord, who is your name? The children of
Israel a gonna ask me what's God's name? And I
don't know your name? And God says, I am who
I am? You tell the children of Israel, I Am
has sent you. I am yahweyh yhwh, the very special
name of God. And so as God passes by, he says,
(06:08):
the Lord, the Lord God. My seminary professor in Old
Testament class he quoted that passage and he said, why
does God repeat? Why does he say the Lord the
Lord God. He said, I believe it's because God is
(06:30):
letting Moses know, letting us know that he is the
one and only Yahweyh Yahweyh God. There is no other
God but Yahweyh God. The scripture says in Isaiah forty five,
verse five, I am the Lord. I am Yahweh, and
there is no other besides me. There is no God.
(06:54):
God is the one and only God. Second discovery. God
is thoroughly and completely good, the Lord, the Lord God.
Compassionate and gracious. That's what he says about himself. Compassionate
(07:15):
and gracious. This is God introducing himself. Does he introduce
himself as a capricious, malevolent bully. No, because God is
nothing like that. God is a God who is compassionate
and gracious. That word compassionate is also translated and merciful.
(07:36):
It comes from two words. When you talk about compassion,
it's two words put together, calm which means with and
passion with me, which means suffering, with suffering. And you
apply that to God and you say, well, God is compassionate.
God feels your hurt in his heart. God is gracious,
(07:59):
compassion and gracious. And then it goes on to say,
not only is he compassionate and gracious, but he is
slow to anger. God is extremely patient. He's not limitless
in patience, because you can exhaust the patience of God.
But God is extremely patient. He is very slow to
(08:22):
get angry. He's not a capricious, malevolent bully. God is
extremely patient. And then it says that God is overflowing
with loving kindness and truth. The Lord, the Lord, compassionate
and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving kindness
and truth. Loving kindness is a cool word. It's the
(08:43):
Hebrew word hessen. That's God's loyal love. That's God's covenant love.
That's when you take God's love and God's kindness and
you meld them together. God has loyal love for his people.
God is a God who overflows with loyal love, faithful love.
(09:06):
The Lord, the Lord, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger,
and abounding, overflowing with this love, this kindness and love
mixed together, and truth and truth. That word truth means faithfulness,
it means sureness, it means stability, reliability. That's God. It
says in Psalm twenty five, verse ten. All the paths
(09:29):
of the Lord are loving kindness and truth to those
who keep His covenant and his testimonies. Every single path
of the Lord is loving kindness and truth, it says
in Proverbs sixteen, verse six. By loving kindness and truth,
iniquity is atoned for. Hey, if you want to get
your iniquity atoned for, you come to a God who
(09:52):
is overflowing with loving kindness, and you come truthfully, honestly
before him. If you don't come that way, then iniquity
is not a tone for because it takes loving kindness
and truth, loving kindness from God, truthfulness on your part,
that you come before the Lord, not trying to put
(10:13):
lipstick on a pig, not trying to dress up your sin,
but calling your sin what it really is. See. That's
why it says in one John one nine, if we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and decleanse us from all unrighteousness. If
we confess confess the Greek word homo legeo, which means
to say the same thing, if we say the same
(10:36):
thing about our sin that God says about our sin.
If we confess our sin, then he is faithful and
just to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from
all on righteousness. We have people today who want to
take their sin and say, well, it's not sin, it's
good and right what I'm doing, and so I'm going
to walk with God with this sin. No, you're not,
because by loving kindness and truth, iniquity is a tone.
(10:59):
For God is a god of loving kindness and truth,
and all his pathways are loving kindness and truth, and
he overflows with that, and both of those are critical
in understanding God. Jesus said, I am the Way and
the Truth and the life. No one comes to the
(11:19):
Father but through me. So God is thoroughly and completely good.
And that's what he told Moses. I'm gonna let my
goodness pass before you, all my beauty, all my bounty.
I'm gonna show you. He's the question. The prayer was, Lord,
show me your glory, and God's response was, well, I'll
(11:41):
let my goodness pass before you. And God's goodness is
found in the fact that he's compassionate and gracious, slow
to anger, abounding and loving kindness and truth. And he
is a God who is unfathomably forgiving. I mean, it
blows your mind that God could be as giving.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
As he is.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
But that's what he says about himself. He's abounding in
loving kindness and truth verse seven. Who keeps loving kindness
for thousands, He guards loving kindness for thousands. And he
forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. He's a God who forgives.
