Five Marks of the Father's Love
January 14, 2024 · 2:13:55 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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Summary
As a new year begins, a visiting youth pastor sets out to remind the church of one foundational truth: the Father loves us, and he revealed that love through the life of Jesus. Whoever has seen Jesus has seen the Father, because Christ was a living testimony of the Father's heart.
The message walks through five characteristics of Jesus that reflect that love. Jesus was always approachable, making time for sinners, children, the blind beggar, and the thief on the cross. His love corrects and disciplines, because the Father instructs those he loves. His love sees value where others see none, as with Zacchaeus and the little children. His love sacrifices, giving up glory, sleep, time, and strength long before the cross. And his love is unconditional.
That unconditional love is pictured in the sinful woman who washed Jesus' feet, the kiss of Judas, the healed ear of the soldier, the woman caught in adultery, the agony of Gethsemane, and above all the father who runs to embrace the prodigal son. The closing call is plain: wherever you are this year, the Father is ready to receive you and bring you home.
Key Points
- Jesus revealed the very character of the Father - to see Christ is to see the heart of God.
- Approachable love: Jesus made time for sinners, children, and the desperate, no matter their season of life.
- Correcting love: when God instructs or rebukes you, it is evidence that he loves you.
- Love that sees worth: Jesus saw value in the overlooked, like Zacchaeus and the children others dismissed.
- Sacrificial love: Jesus gave up glory, sleep, and strength long before the cross, all for our sake.
- Unconditional love: you never had to be good enough for God to love you - he loves you anyway.
- Like the father of the prodigal, God watches the road for your return, ready to run, embrace, and welcome you home.
Devotional
Wherever this new year finds you - faithful or wandering, weary or ashamed - the Father is not standing at a distance. He is the one who scans the road for your return, ready to run and throw his arms around you. His love does not wait for you to clean yourself up first; it meets you where you have fallen and walks you home. Today, simply receive that love, and let it reshape how you live.
Whoever has seen Jesus has seen the Father, for he was a living testimony of the Father's heart.
If you feel the Lord correcting you, it is because he loves you.
You did not have to be a good person for God to love you - he loves you anyway.
Transcript
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[Music] your glor to your [Applause] name holy is hallu for amen [Music] hallelujah s slow praise be to our Lord dear Church dear guests [Music] let's one more time say praise be to our Lord what would we have done without these microphones is that true the glory is supposed to be in our hearts it's supposed to be on our lips because the Lord is worthy of all the praise and honor we're so joyful to brother Vitali the youth leader and the whole choir the youth it's a big big privilege for us we're so joyful that you guys came here to us like our Pastor said in the morning we want you guys to even stay here I'm serious [Music] and so I want to tell you guys something we have a big story history with North you might be looking at me and I have a few gray hairs but I'm still very young when I came to America I was only 17 years old and we were great friends with the Youth of Northport we have a really good story they always came to us we always went to them we always would pray together do you know what we even took the same bus to Buffalo to conferences so for us you guys are family your brothers and sisters welcome we want you guys to feel welcome welome and at home so we have got ready today to give you guys a very good lunch not just one time but two times and after the service we're gonna have some good food for all you guys and after that we want that Fellowship to continue and at 3:30 here we will have a youth service where together we will be with the youth we want you guys to have a fiery prayer so you would pray for one another so that you would feel this unity in Jesus Christ so we invite inv all everyone that feels young to come to this youth service you heard how the youth choir was singing you felt the power you know my watch was giving me alert saying it's too loud but they pray even better so we invitees you at 3:30 to a youth service and after that we will will have volleyball bonfire a bonfire and more food I want to remind you that on Monday we're starting our church fasting and prayer I think it's important to start this year with prayer and fasting for our families for our homes for our youth [Music] and we also invite everyone to Orlando for a prayer which will be January 27th a Saturday at 12 in the day we invite everyone even the youth this is a prayer amongst the churches of Florida we invite everyone to join us and I want to remind the members of our church next Sunday the 21st we will have a members meeting we have some important things we need to vote on so I invite you all to come to service and if you cannot make it to the service if you need to leave then please come up to Pastor Nikolai or pastor vasili and they will give you a ballot to vote beforehand we thank you all may God bless you they're reminding us to take a collection during this song we will have a collection tithe and offerings for our church the Bible says that God loves the cheerful Giver you know our human nature is hard to give it's easier to take 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has all power and authority he will be with you