God's Love For Men - Part 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Really welcome, my friends. You're listening to the Voice of
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revelations of the end time, and to promote the advancement
of Christ's character in your life. I am Pastor Raphile Peres,
and I invite you to have a word of prayer.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for this opportunity that
you give us to meditate upon your word. Please give
us your holy guidance, your holy wisdom, so that we
can understand and work in our hearts in Jesus name.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Amen, Amen, Amen.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
We have been presenting to you, my dear audience up there,
that something that I believe is one of them. It
should be the most important topic throughout the whole Bible,
the nature the character of God. And why is this
so important for us to know? Again? Because many times

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I hear good people mis representing I should say, even
in Christianity, we hear people charging to God those things
that are not of God again. They blame God for
blood shedding, They blame God for disease, they blame God

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for calamities, They blame God for every evil thing that
Satan has been causing into this earth. And I was
going to ask Pastor Barry, there was a person, a
being that came to this earth, and he revealed perfectly
God's character. Who was a person?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Well, do we know that that person that when you
look at we talked about in our previous program, we
talked about the nature and revelation alike testify of God's love.
We also found out that though nature describes God's love
and beauty and the budding of a flower and of trees,
and that we can see the vastness of God in space,

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you can't find it into space. You cannot find out
the mind of God. At the same time we look
at we look at the love of the power of God,
and the mountains being steadfast. But turning from all these
lesser representation, there's only one who has can who can
give us the express character of God in Hebrews chapter one,

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Can you read that from me? In Hebrews Chapter one,
for a moment versus one, two and three. I just
want to show you one point as you brought this out.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
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Speaker 3 (03:59):
Remember we noted nature gives a revelation of God. But
we're looking at we're turning from those lesson representations now
and we're looking at who will become who was the
very express image of God.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
So we can see God's character the Father, the character
Father being revealed, Who revealed who came and revealed the
Father's character.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Let's see Hebrews one, one, two, three says God, who
at sundry times and in diverse manners, spake in the
time past unto the fathers by the prophets hath in
this last day, spoken unto us by his son, whom
he hath appointed the heir of all things, by whom
also he made the world, who been the brightness of

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his glory and the express image of his person, and
upholding all things by the word of his power. When
he had by himself perched our sins, sat down on
the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
I want you to notice them very carefully. It says
that God created the world by his son. Paul does
not mention Jesus by name, but he magnifies the issue
of the divinity of Christ in creating the worlds. Then
he says, Christ is the brightness of the Father's glory,
the outshining of his person. You know, this is something

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that we keep in mind. But he says He's the
outshining of the Father's glory expressed image of his person.
And this is what we find the person who came
to reveal the character of God. Only one could reveal
the character of God. No angels, though they reflected the
glory of God, could reveal the character of God. Only
one who knew the height and depth and the love

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of God could reveal the character of God. And that
one was Jesus. Jesus came to reveal the character of God.
In John seventeen, listen what Jesus says here in John seventeen.
This is what he says here. Listen carefully. In John
seventeen four and five, the Bible says, I have glorified

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on the earth. I have finished the work which Thou
gave me to do. And now O Father glorified thou
me with thine own self, with the glory which I
had with thee before the world was, before the world was?
Who was with the Father before the world was. This
takes us back to John one one. Can you read

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John one two and three four its color?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, And it says in the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God. All things
were made by him, and without him was not anything
made than was made.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Now noticed he said he had glorified. He said, glorify that,
he says here verse five and six. Now notice John
seventeen five and six. And now, O Father glorified thou
me with thine own self, with the glory I had
with thee before the world was. So we know that
this is Jesus, who was also the word made. The
word would also be made flash and dwell among us.
But listen carefully. I have manifest verse six. I have

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made manifest thy what thy name? What is his name?
We found out earlier in a previous said it was merciful, gracious,
long suffering, abundant goodness and truth. I have manifest thy
name unto who, unto men, which thou gavest me out
of the world dying, it says, dying they were, and

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thou gavest them me and now and says, and have
kept thy word. So here with Jesus is doing what
he says. I came, and I manifest thy name unto men.
And so we find here that Jesus comes to manifest
God's name. But God's name is his character. When Philip
asked him one day, Lord, show us the Father. Jesus said, Philip,

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have I not been so along with you? And you
have not seen the Father? Now, looking at the text
on the surface, we say, what do you mean, show
us the Father? I mean, you know you would think
like that. What is Jesus saying? Have I not been
soldng with you? Is Jesus the Father? No, But Jesus'
character is expressed image of the Father. So if you
say seeing him, if you've seen how his character is,

