Love Between You and God

A single sentence from Scripture can redefine lives and break the chains of deceit. Today we explore Psalm 18, where David's deep love and gratitude for God's deliverance reveal a powerful testimony of faith. This episode uncovers the  story of mutual affection between David and the Lord, illustrating how God's unwavering love can form a foundation of trust and deliverance in our lives. By examining David's journey, we witness the unchanging nature of divine love and its ability to set individuals free.

Chapters

• 0:15 Profound Love and Redemption
• 9:36 Eternal Love and Redemption

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:15

Greetings, hello and welcome to the Redeeming Love Bible Broadcast. My name is Phil Duddy, evangelist with Grace Baptist Tabernacle of King, north Carolina, very glad to be back behind the microphone recording once again, and I'm glad you're with me on this program. Please do reach out to us at redeemingthelostedicloudcom. We look forward to hearing from you, as always. Psalm 18 today on the program. Please go ahead and turn with me to Psalm 18, and we are going to see something that is so fundamental and so simple and so profound and so precious from the Lord, just in the first sentence of this psalm. It's funny how the Word of God is like that. One sentence of the Word of God will change your life. One sentence of the Word of God will change your life. One sentence of the Word of God will overthrow lies and deception. One sentence from the Word of God. As we know, the truth makes us free. One sentence from the Word of God will set you free today. And blessed be the name of the Lord who gave this Word to us. He is good, he is holy. Word to us. He is good, he is holy, he is true, he is just and he wants to express himself to you today. Bless God, and so Psalm 18, verse 1, I will love thee, o Lord, my strength.

Speaker 1: 1:47

And if you look at the background of this psalm, this psalm came from David in a season in which the Lord delivered him in a really, really profound, physical way. He delivered him. If your Bible has a little note at the beginning of the psalm, mine says to the chief musician, a psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke unto the Lord, the words of deliverance in the life of David. And David opens this psalm with this declaration. He says With this declaration, he says I will love thee, o Lord, my strength. And the word for love here is a particular word and this is where it gets really powerful. The word used here is typically used to describe the love of the Lord toward people, the tender affections of the Lord toward people, the tender affections of the Lord toward people, the Lord's attitude towards people, the love of the Lord towards us. And this psalm is beginning with David using that same word toward the Lord, that same word toward the Lord. The Lord loves David and the Lord showed affection to David and the Lord showed compassion to David and the Lord delivered David because of his affection. The love of the Lord was manifested in some actions of deliverance in David's life. Hallelujah, glory and amen.

Speaker 1: 3:25

David takes that love and he returns it. He takes that love and he says, lord, you've loved me. Lord, you do love me, lord, I know you love me, lord, I've experienced your love toward me. Lord, I thank you for your love toward me. I will love you in return. You've got a tender affection for me, lord. Well, lord, I have a tender affection toward you and I will love you. This is settled. This is not going to change. This is a love and a tender affection that's going to go on in my life, me towards you, you towards me. We're in this relationship together.

Speaker 1: 4:13

Blessed be the name of the Lord. And this is a profound thing, my friend, because the Lord's love toward us is not in question whatsoever. And you'll notice here in the psalm I will love thee, o Lord, my strength. He goes on in verse 2, and then he talks about all these blessings. The Lord is my rock, the Lord is my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my strength, in whom I will trust my buckler, the horn of my salvation, my high tower. I will trust my buckler, the horn of my salvation, my high tower, all of the blessings of the Lord.

Speaker 1: 4:51

But the psalm started with the love, and then out of that love flowed all of these blessings, everything that the Lord is. The Lord is a rock, a fortress, a deliverer to David. He's David's God, his strength, all of that. But it flowed fundamentally, my friend, it flowed in its foundation. Out of that love, out of that love that the Lord's got toward David and the Lord, who is love, started showing that love. He made a deliverance, he made a tremendous deliverance in David's life.

