I think it’s the most important message of your whole life, the outrageous love of God. You know, we say, well, God is love. That’s true, no question, but he has outrageous love don’t you agree? And I see it more and more in my life.
I don’t think we can ever know or say enough about God that God is love. Now. I like this John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave. His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. How do we know that? Because God is love. The second thing I want you to see is that his love is everlasting. I think a lot of times we think, well, I’m disappointing to God. You know, I failed him. I didn’t read my Bible. I didn’t pray. You know, I got involved in all kinds of adultery, drugs, alcohol, whatever.
But I like what Jeremiah says. He says his love is everlasting. Look at Jeremiah 31:3, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, with lovingkindness I have drawn you. So how long does his love last is everlasting? So his love doesn’t run out. That is so wonderful to me. I’m very interested in Jeremiah because when Jesus came, they said to him, are you Jeremiah? What a compliment people would think you’re Jeremiah. What was it that Jeremiah showed? He showed love.
When you come to Jeremiah, I mean, this guy is really persecuted by the people. I mean, they throw him in a prison. They throw him in a pit. They don’t give him any food. A man named Ebed-Melech puts rags down and drags him out, or he would have died there. And yet he says, his love is everlasting. Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, said you can come with us to you know, Babylon, or you can stay here with the people who were people who couldn’t do very much. And he said, I want to stay with the people. And he stayed with the people.
How could he do that? Because he knew the everlasting love of God. And when you read, and this is so beautiful where he says, you know, His mercies are new every morning. When I get up in the morning, I say, good morning, father, good morning, Jesus, good morning Holy spirit. This is your beloved. Marilyn. You say, how do you know you’re His beloved? He says that it is over 42 times in the new Testament. You can believe that. Say I’m his beloved and his love is everlasting.
I got out of it out of sync, but he loves me out of sync. Why? Because his love is everlasting. Now I don’t think many people, many Christians recognize that his love is everlasting. So let’s just talk about the rich young ruler. Remember him, you know, Jesus says when he saw him, he loved him. So Jesus didn’t love him by what he did. And Jesus just loved him period. The rich young ruler said to him, “You know I do everything. I keep all the law. I really do everything because he thought he was loved by what he did. And Jesus said, okay, you keep all the law, then sell all you have and give it to the poor and come follow me. Now. I don’t know if you know the richness of that, that rich young ruler could have been the 13th disciple.
Cause he said, come follow me. You didn’t do that to anyone else. And the rich young ruler said, I can’t do that. Cause he didn’t recognize how great Jesus’ love was for him. And I think folks, sometimes we think he half loves us. Well, you know, he loves me when I’m good, but he’s mad at me when I’m bad. He loves this. He loves that, but it says his love. And that’s why I called it outrageous love. Nobody loves you like Him. It says his love is how long everlasting. It’s an everlasting love that we’re involved with.
Now. I look at the prodigal son, and I see in Luke 15, the example of the father, the father’s love. So the prodigal son comes once everything, the father can give him, that’s his inheritance. In other words, he’s saying to the father, you won’t die soon enough for me to get it.
So give it to me now. So it doesn’t show much love. And he leaves with his inheritance, and he spends it all and ends up in a pig pen. But the thing that is key is that he still knew his father loved him because he said, I can go home and live better than this. And you know, my father, even has slaves, he treats better than this. And I blew it, but I can go home and his right because the father saw him coming. I love Luke 15. I just love it because he was looking for him to come home and you see, he looks for us to come home. And when the son gets home, what does he do? He has a party. And I think God is very party conscious when somebody gets saved.
God loves parties because parties show love. You know, we, we care about that person. So we have a party for them. So he has a party. Why? Because God loves us. And he has a party for us and stand waiting. And to me that’s outrageous love. I just can’t believe anyone would love me like that. And they don’t, but God does. God loves me with an outrageous love. Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins. This is interesting that God’s love, covers all your sins.
The love of God is not just one love it’s Purim. So it’s the loves of God. So we get all kinds of love. He loves us when we blow it. He loves us. When we feel sick, he loves us. When we’re poor, he loves us. When people think we’re stupid, he loves us.
He has many kinds of love. And if you will just let him talk to you and love you, whatever it is just know, he loves me. Why? Because His love is extravagant. Even Jeremiah said, his love is new every morning. And then I go through the things that he’s done that day. And I just think, your love is so extravagant.