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my Father is the same. And this will be the
same way with the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit
is the representative of Jesus Christ. So when you see
the Holy Spirit, when the Holy Spirit's attributes are manifest,
you're actually looking at Jesus because he's the representative. That's
why later on you can hear see say that the
Holy Spirit is Jesus Christ. Because Holy Spirit is the

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representative of Jesus Christ on earth. And at the same time, here,
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three
distinct beings, but they're one in mind, one in character,
and one in purpose for the salvation of mankind and
for his redemption and for his restoration. But at the
same time, they have distinct offices of work. Jesus office

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is our work, is our great high priests. The Holy
Spirit's office is to dwell with us and in us,
to teach us, guide us, and help us develop the
character of Christ fully through the fruits of the Spirit.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Amen, so we can reveal, So we.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Can reveal the glory of God.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Look what Isaiah forty three seven says.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Amen, that's the my friends out there. That is the
purpose for the of the Gospel, to redeem man and woman, sinners,
make make make out of sinners, man and women. Now
that can reveal God, God, Christ, glory and glory.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Okay, you have a yes, I say A forty three
seven says even everyone that is called by my name.
For I have created him for my glory. I have
formed him. Yeay, I have made him.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
If you are a Christian, and no matter what church
you're at right now, but if you are a true
Christian and you're living up to the light that God
has given you, the purpose of your existence is clear.
God has created you for his glory. When God formed
Adam from the dust of the ground. Though formed from
the dust of the ground, Adam was a child of God,
a son of God, made in the image of God,

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made to reflect the very mind of his creator. This
is the purpose of redemption. When sin in the world,
it marred that creation. It's separated man from God, and
man no longer reflected the mind and character of his creator,
but he reflected the mind and character of an enemy.
And this is why he said, we're in the midst
of a great controversy. But for people who are standing

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on our side, who see these things, they cannot discern.
They cannot decipher why this is going on. Why, Because
the Bible says the natural man receiveth not the things
of the spirit of God. Neither can he know them,
for they are spiritually discerned. And so the carnal mind
is at enmity with God. Therefore they question God and

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they get mad, and they say, well, if God is
love and these all these things, why is he allowing
all this, and why don't he do something? Well, the
answer comes in a way that they may not like
in the beginning, because if you're carnal minded, you can't
see things. But if you give God time, if you
would take time to stop questioning God and start listening
to God, you may get the answer your heart deeply

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longs for. That yearning for that emptiness is in your
heart from time to time, that desire to wonder, is
there anything more in life? I have money, I have cars,
I have home, I have a good job, but I
don't have the love of God. I don't know what
that means. And that void in your heart is not
the desire for sex or drugs, or drinking, or violence

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or carousing. That void that's deep in the heart that
leads to lack, an empty feeling of wanting to commit
even suicide. That void is put there by God, is
to know the love of God. Deep down in your heart.
You yearn for love. You learn for someone to understand
you learn to be free from sin. You yearn to

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be free from the bondage of your own evil habits.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
So, according to the Bible, I like this because thing
I can see hope. Yes, in me, my radio listeners,
there is hope for each on the bus. So when
we hear people, even preachers, saying, but it is impossible
to please God because we are carnal, we are.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Sinner, that is true. But that is true, it's impossible
for to please God while being in a carnal mind.
But when you're born again, and the Bible says, except
the man be born again, and he cannot see the
Kingdom of God. But except the man be born of
the ward and spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
But when a man is born again, and as the
partaker of the divine nature, a man desires, his heart

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has changed. He's taking over. His stony heart is taken away,
that heart, the heart that didn't want to please God,
that heart that felt it was impossible to do what
God wanted. That heart has been changed because Ezekiel thirty six,
twenty six, this might read that for me, this is
what the Lord said he would do for the carnal
minded man out there, for the atheist. So for one
who's doubting God today, I want you to listen to

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what your creator, your redeemer, your God, wants to do
for you if you would give him an opportunity in
your life.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Ezekiel, what did.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
You say, Ezekiel thirty six, twenty six.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Thirty six twenty sixes A new heart also will they
give you? And a new spirit will I put within?

Speaker 3 (13:19):
For what did he say? He will probably will give you.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
A new heart?

