Pursued by Love (LIVE)

Judgment may be at the door, but mercy is still on the line. We open with Jeremiah’s long obedience—twenty-three years of warning a people who traded covenant for idols—and watch God rise early, again and again, to call them home. When the king burns the scroll in Jeremiah 36, the word returns with “many like words.” You can silence paper, not truth. That moment becomes a mirror: how often do we want a God who agrees with us rather than a Savior who tells the truth that sets us free?

From there we move to the hard, hopeful counsel of Jeremiah 38: submit to God’s judgment and live. It’s not surrender to chaos; it’s surrender to reality with God still in it. We talk about waves of consequence, false prophets promising easy outs, and the surprising mercy inside a painful path. Then we connect it to Romans 5, where the gospel speaks with breathtaking clarity—while we were without strength, Christ died for the ungodly. The cross is love in motion: not God demanding our blood, but God offering His own to justify, to save from wrath, and to bring us into joy and peace that actually hold.

This is a message for anyone standing on the edge—tired of idols, wary of religion that flatters but cannot save, ready for a word that won’t burn away. We invite you to respond now: turn, trust, and live. Let’s trade bravado for humility and fear for fellowship, because God still knocks and still sets a table for those who open the door.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Global Greeting
• 1:47 God Never Lets People Go
• 5:16 Jeremiah 25: Twenty-Three Years Of Warnings
• 11:52 Jeremiah 36: Write It Down Again
• 17:56 The King Burns The Scroll
• 20:28 Waves Of Judgment Begin
• 22:53 Submit And Live: Jeremiah 38
• 26:33 False Hopes Versus God’s Word
• 28:36 Romans 5: Christ Died For The Ungodly
• 33:41 From Wrath To Justified By Blood
• 37:39 Life With God: Joy And Peace
• 41:21 Today Is The Day Of Salvation
• 44:58 Knock At The Door: Revelation 3:20
• 47:20 Call To Faith And Response
• 49:35 Closing Thanks And Share

Transcript

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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Glory. Precious uh gathering to the Lord's house tonight. Um welcome members and visitors alike. Amen. Hallelujah. Welcome. Uh we're glad you're here with us in the room, and um blessed to have you with us um now on every continent except Antarctica, amen. Around the world, blessed be the name of the Lord for that. About sundown, September 24th, 2025. And uh, if you're listening to this on the audio, um wearing a red, white, and blue shirt and the death for reason tonight. And so we're blessed to have you wherever you're joining us. Um at the same time, I really hope America listens um to this message. And listens to this message now. And in case you need to listen to it later, listen to it later. Hallelujah. Um, but the Lord is speaking now uh to you uh whenever you're going to hear this and wherever you're going to hear this. And I want to open it up with just an observation from the Old Testament to now. God never just lets anyone go. Genesis 3 happened. Adam, you know, Eve was deceived, and Adam followed her into that transgression. God didn't just let them go. He didn't just say, Well, that's it. Um, I'll wipe out this creation to make a new one. No, he didn't do that. He didn't let them go. Cain preached on Cain about a month ago. God didn't just let him go. Even after the murder, he did not just let the man go. In the days of Noah's generation, the eighth generation from Adam, God didn't just let that generation go. He didn't just say, Well, yeah, I'm just gonna flood it. No, Noah preached while he built the ark, and he didn't preach to nobody. People heard, people interacted. He didn't just let that generation go. How many examples through the history of Israel? He never just let Israel go. Even on their lowest moments, he never let them go. Even at their worst, when the sin was just raging, he never let them go. And he has not let them go today. Open up to the book of yeah, I mean, you can go to the book of Revelation. We won't plan to go there tonight, but all of a sudden the Gentile church fades away in the rapture, and the focus is squarely on God and Israel. God has not let Israel go. Hallelujah. And today, my friend, right here in the year 2025, he hasn't let the church go. And he hasn't let you go if you're not in Christ, if you're not born again, if you're not saved, if you're not filled with the Holy Ghost and washed by the blood. He has not let you go. He's not a God who just lets people go. And I want to show you this in Jeremiah. And we're gonna start in Jeremiah chapter 25. And come over to Jeremiah 25, and let's start in verse. We'll start right in verse 1 and we'll read a few verses here. The word that came to Jeremiah, now it doesn't say this, this came from the Holy Spirit. This came direct to Jeremiah through the Holy Spirit to give to other people. The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, that's everybody, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Ammon, king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the Lord has come to me, and have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you have not hearkened. And the Lord hath sent unto you all his servants, the prophets, rising early and sending them, but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear. They said, Turn ye again now, every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given unto you, and to your fathers, forever and ever, and go not after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands, and I will do you no hurt, quite the opposite