pass through the waters he will fight for you sons and your daughters he will not leave you never forsake you fire will not Kindle upon you [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh the enemy has been defeated by his power and [Music] Majesty alha omega beginning and end He reigns forever and ever amen he will be with you pass through the waters he will fight for you sons and your daughters he will not leave you never forsake you fire will not kle upon you he will be with you through the he will fight for you your daughters he will not leave you never forsake you fire will not kle upon you oh [Music] ks [Music] kingom kingom in his name [Applause] kinion kingin King in his [Applause] name power and authority power and authority power and authority in his name power and authority power and is already in power and is already in his and auth he made all things he made all things he made all [Music] things he made all in his in his name in his name oh power in the name of Jesus the of the [Music] amen amen [Music] [Music] amen amen [Music] amen [Music] amen good morning church it's great to see everybody here um uh thank you very much for inviting our youth uh they love going to other churches to serve to sing to everybody and glorify our Lord and savior together uh so thank you again very much Church pastors for letting us come here uh before we sing Our next song I want to tell you guys a little story um on how I guess it came to happen and you know people say y for uh people often say that the choir director chooses a song when I I believe that it's God that chooses a song whether it's the worship group that sings the choir that performs it's all in the hands of God when I was a kid when I was a child my dad this next song uh he always used to play it uh it was one of his favorite songs so every Sunday morning didn't matter what holiday this song was being played at our house uh 10 years ago my dad passed away and I've always promised myself that I would sing the song in church um I promised myself I promised the church I even promised God that I would do it but I didn't know how to come forward with it and then this is how I know God picked out this song the choir director comes up to me and says hey demon we're going to sing this song and you're going to lead it um and in the outside of me is like no no no but the inside of me is like yes I do I want to sing the song I promise God I promise my dad I promise myself um our heavenly father takes care of us just like our Earthly fathers do my dad always took care of me from when I was a little kid from when I was born all the way up to when he passed away and now the Heavenly father's taken care of me as well as my family and my children so Church praise God may God bless you and hope you enjoy the song [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] how was taking a trip on a plane the other day wishing that I can get out and when a man next to me saw the book in my hands asked me what it was about so I settled back in my seat best seller I said history mystery and one then I opened up the book and began to read Matthew Mark Luke and John he was born of a virgin one Holy Night in a little town of death Angels gather around him underneath the star singing praises to The Great I Am he walked on the water he the L to see again for the first time here on Earth we learned that God could be a friend and though he never ever did a single thing wrong The Angry Crowd CH him then he walked down the road and died on the cross and that was the end of the [Music] [Applause] beginning oh that's not a new book that's a Bible he said and I've heard it all before I tried religion it's shame and guilt I don't need it anymore it's Superstition made of tales they just to help the weak to survive let me read it again I said listen closely this is going to change your life he was born of a virgin one Holy Night in the little town of bethleem angels GA around him underneath the star singing praises to The Great I Am he walked on the water healed the lame and made the blind to see again for the first time here on Earth we learned that God can be a friend and we never ever did a single thing wrong the angry Crow CH then he walked down the road and died on the cross and that was the end of the [Music] beginning the end of the beginning he said with a smile what more can there be he's dead he said they hung him put nails in his hands and a crown of thorns on his head I said I'll read it again this time there's more I believe this is true his death wasn't end but the beginning of Life it in you don't you know he did all this for you he was born of a virgin one Holy Night in the little town of Bethlehem Ang the star The Great I Am he walked on the he the L the blind to see again for the first time here on Earth we learned that God can be a friend we never ever did a single thing wrong the angry CR Chen then he walk di three days later 3 Days Later 3 days later [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] us dear Church Glory To Our God praise be always to him as brother Dima mentioned earlier dear Church dear pastors we appreciate the opportunity and we hope and pray that this choir this group would be a blessing for your church that the songs would edify your spirit build up your faith for our God is glorious I want to again to my sermon and I'm not going to share anything new with you but it's a new year so I serve I I pray this serves as a reminder about the love of the father that he has given to us in Ephesians chapter 5 it says and walk in love as Christ also has loved us he gave himself as an offering a sacrifice and in John chapter 17 when Jesus is praying to the father he says this phrase he says I have revealed your name to the man whom you've sent gave