R1616 Wonderful Love

Encouraging Word for you and me today. The Bible-based Dr. Don Wilton all about God's wonderful law is the topic wonderful love of today's edition of The Encouraging Word you haven't been bar website lately drop in W online.org wonderful resources there that will help you UW online.org you know I like you see a lot of Christmas children don't you just watch our boys and girls in comes alive.

So I did a little research and pull down a couple of deer centimeters I just would like to mention a few of them to you. These are the ones that I particularly love written by boys and girls. This is from Rebecca. She's just six okay. She said dear Santa I wish that you will bring me a little live puppy and remember to poke holes in the box. Thank you for bringing lots of presents.

I just want to say thank you to you this is from Claire dear Santa, it's clear again but I'm writing for my non-year word old brother named Mitch. He wants a binder bond a whole puncture with no in. I want a whole puncture to an Skype board not spoke like that supposed to be. But don't give the Skype board to him. Mitch is very kindhearted but he has a bad temper. He also writes Macy and he doesn't like to read just dropping these Orfeo to give your cup okay this one comes from our concrete. The name of Nick dear Santa this year. I would like call of duty for said Wi-Fi. Some something guns the Wimpy kid series some of you are more familiar than these than I am and maybe some cause of Pokémon postal Pokémon cards pokey on action figure my own tablet and I watch MP3 player headphones Pokémon Pearl and dungeon DS games black ops Disneyland trip valued at $300 art studio comics own TV and pie face this one this one is outstanding.

Dear Santa got actually a drawing on you better bring my pony this year in the bottom or there will be consequences. Consequences not. I hope Sandra so that one day right dear Santa, you will also want you bring us praise and spelled wrong. Anyway wonderful Christmas binoculars old-fashioned. If a is a unity stuff brief case BRE if ice skates and lots of surprises. This one is right. Dear Santa, I flushed my brothers hidden in the toilet bowl in the toilet bowl but cannot have a puppy anyway. Some of you parents need to get a life. A this one here really gets me this is if you talk about today's day and age dear Santa how are you I'm good. Guess what I want for Christmas if I could show you this all it is is a HTTP\WW Amazon.calm GP products E00 30 2H if I'd be a lousy sent on 10 yard gets mixed up and it got.

It goes on dear Santa I believe in you.

Did you notice the affirmation that you go to win Santa over you know you not just lost somebody without winning them over. I believe your reindeer can fly Santa my presence.

I wanted a going to be given to me by my family, but I do have a favor for you to do go to all the people that don't have food and give them food because I believe that what Christmas is all about how you should hang that one up in the bridge.

A love that that's absolutely fantastic. This one dear Santa, I mean bad dream dear Santa, I don't want much, but can I have an iPhone and a flat screen HD television. She's full said dear Santa, when it was yesterday. I forked would try.

I thought I would try to be good. The whole winter vacation, but it seems like I did not succeed. Will you still give me a present.

Anyway, this is a this is comes in the form of a question from Sophie dear Santa hi I'm Devon and I would like to know are you are you. I don't believe, but my friends don't so can you give me a signed picture of you and Mrs. close or something else, please, please send back a bill from your slated and up and picture herbicides. You are really fat or do you die please also hold these requests and let me know tomorrow. These are mob. These are my base dear Santa, I mean very good this year for Christmas not spoke like a spell Christmas. I would like a Barbie house, like my friend Macy and iPad, a box of tacos and a PP.

All right, here's one more. This okay this takes the cake. This is it. This is the this is it, dear Santa please text my dad.

He has my whole list I open your Bibles to an incredible passage want to show you something amazing about the wonderful love of Christmas you know is I've been thinking about Christmas the most incredible verse which the Swofford family read so well for us just to mama to go. John 316 is just such a powerful passage for God so loved the world that he gave the Lord Jesus, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but should have everlasting life. I want you to just think about the wonderful love of God's most amazing gift of the Lord Jesus and I began awesome yourself the question, why did God give that verse in that context suggests in 30 seconds. That comes at the end of Jesus encounter with Nicodemus you remember that in Nicodemus was just like you and me he would've made a really good American.