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Do you long for a change. Not a change by
positive thinking, yeah, not a change by behavior modification, But
do you long for a transformation of your mind, your heart,
your character. Well, the Bible says, your God, whose love merciful, gracious,
long sorf and abundant, un the truth, willing to forgive
transgressions and iniquity and sins. He said, a new heart. Well,

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I give you. All you got to do is accept
what Jesus offers. Give him your heart today, and he
will give you a new heart. Listen what it says,
and I will.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Take away this stony heart out of your flesh, will
give you on the heart of flesh.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
You will take away that stony heart, the carnal mind
at heart, that heart that was against God, had imity
against God. And he will give you a heart of flesh,
a heart that is soft, a heart that is cast compassion,
a heart that doesn't want to curse and be violent
any longer. A heart that will have mercy on your wife,
your family, your children. A heart that will be full

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of love and gratefulness for the little things in life
as well as the big ones.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
That is the greatest need that we have in society today.
So the reason that we see so much tragedy in society,
is so much opposition, so much fighting, and so on
and so on, it is because that is lacking in
human being.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
And unfortunately, sorry, I would like to say something like
we mentioned earlier. There's a great controversy going on, and
so the enemy wants us to think that I'm too bad. Yeah,
I'm too bad already. Why will we God want someone
like me? But we also read in the previous program,
I say at fifteen ninety one that the Lord's hand
is not shortened, so he's still stretching out his hand

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to save. So we just need to, you know, get
a hold of him.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Amen. Hey, hey, Pasta Pary, we got a new preacher
over here. No, no, we got.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
A new preacher.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
And by the way, what you just grow, Paster Perry,
that Karla was reading that is the promise of the
New Covenant, and that you know, many times we hear
good preachers they talk much about the New Governance, but
unfortunately they want to apply the New Covenant to make

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people believe that it's that we don't have to keep
the love Guard. But it is the opposite. If you
keep reading in the same book of Ezechio, chapter thirty six.
But on the verse twenty seven, please read that one too,
and then we're going to read it in the New Testament.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
And I will put my spirit within you and cause
you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep
my judgments and do them.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Okay. So let's go now to the book of Hebrew,
the New Testament, chapter ten, verse eight to ten. And
you would see, my friends out there, that beautiful promise.
One of the beautiful promise of the New Covenant is
God promising to us again sinners, to put into our

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heart or made of each one of us, a transformation
in which we can be obedient. We can reveal god
character in our life here in this earth.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Okay, go ahead, I'm reading Hebrews ten, verses eight through ten.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Ten.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yes, he would tend eight three ten says above when
he said sacrifice an offering and burnt offerings and offering
for sin, thou wouldest not neither has pleasure they're in
which are offered by the law. Then said he lo,
I come to do thy, Oh God, He taketh away
the first that he may establish the second.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Eighteen.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
I'm trying to know.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
It was eight ten Okay, this is the covenant.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
For this is the covenant that I will make with
the House of Israel after those day days, sorry, say
the Lord. I will put my laws into their mind
and write them in their hearts, and I will be
to them a god, and they shall be to meet
a people.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Okay, sure, what is the promise of the new and
the new covenant.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
That he's low in our hearts and minds?

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, see that for a moment. God is going to
put his law in our minds. What type is this legalistic?
I want to know, because today people charge God's people
or ministers who would advocate the importance of God's law
this time we live in a world where nothing can
function successfully without order. God is a god of order,

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right therefore he's also a god of love. But he's
a god of order, and therefore he's a god of
He has laws. If we remove all our laws from
society right now, we see chaos. We watch the laws
of God be removed. We watched the laws of man
in our society being undermined. This past sun is under
this past summer. We saw people who were supposed to

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be in government not enforcing the law. And we saw
chaos and riots in the streets. We even have we
even had people saying, defund the police. What is that?
That's an that's an indication of what would happen if
we do away with law and when we don't enforce law.
But that's man society. How much more if we feel

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this was important for people to feel protected and secure
by having police and having laws in the land, then
how much more God himself. No kingdom can survive without law.
A king has a ruly has a law, God's law.
Even this, and carefully to this. In Matthew six thirty three,

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it says, seek first the Kingdom of God in all
its righteousness. Most of us say, well, righteousness only simply
means right doing, and that's true, but not right doing
in your own strength, but in the power of Christ's
righteousness in your life. But the Bible also tells us
what righteousness also is. It's more than just it's two
aspects of righteousness. So we can see this for a moment.

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First of all, in Philippians three nine, it says, and
being found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which
is of the law, but that would just do the
faith of Christ. The righteousness which is of God by faith.
So we find here the righteous which are of God
by faith, is talking about the character of Christ in
our lives, the fruits of the Spirit, which is all goodness, righteousness,
and truth based off Ephesians five nine. But now go

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a little closer. Now we see something else in Psalms
one nineteen one seventy two. What else is righteousness? Can
you read there? For its cost?