That word forgive means to lift, It means to carry away.
It means to pardon. And God lifts and pardons and
(12:24):
carries away iniquity, transgression, and sin. You say, aren't those
all the same things? Aren't those synonyms? Kind of? But
here's the difference. Iniquity comes from a root, which means
to twist, to make crooked. And so when we sin,
sin starts first in the mind, and you start having
(12:47):
a crooked thought, a twisted thought that if I do this,
which God says don't do, I'm gonna find satisfaction and
pleasure and that's gonna be the thing that I need.
And God says, that's not what you need. But our
twistedness in our minds says, yeah, that's what I'm gonna do.
Iniquity is a twistedness, is a crookedness. And then transgression.
(13:10):
Transgression is the act where we transgress the law of God.
Now we're not just thinking about it. Now we're doing it.
And sin comes. Sin is the guilt of the whole thing.
So I think about it, iniquity, I transgress, I do it,
and then I'm left with sin and the guilt of
my sin and the guilt of what I did. And
(13:30):
God forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. He forgives it completely
because God is an amazing God. And I don't know
what you've done, but I know God knows what you've done,
and you know what you've done. And some of us
(13:51):
think there's no way that God could forgive me. Why
because God is a capricious, malevolent bully, and man, God
is gonna, he's gonna whack me. I got really steer
clear of God because I had this sin in my life.
But that's a distortion of God. God is a God
who forgives. As David said, But you Lord are gracious,
(14:15):
You're good, and you're merciful, and you're abounding in loving
kindness to all who call upon you. You are ready
Psalm eighty six, verse five. You are ready to forgive.
So God told Moses, the Lord, the Lord God, I
am the only one that I am thoroughly and completely good.
(14:36):
And third land, finally, God is Holy, holy Holy. He
will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, because He's Holy,
holy Holy. When Isaiah in Isaiah chapter six saw the Lord,
(14:57):
he says, in the year of King Isaiah's death, I
saw the Lord high and lifted up, and his train
filled the temple. And Isaiah was able to have a
vision of the throne room of God. And he said,
the Seraphim were there at the Throne of God, and
they had six wings, and with two they covered their face,
and with two they covered their feet, and with two
they flew. And they do not cease to say, Holy, Holy,
(15:22):
Holy is the Lord of host The whole earth is
full of his glory. When John in Revelation chapter four
is caught up into heaven and he sees the four
living creatures, and they have six wings, and he says,
day and night, they do not cease to say, Holy, Holy,
Holy is the Lord God of Hosts, Who was and
(15:45):
who is and who is to come the Almighty. What
do you hear in heaven? You would hear the angels
constantly crying out.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Holy, holy, Holy, Holy, Holy Holy, Holy, holy Holy God
is Holy God, and listen, Holy God hates sin.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
He hates it, and he will by no means leave
the guilty unpunished. He wants to forgive sin, and he
cannot leave the guilty unpunished. God cannot wink at sin,
He cannot overlook sin. Some people think that, well, you know,
I think I'll just take my chances. I'll die and
I'll you know, as one man told me, I said,
what would you say to God? Why should he let
(16:34):
you into heaven? You know, if you were to die tonight,
you know, And what would you say to him? He said, Well,
I'd have to put on my sales shoes. I'd have
to really put a sales job on God. You're not
going to put a sales job on God. He knows everything.
And so the Lord looks. And if you have sin
in your life, if you are in atom, the Bible says,
(16:57):
in Adam all die, but in Christ are all made alive.
If you've never put your sin where God put his
son on the cross, then you have your sin, and
the fire of God will fall the fire that fell
on Jesus will fall on you because you've never confessed
(17:19):
your sin to him. You've never come to him for forgiveness.
You've never come in repentance to him, So you're holding
onto your sin. God has no choice but to judge you.
Because God hates sin. God is too pure to look
upon sin. Sin is never going to be in the
Lord's presence welcomed into heaven. He cannot leave the guilty unpunished.
