The Goodness of God

Pastor Zack Strong
The Goodness of God

Text: Acts 10, John 1.9, Psalm 52.9, Exodus 33.5-34.7, Romans 2.4

God repeated the vision three times to establish something new, that the common and unclean would no longer be common or unclean in His eyes. Three voices to establish every truth.

God shows no partiality but accepts whoever accepts Him. God is not your enemy. God is working for you and not against you. God wants you to have “it” more than you want “it”.

The enemy will remind you of your past to keep you from everything in your present. Quit hanging on to the residue of yesterday. The longer the grave clothes are on, the stronger you will smell the stench. Entering the inner court means you no longer smell the death of the sacrifices but the smell of the oils and fragrance of the spirit.

Good: approval, better than average, offers favorable results, effective, sufficient, enjoyable, adequate, morally sound, kind, generous, sympathetic

Three aspects of God’s goodness:

-In Genesis, God compared creation to Himself. “This is so good” —> “This so me”
Good: functioning as God intended it to be. We each cause God to dance because He delights in His creation. The only thing God can do is good. Loving like the world doesn’t assure you that all things work together for good but loving God does.

-In Exodus, He made His goodness pass before Moses. The goodness and glory of God are connected. Good: mercy and longsuffering . Sickness and disease are not God putting it on you.

-Goodness is God’s mercy to a broken, fallen creation. Who are we to be worthy of anything God has? Only because of His unfailing love. His mercy endureth forever. The only qualification is faith in what Jesus did.

 

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