Once again, it is time for the Weekend Sermon. We have been studying the attributes of God for several weeks now. I want to let you know how we are going to proceed. After today's message, I want to present two more messages on this topic. We will be having sermons for Holy Week when that comes up like we always do. I will have messages for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter.
In today's message, I want us to focus on the fact that God is good. There is no evil whatsoever in any way within God or within His thoughts. The Bible is quite clear about the fact that God is good, and we can see throughout the Bible the goodness of the Lord.
Here are a few verses that speak to us of the goodness of the Lord:
Psalm 107:1 -- "Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, His steadfast love endures forever."
Nahum 1:7 -- "The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, He know those who take refuge in Him."
Matthew 5:45 -- "For He makes His Sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust."
James 1:17 -- "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is is no variation or shadow due to change."
These are just a very few verses about God's goodness. He is a good God who wants to do good things for His people. God does what is good and sends good things even to those who do not want to have anything to do with Him and to those who do not even acknowledge the fact that He exists. For one thing, God gives the good gifts of His creation to everyone. He sends the rain and gives us all air to breath. We all, no matter our relationship to Him, benefit from this extraordinary universe that God has given to all of us.
Those of us who have come to know Jesus know that the Lord has been good to us and supplied us with many blessings. I am thankful to the Lord that in His goodness He allowed me to have parents that introduced me to the things of God. In His goodness, the Lord Jesus allowed me to find my friend Toby. God has been good to me and allowed me to be blessed with food, shelter, a good education and some good friends and a good brother. I am sure that all of us can find examples in our lives of the way that we have been blessed by the goodness of the Lord.
What really amazes me about the goodness of the Lord is that He was good to us even when we were His enemies. In Romans 5:10 it tells us that, "For if while we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life." While we were in rebellion against our Creator, God sent His Son the Lord Jesus to this earth to reconcile us to Himself. Jesus came to live a holy and sinless life as our perfect example. He bore our sins in His body on the cross that we might be redeemed. He rose bodily from the grave conquering death, hell and the grave. Because He has risen, those who are in Him shall have life everlasting with Him.
God is good and He invites all people everywhere to come to Him in order to receive His gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ the Lord. God is good and He gives good gifts to those who trust in Him. One of those good gifts is the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit.
In His goodness, God will one day provide us a home with Him forever. He will make a new Heaven and a new Earth, and sin will forevermore be defeated. Evil will be no more.
God is good, and He invites you to know more of the fullness of His goodness by coming to faith in Jesus Christ. No one is excluded. Whosoever will may come. Amen.
Prayer Requests
I have to go to the doctor this week and find out how to get more help for the pain that I am having. Please pray that all will go well.
Continue to pray for those trying to get through natural disasters. Pray for those in California, Turkey, Syria, Mozambique and Malawi who need help.
Pray for peace in the troubled areas of this world. Ukraine, Israel, Syria, Yemen, Haiti and Congo are just a few of the places that need our prayers right now.
For our prayer focus countries this week, let us pray for those in the nations of Tunisia and Gambia. Pray that many will come to know Jesus.
Next week, we will continue with our current series. I will post the verses on Monday. I may have a post midweek, but it is doubtful. May God bless you all.
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