(17:44):
And remember this, he does not ever act unjustly. See
it says at the end of verse seven, he will
by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Visiting the iniquity
of fathers on the children and on the grond children
to the third and fourth generations. And people say, that's
not fair. He's taking the father's sin, and he is
(18:08):
visiting that on the children and on the grandchildren to
the third and fourth generation. God's not fair, it says,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and
the grandchildren to the third and fourth generation. What is
the iniquity? That's the twistedness, and the twistedness in the
(18:28):
father gets passed on to the children and to the
grandchildren to the third and fourth generation. Let me illustrate
that the father of all who believe Abraham, Abraham had
a problem with lying. He has his son, Isaac. Isaac
does the same thing, the iniquity of Abraham, and that
(18:48):
twistedness is now in Isaac. And then Isaac has a son.
His name is Jacob. Jacob means con man. That's what
the name means. Sorry for you. Jacob's out there his
dad in the giving the blessing. He pretends to be
his brother, Esau. And Jacob has twelve sons, and those
twelve sons have trouble with lying. And the iniquity of
(19:14):
the father Abraham is seen in Isaac, is seen in Jacob,
is seen in his eleven sons. God visits the iniquity
of the father to the children and the grandchildren to
the third and fourth generation. But now watch it, he
keeps loving kindness for thousands. If you want to know
a distortion about God, here it is. God is skewed
(19:39):
to the good. God is skewed to the good. He's
skewed toward mercy, He's skewed toward grace, He's skewed toward forgiveness.
He keeps loving kindness for thousands. Yet he visits iniquity
to the third and fourth generations. And God is through
introducing himself in verse eight said, and Moses made haste
(20:01):
to bow low towards the earth and worship. You know
what I am seeing in our world today? Sinners accusing
God of being unjust, of being merciless and cruel and
mean and vindictive. The God who's abounding and loving, kindness
(20:25):
and truth, the God who is holy, holy, Holy, And
you have sinners steeped in sin, accusing God of unrighteousness.
It would be like this. It would be like a
twenty WoT light bulb berating the sun, telling the sun
he doesn't know how to shine because you don't shine
(20:48):
like I do. And the sun s u n laughs
at the twenty What light bulb? You don't know what
you're talking about. Listen, be careful in your understanding of
God that you don't view the heart of God through
(21:09):
the lens of circumstances. So many of us do that,
through the lens of the bad things that happen to us. Well,
bad things happen to me. Therefore, God, I'm looking through
this lens of divorce. I'm looking through this lens of
financial difficulty. I'm looking through this lens of hardship. I'm
looking through this lens of the death of a loved one.
God must not be good because this lens says He's
(21:31):
not good. That's not how you view things. You view
everything through the lens of the good, gracious, loving heart
of God. And when you look through that lens at
the circumstances, you say, you know what, I may not
understand everything, but I know that God is good. I
know that God is holy. I know that God is
(21:52):
the only God I can trust. That got.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
What a lesson?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Today?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
You heard part two of the message introducing the One
True God from the series Perspective Understanding God and Man,
and will continue with this series tomorrow. We trust you'll
be with us. Then, today is a very special day.
It's a global movement day around the world called Giving Tuesday.
Here's Pastor Jeff with more about why it's a special day.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
This is the day that represents a special opportunity to
share real hope with many more people in these challenging times.
I know you don't need me to tell you that
hope is in short supply these days. Many people are
wondering does God really have a plan in this mess?
And the reassuring answer is yes. Job said to the Lord,
(22:51):
you can do all things and no purpose of yours
can be thwarted. God can't be defeated by disease or chaos,
or recession or side all unrest, whatever else may come
our way. God is the God who is large and
in charge. He alone is Savior and Lord, and he
is the remedy to our sin and our pain. Hey,
(23:11):
all of the Bible's promises find their fulfillment in Jesus.
That's what today is all about, is sharing the hope
we have in Jesus Christ with people who desperately need it.
Right now, You're Giving Tuesday gift enables us to meet
our one day goal so that we can minister to people.
So thanks for your very best gift, all to the
(23:31):
Lord's glory. Hey, know that you're a blessing to me
and I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Our challenging goal for today Giving Tuesday is thirty five
thousand dollars. If you're so moved, please call eight sixty
six four zero Bible eight six six four zero Bible
or go to from His Heart dot org and make
that special Giving Tuesday gift today. I'm Larry Nobles hoping
that you'll be here next time. When Pastor Jeff will
(23:57):
present another insightful and empowering Mesthodge from the series Perspective
Understanding God and Man. Be with us on Wednesday for
the lesson do you see what God sees? That's here? On?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
From His Heart?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Away From His Heart is the listener supported broadcast ministry
of doctor Jeff Shreeve, celebrating twenty years of speaking the
(24:44):
truth in love to a lost and a hurting world. Remember,
no matter what, God loves you and has a wonderful
plan for your life. Find out more about that at
from his Heart dot org.