He was extremely religious and you will the offices and even paid the price and he was a very good man, probably very generously gave to the poor. He did everything right. He came to Jesus at night and he said Jesus what must I do to go to heaven. Can you imagine a person so culturally eschewed asking that question.

Can you imagine someone so civilized asking that question.

Can you imagine someone who had studied been to church mainly many times asking that question, but he did he came to Jesus and he saved it and Jesus told him, Jesus told them strikes it will Nicodemus in order to go to heaven. You must be born again. Then Nicodemus it will. How can you be born when you're all I think that's a very good and then Jesus explained.

He said you gotta be born of water of your mother go to be born of the spirit that's of God, and often he had explained that to him. We pick up in verse nine. This a question which culminates with John chapter 3 in verse 60 many read Nicodemus said to him, but how can these things be Jesus on city and argued teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things. Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and be we bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive out testimony.

I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things no one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven I Jesus the son of man, and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so it is that the Son of Man must be lifted up, that whosoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but should have eternal life of God did not send the son into the world to condemn the world, and I'm going to stop at the space but that the world through him might believe in might be saved. So here is Nicodemus very much like me and like you coming to Jesus the most unlikely person you would think to Oscar?

That because everything about him was right but he had this deep hunger that he couldn't explain.

He wanted to know.

And Jesus said to him you want to go to heaven. You must be born again.

Nicodemus said now don't get that Jesus explained go to be born use of water of your mother and you have to be born of the spirit and even having said that Nicodemus thing sees but how does that happen. I okay I'm I'm trying to get this but how does a sinful person like me get to heaven.

How can that possibly be. How can someone separated from God, be reconciled to God. How can someone who is searching for peace find peace in God you're listening to Dr. Don Wilton. He'll be back with the rest of today's message just a moment, but if you drop by our website. DEW online.org you seen the wonderful leather bound daily devotional were making available right now to launch into a brand-new year studying God's word again. I hope your visit to get your copy. It's a TE WR online.org while you're there might be hearing about the wonderful opportunities and friends is made to help us reach even more people with the love of Christ. Here's Dr. Don with the details. Wow God has done incredible things again this year. Through the Encouraging Word board cost ministry. Do you know that over 135,000 people have called us, telling us what this ministry means to them in their spiritual life and so many are coming to know Jesus. A friend has just given a $200,000 challenge gift to this ministry and we are asking as he is asking that listeners will give an additional $300,000 to this ministry by December 31 so that God's word could continue to go out across the world in London. Recently someone came up to me and said you for the Encouraging Word and for what it means.

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They because he he loves us. He love Nicodemus so much and he explains it to him again and he explains the issue of his wonderful love. That's what he explains any explains this wonderful love from full different perspectives number one from heaven as you are asking how can this be, he said well I'm going to explain this love is the role from heaven. So what is he say about heaven, he sees you. You can't understand.

Look, you have enough problems trying to understand earthly thing.

How much more you going to struggle to understand heavenly things. This is a heaven thing. This is spiritual. Jesus is looking at Nicodemus and he saying I'm going to tell you this wonderful love. Don't try and figure it out. Just accept it because I am the one from heaven look at me. He explains these wonderful love in telling Nicodemus. Yes, you may be brilliant.

You might have PhD's. You may be a good person, you may be brilliant but when it comes to your relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Trust me, it's a heavenly thing. This is a spiritual issue. Spaniards trying to figure it out and explain. If that's the beauty of faith, this wonderful love hands to us what we cannot explain it's from heaven. Number two.