if you read the Old Testament. Not only will God not do hurt, God will bless and bless and bless. And verse seven continues, yet ye have not hearkened to me, saith the Lord, that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt. Twenty-three years Jeremiah had ministered up to this point. Twenty three years of just this one man. Twenty three years of God's pursuit of a people, beloved, who had walked away from him. And not only did they walk away, they embraced other things. They embraced idolatry, they embraced murder, they embraced adultery, they embraced political corruption and oppression, they embraced the oppression of the poor, they embraced sexual perversion, they embraced lust, they embraced bribery, they embraced extortion. Matter of fact, when the tipping point came under King Manasseh before Josiah, the Bible tells us he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood one end to the other. And yet, for twenty three years, God used Jeremiah. He doesn't just let anyone go. He didn't let this people go. And it says Jeremiah rose up early and spoke. And then in verse four, there were others. Hallelujah and amen. There were others that God raised up to this people. And and it says, The Lord has sent you all his servants and the prophets, rising early. The Lord rose early. That meant this was top priority to God. That he was going to speak to his people. Now his people, they they'd turned their back and they'd embraced other things. But first priority to God, no matter what these people were going to do, God was going to speak. And he was going to chase after his adulterous bride. He was going to go after his lost son. He was going to go after his people. And he would show them the evil, yes. But he wouldn't stop there. And what words he would speak. If you go through the prophets before Jeremiah, Northern Kingdom and Southern Kingdom. You go all the way back to Samuel. You go all the way before Samuel. I mean, you go back and back and back. The Lord spoke and the Lord spoke and the Lord spoke and the Lord spoke and the Lord spoke. And it was always thus saith the Lord. It was always from him. It was from not only the king of Israel, but also the husband of Israel. Also the lover of Israel. Also, has said we can go back to all those messages. The mercy and the grace and the love. Always return to me, always return to me, always return to me. And yet it says here they had not hearkened. And now come on over. Jeremiah 36. And I want you to keep that in mind. God just doesn't let people go. And I want you to begin to see yourself. God just doesn't let you go. Now this is Jeremiah 36. You gotta start to put some pieces together in the prophets. And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, same year. Same king, same year. Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Take thee a roll of a bulk and write therein all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations, from the day that I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day. Now listen to this. The house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them. And it goes on. He doesn't just want you to hear the evil. That they may return every man, not a single one of them lost, that they may return every man from his evil way. And it goes on. So that I may forgive. So that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. The judgment is at the door in Israel. Judgment is at the door in your life. And yet here comes God. He spoke earlier in the year, it wasn't good enough for him. Now he's speaking, and he wants this man, this prophet, to write it down. Write down 23 years of preaching. Write down 23 years of prophetic ministry and go read it again to the people. Nebuchadnezzar is at the door. Babylon is at the door. They're seeking after Egypt, and their hope is in Egypt at this point. But God is coming in one more time. Oh, is he coming into your life right now? God is coming in one more time. It may be that you will hear. It may be that you will turn to the Lord, that he may forgive. That he may forgive you. See yourself in this. That he may forgive, that I may forgive. Let it blow your mind. God's got the judgment, and God had announced earlier to and through Jeremiah. Even this judgment, this desolation that Nebuchadnezzar would bring, it was limited. Seventy years. Seventy years of captivity. It says all nations in here because it wasn't just Israel. Nebuchadnezzar was going to rule the region. Seventy years. And yet it would not be a complete desolation and destruction of Israel. This is a limited judgment. This is a judgment. It involves death, it involves destruction. Yes, but the life the life and the purpose. And my friend, he's still crying out to them on the eve of this happening. Jeremiah, write it down and read it in the ears of all the people. It may be that they'll turn. How do you respond to him? This night, this morning, earlier today, last week, how do you respond to the Lord speaking to you? How do you respond to the Holy Ghost? How do you respond to the word that he gives? How do you respond to the written word? How do you respond to the preached word? How do you respond to those precious, sweet moments where the Holy Ghost rises up on the inside of you and He says a word personally and directly to you? How do you respond? Because my friend Jeremiah responded well. Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Nariah. A friend. Bless God Jeremiah needed a friend. Bless God some of us evangelists need friends too. Amen. But he called Baruch the son of Nariah. And Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah. This had to be a time. Because the Holy Ghost, he didn't let one word fall. You know, Jeremiah is a man. And yet this is the Holy Ghost going back from the first day that Jeremiah ever got a word from the Lord, preaching it again. And this man's writing it down, writing it down, writing it down, writing it down. And it had to be a mighty role. I mean, it had to be a mighty large book. And then they read it. And then famously the scroll was burned by Jehoiakim. But God had spoken one more time. God had spoken one more time, and that was the king's response. To burn the book. Then if you come to this the end of this chapter, chapter 36, 32, at the direction of the Holy Ghost, Jeremiah took another role and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Nariah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, had burned into fire. And there were added besides unto them many like words. My friends, you can burn the book, but you can't burn the word of God. You can throw it aside, but you can't diminish the word of God. You can ignore it, but that doesn't make it any less the word of God. You can pretend like you never heard it. It's still the word of God. And my friends, you can receive it. That's what this king didn't do. The sticking point was when it got to the part about Babylon. Because Egypt had installed him and he taxed the people and they paid tribute to Egypt every year. And he didn't want to hear about Babylon. And so he burned it. And hallelujah, the Lord's looking for that. Because life went on. The judgment began to come. Jehoiakim was likely killed in an uprising. But another king was installed. Chapter 37 tells us King Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Kaniah, the son of Jehoiakim, and Nebuchadnezzar made Zedekiah king in the land of Babylon. The judgment began. And it didn't happen all at once. It happened over the course of several years. There were waves of captivity. There were waves, and there were times when Babylon came. It didn't all just happen in a day. A lot like your life. But should you reject the word of the Lord, hallelujah, you'll find God will come continue to come. The Holy Ghost will continue to come. The Holy Ghost will continue to draw. The Holy Ghost will continue to speak. Sometimes over the course of decades. He'll speak to you as a child. He'll speak to you as a teenager. He'll speak to you in your twenties. He'll speak to you in your thirties. He'll speak to you in the forties. He'll speak to you and come and draw and woo again and again and again. Always toward life, always toward healing, always toward salvation, always toward restoration, always toward fruitfulness and joy and hope and peace. And we see it again through Jeremiah. You see, if you come down, chapter thirty-eight, verse two. Thus saith the Lord. He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, but he that goeth forth to the Chaldean shall live. Nebuchadnezzar is here. Nebuchadnezzar is the servant of the Lord. You will see that other in other places in Jeremiah. God sent him. And Jeremiah gets strong with it. Nebuchadnezzar, my servant. It's earlier. I raised a few eyebrows. God sent Nebuchadnezzar there. What Jeremiah is doing in the Holy Ghost and through the Holy Ghost, he's telling this king, he's telling this people, submit to God's judgment. He that goes, if you stay in this city and try to outlast it, if you stay in this city and fight, if you stay in this city and listen to the other prophets, which were saying things like, God's going to send the Egyptians. They're saying things like, God's going to send away Babylon. They're saying things like all that stuff that Babylon took from the temple, God's going to bring it back, and God's going to bring all those people back, and God's going to deliver us from Babylon. No, Nebuchadnezzar was the servant of God. God was telling his people, submit to this. If you go to the Chaldeans, you will live, you will have your life for a prey, and he doubles down, ye shall live. That's what God wanted. Thus saith the Lord, this city shall surely be given into the hand of Babylon's army, which shall take it. Therefore the princess said to the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death. And the hands of all the people, speaking such words to them. This man seeketh not the here we have it. This man seeketh not the welfare of the people, but the hurt. He's trying to save their lives in the Lord. And they're saying, kill him. He doesn't care about us. He's hurting us. He's bringing us down. All this Babylon talk. Aren't we supposed to be the people of God? He's bringing us down. Kill him. You go to the king, huh? My friends. How much do you personally you look for a God figure in your life. You look for religion in your life. You look for some authority in your life. And you look for an authority that looks exactly like you. You look for a God who sounds like you. You look for a God who likes what you like. You look for a God who affirms everything you think, everything you do, everything you say across the board. And all the while you deny Jesus and you're missing life. You're missing life. And then you start calling the God of that denomination, or the God of that preacher, or the God of that church. You start you start blaming and you start accusing. They were calling Jeremiah basically an enemy of the state. And the enemy of people. And what God is doing, Jeremiah wasn't doing a thing, but pouring out the word of God. And what God is after is all of you who are still fighting me, all of you who are still resisting me, all of you who are still just buying into whatever scratches your itching ears and missing the point of everything, you're going to die. Unless you go out to Babylon. If you go out