me he revealed the name of the father to Those whom he sent you see the disciples knew the name Adonai you know they knew they knew maybe Jehovah when is not Jehovah so Jesus was not speaking of a a a name that you would pronounced when he says I have revealed you to them he he's saying I have shown them who you are I've revealed your character I revealed your heart that they would know you Jesus said whoever has seen me has seen the father because he was a living testimony of the Father's Heart so for us to understand the love of the father I want to look at the lifestyle of Jesus and I want to share five characteristics that Jesus had that reflected the love of the father as this year starts be encouraged dear Church be encouraged be edified and know that the father loves you so the first thing about the love of Jesus is that Jesus was always approachable in Mark chapter 4 after Jesus shared Parables and stories and taught the people disciples would come up to him say Jesus we didn't understand can you explain to us what you meant Jesus just finished teaching many things you know sometimes after preaching you know pastors and preachers would understand you're preparing your message you're praying you're fasting you're meditating upon the word you come out and deliver the message you deliver the message and sometimes they just feeling enough ah finally you know and sometimes you have to travel and do one two or or three different services at the end of the day you just want to sit down and I can imagine Jesus walking and teaching and sharing and the day is over here come his disciples Jesus can we bother you for a moment what did you mean by this and he would spend time with them because he was approachable the Bible says that it wasn't just the righteous that came to him but the the Sinners and the tax collectors would approach and hear and listen to Jesus so whe whether it was a righteous man or if it was a sinner or tax collector he will allow for them to come to him that he may speak life to them one day it was Nicodemus a person of the law the next day was a Samaritan woman who shouldn't even be with the Jews the next day would be The Annoying blind man J's the son of David have mercy on me the disciples were irritated but Jesus gave him his sight then one day it was children Jesus says let them come to me and at the end of the life it was the thief on the cross who Jesus made time for because God's love gives us access to him no matter what season we are in our Liv make time for you God was available for you that you would speak and Converse to him the second aspect of the love of the father is that the love corrects and instructs US Luke chapter 9 is a Powerhouse of a chapter there is a lot going on and in a part of this chapter Jesus uh the disciples were arguing who would be the greatest and Jesus knowing what they're conversing about he comes to them and he explains to them the correct way later on in that chapter the disciples came up to Jesus says Jesus we saw someone casting out demons in your name Jesus corrects them he says if they're not against us they're for us don't stop them and a little bit further on in this chapter they get it to they want to go to Jerusalem and they get to a Samaritan Village and the disciples were ready to call down fire upon those who prohibited them from entering but the Bible says Jesus rebuked them he says I have come to save that which is lost you see at times the correction of Jesus was light and easy when the disciples were trying to hinder the children from coming Jesus brings them to himself Disciples of such the kingdom is made off of these little ones at times his correction was harsh and strict at times Jesus's correction was strict and harsh when he came into the temple and he saw things going on that shouldn't be there the Bible says he took a whip and he started throwing them out and throwing tables around and it was all for the purpose of drawing people to the father and his love it corrects it drains and it disciplines us the Bible says in Proverbs chapter 3 verses 11 and 12 my son do not despise the correcting of the Lord because Whom The Father loves he corrects so dear CH de dear church if in your life you're feeling the Lord correct you instruct you maybe even rebuke you it's because he loves you it's because he loves you number three the love of the father father it sees value in people that maybe we can't in Luke chapter 19 there was a story of a man his name was zakus zakus was a short man I'm not very tall so I like zakus yeah I can relate with him and zakus was a Jew but he worked for the Romans because he was a tax collector so the Jewish people they did not like Tax Collectors it was easier for the Romans to hire Jewish man because they understood the people people and speak their language but whenever a Jewish man would become a tax collector for the Romans he would be considered a Trader or a sellout because the people would think that they're stealing from me to give to the Romans because Romans was the oppressor on top of that Tax Collectors worked on a commission so the more taxes the more they get paid so history says that often times they will charge their own people more money because their commission would be greater so nobody liked this man zus here is Jesus he's walking and he sees somebody in a tree who is that it's zakus the short man and he says zakus come down because I need to be in your house while everybody might have ignored him Jesus saw value in him once again back to the story of the children the disciples are thinking this is the great teacher of Nazareth is not a child care this is not a place for children to run around this is the mighty Son of God stop the children from coming Jesus saw value in the children because he saw