For LOVE and FORGIVENESS! (Closed Captioned)

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The question is: How do we respond? The answer is: PRAISE THE LORD!!! It is the LORD who forgives sin and loves us...all because of Jesus! Contact Pastor Dave @ www.ziontorrance.info

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Sunday, August 8, 2010 Closed Captioned Sermon
Let us rise for the reading of
this morning's Sermon Text recorded for us
in Psalm 103, where we read
the first 12 verses:
PRAISE THE LORD, O MY SOUL;
ALL MY INMOST BEING, PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME.
PRAISE THE LORD, O MY SOUL, AND FORGET NOT
ALL HIS BENEFITS --- HE FORGIVES
ALL MY SINS AND HEALS ALL MY DISEASES,
HE REDEEMS MY LIFE FROM THE PIT
AND CROWNS ME WITH LOVE AND COMPASSION,
WHO SATISFIES MY DESIRES WITH GOOD THINGS
SO THAT MY YOUTH IS RENEWED LIKE EAGLE'S.
THE LORD WORKS RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND JUSTICE FOR ALL THE OPPRESSED.
HE MADE KNOWN HIS WAYS TO MOSES,
HIS DEEDS TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL: THE LORD IS
COMPASSIONATE AND GRACIOUS, SLOW TO ANGER,
AND ABOUNDING IN LOVE. HE WILL NOT ALWAYS ACCUSE,
NOR WILL HE HARBOR HIS ANGER
FOREVER; HE DOES NOT TREAT US AS OUR SINS DESERVE
OR REPAY US ACCORDING TO OUR INIQUITIES.
FOR AS HIGH AS THE HEAVENS ARE ABOVE THE EARTH,
SO GREAT IS HIS LOVE FOR THOSE
WHO FEAR HIM; AS FAR AS THE EAST IS FROM
THE WEST, SO FAR HAS HE REMOVED
OUR TRANSGRESSIONS FROM US.
This is the Word of our Lord. Let us pray:
This is the day that the LORD has made.
Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Amen. [Sermon text
taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION 1978
used by permission of
Zondervan Bible Publishers.
Dear Followers
of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ:
I'm sure you're all familiar
with the television game show, "Family Feud" ...
where at the end
of the show, they bring out two people ...
ask them five questions that
they need to respond to
in order to get: 200 points!
So, was watching one of these
shows and an interesting question
caught my ear:
In the last month,
how many of the Commandments
have you broken?
And, without skipping a beat,
the older gentleman from Minnesota
shouted out: Zero!
[Pause]
And he had a lotta points!
But that wasn't the Number 1 answer.
It's kind of interesting because his daughter said:
Nine! [Laughter]
And he wanted to know which one she kept.
But the top answer was:
One!
What an interesting perception
people have
of God's Commandments.
Interesting way that people look at God's Law
and their living of that Law.
And maybe it's just stubborn
human nature, to be able to say
that when I look at my behavior,
in the past month, I
have to admit that I have trampled
all over those commands of God!
I haven't put Him first.
I've broken the First Commandment!
I can go through that entire list and see that
I have not used God's name in the way that He wants me to.
I haven't worshiped Him.
I haven't spent time with Him in His Word. I have
NOT treated those people around me in the way
that God would want me to treat them ...
with love and dignity and respect.
I have no respect for our government. I don't like
people. There are people that I hate. I have
lusted after objects of people
in this world and made them just
sexual beings. I have wanted
what is not mine. I have gossiped and slandered
the good name of other people and I have
looked at what other people have and I
want it. Those are my thoughts.
Those are my actions
in connection with God's Commandments.
I cannot keep that Law.
And I repeatedly and daily,
break each and
every one of those Commandments.
And God has revealed to me
that if I cannot keep that Law
perfectly in every aspect,
then I deserve eternal
punishment and condemnation.
That IS
what I deserve
because of my sins.
Because of the things that I leave undone that God wants me
to do that I think I'll have time for maybe tomorrow.
I deserve to be punished for
all eternity because I willingly look at what God
wants and do exactly
what He doesn't.
And sometimes I don't even care ...
because ... I want to do it!
That is what condemns us to the fires of hell.
But God has also revealed
to us in His Word, what He is like.
The LORD.
The LORD of the Covenant. The LORD God ...
the Savior of all people.
He is kind ... and compassionate;
slow to anger
and abounding in love.
That's the idea that people have of God
outside of Scripture ... who think He is some
doting parent who loves absolutely
everything that their child does, and if there's anything
that they don't like, it was someone else's fault.
It was their friend. It was their
teacher. It was the law. They can point to everything
but their own son, but that's not what God is like.
He doesn't sit in heaven and look at what we do and
say: Okay, I'll just ignore that.
