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Discovering 'Beloved' in Scripture 0:00 The book of Jude in verse number 3. Watch what the Bible says. Beloved, when I0:08 gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, It was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was0:20 once delivered unto the saints. Now there's a whole lot in that verse that I would like to just look at and unpack. In that verse, it talks about0:32 those that would earnestly contend for the faith, and there's a lot that you could talk about with that. That verse talks about how that this the the faith was once delivered unto us.0:44 There's a lot you could talk about in that. But I cannot get past the first word in that verse, beloved. This morning, by the help of the0:56 Holy Spirit, I wanna preach on the word beloved. If you look over in verse number 17 of the book of Jude, you'll see it again. But, beloved,1:09 remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our lord Jesus Christ. You look down in verse number 20, you'll see that word again.1:21 But ye, beloved, our brother Jude here uses that word 3 times, and that's not the first time that anybody has used that1:32 word. In fact, that word beloved is gonna be used 62 times in the New Testament alone. Every single epistle writer, Paul, and1:44 then you have Titus, and then you have Philemon's book, and then you have, you have Luke giving in the book of Acts. You have, you've got Peter giving both epistles. You've got John and1:56 Jude. All of them refer to their hearers as beloved. That word beloved, it literally means divinely loved2:08 ones. Those that are the object of the affection of God. Now brothers and sisters, that in our Bible, it looks outdated. It looks like an2:20 old archaic word. It looks like something that you would hear back in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, beloved. You know, I go around the staff with joke. I go around calling2:32 everybody beloved. When I first got here, I walked into the sanctuary and I called everybody beloved. I called the staff. I call them beloved. I call the friends and I call everybody beloved. Now I got everybody on the2:44 staff. They walk around calling everybody beloved. But I got to look at it that word beloved the other day, and there has to be something about it because every time that2:55 a writer writes to the people of God, he calls them beloved. Number 1, let me give you some introductory thoughts right quickly. First and foremost, you've got to first look3:07 at our example of that word beloved. The very first time in the New Testament that word beloved is used, it is used in the book of3:19 Matthew chapter number 3 and verse number 17 and 18. All of a sudden, John Wildman baptizer is down in the river Jordan baptized outside of3:31 Bethbora, and the lamb of God comes and is dunked down under the water by John the the baptizer. And all of a sudden when he comes up out of the water, the heavens open up and God the3:43 father speaks through that man, that voice, and this is what he says. He says, this is my beloved Son. The very first time that the3:55 word beloved is used, the object of the affection of God, it is used in reference to Jesus Christ, the son of the living God. Now here is the point of that.4:07 Whenever God the father looked down at Jesus, he said, this is the 1 that is the object of my affection. Is it any wonder now why whenever the people of God are referenced,4:19 they are referenced the same way that Jesus Christ is referenced? That's how God looks at the people of God. He looks at us as he looks at his only begotten son4:30 and we are the object of the affection of God. Therefore, if God the father from the moment that Jesus Christ was birthed from the womb of the virgin never took his eyes4:42 off of him. Don't you think that ever since you had your second birth that day that you were born again. Don't think that there was ever a time that the eyes of the father have ever come off of your life.4:54 If you think that our our lord ever went 1 step where god the father did not know where he was going, don't you ever think that there's ever a step you and I can take where god the father does not know where5:06 we go. Do you know why? Because you are not just a friend of God. You are not just a family member of God. You are not just an acquaintance of God. You are not just somebody that God likes a5:18 little bit. You are the beloved of God just like Jesus Christ was the beloved of God. So we have our example of how that happened.From Enemies to Beloved at Calvary 5:30 Number 2, we've got to look at when did we become beloved? When did we get access into the beloved. What did the apostle Paul say5:42 about our relationship with God? He said that we used to be the enemies of God. We used to be5:53 the adversary of God. Are there any people in here that'll just be downright honest and say I was a sinner real bad before I got saved? Yeah. I was too.6:05 And in that sin, we were the enemy of God. But now all of a sudden, we are the beloved6:18 of God? What happened? There must have been a transaction that took place. What was that transaction that took place that took us from being6:30 the enemy of God into being the friend and the beloved of God. Let me introduce you to the day that the transaction was made. It was not made in6:42 eternity present. It was made on a little Scully Hill outside of Jerusalem, a place called Golgotha, the skull and the place of the skull. There, the darling6:54 son of God was mounted upon a cruel Roman cross and there as he was impaled to that Roman cross, he took upon me and took upon himself everything that7:06 I had ever done. All of my adversarial thoughts toward God, all of my sinful