the kingdom of God number four love of the father shall sacrifice um in Romans chapter 5 verse 8 but God demonstrates his own love for us while we were still sinners Christ died for us and we as Christians we understand that the greatest sacrifice of Jesus was his sacrifice upon on the cross but I want to mention something else Jesus lived a lifestyle of sacrifice first of all he sacrificed the throne for a short period of time Philippians 2: 6 and 7 speaking about Jesus who was in the form of God did not consider being robbery being equal to God but he made himself of no reputation taking the form of a bond servant so he sacrificed the glory for a short period of time Jesus sacrificed with his sleep he would pray all night before he chose the 12 disciples the Bible says he would go and preach during the day at times he would go and spend time with prayer with the father Jesus sacrificed with his time and his energy you know Matthew Chapter 5 the sermon on the mountain we read it in you know seven 10 minutes but the reality is Jesus was preaching the scholar say for up to three days preaching to the people teaching them the ways of God he spend his time in his energy he talk about witnessing about obedience about prophecy he would teach on angers and lust and divorce about prayer and fasting and caring for the [Applause] poor you know I was curious one day and thinking how much did Jesus walk Scholars say he walked during his trips from town to town from City to City he walked approximately 3,000 miles That's not including any personal walking that he did amongst the cities so he sacrificed his energy and all of this was done for the one reason that ultimately he would be the greatest sacrifice of all time upon the cross Jesus was a sacrificial example of the love of the father and I want to go on to point number five the love of the father is unconditional in Luke chapter 7 there's a story that shows this type of love he was in a Pharisees house and a woman came up she was a known sinner that people knew at the time who she was but she breaks open a flask of oil and she begins to wash the feet of Jesus she begin to wash it with her hair and the Pharisees are looking at this and they're saying if this man truly was a prophet he would know what type of woman this is at his feet because it was understood at the time you were to avoid the adulteresses Proverbs teaches that you walk far away from her door and here's Jesus allowing her to be in the same room allowing her to be in the same near the same area and allowing her to wash his feet because his love was unconditional he allowed Judas the betrayer who has given his life into the Romans hands he allowed him to kiss him he healed the Roman soldiers ear the same Roman who probably handcuffed him beat and he cured and he healed his ear he for gave the woman who was caught in adultery he understood the law required death Jesus understood this woman was worthy of death he shows an example of Grace and he tells all of those Elders he says if you are with out sin throw the first stone and one by one they begin to leave to the youngest you know what Jesus did he used the law to show Grace because the LA said that if there are two or three witnesses that is a faithful testimony and that would be to put to death but every single witness left one by one Jesus is left alone with this woman he says where are your accusers we need two or three of them where are they neither do I accuse you go and sin no more he showed the grace and the love to this woman uncondition when he fed the 5,000 people he said most of them were there for maybe free food or they're not going to follow him after that but he fed him anyway he fed him anyway when he he was upon the cross given his life beaten and bruised he made time for the thief in the way saying I'm doing this for you he touched the outcast the lepers anyone no matter what their condition was he would show them love because the love of the father is unconditional there's a passage in Luke chapter 22 he went out to the Mount of Olives his disciples followed him he gets to the place where he wants to be and he says disciples please stay awake and pray with me so he he would go a little bit further from them and he begins to pray and then he comes to his disciples and he finds them asleep say he pray with me wake up pray with me so he goes back into the presence of the father he's an Agony this is the hardest moment in Jesus's life he knows what's about to happen happen he knows what's going on and he's in pain he's in sorrow the Bible says an angel came down to comfort him but he became even more in agony and he says could you not have stayed awake with me but he was going through this for them I remember a moment in my life my son was sick in the hospital nobody knew what was going on the doctors couldn't figure it out we were there nine days and I remember like day six we get like two doctors that came into the room and a couple of nurses and they're putting blankets on him warming him up cuz he's cold and I'm listening to the discussions and like he's going into sepis we have to do something and as a father I have nothing else to do but to pray finally they calmed him down they bring his temperature to normal and my son's asleep and I'm awake at night and I'm crying and I'm weeping I'm saying God give him life God heal him God restore him because the only thing that matters in that moment is that my son would have life and Jesus is praying and he's in agony and he's in pain he's in sorrow saying father if it's possible let this let this pass by nevertheless let your will be done because while his disciples are sleeping he doing it for them while the Romans are arresting him he's doing it for themes were opposing him he was doing it for