Episode Transcript
You are listening to daily insights on the three ABN Radio Network. And here is your host, Kaysie Butler. Hello and welcome to the program.
I have an interesting quote here that I want to share with you from Desire of Ages, page 22. And it says this the exercise of force is contrary to the principles of God's government. He desires only the service of love.
And love cannot be commanded, it cannot be won by force or authority. Only by love is love awakened. Well, who has taken the first step? God has.
He has loved us with incredible love. And I want to explore some of that today in song. And the first song I want to share with you is by Steve Darmity called in the Heart of Jesus.
There is love for you, love most pure and tender, love most deep and true. Why should you be lonely? Why, for friendship sigh when the heart of Jesus has a full supply close. Oh, the height of Jesus love, higher than the heaven above, deeper than the deepest sea, lasting as eternity.
Love that found me, OneLess thought found me when I sought him not chief of sinners though I be, jesus shed his blood for me died that I might live on, die as the branches too divine. I am mine us there is thought for you, warm as summer sunshine, sweet as morning do. Why then like a wonder, roam with weary since the home of Jesus holds for you.
Why does Jesus love us so much? See if you can pick some answers in the next song called Two Times Mine, sung by T. Marshall Kelly. A little boy built a boat, built it out of love, put it in the river, a string tied the two together, but the current broke that string and the boat just drifted away.
A little boy made a promise, a teardrop in his eye. One day he'd reclaim the boat and bring the two back together. Well it didn't take too long when he saw the boat in the window of a store.
Well, he saved all his money and he bought the boat. And as he walked away, you could hear him say, now you're mine, mine two times you're mine once because I made you, once because I bought you. Now you're mine, mine two times you're mine both times cause I love you so.
God made a man, made him with his love, put him in the world. The love tied the two together, but the man broke that love and the man just drifted away. God made a promise from his throne on high one day he'd reclaim the man and bring the two back together.
Well it didn't take too long when he sent down Jesus, his only son well, he sacrificed his son that day. If you listen close you can hear him say you're mine, mine two times. You're mine once because I made you, once because I bought you now you're mine, mine two times you're mine both times cause I love you so both times cause I love you so.
Don't you know God love each one of us? Did you work it out? Jesus loves us because he made us and he bought us with the blood he shed on the cross. Rachel and Raymond will now sing Written in Red, which is all about Jesus'love for us, as demonstrated on the cross of Calvary. In letters of crimson god wrote his love on the hillside so long, long ago for you and for me jesus died and love greatest story rewards home.
I love you. I love you. That what Calvary says.
I love you. I love you. I love you.
In Ram, through the ancient God wrote his love with the same hands that suffer and bless. Giving all that he has to give a message so we suddenly rain I love you, love you. That what Calvary says.
I love you, I love you, I love you. All precious in the blood that made me white as no other down I know nothing but the blood of Jesus. I love you, I love you, I love I love you in RA you the next song I want to share with you is based on a fascinating passage.
Ezekiel 16. And this is kind of like a metaphor that expresses God's commitment and his faithfulness, his compassion and his love for his people, even when they're unfaithful to Him. And I encourage you to read that chapter when you have time.
The song is called Be Mine and it's written and sung by Sarah Dragon. When you were born you were all alone nobody washed you or carried you home nobody wrapped you in swaddling clothes to the beast of the field you were thrown I saw you as I was passing by, tiny and helpless and ready to die. I saw you struggling in your own blood and I couldn't just turn away so I got there and I called you and walked to your side and I took you and I met you, that you might not die.
And I kept you and I cared for you. That someday you might be mine. Like a plant in the field, the wounds of your birth were finally healed.
I watched you maturity. You looked like a beautiful queen. You could see you were naked and bad again I saw you and then it was clear that your time was the time of love so I called you and walked to your side.
And I breath my wing around my beautiful bright and I made with you I from the day you were mine, you were mine. I watch you with water I cross you with I let you when you defeat it and your beauty was that all nation could see you were mine. Safe it and lift it on high.
You trusted your beauty, forgot you were mine. You defiled yourself with whomever you chose your covenant with me you bro forget the blood and the pain of your birth forgetting the one to give you your words you turn to your idol of silver. I watch you turn away so I'm weeping with heartbroken cry and I call me and I'm greedy oh, why would you die? And I'm not hoping that someday you might be mine? I will take you? I will hear you and walk by your side? I will put you in a darkness? Really? I will come and take you? Finally when you are mine.
See, the Apostle John had a deep appreciation for God's love for him because he talks about it so much in his letters that he wrote. And I want to share one of those, a passage that he has written on the love of God. One John, four verses, seven to 21.
This passage actually has some musical accompaniment as it's been put together by the Galken Evangelistic team. Beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.
He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him here in his love. Not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us.
Hereby know we that we dwell in Him and he in us because he hath given us of his spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God.
God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in Him.
Herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment he that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love Him because he first loved us.
If a man say I love God and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him that he who loveth God love his brother also. You really get a sense of John's deep appreciation for God's love for him, don't you? As you listen to those words, one thing that's interesting about John is he often refers to himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved.
And I imagine that he's not saying that arrogantly by any means. I imagine he's saying that with just a deep sense of awe and amazement that Jesus would love Him who was no doubt he felt his unworthiness. And I think that that is the sense in what he's saying there.
And the other noteworthy point is the idea of sharing the love of God with other people. And John brought that out in that passage. And it has been said that love cannot long exist without expression.
And that means that if we want to remain in God's love, we must be actively sharing it with others. So that's a challenge for us. Finally now the Steve Patit Evangelistic team meditate on the love of God as they share the song o Love divine all of divine amazing that brought to earth from heaven above the Son of God for us to die that we might dwell on high he died for you he died for me and his blood to make us free upon the it sam SA wonder.
Come on. In his grace my faith always and well. I hope you were touched with the love of God today as we explored it in Word and song.
Thank you for tuning into daily Insights. I am Kaysie Butler, and until next time, God richly bless you've been listening to a production of three ABN Australia radio.