Do you understand the nature of the One True God?
Here's Pastor Jeff Shreeve.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know what I am seeing in our world today?
Sinners accusing God of being unjust. So many of us
do that through the lens of the bad things that
happen to us. God must not be good because this
lens says He's not good. That's not how you view things.
(00:28):
You view everything through the lens of the good, gracious,
loving heart of God. And when you look through that
lens at the circumstances, you say, you know what. I
may not understand everything, but I know that God is good, good,
(00:49):
with real truth, real.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
From the heart.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
What pops into your thoughts when you count to God?
A w Tozer said, what comes into our minds when
we think about God is the most important thing about us?
Is that really true? This is from his heart with
Pastor Jeff Shreeve, and today he'll help us all get
a better perspective of what we should think about when
(01:18):
we think about God. And as aw said, that is
pretty important. Today we'll discover the foundational pillars of the
character of God. And part two of this message called
Introducing the One True God. It's from Pastor Jeff's six
lesson series Perspective Understanding God and Man. And we'll be
(01:39):
in this important and truly foundational series for the next
couple of weeks, so if you miss any once they've beared,
you can go back and listen again online at fromis
Heart dot org. A quick reminder before we get started,
today has been designated Giving Tuesday. It's a global movement
today when people all over the world are encouraged in
(02:00):
inspired to give to the causes that are most important
to them. And if from His Heart has been important
to you and bless your life and you've been able
to bless others because of it, we would appreciate you
considering a special gift too from His Heart on this
Giving Tuesday. To do that, just go to fromishart dot
org and I'll tell you more later. But first we
want to open our Bible to Exodus chapter thirty three
(02:22):
and get ready for a blessing. Here again is Pastor
Jeff to introduce the One True God Exodus.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'll begin reading in chapter thirty three, starting in verse eighteen.
Then Moses said, I pray you show me your glory,
and he said, I myself will make all my goodness
pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of
the Lord before you, and I will be gracious to
whom I will be gracious, and I will show compassion
(02:52):
on whom I will show compassion. But he said, you
cannot see my face, for no man can see me
and live. When the Lord said, behold, there is a
place by me, and you shall stand there on the rock,
and it will come about while my glory is passing by.
That I will put you in the cleft of the
rock and cover you with my hand until I have
passed by. Then I will take my hand away, and
(03:13):
you shall see my back, but my face shall not
be seen. Chapter thirty four. Now the Lord said to Moses,
cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the former ones,
and I will write on the tablets the words that
were on the former tablets, which you shattered. And Moses
shattered those when he came down off the mountain the
first time and saw that the people had made an
idol and were worshiping it. Verse two. So be ready,
(03:36):
God says, by morning, and come up in the morning
to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on
the top of the mountain. And no man is to
come up with you, nor let any man be seen
anywhere on the mountain. Even the flocks and the herds
may not graze in front of that mountain. So we
cut out two stone tablets like the former ones. And
Moses rose up early in the morning and went up
(03:56):
to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him. And
he took two stone tablets in his hand. And the
Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him
as he called upon the name of the Lord. Then
the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed
the Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger,
(04:19):
and abounding and loving kindness and truth, who keeps loving
kindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin. Yet
he will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting
the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the
grandchildren to the third and fourth generations. And Moses made
(04:39):
haste to bow low toward the earth and worship. In
this passage, God is presenting himself. He is introducing himself
so to speak to Moses and to us. And I
want you to notice three discoveries that we see from
this passage, namely verses five, six, and seven Discovery number one.
(05:05):
God is the one and only God. He's the one
and only God. So the Lord is passing by. He's
gonna make all his goodness pass by. He's passing by,
and he proclaims his name. When he proclaims his name,
he is proclaiming his nature, his character, his heart, who
(05:27):
he is. And he says, the Lord, the Lord God, Yahweh.
