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The Furious Love of God Rom 3:23-24 (ESV) 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ravi Zacharias said in a pod cast – When I love you and you refuse to love me I hurt because I have lost something. When God loves you and you refuse to love God he hurts too. God hurts not because he has lost something, but because you have lost something. That is the purity of his love and the value he places on you. God did not hurt because He had lost something - He hurt because we had lost something - And God wanted to give us back - What we had lost. - Which was Himself ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brennan manning quoting from C.K. Chesterton’s - book “Tremendous trifles”. - Calls the grace of God – The furious Love of God. (Brennan Manning, The ragamuffin Gospel pg. 20) Php 3:8 (ESV) Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ “3 yrs out of the marine corps – 1st day at seminary – a beautiful man told me, “Kid, you will not understand this now, but the day you experience the love in the heart of Jesus Christ – nothing else in the world will ever again seem that beautiful or desirable.” (Brennan Manning – The reality of our Christian existence – Youtube) 1 John 4:16-17 (NLT) 16…God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 17And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect… Do you know that God loves you - just as you are? Do you know that God likes you – Just as you are? - God is not waiting to Love you o When you get to where you should be o Because if He was waiting o To love you or me o When we get to where we should be o He will never love us - in the here and now. o Because we will never be - who we should be o Until Jesus comes back ------------------------------------------------------------------ For Christ did not die to make people - That will have good morals - And now make positive right choices Jesus Christ died on Calvary - So we will finally once again - Not hide from Him who is Love - Look full in His wonderful face - And let Him reveal His Glory - Through the sin filled flesh - Of a person - That He is madly in Love with. - All by the furious Love of God. - That we call the Grace of God ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Grace is the active expression of his love. The Christian lives by grace as Abba’s child, utterly rejecting the God who catches people by surprise in a moment of weakness—the God incapable of smiling at our awkward mistakes, the God who does not accept a seat at our human festivities, the God who says “You will pay for that,” the God incapable of understanding that children will always get dirty and be forgetful, the God always snooping around after sinners.” (Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel Pg.38-39) To know Christ - was Life for Paul. Because nothing else would ever be - as beautiful or desirable - As knowing Christ more - Than he did yesterday. Robert Farrar Capon in the book - Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace. Wrote this: “The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellarful of 1500 year-old, 200 proof grace - of bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the gospel-after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps-suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home before they started…Grace has to be drunk straight: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale; neither goodness, nor badness, nor flowers that bloom in the spring of super spirituality could be allowed to enter into the case.” (Robert Farrar Capon in the book - Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace pg. 114-115) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ When Love sees you – by: Third day Here are some of the verses Tell me your story, show me your wounds And I'll show you what Love sees when Love looks at you Hand me the pieces, broken and bruised And I'll show you what Love sees when Love sees you I see what I made in your mother's womb I see the day I fell in love with you. I see your tomorrows, nothing left to chance I see My Father's fingerprints I see your story, I see My name Written on every beautiful page You see the struggle, you see the shame I see the reason I came I came for your story, I came for your wounds To show you what Love sees when I see you ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rom 3:23-24 (ESV) 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zHk95UnsE Mac Powell (Third Day) - Films and Music Inspired by THE STORY "When Love Sees You" (JESUS)