“THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT 1-3 “THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF THE LOVE OF GOD”

DR. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES “To be given every other blessing is of no value if God isn’t with you!” “No outward prosperity and no type of success can compensate for the absence of God.”

2 Kings 14:23-24 (NKJV) 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, and reigned forty-one years. 24 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.

TURN IN YOUR BIBLES 2 KINGS 17:7-9

3 “You shall have no other gods before Me. Exodus 20:3-5 (NKJV) 3 “You shall have no other gods before Me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God…

“7 But I will show love to the people of Judah.” Verse 7 (NLT) “7 But I will show love to the people of Judah.” See: 2 Kings 19 2 Chronicles 32

TOM CONSTABLE “The last phrase of verse 9 literally is ‘I [am] not I AM [‘ehyeh] to you’”

Psalm 103:8 (NASB) 8The Lord is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

2 Tim. 2:11-13 (NKJV) 11 This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him. 12 If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us. 13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.

Romans 1:24-25 (NASB) 24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON “Losses and adversities are frequently the means which the great Shepherd uses to fetch home his wandering sheep; like fierce dogs they worry the wanderers back to the fold.”

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