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Please read one nineteen one seventy two. Right, please, the
Word of God says, my tongue shall speak of thy word,
for all thy commandments are righteous.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Notice my tongue to speaking of that? Where all thy
commandments are what righteousness? So let's stop for a moment.
Now we see that God's kingdom consists of not on
us being born again and not only us having the
Holy Spirit, and not on us receiving Christ's righteousness by
faith in our life and receiving his merits. The Bible
also shows God's commandments are connected to his kingdom, the

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kingdom of righteousness. If the commandments are connected to the kingdom,
would the commandments be seen or mentioned before you enter
the kingdom or while you're about the inner that kingdom?
Especially when Jesus shall come the second time. Revelation twenty
two fourteen put it in words that's unmistakable call it.
Can you read there for us?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Revelation twenty two fourteen says, blessed are they that do
his commandments, that they may have right to the Tree
of life and may enter in through the gates into
the city.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
The tree of life and the gates of the city
are in the kingdom. We pray every day, Lord, our Father,
which are in heaven, Thy kingdom, Come, Thy will be done.
God's Kingdom. First must abide in you spiritually, by you
being born again. But ultimately there will come the literal
kingdom of God, when Jesus shall come the second time,

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and we will go home to be with him. When
we go home to be with him, he will swing
put his hands on the golden hinges of the gates
of glory, and he will open those gates for those
who have loved God and kept his commandments. And the
Bible said, we will eat of the tree of life,
and we will enter in and through the gates of
the city. We see that God's kingdom, God's government stands sure.

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His government has law. It is not anarchy. It will
not be violence there will not be murder and crime,
there will not be people having racial issues. Brothers, this
issue that we see today, the things that we're watching today,
indicates that no kingdom can survive without a rule of law.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
So can we find in the Bible, let's give it
a couple of a couple more Bible verses to show
to our radio listeners that yes, God's kingdom, God's government.
It's based on laws, yes, and commandment yes. Because otherwise,
like you mentioned and exactly that's what Lucifer wanted in

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having established to be a kingdom of chaos, of anarchy
on God's trump and.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
At that, and one thing I want to bring out
is the law. Can we're not dealing with legalism of
the law. No, of course, you see, when you break
the law, the law doesn't cry if I kill someone.
The law doesn't cry. If I steal from someone, the
law doesn't feel it. Even though the law said thous

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are not steal The law said, du should I kill?
If I lie on someone, the law doesn't feel the
brunt of that life. So why is what is it
about the law that's so important that God put connects
it to himself, Because when we sin, we do not

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break just the law, we go against the very character
of God himself. You see, the story was told about
a mother who loved her son to death, and she
raised her son as a Christian, and she raised her
son within the commandments of God out of love and
said and taught him when he was young that he

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should not break God's commandments him and her. His mother
and father both put this in this young man. One day,
the young man went and he stole something from a store,
and the store owner just happened to know his parents.
He grabbed the young man by the ear and said,
I'm gonna have to tell your parents about this. And

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the young man thought about it. He was he was broken,
and he thought to himself, I shouldn't have done this thing.
My mother taught me better. But but but when I
get home, my mother's gonna get me and I'm gonna
I'm gonna get disciplined for this. And he's he kept
thinking about the punishment that he was going to receive.
And suddenly, as he got closer to home, his heart

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is beating fast with the with the with the thought
of discipline and the thought of his mother's and fathers
uh stretching out the discipline for him. When he got
to the door, he saw his parents weeping. He couldn't
understand why his parents were weeping. Suddenly his mother spoke,

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with tears streaming down the treeks, I raised you better
than this. Wait a minute. He stole the candy bar
from the store. The store owner caught him. He's worried
about the consequences of his actions, but he he's not
sorry for his actions because the only see is the
consequences of his going to get disciplined. But when he

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gets home, he sees his mother's love for him. I
raised you better than this, son. How could you do
this to us? Now the transgression of law became personal?
How could you do this to us? This is why

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God asks us to know him, because only when we
know him do we understand when we violate the law,
we sin against him. Joseph loved God so much that
wins Pharaoh. When Potiphar's wife came to him and said, Joseph,
I want you to lie with me, he said, how
can I do this sin against my God? God? Yes?

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Notice what happened. Joseph ran from sin and Adam and
Eve in the garden of Eden. When they got caught.
They said, we heard thy voice in the garden, and
I was afraid because I was naked. And he said,
who told you that I was naked? Has enough? He said, now, Noice,
we heard there was a garden and were afraid and
we were naked. Adam and E was running from the

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presence of God.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Hey, can we leave it right right there? This is
a very important topic. We're going to pick it up
in the next program. Just for today, we had to close,
reminding each one of you the same stations that you're
listening the same hour. We're gonna come back to you
in the meantime. Just remember God's love does not take

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away the obedience that we should have towards His law.
God bless you all.

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