Lord is all in caps. That means it's yahweh y hwh,
the special name of God, the covenant name of God,
the memorial name of God. It's the name that God
gave to Moses at the Burning Bush when Moses asked
(05:48):
the question, Lord, who is your name? The children of
Israel a gonna ask me what's God's name? And I
don't know your name? And God says, I am who
I am? You tell the children of Israel, I Am
has sent you. I am yahweyh yhwh, the very special
name of God. And so as God passes by, he says,
(06:08):
the Lord, the Lord God. My seminary professor in Old
Testament class he quoted that passage and he said, why
does God repeat? Why does he say the Lord the
Lord God. He said, I believe it's because God is
(06:30):
letting Moses know, letting us know that he is the
one and only Yahweyh Yahweyh God. There is no other
God but Yahweyh God. The scripture says in Isaiah forty five,
verse five, I am the Lord. I am Yahweh, and
there is no other besides me. There is no God.
(06:54):
God is the one and only God. Second discovery. God
is thoroughly and completely good, the Lord, the Lord God.
Compassionate and gracious. That's what he says about himself. Compassionate
(07:15):
and gracious. This is God introducing himself. Does he introduce
himself as a capricious, malevolent bully. No, because God is
nothing like that. God is a God who is compassionate
and gracious. That word compassionate is also translated and merciful.
(07:36):
It comes from two words. When you talk about compassion,
it's two words put together, calm which means with and
passion with me, which means suffering, with suffering. And you
apply that to God and you say, well, God is compassionate.
God feels your hurt in his heart. God is gracious,
(07:59):
compassion and gracious. And then it goes on to say,
not only is he compassionate and gracious, but he is
slow to anger. God is extremely patient. He's not limitless
in patience, because you can exhaust the patience of God.
But God is extremely patient. He is very slow to
(08:22):
get angry. He's not a capricious, malevolent bully. God is
extremely patient. And then it says that God is overflowing
with loving kindness and truth. The Lord, the Lord, compassionate
and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving kindness
and truth. Loving kindness is a cool word. It's the
(08:43):
Hebrew word hessen. That's God's loyal love. That's God's covenant love.
That's when you take God's love and God's kindness and
you meld them together. God has loyal love for his people.
God is a God who overflows with loyal love, faithful love.
(09:06):
The Lord, the Lord, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger,
and abounding, overflowing with this love, this kindness and love
mixed together, and truth and truth. That word truth means faithfulness,
it means sureness, it means stability, reliability. That's God. It
says in Psalm twenty five, verse ten. All the paths
(09:29):
of the Lord are loving kindness and truth to those
who keep His covenant and his testimonies. Every single path
of the Lord is loving kindness and truth, it says
in Proverbs sixteen, verse six. By loving kindness and truth,
iniquity is atoned for. Hey, if you want to get
your iniquity atoned for, you come to a God who
(09:52):
is overflowing with loving kindness, and you come truthfully, honestly
before him. If you don't come that way, then iniquity
is not a tone for because it takes loving kindness
and truth, loving kindness from God, truthfulness on your part,
that you come before the Lord, not trying to put
(10:13):
lipstick on a pig, not trying to dress up your sin,
but calling your sin what it really is. See. That's
why it says in one John one nine, if we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and decleanse us from all unrighteousness. If
we confess confess the Greek word homo legeo, which means
to say the same thing, if we say the same
(10:36):
thing about our sin that God says about our sin.
If we confess our sin, then he is faithful and
just to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from
all on righteousness. We have people today who want to
take their sin and say, well, it's not sin, it's
good and right what I'm doing, and so I'm going
to walk with God with this sin. No, you're not,
because by loving kindness and truth, iniquity is a tone.
(10:59):
For God is a god of loving kindness and truth,
and all his pathways are loving kindness and truth, and
he overflows with that, and both of those are critical
in understanding God. Jesus said, I am the Way and
the Truth and the life. No one comes to the
(11:19):
Father but through me. So God is thoroughly and completely good.
And that's what he told Moses. I'm gonna let my
goodness pass before you, all my beauty, all my bounty.
I'm gonna show you. He's the question. The prayer was, Lord,
show me your glory, and God's response was, well, I'll
(11:41):
let my goodness pass before you. And God's goodness is
found in the fact that he's compassionate and gracious, slow
to anger, abounding and loving kindness and truth. And he
is a God who is unfathomably forgiving. I mean, it
blows your mind that God could be as giving.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
As he is.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
But that's what he says about himself. He's abounding in
loving kindness and truth verse seven. Who keeps loving kindness
for thousands, He guards loving kindness for thousands. And he
forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. He's a God who forgives.
That word forgive means to lift, It means to carry away.
