Transcript: Bible Teachings on God's Jealous Love: Transforming Faith

In the book of Nahum, Nahum 1-2, We learn something about our Heavenly Father that is very, very vital and key for us to really understand. Nahum 1-2. God is a jealous and avenging God. He is the Lord. The Lord is avenging and wrathful. And the Lord takes vengeance on his adversary and he reserves wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power. and the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished in a whirlwind and a storm in his way. Can we know that there is only one thing God is truly jealous over, dear church? God is very jealous over your love for him. And the word of God tells us that God is always drawing people to himself with cords of love. Jesus declared in the Gospel of John, John 6, 44, No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me attracts and draws him and gives him the desire to come to me. You see, our Savior is very jealous over our love to him. And God the Father has chosen you. He's hand-picked you and He's touched your heart in some measure and degree to cause you to respond to the call of love that was extended to you. And He will fight to keep you in that very first love that you felt for Him when you first answered the call to come to Him. and he will send his holy angels to guard and guide you into a deeper place of knowing his jealous love which comes level after level as you pursue him. In Matthew 11, 28 In Matthew 11, 28 Jesus declared Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Jesus knows that we are easily sidetracked with the cares of the world, and he offers us a place of the greatest rest and peace that is found in himself. and his desire is that you give him your burdens and in return you will learn of his gentle and humble ways which will give you rest and peace beyond description. His jealous love is not an evil kind of love. It is totally opposite of that. Just as we are jealous over those that we love, so it is with God. He has fatherly jealousy over his people because he loves them. And his burning love for his own will not allow their oppressors to go unpunished. Just as loving parents would guard and protect their own children, so it is with God our Heavenly Father. In Nahum 1.2 to remind you, God is a jealous and avenging God. He is the Lord. The Lord is avenging and wrathful. and the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and he reserves wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power and the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished in a whirlwind and storm in his way. God loves you and me and he will not bear or allow any rivals to come and lay claim on you since his son Jesus Christ paid a high price to have you as his very own. He bought you, precious one, with his own blood and he cannot endure that you should turn away from him. You must not think that you are your own. He loves you with a jealous love and has a burning passion to completely own you and call you his own. In 1 Corinthians 6.19, please. 1 Corinthians 6.19 Do you not know that your body is a temple, the very sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who lives within you, whom you have received as a gift from God? You are not your own. Verse 20 You were bought with a price, purchased with a precious, and paid for, made his own, and then honor God and bring glory to him in your body. You see, love motivated Jesus to come and give his life for you and me. And he left his throne of glory and heaven stopped and stood still as he spilled out his precious life's blood and went through a horrible death upon the cross and died for yours and my sins. And he went to hell on our behalf so that we would not have to go there, so that he would completely have us and multitudes of others as his very own. This is love. Oh, what love our Savior to call us his own. What love he has for us to call us his own. And oh, yes, he has every right to be jealous over you and me. He gave his life so that we would not perish. And after he had breathed his last breath upon the cross, he then went to hell and fought with the great adversary and went back the keys of death and Hades. And now he offers eternal life to all who will repent of their sins and begin to live their new life in him. Eternal life means to know the one and only living God and his son Jesus Christ. And this is saying that he, Jesus, now has taken back the keys that Satan had stolen from our first parents, Adam and Eve, when they sinned against God in the Garden of Eden. And Jesus now stands in the authority of his office and holds the keys of hell and death. And Satan does not have a right to keep us in his dark kingdom of death and doom any longer. Jesus holds sovereign dominion in and over the invisible world. Now no one can open and no one can shut that door to the eternal world but Jesus. as the great judge of all, as the greatest name over every other name, as the greatest authority ever given, Jesus now stands as our Savior and sovereign ruler over the enemies of the dark kingdom. And he gave his life for our sins. And now Satan does not rule in our lives unless we allow him to. But dear one, this is why Jesus came. He came to offer you and me his love and his perfect place of rest and peace that is found only in himself. He has given you and me the best gift, and that is his Holy Spirit, who has come to live within and make our temples a fit place where the king is pleased to dwell. He created us to love him. Can we not say, Oh, jealous love, have your way in me. This is the title of the