Sunday Service 9-13-09

NOTES FROM SERMON HEARD AT:

Spirit of Fire Evangelistic Ministries

Pastor Jerry Begin

To listen to the sermon, visit:WWW.spiritoffire.org

Sunday Service 9-13-09

God is a savior AND healer
We need to go to God every day and ask Him to heal us of things of the past, including emotional and physical healing
God’s desire is to heal and save more than we realize
It is important to go before the Lord every day for healing and saving in our lives
Go before him daily to just let Him heal

Part 2
God loves us
Love – we desperately need it as much as air and water
God created us in His own likeness and image
He is love, and we are to be love.
We need to concentrate on His love.
We have a capacity and ability to love that the world would just die for
“All we need is love”- that Love is God-
God IS Love (noun), and God loves (action verb).
It is from His own Being.
If we could understand that God loves us, we would not fear. There is no fear in love. Faith works by love.
We question that God loves us daily because we really don’t know Him.
No matter what has happened, God was there. He gave man free will.
The Bible shows over and over again that God is love, always getting us out of the fire.

1Jn 4:8-11
(8) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
(9) In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
(10) Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
(11) Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Propitiation – full payment for our sins. Consider the idea of going into a restaurant and not being able to pay- results in arrest, jail, shame, etc.

We are going through life and eating off the menu without looking at the consequences.
The things we do aren’t free. Gossiping, selfishness, egotistic, taking someone’s liberty, - isn’t free
The time to pay comes.
God saw that and paid our bill.
God expects us to love like He loved you. We need to treat others like He treated us.


God’s love toward us in unconditional. His focus is only us.

God loves you- What does that mean?
While we were sinners- God sent His love.

1Jn 4:16
(16) And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

1Jn 3:1
(1) 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.

1Jn 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Like a marriage- to give ourselves totally to the other without any recompense
Love says, “I will cover your sins toward me at all times.”

Love is expressed as an example in a marriage, where a couple gives 100% giving in a marriage and when one is sinned against we are to cover sins of others 100% of the time.

God expects that kind of love toward others at all times.
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We have been told that God loves us for so long that we have become calloused. We can’t be calloused any more. This is a personal quest. You can listen to it over and over again, but we must find out for ourselves.

We must know that when we were going through the worst time of our life, God never left us.

Consider what it is to have your bill paid, without deserving. Our acts of love transform people.

Loving is to give to someone in a covenant way- we are bound to love each other because God is bound to love from His heart.

God will never forsake or abandon us regardless of who we are.

IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT OUR LIFE STORY IS, HE WILL NOT STOP LOVING US.

God is our parent

God loves me from the position as a Father, as Daddy.
Daddy- an intimate position
He is also a mother, having the characteristics emotionally as a female, having the characteristics of a Father-guidance, discipline

Consider the love of the pelican who gives her flesh so that her children can live

God loves us in that kind of manner.



Heb 12:6-8
(6) For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
(7) If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
(8) But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

When reject God’s chastening, we choose to become bastards because we don’t want His guidance. If we resist it, we choose to be a bastard- having no father. Birthed out of wedlock, out of covenant, who is not with God. We have no choice really, because God will always be our Father.
Yet God supports us- in the garden when we chose to serve the devil
God says I love you, I will bring you back to family, but I want you to live the way the family lives.
Now will you allow Him to be Father?

Stop arguing with God. Let Him do what He needs to do.

Pro 3:12
(12) For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Rev 3:19
(19) As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.


If God loves me, He has a responsibility to me. It is not just feeling. Feelings are ok, but they don’t last when things go bad. We need more than fuzzy feelings, we need absolute assurance.

Stop thinking of God as a provider. Start thinking of Him as a Daddy. He sometimes chastises us so that we don’t go back and get destroyed. Let God be God. Let Him love you. If He loves you let Him chastise you so that you can become the person He has created you to be. He will not destroy us. He will make us, build us up.