It means to pardon. And God lifts and pardons and
(12:24):
carries away iniquity, transgression, and sin. You say, aren't those
all the same things? Aren't those synonyms? Kind of? But
here's the difference. Iniquity comes from a root, which means
to twist, to make crooked. And so when we sin,
sin starts first in the mind, and you start having
(12:47):
a crooked thought, a twisted thought that if I do this,
which God says don't do, I'm gonna find satisfaction and
pleasure and that's gonna be the thing that I need.
And God says, that's not what you need. But our
twistedness in our minds says, yeah, that's what I'm gonna do.
Iniquity is a twistedness, is a crookedness. And then transgression.
(13:10):
Transgression is the act where we transgress the law of God.
Now we're not just thinking about it. Now we're doing it.
And sin comes. Sin is the guilt of the whole thing.
So I think about it, iniquity, I transgress, I do it,
and then I'm left with sin and the guilt of
my sin and the guilt of what I did. And
(13:30):
God forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. He forgives it completely
because God is an amazing God. And I don't know
what you've done, but I know God knows what you've done,
and you know what you've done. And some of us
(13:51):
think there's no way that God could forgive me. Why
because God is a capricious, malevolent bully, and man, God
is gonna, he's gonna whack me. I got really steer
clear of God because I had this sin in my life.
But that's a distortion of God. God is a God
who forgives. As David said, But you Lord are gracious,
(14:15):
You're good, and you're merciful, and you're abounding in loving
kindness to all who call upon you. You are ready
Psalm eighty six, verse five. You are ready to forgive.
So God told Moses, the Lord, the Lord God, I
am the only one that I am thoroughly and completely good.
(14:36):
And third land, finally, God is Holy, holy Holy. He
will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, because He's Holy,
holy Holy. When Isaiah in Isaiah chapter six saw the Lord,
(14:57):
he says, in the year of King Isaiah's death, I
saw the Lord high and lifted up, and his train
filled the temple. And Isaiah was able to have a
vision of the throne room of God. And he said,
the Seraphim were there at the Throne of God, and
they had six wings, and with two they covered their face,
and with two they covered their feet, and with two
they flew. And they do not cease to say, Holy, Holy,
(15:22):
Holy is the Lord of host The whole earth is
full of his glory. When John in Revelation chapter four
is caught up into heaven and he sees the four
living creatures, and they have six wings, and he says,
day and night, they do not cease to say, Holy, Holy,
Holy is the Lord God of Hosts, Who was and
(15:45):
who is and who is to come the Almighty. What
do you hear in heaven? You would hear the angels
constantly crying out.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Holy, holy, Holy, Holy, Holy Holy, Holy, holy Holy God
is Holy God, and listen, Holy God hates sin.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
He hates it, and he will by no means leave
the guilty unpunished. He wants to forgive sin, and he
cannot leave the guilty unpunished. God cannot wink at sin,
He cannot overlook sin. Some people think that, well, you know,
I think I'll just take my chances. I'll die and
I'll you know, as one man told me, I said,
what would you say to God? Why should he let
(16:34):
you into heaven? You know, if you were to die tonight,
you know, And what would you say to him? He said, Well,
I'd have to put on my sales shoes. I'd have
to really put a sales job on God. You're not
going to put a sales job on God. He knows everything.
And so the Lord looks. And if you have sin
in your life, if you are in atom, the Bible says,
(16:57):
in Adam all die, but in Christ are all made alive.
If you've never put your sin where God put his
son on the cross, then you have your sin, and
the fire of God will fall the fire that fell
on Jesus will fall on you because you've never confessed
(17:19):
your sin to him. You've never come to him for forgiveness.
You've never come in repentance to him, So you're holding
onto your sin. God has no choice but to judge you.
Because God hates sin. God is too pure to look
upon sin. Sin is never going to be in the
Lord's presence welcomed into heaven. He cannot leave the guilty unpunished.
(17:44):
And remember this, he does not ever act unjustly. See
it says at the end of verse seven, he will
by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Visiting the iniquity
of fathers on the children and on the grond children
to the third and fourth generations. And people say, that's
not fair. He's taking the father's sin, and he is
(18:08):
visiting that on the children and on the grandchildren to
the third and fourth generation. God's not fair, it says,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and
the grandchildren to the third and fourth generation. What is
the iniquity? That's the twistedness, and the twistedness in the
(18:28):
father gets passed on to the children and to the
grandchildren to the third and fourth generation. Let me illustrate
that the father of all who believe Abraham, Abraham had
a problem with lying. He has his son, Isaac. Isaac
does the same thing, the iniquity of Abraham, and that
(18:48):
twistedness is now in Isaac. And then Isaac has a son.