message today. Oh, jealous love. Jesus, dear one, is jealous of your trust. He works ever so diligently through his Holy Spirit in you to not trust in your own self. It breaks his heart when you or I begin to dig our own cisterns and endeavor to fill them with our own earthy supply, which could never touch the vast reserve of his ever-flowing and everlasting, fresh, heavenly supply. The earthy composition which makes up the cisterns we might build crack in time. and cannot hold what stale waters we pour into them. Only God's heavenly supply of living waters could ever satisfy man's highest desires of attaining deep fellowship with himself, which comes by way of the Holy Spirit he has freely given to true believers. In the book of Jeremiah 2, verse 11, Jeremiah 2, 11, He declares, Has a nation ever changed its gods, even though they are not gods? But my people have changed their glory, their God, for that which does not profit. Be astonished and appalled, O heavens, at this. Be shocked and shrivel up with horror, says the Lord, at the behavior of the people. Verse 13, For my people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. Once we come to Christ, the work of precious Holy Spirit is to undo and overthrow every idol in your life. And these idols come in many forms and ways. Idols would be anything that stands in the way of you and your God. God wants us to be single-focused, and he demands that he be first in our lives. And if he is not, then we have an idol or we have idols. Until the Spirit of God establishes you in the truth, the tendency of human nature is to wander back into the world because we can see through the eyes of sins. The word that we have just read in verse 13 declares, My people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. paraphrased, God is saying they have forsaken me they have backslidden and trusted in themselves and have not leaned upon my arm of love when we lean upon Christ he is delighted because we put our trust in him and his love for us Jesus wants us to be totally dependent upon him, dear ones and when we rely upon ourselves or worldly minded friends or pretenders of the faith who have nothing in the way of offering in sound advice or godly wisdom we trust in vain and empty words and God is displeased with our poor choice when he has given us everything we need if we will turn to him and trust him It is in times like these that he may chasten you to bring you to himself He is a jealous God and his love burns with a passion for you to know of his great love for you. and he also looks for this divine and heavenly love in you where you begin to be aware of in your own life that it must be reciprocated back to him. This is a mutual exchange where love flows from him to you and you flow that heavenly love back to God. This is called the ever-flowing fountain of agape love. giving him back what he so freely pours out to and into you. In the Song of Solomon, in Song 1-7, Song of Solomon 1-7, addressing her shepherd, she said, Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, and where you make it lie down at noon, why should I as I think of you be as a veiled one straying beside the flocks of your companions the maiden here is in search of the one whom her soul loves and she does not want to remain veiled you see the maiden in the song of songs typifies the type of believer who is seeking a deeper relationship with the lover of her soul And this is more than just a shallow, empty experience of salvation that many, many fall into after they confess Jesus Christ as their Savior. Jesus is looking for those with whom he can share his heart, his purposes, and his plans. And he earnestly desires to share his life with those whom he can enter into a mature relationship with. He's looking for those who desire to enter into intimate union called fellowship with him. It is with these whom this love song and song of Solomon is speaking of and who will make up the bride church. Many people say that they hope that they can love Jesus or that they can believe that they love him, almost with a question mark at the end. With these people, they only have a poor and empty experience that will only mistakenly keep them content and satisfied to stay where they are because they did not care to put forth the effort and time in cultivating this precious union. Not one who comes into the faith ought to give themselves rest until their spirit bears witness with the Holy Spirit that they are quite sure of this matter, which is of vital importance. And we are speaking of salvation. Salvation is the beginning of this precious and divine love union with God and his son Jesus Christ. And we should not be satisfied with a superficial and shallow hope that Jesus loves me kind of thing, accompanied with a deceptive thread-barren trust or faith that we love him. when Apostle Paul spoke in his epistles he spoke positively and clearly by saying I know whom I have believed or Job when he declared I know that my Redeemer lives or King David when he could not hold back from declaring his love to God by saying in Psalms 18.1 I love you fervently and devotedly O Lord my God my strength the Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer and my God my keen and firm strength in whom I will trust and take refuge my shield and the horn of my salvation my high tower or prophet Isaiah when he declared in the book of Isaiah 26 9 My soul yearns for you, O God, in the night. And yes, my spirit within me seeks you earnestly. For only when your judgments are in the earth will