2024-05-19 Sermon Notes 2
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- How does God relate to us?
- Like a father toward his children.
- He has compassion (pity) on us.
- Why? Because He remembers how we are made (fragile), remembering that we are dust.
- See Matthew 7
- Who does God have pity toward?
- Toward those who fear Him. Psalm 103:11
- Yet, we need to be careful not to say God looks down on those who are terrified of Him
- There is no disdain, or oppression in the pity of God toward His children.
- God does not pity in the same way that the rich pity the poor man.
- There are some that have a way of giving a gift that is so condescending. It is not out of love, but instead a way to display power.
- He has paternal, patience, tenderness, and generosity toward us.
- Our Father in Heaven is not the same as our father on earth.
- See: Matt-07 > v11, Luke 11:11-13
- We should not look at our flawed father on earth and think I don't want a god who is like my father.
- Instead we should look at our perfect, loving, patient, gentle, caring Father in Heaven, and think to ourselves This is what a father should be like!
- Matthew Henry: The father pitieth his children that are weak in knowledge and instructs them. When they are fallen, he helps them up again. When they are wronged, he rights them.
- See: Matt-07 > v11, Luke 11:11-13
- God knows our frame
- This means, God knows how we are put together, what we are made of.
- We might be thinking, surely God knows how I deserve His favor. Can't God see how good I am?
- Banish this thought! We are not strong, nor worthy, nor deserving, nor self-sufficient.
- What are we? "We are dust".
- Genesis 2:7
- Genesis 3:19
- Dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
- Here today, and gone tomorrow.
- We are mortal.
- I am dust, and the LORD knows.
- He pities us and has patience for us, remembering how feeble and flawed we are. Accounting for every burden, sorrow, and challenge we face.
- God knows our human nature
- Who knows humans better than the One who designed us and made us.
- God knows us individually and personally.
- He know you, yes you. Not just anyone, but each and every one of us.
- Your Father forgives you simply because He loves you.
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