His name is Jacob. Jacob means con man. That's what
the name means. Sorry for you. Jacob's out there his
dad in the giving the blessing. He pretends to be
his brother, Esau. And Jacob has twelve sons, and those
twelve sons have trouble with lying. And the iniquity of
(19:14):
the father Abraham is seen in Isaac, is seen in Jacob,
is seen in his eleven sons. God visits the iniquity
of the father to the children and the grandchildren to
the third and fourth generation. But now watch it, he
keeps loving kindness for thousands. If you want to know
a distortion about God, here it is. God is skewed
(19:39):
to the good. God is skewed to the good. He's
skewed toward mercy, He's skewed toward grace, He's skewed toward forgiveness.
He keeps loving kindness for thousands. Yet he visits iniquity
to the third and fourth generations. And God is through
introducing himself in verse eight said, and Moses made haste
(20:01):
to bow low towards the earth and worship. You know
what I am seeing in our world today? Sinners accusing
God of being unjust, of being merciless and cruel and
mean and vindictive. The God who's abounding and loving, kindness
(20:25):
and truth, the God who is holy, holy, Holy, And
you have sinners steeped in sin, accusing God of unrighteousness.
It would be like this. It would be like a
twenty WoT light bulb berating the sun, telling the sun
he doesn't know how to shine because you don't shine
(20:48):
like I do. And the sun s u n laughs
at the twenty What light bulb? You don't know what
you're talking about. Listen, be careful in your understanding of
God that you don't view the heart of God through
(21:09):
the lens of circumstances. So many of us do that,
through the lens of the bad things that happen to us. Well,
bad things happen to me. Therefore, God, I'm looking through
this lens of divorce. I'm looking through this lens of
financial difficulty. I'm looking through this lens of hardship. I'm
looking through this lens of the death of a loved one.
God must not be good because this lens says He's
(21:31):
not good. That's not how you view things. You view
everything through the lens of the good, gracious, loving heart
of God. And when you look through that lens at
the circumstances, you say, you know what, I may not
understand everything, but I know that God is good. I
know that God is holy. I know that God is
(21:52):
the only God I can trust. That got.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
What a lesson?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Today?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
You heard part two of the message introducing the One
True God from the series Perspective Understanding God and Man,
and will continue with this series tomorrow. We trust you'll
be with us. Then, today is a very special day.
It's a global movement day around the world called Giving Tuesday.
Here's Pastor Jeff with more about why it's a special day.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
This is the day that represents a special opportunity to
share real hope with many more people in these challenging times.
I know you don't need me to tell you that
hope is in short supply these days. Many people are
wondering does God really have a plan in this mess?
And the reassuring answer is yes. Job said to the Lord,
(22:51):
you can do all things and no purpose of yours
can be thwarted. God can't be defeated by disease or chaos,
or recession or side all unrest, whatever else may come
our way. God is the God who is large and
in charge. He alone is Savior and Lord, and he
is the remedy to our sin and our pain. Hey,
(23:11):
all of the Bible's promises find their fulfillment in Jesus.
That's what today is all about, is sharing the hope
we have in Jesus Christ with people who desperately need it.
Right now, You're Giving Tuesday gift enables us to meet
our one day goal so that we can minister to people.
So thanks for your very best gift, all to the
(23:31):
Lord's glory. Hey, know that you're a blessing to me
and I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Our challenging goal for today Giving Tuesday is thirty five
thousand dollars. If you're so moved, please call eight sixty
six four zero Bible eight six six four zero Bible
or go to from His Heart dot org and make
that special Giving Tuesday gift today. I'm Larry Nobles hoping
that you'll be here next time. When Pastor Jeff will
(23:57):
present another insightful and empowering Mesthodge from the series Perspective
Understanding God and Man. Be with us on Wednesday for
the lesson do you see what God sees? That's here? On?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
From His Heart?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Away From His Heart is the listener supported broadcast ministry
of doctor Jeff Shreeve, celebrating twenty years of speaking the
(24:44):
truth in love to a lost and a hurting world. Remember,
no matter what, God loves you and has a wonderful
plan for your life. Find out more about that at
from his Heart dot org.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.