the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness, uprightness, and right standing with God. What true love to God is in the expression of those who have had their hearts and souls flooded with the jealous love of God and their Savior. You too must have a positive expression and knowledge of your love for Jesus. And you must not be satisfied until you can speak of your dear Savior's love for you as a living reality. And this comes by having your own experience, which comes by the witness of the Holy Spirit and the work he has worked in your soul, and that is by faith. The Apostle Peter tells us in 1 Peter 8 that though you have not seen him, you love him. And I might say, this is truly a miracle in your life. You love him whom you cannot see, 1 Peter 1.8. Without having seen him, you love him. Though you do not even now see him, you believe in him and exult and thrill with inexpressible and glorious triumph and heavenly joy. At the same time, you receive the result, the outcome, the consummation of your faith, the salvation of your souls. This is indeed a miracle because true love to Christ Jesus in the life of every believer is the work of the Holy Spirit and it must be worked by Him in your heart and soul and it is progressive. He is the only one who could be the cause of bringing about so great a salvation. It is a divine gift, but how can we explain it? The scripture in 1 John 4.19 gives us the explanation. 1 John 4.19. I just have to pause here and say, don't you just love the word of God? He always gives us the answer to the eternal things so we are not left in the dark. And his truth brings us into the light. Hallelujah. 1 John 4.19 Here's the answer. We love him because he first loved us. Yes, this is the only way this love is brought about. By the Holy Spirit. Why do we love Jesus? The word says because he first loved us so we could then love him and his father. We love Jesus because he gave himself for us, and we have life through his death. We love Jesus because he spilled out his life's blood for us and went to hell on our behalf. We love him because he has made peace beyond all description possible for us. And we love him because he stooped so low to come and fill us with his beauty and his love. And we love him because we have caught the wonder of his greatness and have been the recipients of his goodness and have experienced the weight of his presence or glory, which declares back to him, Oh yes, my jealous love, you are altogether lovely, you are most beautiful, perfect one. Jesus, there is none. like you. You see, this love that grows out of experience with the lover of your soul is a love which binds your heart with cords of love from your heavenly Father. There is no light in all the earth that can light the whole earth but the light that comes from the sun, which was hung in place by the one true God who made the heavens and the earth. And there is no light to light the night, but that which comes from the moon. But it too, the moon, receives its light from the sun as it reflects the sun's rays. And there is no true love either, but that love which comes from the heart of God to men and women who will receive it. It is only from this heavenly fountain where the infinite love of God flows to us and where our love springs back to Him. And after this precious gift of love is conceived in your heart, it must be divinely nourished. Love feeds on love. And we love Him because He first loved us. This becomes our daily food or manna. We grow in the Word to learn of God's great love for us. And this growth must become our constant motive and sustaining power of our love back to God. We are first renewed and feed on the milk of the Word as little babies. But in order to grow into the greater and deeper revelation of God's jealous love for us, we begin to be privileged to receive the higher revelation of truth called the meat of the word. The milk of the word is likened to the foundational truths and principles of God's word. They are necessary for us to be well established on the foundation. And this is also how it is for a little baby. The little baby needs the milk in order to be nourished. The meat of the word is the higher revelation of God's word. And it comes to those who were faithful and stayed the course by being built into the foundational truths and became solidly grounded on and in Jesus Christ. When we are babes in Christ, we experience his favors and we grow in his grace. and the favors that God extends to us keeps us feeding upon his love. But as we mature, the more grace we have received, we begin to love the lover of our souls for a greater reason. We love our dear Jesus because the bottom line is he deserves to be loved. Yes, let me say it again. We love him because he deserves to be loved. Love blossoms and greater insights as to who he is and what he has really done begins to really break your heart. You begin to see yourself really in the light of the woman in the account of Luke 7.37, whose scripture says was an adulterous woman, a vile sinner, and who weeping broke open the alabaster box of costly ointment and began to pour it over the feet of Jesus and she wiped his feet with her hair. Luke 7 37 And behold a woman of the town who was an especially wicked sinner when she heard that he was reclining at the table in the Pharisee house brought an alabaster box filled with ointment and standing behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and began to wipe them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet affectionately and anointed them with the ointment or the perfume. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, If this man were a prophet, he would surely know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a notorious sinner, a social outcast devoted to sin. When you come to truly understand what Jesus did for you, you too, just like this woman who was a sinner, recognized with great appreciation the love of her Savior. She could not do enough for him. This was her first step towards her Christ. She loved him for his mercies and kindness towards her and that he would forgive her sins. She wept tears that fell on his feet and she wiped his feet with her own hair and she kissed his feet. Her love for her Christ could not be demonstrated in a deeper way for the kindness that he had extended to her. This was her food. But verse 39 says the Pharisee who had invited Jesus to his home, seeing this vile sinner weeping over Jesus' feet and anointing them with costly oil, said to himself in his own heart, If this man were a prophet, he would surely know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a notorious sinner, a social outcast devoted to sin. But let us not forget, this is the reason that Jesus came. He died for our sins. We were all notorious sinners. We all opposed God's ways. Sin is sin, and we were all guilty sinners. But our assurance is that God is ever so close to hear our cry and restore us back into his love, dear ones. In Psalms 145, verse 18, declares, The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him sincerely and in truth. He will fill the desires of those who reverently and worshipfully fear him, and he will hear their cry and will save them. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I ask you today, what would you do for Jesus? What have you done for Jesus? How will you demonstrate your love to him, showing him in appreciation what he did for you in his death upon the cross? Have you been faithful to him? Do you obey his commands and his precepts? Do you deny him in the way that you live and act in the course of your daily life? Is the world more thrilling than the love of your Savior? Does fashion, name brands, material things, honor of men, career or money hold first place in your life? We are all tested in our love to Christ to show if it is sincere and real. For some, the test of your love to Christ is right in your own household. Matthew 10.36 Matthew 10.36 declares, And a man's foes will be they of his own household. He who loves and takes more pleasure in father or mother more than in me is not worthy of me. And he who loves and takes pleasure in son or daughter more than in me is not worthy of me. And he who does not take up his cross and follow me, cleave steadfastly to me, conforming wholly to my example in living, and if need be in dying also, is not worthy of me. Verse 39. Whoever finds his lower life will lose it, the higher life, and whoever loses his life on my account will find the higher life. See, families can be idols that stand in the way of receiving your Savior's love. and this is one of the ways in which we deny our Lord's love. Our children can be idols and we put them first before God. We take more pleasure in pleasing them rather than pleasing the one who died for us. Apostle Peter outrightly denied Jesus by saying that he didn't know him. And in John 21, 17, Jesus tests Peter's love for him as he reinstates him back into office. John 21, 17. He said to him the third time, Simon, son of John, do you love me with a deep instinctive personal affection for me as a close friend? Peter was grieved. He was saddened and hurt that he should ask him this the third time. Do you love me? And he said to him, Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you, that I have a deep, instinctive, personal affection for you as a close friend. And Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep. Such love our Lord has for us, that when we truly repent of our turning away from him, he forgives and reinstates us back into his love. And another way that we show our love to Christ is by the way that we treat others, and especially the brotherhood of believers. This is the first real test of showing our love to Christ, just as the Jews sought to kill Paul, yet Paul loved them. And we are all Pharisees by nature. We love our friends, and we hate our enemies. But we are Christians by the grace of God. And we must grow into the place where we can love our enemies and pray for them as Jesus taught in practice, giving us the example. It is easy to love a friend, but only a godly man or woman can love his enemies. And by doing this, we do more good to ourselves than we do to our enemies. Paul had a great love for his enemies, but he didn't withhold the truth from them. Paul was jealous over his flock. And we read of this jealous love for the people in 2 Corinthians 11.2. 