He loves us more than that ...
because He knows
what we are to the very core.
Our very being ... is sinful.
In His love
and His compassion, He sent us
a Savior.
He sent us His Son ...
to save us from that pit.
That pit of despair.
That pit like those pits of tar
over on LaBrae.
Where the more you struggle and the more you try to pull,
the more tired you become and the less you want to fight and
the more it sucks you down, and sucks you in until you are
completely covered and destroyed.
That's the pit that we are in sin.
And we cannot get out of it on our own.
But God sent His Son ... came down out of heaven
in love and compassion
for us, and saved us.
Pulled us out
of that pit and washed off the blackness
the darkness of that sin ... that stain
and He made us stand as the children of God.
Made us stand in the holiness of Christ.
Made us stand clean and pure
before our God who doesn't ignore our sins ...
He forgives them!
He removes them from us. As far as the East
is from the West, He removes
them from us. And we stand as His holy
and redeemed children.
And the Psalmist this morning reminds us to praise God
that our sins are forgiven.
To call on that Name of God that we know
is the only name that saves people from
their sin: Jesus Christ!
To come to Him in praise. To
lift that Name high above each and every
other name on the face of the earth.
Because there is the forgiveness of our sins.
There is our joy. There is our gladness.
There's the comfort that we have received from God.
That OUR sins are forgiven.
And that we come to Him with thanks
for what He's done. We come to Him
acknowledging who and what we are
and not hiding from God everything that
He sees anyway. And plead
His mercy. And receive that forgiveness.
And therein is created the joy
in our life. To be able to go
to God in prayer for everything that we need
because He has forgiven us,
and He loves us.
How great is the compassion and love
that the Father has lavished on us!
That He knows what we need!
That He gave us His Son! That in this life
He continues to give us
good things; that He continues to give us
blessings that we hold in our hands and we
see with our eyes that are all around us.
We don't have a god who's up in heaven playing
games with our lives; wanting to see
how he can mess with our heads. How much turmoil
he can throw in our way. OUR GOD
loves us; and
He blesses us! And we open
our hands and we receive those blessings ...
willingly! Each and every day.
And the Psalmist reminds us to come and turn back to God in
thanks for what He has given us.
From the littlest of blessings
and the greatest of gifts,
and God gives to each of us
exactly what we need. The blessings he gives to me
are the blessings that are different from the ones
He gives to each and every one of you on every day.
But as God's children,
you know what they are.
When you look for them, you will see them.
God is abundant. He is in your life
every moment, with His care,
and His concern. He hears the prayers
that come through Jesus' name
that are carried on our faith
to His Holy heavenly throne!
And He answers them in love
for our good.
And in return, we raise the praise
of His name. We give glory
to God for who He is, for what He's done
and for what He continues to do for us
today. And, in faith, we know He will
do for us tomorrow and till the ends time
when He ends this world and takes us to be
with Him in heaven. And we will continue there
to praise His Holy Name
with all of the joy that is ours.
For the blessings of this world, pale
in comparison to what
awaits us in that heavenly Kingdom.
Where God's love wipes away our tears.
Where God's love surrounds us
at all times. Where there is no evil.
Where there is no weeping and sorrow, and mourning ...
... there IS the Glory of God.
The joy of God.
And we wait and long for that day
as we go through this life looking forward
to that time. Praising God that He has made
that secure for us. That we know the answers
to the most important
questions in the world.
Not just to win some points
and gain some money on a talk show.
But the answers to the question
that God is going to ask us, when we
face Him in death.
We confess that we ARE
sinful human beings. We PLEAD
the blood of Jesus Christ
and HIS salvation won for US.
And on that basis, we know that heaven
is ours. That heaven will be
ours for all eternity.
And there we will live in splendor
beyond our imagination.
Those are the answers that you have
because God has revealed who He is.
He has given you
what He is in the pages of Scripture.
He has told you His Name.
Praise the Name
of the LORD.
Amen.
Let us rise. Now may the
peace of God which goes beyond all of our understanding,
keep your hearts and your minds and especially your
lives, in the one true faith unto life everlasting. Amen.

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