Cornerstone Church in Winchendon is doing a study through the book, Good or God by John Bevere. The comments of our Sunday morning sermons have been loosely based off this work for the last three weeks. Our lead Pastor has been away for a few weeks with family and that has given me the opportunity to share from the pulpit.

Here is the beginning of last Sunday’s sermon, “Jealousy Demanding As the Grave.”

Death is a powerful force. If you do not believe that just ask anyone who has had truck with it this year. It is called in 1 Corinthians 15, “the final enemy”. Many families in our congregation have confronted this  enemy in the year 2015 and have fresh knowledge of just how devastating a meet up with this monster can be. It takes one life and crushes an entire group of people.

But today I have good news! Death may be a powerful force but the Lord Jesus Christ is even more powerful! Death may be mighty but the love of God is mightier still!

Listen to what the Bible has to say in this regard:

love is as strong as death,

its jealousy^c as enduring as the grave.^d

Love flashes like fire,

the brightest kind of flame.

7Many waters cannot quench love,

nor can rivers drown it.

Song 8:6,7

Do you know that God loves you?

I mean do you know that God really loves you?

I mean do you know that God is passionately crazy about you?

Last week I shared a hard word (Saulish Worship) this week I am sharing the balance to that word. I am sharing “the sweet words of faith.”

God loves you! In the Psalms He calls you the apple of His eye. You are like the pupil of God’s eye, the first one He will raise His hand instinctively to protect. That is why He sent Jesus to die in your place because He was trying to instinctively protect you. Jesus died so that you can have life. All you have to do us accept His death on the cross and follow God out of the danger sin creates.

How does a person follow God out of the danger sin creates?

More tomorrow…