them even if they did not know he was still doing it for them because a father would stay for his children a father would die for his children because the Father's love is unconditional remember the story of the prodigal son he took the father The Inheritance he went and he spent it all un lavish waste sinful life and one day he came to himself and he says I would to go back to my father when he's returning back to the Father the says the father was looking for him in other words every day the father would look down the road is my son coming back today coming back today and the Bible says while the sun was still a far distance away the father ran to him went to him and embraced him the Greek word to embrace me to wrap around the neck and fall down upon the person the sun just came from the p Pig die the sun probably stinks the son maybe has a breath of alcohol on his lips but the father embraced him because my son has come home I know where he was it doesn't matter I know what he's then I know what he's done it doesn't matter what matters is my son is back Hallelujah and then the Bible says that the father kissed him the Greek word for this is CIO it means to kiss again and again and again and again and again and again it means to kiss repeatedly father embraced the son and he's kissing his son he's back home he's back in my presence so wherever you may be dear Church whatever situation you're in love the father is unconditional ready to bring you home he's ready to embrace you he's ready to receive you hallelujah hallelujah he is glorious can you imagine Jesus the hardest moment of his life he's in pain he's in agony he couldn't be strengthened his disciples are asleep and the cup of God's Wrath is about to be poured over his life I will take this cup for my disciples I will take this cup for the solders ear who take the cup for those ropes Who tie the ropes on my hands I will take the cup for all because his love is unconditional I want to say this you did not have to be a good person for God to love you he loves you anyway he wants you to come to him he wants you to be in his presence he wants you to serve him and whether you do or not he still loves you because his love is without condition I want to come to a close I want to invite us to stand it's a new year maybe lots of us made resolutions or goals no matter what you do dear Church please understand the father loves you is there to receive you to minister to you speak life into you why because he's approachable willing to correct and discipline us and he will see value in you because he sacrificed for you and the sacrifice was because he loved you unconditionally so I want to take a few minutes in prayer simply thanking the father for his amazing love for he is glorious and he is powerful hallelujah hallelujah hu we thank you for the sacrifice we thank you for the grace we thank you for the mercy God Hallelujah Lord God Hallelujah Lord God we thank you Father we thank you that good God we thank you that you us among us we thank you that you received us into your kingom given us new life and we thank you Lord Jesus we thank you Lord Jesus we thank you Lord Jesus to you be the glory to you be the honor give you the praise we go through this year remember understanding God the love that you have given us we go to this year knowing that you have love for your people Hallelujah Jesus we bless your name we bless your Holy Name we glorify your H we ex your Holy Name good godes thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jes Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus Hallelujah father Hallelujah for fore for fore for wake up call for everyone for Community American Community what is this place who are those people foru fore [Music] foren please you can take your seats for just a few more minutes we thank our guests that came to visit us and the service went in one Spirit very quickly and when I was listening to your blessed choir a thought came you guys need to do a whole tour I invite you to Warsaw Poland we have a big church there we have a big church in Prague and all over Europe we have more than a 100 churches I invite you to come to Europe [Music] thank you Engineers for making this sound very wonderful our ushers that were greeting people and one more announcement for us is we have lunch for our guests it's for them just remember that we thank you for the word Pastor Vitali wonderful word and we had a prayer and we know that God blesses your ministry we remind that from Monday we're starting a fast that will be 21 days and I want to remind you that doesn't mean you have to fast 21 days in a row who as they can just spend time in fasting and prayer and our need is Holiness and the building of the church tomorrow we have a prayer we invite everyone to the prayer and anyone that wants to become a member of our church also they can come to any of our ministers and then the coming few months our classes for water baptism are beginning so you can also come up to our ministers we will have a prayer for our needs and if you have a need just raise your hand we can't listen to all of them but just raise your hand if you have a need and during the prayer if you need uh prayer for healing please come to the front we'll pray but Thanksgiving we all have is that right yesterday we had a beautiful time with the leaders in our church we thank all who [Music] came thank you everyone who prepared the food and I'm talking about myself I think brother Peter that helped and I thank other brothers that helped our church and may God bless your ministry in this upcoming let us stand for prayer for for foren you may bless one another and be [Music] [Music] blessed [Music] all [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] wait in Wonder with Mur youres