2 Corinthians 11.2, we see this jealous love for the people that Paul was leading. For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you have received a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you may well put up with it. See, Paul was jealous over the fact that the false teachers had come in to steal the Lord's inheritance whom Paul had labored long and hard for. And his motive for the people was from the purest of motives. It was from a sanctified heart and it was marked with truth and sincerity. and he was one who was jealous over others with a pure intent and that was for the prospering of the kingdom of God. Paul was exhorting the people to be obedient to the ways that he had taught them. He had previously said to them, model yourselves after me as I follow Christ. Apostle Paul proved his love to the Lord when he gave his very life for Christ's sake. now in contrast Judas' love was a love that was feigned it was not sincere or it was not real Judas kissed his Lord and betrayed him and dear one your love for the lover of your soul will be tested and tried often in your Christian sojourn you are given the measure of faith to believe that you needed Jesus' forgiveness for your sins. And your faith grows into a deeper love and appreciation as you learn through the word who Christ Jesus really is and what he has really done to purchase you back from the kingdom of darkness. Yours and my faith will be tested to show the genuineness of it. In 1 Peter 1-2, please go with me and let's see this. who were chosen and foreknown by God the Father and consecrated, set apart, and made holy by the Spirit to be obedient to Christ Jesus the Messiah and to be sprinkled with his blood. May grace, spiritual blessing, and peace be given to you in increasing abundance, that spiritual peace to be realized in and through Christ, freedom from fears, agitating passions, and moral conflicts. Praise be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ By his boundless mercy, we have been born again to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, born anew into an inheritance which is beyond the reach of change and decay, imperishable, unsolid and unfading, reserved for you in heaven. Verse 5. who are being guarded and garrisoned by God's power through your faith till you fully inherit that final salvation that is ready to be revealed for you in the last time. You should be exceedingly glad on this account, though now for a little while you may be distressed by trials and suffer temptations. Verse 7, so that the genuineness of your faith may be tested. Your faith, which is infinitely more precious than the perishable gold, which is tested and purified by fire. This proving of your faith is intended to read down to your praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Verse 8, without having seen him, you love him. Though you do not even see him now, you believe in him and exult and thrill with inexpressible and glorious triumph and heavenly joy. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You see, the genuineness of faith we see is tested and proven by trials, some of which may be fiery or hot. And it is by and through this way that we come to love him whom we cannot see. And we grow to see and experience the Lord's faithfulness to us. God declares to us in the book of Hosea 14, 4, I will love you freely. Oh, I'll love you freely. And I will heal your faithfulness. And I will love you freely. My anger is turned away from you. You see, Jesus made this possible. Now through the Holy Spirit residing in us. God matures us into a stable faithful and righteous people as we dwell in his Son Jesus Christ love and his word We do not have to fear God will love us freely. He will heal us of unfaithfulness and his anger is turned away. Now the real test of your love to God is found in 1 John 2, 3. The real test of your love to God is found here. 1 John 2.3 The test of knowing him. Now by this we know that we love him. If, if we keep his commandments. Verse 4 He who says, I know him and does not keep his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. And this is how we know that we are in him. He who says he abides in him ought himself also to walk just as he walked. Just as Jesus walked, so ought we to walk just as Jesus walked. Jesus walked to please his Father in heaven. He was an obedient son. We say we have the mind of Christ, and the mind of Christ is to do the will of God. And we can only really love him if we know him. And the knowledge of God comes from the scriptures. And if we say we know him, then we will keep and obey his commandments. and those who truly know him are being perfected in him. In other words, there is fruit to prove and back up the fact that we say we know God. There is fruit there. If I say I know God, then there must be fruit there. And another factor in the validity in the test of our love to God is found in 1 John 5.1. 1 John 5.1 Obedience by faith. Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. And everyone who loves him also loves him who is begotten of him. Verse 2. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. You see, your love and my love must cooperate with faith. And true love springs from obedience. And verse 3 declares, this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. A well-rooted tree will in its appointed time bring forth its fruit. To the renewed heart in Jesus Christ, love is as natural as love is for a mother to her baby. You do not have to reason a baby or a child into love. This is just as certain as you have the life and nature of God in you. you will seek after the Lord with all of your heart. Faith always precedes love. You do not have to reason why you love God. And you have seen in the word that he first loved us so we could then love him. That is the truth. That is the truth. The search for the reason is over. And you can believe what God's word says about the matter. Your faith will proceed or go before your returning God's love. You must fix this in your heart. God's love for you is a jealous love. And this truth is wound around your soul by the Holy Spirit. And a fervent love to God will spontaneously flow from your soul. You must know that in proportion, as you are fully persuaded of God's love to you, you will be affected with love back to him. And I say here, do not let the devil