Speaker 1: 5:30

And, my friend, it's no accident that this is one of the songs of redemption in the Bible, and so we need to talk about this today, because, hallelujah and amen, the Old Testament's inspired, it's complete, it's holy and it's good At the same time. You and I, my friend born again people, today we are not living in the Old Testament, we are living in the new, and the Lord's love toward us is not in question. While we were yet sinners, christ died for us. That is some tender affection, my friend, that is some strong affection, that is some good affection, that is some holy affection, that is the heart of the Lord being expressed Because, my friend, jesus is the Word, he's the Word with a capital W.

Speaker 1: 6:18

You look in 1 John. You look in1 John hallelujah. You look in the Gospel of John, you look in the writings of John in the New Testament and from time to time he will call Jesus the Word. Jesus is the Word and he is made flesh. Jesus is the highest expression of the heart and the will and the love of God, and Jesus expressed the heart and the will of the love of God.

Speaker 1: 6:44

He expressed it in his words. He also expressed it in the things that he did and he expressed it to people who are in sin. He expressed the love of God and you got to stop and get that. He expressed the heart of God toward men and women and children who were in their sin and who needed a Savior. So these people didn't clean themselves up. These people didn't, you know, deal with their sin on their own, somehow to be able to make themselves worthy of God. No, they didn't do any of that.

Speaker 1: 7:26

The Lord came here and the Lord came to us, and the Lord came to you and the Lord came to me and he started expressing who he is. He started expressing his holiness. He started expressing his goodness. He started expressing who he is. He started expressing his holiness, he started expressing his goodness. He started expressing his love. He started expressing mercy. He started expressing justice and judgment and grace and truth. He started expressing himself. He expressed his heart and he expressed his love. He expressed his heart and he expressed his love.

Speaker 1: 8:05

And the highest expression of that, my friend, is that he went to a cross to lay down his life and to shed his blood and to die, and to die in our place, and to lay down his life in our place and to shed his blood, so that your sin and my sin and everybody else's sin could all be dealt with, could all be washed away, so that sin could be forgiven, so that people could be forgiven, so that relationship could be established, so that relationship could be restored between people and God, because sin broke it. Sin broke that relationship. But the heart of God is to restore that relationship. The heart of God for the sinner, the heart of God for the liar, for the fornicator, for the thief, for the whoremonger, for the murderer, for the drunkard, for the blasphemer, for the idol worshiper. The heart of God, my friend, it's not a stretch to say that that sin is already dealt with.

Speaker 1: 9:02

The idolatry it's dealt with, the lying it's dealt with. The fornicating it's dealt with the adultery. It's dealt with All the you know the prostitution. It's dealt with. The drunkenness it's dealt with. You know all of the drug highs they're dealt with. All of the theft it's dealt with. All of the expressions of sin that come out of the fallen human heart it's all dealt with. It's all dealt with right now, whether you believe in Jesus or not.

Speaker 1: 9:36

Why is that not a stretch? Whether you believe in Jesus or not, why is that not a stretch? Why is that not a stretch? Because Jesus Christ went to the cross already and the Lord laid all of your sin, all of my sin, all of the sin of creation. The Lord laid it down on Jesus of creation. The lord laid it down on jesus, imputed it to jesus, made jesus to be the sin. Jesus said it's finished. Jesus died and jesus is risen again. So the sin is dealt with.

Speaker 1: 10:11

What the lord is looking for you for today is do you believe me? Is there faith? Is there faith and is there love? Is there faith, my friend? Because salvation is by grace and through faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord. He's already dealt with your sin and so what he's doing today to the lost.

Speaker 1: 10:38

What he's doing today? He's drawing you, he's speaking to you. He's saying all that sin that you're all stuck up in I've dealt with that already saying all that sin that you're all stuck up in I've dealt with that already All that sin that's bringing all this destruction, all this death, all this hurt, all this pain, all this sin that's ripping you apart. It's ripping your family apart. It's ripping your town apart. It's ripping the community apart. It's ripping your household apart. It's ripping your nation apart. I have dealt with that.