thoughts toward God. I know there's some Baptists in this room right now acting like you ain't never done nothing wrong. I was7:17 wicked, vile, and on my way to hell. The enemy of God at war with the Holy God, but that good glad day at bloody Calvary, the loving lamb of God took all that I was, put it on him7:29 and a transaction was made. He says, now I've made a way for you to leave the enemy camp and to become the beloved of God. Do you know what happened at bloody7:41 Calvary? Jesus Christ took everything you were on his shoulders and everything he was became yours. For he had made him to be sin for us who knew no7:53 sin that we might be called the righteousness of Jesus Christ. At Calvary, there was a transaction made8:05 on the birth certificate of your soul. God made the appointment and he erased your father's name, the devil, and he left it vacant. And the8:17 day that you were born again and chose to follow the lord Jesus Christ, he took the quill of his omnipotence, dipped it in the fountain flowing from Emmanuel's veins,8:29 and wrote Yeshua Jesus Christ, the savior. When it says, who is his father? And it says, my father, he is in heaven. And my elder brother, his name is Jesus Christ.8:41 And he says, because that's your family line, you are the beloved of God almighty. You say I'm hated by my daddy. You're loved by God. You say I never knew my8:53 family. Yeah. But you are loved by God. You say people hate me. Yeah. But you are loved by God. You say nobody9:04 cares about me. Yeah. But you are loved by God. The third truth I wanna give to you this morning is not just our example, not just our access, butGod's Constant Love Messages 9:16 number 3, the message of being beloved. Brothers and sisters, how many of you have ever said to God, God,9:28 if I just knew you love me. If I could just feel through this pain and through this torment that you love me. God, if I could just know9:40 that I was still in your family and still part of your family. Brothers and sisters, I remind you everything God does, he does it so that you know he9:52 still loves you. This morning when the sun rose in the eastern sky and crested over the East Tennessee mountains, shining the light of God's presence upon middle10:04 Tennessee. That was God's way of saying you are still my beloved. When the sky was just a beautiful blue up against the rose back of no clouds, God was reminding you and I,10:16 I still love you. As the bird fluttered through the air singing its melody in the summertime, God was saying through that bird song, I still love you. As10:28 the mighty oak tree in the mighty cedar it waved in the wind that was God's way of letting you know I still love you. As the blades of glass flicker in the morning sun and10:39 wave with the morning dew that was God's way of saying I still love you. As the rooster crowed this morning waking up creation that was God's way of saying I still10:52 love you. As the Lord gave you a breakfast to fill your belly this morning that was God's way of saying I still love you. When you took that cup of coffee and washed it down11:04 your throat that was God's way of saying I want you to know I still love you. When you got your clothes on this morning, buttoned your jacket, and headed down the road, got safely to the house of God, that was God's way11:15 of letting you know I still love you. When you walked on asphalt this morning, popped up on concrete, walked inside of air conditioning, that was God's way of saying, I just want you to know11:27 I still love you. When you sit on these church pews this morning and you listen to the singing and the preaching of the word of God. That's God's way of letting you know I still love you.11:39 Here's my point. Everywhere you look, everywhere you go, everything that you see, that is the love tap of the high and holy God of heaven that lets you and I know you are still my beloved.11:51 I still love you. Right now outside of the shores of Massachusetts, there's a lighthouse called the Menott's Ledge Lighthouse.12:03 Whenever that lighthouse was built, it's been built twice. The first time it was destroyed. The second time has stood for many, many years. And in the the lighthouse signaling, it shines 312:16 different times. And in the 3 different times, the man that built that lighthouse, he knew there would be people that would sail by the coast. A lot of times, Mariners would be that way, gone from their family. So in12:26 Morris Code, that lighthouse shines. I love you. And sailors that are out on the seas gone from loved ones and12:38 feel like nobody loved, they'll go by that lighthouse. And in Morris Code, that thing will shine out. I love you. Brothers and sisters, right now, there is a beacon that is standing on a12:50 hill that sent out the morris code that God loves us and it's not a beacon found on a shoreline somewhere. It's not even a beacon in heaven right now, but right now on bloody Calvary13:02 where the middle man on the middle cross stood there, he raised up his arms and that was the light of the world sending out the beacon to those that were lost and dying on their way to hell that the God of heaven13:14 had changed the way that he thought about man and now he loved mankind so much that he would give his only begotten son that whosoever would believe in that son would not perish but have13:26 everlasting life. Everywhere you look, God's trying to let you know, I love you. I don't know if this survey is accurate, but they say at any given time in the world,13:37 60 percent of the population of the world feel unloved.In this video 0:00 Discovering 'Beloved' in Scripture5:28 From Enemies to Beloved at Calvary9:11 God's Constant Love Messages
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