tempt you to believe that God does not love you because your love at this time might not be as strong as you like. He tries in any way he can to weaken your belief that God loves you. If your love for God is weak, please make it your quest to know him in this deep way. He is standing by, ready to restore you back into love and fellowship through his Holy Spirit. The book of John 737 declares, Now on the final day, the most important day of the feast, Jesus stood and he cried in a loud voice, If any man is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, who cleaves to and relies on me, as the scripture has said, In his innermost being shall flow continually springs of living water. Hallelujah. Springs of living water. The Lord God will restore you back into his love and fellowship through his Holy Spirit. And springs of living water will begin to flow from your inmost beings. Jesus says, if anyone is thirsty, let him come to me. He gives us the word, the command to come. Just come. Just get up and come. You see, the Holy Spirit is very jealous of our company. And there was no one else who we should be more able to freely converse with than the Holy Spirit of God. And this deep love you have for God grows to be a jealous love that you begin to protect and nourish. And the mandate to hate evil grows into a true reality. You who love the Lord hate evil. you begin to detest evil you begin to live this scripture and it grows in your heart to where you begin to say no to sin and yes to righteousness our parting scripture today comes from 1 John 3.8 and dear church this love to God is the hallmark of the new birth no one who loves God will deliberately keep on sinning 1 John 3.8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Verse 9 No one who is begotten of God deliberately, knowingly, and habitually practices sin, for God's nature abides in him. His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him, and he cannot practice sinning because he is born, he is begotten of God. Verse 10. By this it is made clear, who take their nature from God, and we are his children, and who take their nature from the devil, and are his children. No one who does not practice righteousness, who does not conform to God's will and purpose, thought and action, is of God. Neither is anyone who does not love his brother, his fellow believer in Christ, For this is the message, the announcement which you have heard from the first, that we should love one another. So everyone born of God and knows God does not keep on willfully sinning. This is the mark of a true Christian. Your love for God is marked by the hatred that you have for evil and sin and the love that you have for one another. Verse 11 of this word declares, For this is the message, the announcement, which you have heard from the first, that we should love one another. This tells us that the love we have for God, the root of love that we have to others. Our love for our brothers and sisters in Christ springs out of our love to God. let this jealous love which would keep you near to God your Father and Christ his Son be a comfort and peace if you are so assured by faith from what he tells you in his word then his jealous love for you will comfort you always and to know that he will always protect you from all of your enemies oh praise God church for his jealous love. His almighty fatherly protection over you and me as his child in whom he is engraved in the palm of his hand. He will hold you close always as you shower him back with your love, with your praise, with your thanksgiving, with your adoration. Psalms 91 declares this truth back to us, what God will not do for the one who loves him. Psalms 91.14 Because he has set his love upon me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high because he knows and understands my name and has personal knowledge of my mercy, my love and kindness and trusts and relies on me knowing that I will never forsake him, no never. He shall call upon me and I will answer him and be with him in trouble and I will deliver him and I will honor him. because, the scripture says, he has set his love upon me. This is saying that there is nothing that God will not do for the one who loves him. I say to you, start confessing out loud as his child. God loves me. He first loved me so I could love him. He loves me with a jealous love. You see, the Spirit of God will begin to witness this truth to your spirit as you begin to confess, God loves me. Or even from Song of Solomon, the scriptures tell us, the maiden declares her love to him and says, My beloved is mine, and I am his. You see, the Lord will begin to witness. he will begin to witness this truth to you. And in time you too will have a jealous love for the lover of your soul. Your expression will be like the maiden in Song of Solomon in verse 3, 4. But I had gone a little way past them. When I found him whom my soul loves, I held him and would not let him go. When we find that love, when we find him, when we dwell in his love. We never want to let him go because he is our eternal life. He loves you with a jealous passion that is pure, righteous, clean, and full of mercy and justice. And he longs to bring you and me into his eternal kingdom of love forever and ever. Jesus spoke in Revelation 3.11 saying, I am coming quickly hold fast to what you have so that no one may rob you and deprive you of your crown dear one hold fast to this oh so jealous love of God that he holds for you that which he looks for in you to be reciprocated back to himself like an ever flowing fountain Thank you.