Speaker 1: 11:05

That's what the Lord's saying to you. I went to the cross and I dealt with that and I'm drawing you to myself. Are you going to believe me? Are you going to come with me? Because I love you, I have loved you and I do love you. Do you even believe me? Is there faith in you toward me? And hallelujah and amen.

Speaker 1: 11:38

If that answer is yes, if that answer is yes, lord's shown you that you're a lost, dying, hell-bound sinner and he's drawing you to salvation. Don't wait another second, but you just talk to him and you call upon him and you cry out to him and you let that faith come up into some words, let that faith out of you into words to Jesus and ask him to be born again right now, and hallelujah and amen. There is grace and there is faith, and the Lord does miracles. And the Lord delights in saving people. He delights in saving you, and so ask him to save you right now. Amen and hallelujah and Christian.

Speaker 1: 12:16

Today, my friend, you know, the Lord's love toward us is not in question. The Lord's love toward the lost you've just heard that, my friend that's not in question. Jesus went to a cross and Jesus died and Jesus rose again while we were yet sinners. And so, my friend, the Lord's love for the lost is not in question, and the Lord's love for the church is not in question one bit. And so the question is do you love him today? Do you love him? Because, my friend, as I said, you know, we in the Old Testament, back in Psalm 18, david, a man after God's own heart, david, a type and form of Jesus Christ himself, he's up here, he's saying I will love thee, I have a tender affection towards you, lord. And again, it's the same word that's used in different places in the Old Testament to describe the love of God toward people. And David, he's using that word to describe his love for God and my friends, my born-again brother, my born-again sister.

Speaker 1: 13:29

Whatever you're going through on the outside, your situation, your circumstances regardless of your circumstances and situations in this life, they're going to change. You walk through one season, next season, next season, next season, one after the other. The seasons change and the situations change, but what the Lord's looking to talk to you about today, do you love him? Do you love him? He loves you in every day, in every way, even on your worst days of Christian, my friend, even when you take your eyes off of him, even when you start listening to the enemy, you start listening to this and you get all turned around and you get all deceived. I've been there and you know, I bet if you've been saved any appreciable amount of time, then you have been there as well.

Speaker 1: 14:41

But I'll tell you, the Lord loves the church. On its most dead, lukewarm day, he still loves the church, church. Do you love him? Do you love him? And, my friend, that foundational love between you and the Lord, that's all the time. And, my friend, that changes you, and I can speak to testimony on this. That changes you. I can speak through testimony on this.

Speaker 1: 15:05

That changes you in the middle of whatever situation you're in that sets you free, in whatever situation that you're in, because you love the Lord and my friend, that love comes out into some affection.

Speaker 1: 15:20

That love comes out into some worship that comes out into some song, that comes out into some testimony. That comes out into some worship that comes out into some song that comes out into some testimony. That comes out into some ministry. That comes out into some practical obedience on your part, on your part in whatever you know, in the middle of whatever situation is, and that situation that can get pretty difficult, that can get pretty humanly challenging, but you know, no matter what it is your love toward the Lord. You walk through it and you walk through it in peace. You walk through it and you walk through it in joy. You walk through it and you walk through it in life and in love and in joy. And that's a precious thing that comes from you know the Lord loves you absolutely and you love him in return and that's a precious thing and may the Lord stir that up. If that needs to be stirred up in you today, may the Lord stir that up in you and may you just stop in whatever the middle of your situation is and you just talk to the Lord and you sing to the Lord and you weep before the Lord and you laugh before the Lord and you rejoice before the Lord, and whatever your situation is, and it's a precious, precious thing to be able to say freely and to be able to say honestly and to be able to say, without reservation of any type I love the Lord. And I want to thank you so much for being here with this broadcast, this podcast. It's the first time in a little while I've been behind the microphone. I'm really glad to be back and I'm looking forward to recording on a more regular schedule. Once again, and thank you for listening, thank you for supporting this, thank you for sharing this and again, let us know how we can pray for you, whatever your situation is, how we can be a ministry to you.

Speaker 1: 17:25

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