He says it's given to that's how you explain this wonderful love uses the illustration that, of all people would've understood Nicodemus would've understood this, because he understood the Jewish history. He takes them back in the book of numbers and and you look back there where there was Moses and the children of Israel, and they were surrounded by poisonous venomous snakes snakes. They were symbolical of the sinful world in which they live in people being written and they were dying left and right, and God said to Moses, make a bronze like an lifted up and I want you to know, you tell the people that when they look up they need to keep looking up at what I have seen and when they look at what you're lifting up in the wilderness. These people even though they are getting written by the poison of the snakes. They will not just as Moses the serpent in the wilderness, so it is the Bible say is even so, this man is live up so that all would look to him would believing will not perish but have everlasting life. That's this wonderful this is Jesus explaining monitoring the question question during this wonderful Christmas.

How do you explain this wonderful from heaven to earth number three it's for everyone in our love in verse 15 minutes, so that whosoever believe that people might know him and what Jesus was saying here at this point is all people are eligible to look up to Jesus, but believe believe in him received from him eternal life. Whosoever believes not, whosoever whosoever believes that would be a means to accept the trust. This incredible spiritual hard to understand, mysterious, wonderful truth about heaven, whosoever believes the maze. Then he says finally but not conclusively. You want understand this wonderful love Nicodemus it's out of love for God so loved. You want to explain the wonderful love of Christmas you just explained God so loved.

Wish you could've seen Karen and I in a shop not too long ago trying to shop for our grandkids. It's just out of love. I was looking at things. I have no earthly interesting. I was looking things that cost too much money, but it didn't seem to bother me. I was wanting to get it exactly right Karen for every grandchild. Their age group.

We even went so far as to text one of the mothers to make sure that this one would be happy with this and that one how do you explain the wonderful love of the Lord Jesus in terms of the people like you and me. Just look at how we respond to covert rule so in a way beautifully individual country. We all have our own disposition in our own response and needs our own framework.

Someone said to me recently. You know Foster you'll never make everybody in the church. Happy to sit hello man were you born yesterday or not but let me tell you what you do, do you keep preparing the food. The most delicious meal ever. You keep the main thing the main thing you know Jesus did. He gave himself he loves us so much out of love. What does it mean it's out of love that you would love the means that he's love is complete. You notice another whole story here so but if you want to understand the complete love of God, you have to unpack the attributes of God incorporated into God so loved. You know that God has many attributes he's infinite he's immutable or unchangeable self-sufficient. He's on the patent. He's omniscient. He knows everything he's on the present is wise he's faithful he's good he's just he's merciful he's gracious he's loving he's holy he's glorious. All of these attributes God so loved that he gave his only begotten son. Figure comes Nicodemus by the way, if not we might be a little embarrassed because he didn't want everybody think for one minute that he didn't know because he was supposed everything. Besides, why would anybody want to associate with this Jesus Lord what stage do go to heaven to receive eternal life. You must be born again understand that we be born of water and the spirit. Wow. Can that be.

I'm coming to you because I've all of a sudden realized Thomason.

I'm separated from you condemn Jesus said, let me explain this wonderful love from heaven that explains everything which means it doesn't need an explanation. Just look at me.

That's why I've brought this to earth.

I am lifted up now you look at me you got all your explanation.

On the way the truth and the life.

Oh, by the way, it's for everyone. That means I died. I gave my life every party nobody's exclude men and women, boys, girls, people from every tribe and nation, language, culture on everyone and all who believe receive eternal life. You have to believe what's is based on God's love what he's love everything God nothing man and it's all what wonderful love. Would you bow your heads with me this morning but they where you are today you know we stand on the eve of beautiful Christmas week you know Jesus went you give your life to him to help you today. Would you pray this prayer dear God, I see Jesus lifted up on understand. I struggle, but I believe I look to him and I believe Jesus is God. I believe God raised from the you will forgive me because you gave your life. Pray that prayer, you raise a hand raised her hand today. Number remember we worshiping by. I will review all sitting in that chair office and medical personnel that we love and admire nurses, doctors like you just always been between defect list live stream given what a wonderful Christmas one sure wish with family. God's house is never close, never processed worshiping. We pray this Thanksgiving.

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