there, if you follow my judgment, go back and ask Jeremiah. He'll tell you 70 years it's a captivity. But if you submit to my judgment, how many times did he say it? 38 2. He that goes forth to the Chaldeans, number one, shall live, number two shall have his life for a prey, number three shall live. He wants people to live. He wants you to live. And we've got to tie this all together. In the blessed book of Romans, hallelujah. Romans chapter five. Romans chapter five, starting in verse six. For when we were yet without strength, in due time, hallelujah, Christ died for the ungodly. And may well be you tonight. Christ died for the ungodly. Christ died for the one who offends the very person of God. That's ungodly. Unrighteous offends the word. Ungodly offends the person. Christ died for the one tonight who calls God a liar. Christ died for the one tonight who calls God the oppressor. Christ died for the fornicator. Christ died for the sexually perverse. Christ died for the murderer. Christ died for the proud. Christ died for the people who slander his name and slander his people. Christ died for the ungodly. Every single solitary one, leaving nobody out. Christ died for the ungodly. We were without strength. We couldn't call up from down. All we sought out was a God who would bless our fornication. All we sought out was a God who would agree with our murder. All we sought out was a God who looks like me, sounds like me. All we sought out was a God who would make us feel good about every single solitary thing we ever did, we ever thought, or we ever felt. Truth be damned. We sought out a God who was not God at all. We sought out a devil to call God. We sought out a devil to follow. We sought out a devil to wage war against God in the name of Jesus. We sought out a devil who would make us feel great. We sought out a devil who would maybe set some bars for us so that we could jump over them and feel good about ourselves, pat ourselves on the back. Feel like we're we're good religious people. I mean, feel like we really put in the effort. Or we sought out a God who was just there to make our guilt go away. We sought out a God, above all, who would not change us, but would bless us in our rugged individualism, would bless us in our societal angst, would bless us in our thirst for revolution, would bless us as we sit in our house and more religiously observe sports teams than give a rip about God or whatever he has to say. I mean, God better like it. Or I'll just find another church. And my friend, idolatry is arguably the most prevalent sin in America. And I just described to you and showed you exactly how it works. We were without strength. We couldn't find God if we looked for him. We couldn't identify the real truth. We could identify what we thought to be true. We could identify our morality, our personal moral code. And bless God, we can do that. That's part of the fall. We know what's we know that there is a good and we know that there is an evil. And it just in America becomes a matter of personal taste. But as far as what the truth really is, we're clueless. I was, my wife was, my mother was. And so are you. And I don't say that to put you down. The Holy Ghost doesn't put point that to put you down. Because the verse doesn't end there. In due time, Christ died for on the behalf of the ungodly. God did not let the ungodly go and continue on in ungodliness. He did not, he sees the end of that, and that's a devil's hell. Ungodliness ends in a devil's hell. God sees the end of that. He looks at you, he's like, I see that, I see you. Why should you die? I see that, I see you. Hey, you're made in my image. I didn't make that for you. I made that for Satan. I made that for his angels. I didn't make that for one that I put together in my own image. I didn't make that for the people I love. And John 3 tells us he loves the whole world. You write your name there. I didn't make that for you because I love you. I don't want to see you there. But you're going that way. So I'm not gonna allow it. I'm gonna stop you from going that way. I am going to show you my love. Verse 8. God commends his love toward us. God commends his love towards you tonight, my friend. Commends his love, shows you his love, acts out his love, his affection. You see, my friend, God is love and God sees you, and God is moved. English calls that affection. It's love in motion. It's not just love sitting there. God saw you on the cross. You write your name there, my friend. When Jesus hung there, oh, songs have been written about it, poems have been written about it, he saw you on the cross. He saw you in your ungodliness. He saw you, however, you express that. He saw you, and he was moved to do something about the ungodliness. He was not moved to destroy you. He was moved to do something for you. He he was moved to to give you something. Bless God, that's the kind of God he is. And he's moved. And part of how he is moved is right here. To give you something. You know, while we were yet sinners, yet ungodly, Christ died for us. Then we see some of what that accomplished in verse 9, much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved. This is God's heart for you. We shall be saved from wrath through him. We shall be saved, because one day God was moved in affection to give us his only begotten Son. One day God was moved. And Jesus followed him. Jesus followed the Father in this to go to the cross and to shed blood. Shed blood. Why would God do such a thing? He doesn't want your blood. He doesn't want your efforts. He doesn't want your misery. He doesn't want your torment. He doesn't want your sacrifice. He made his own. That's how moved God was to deal with you in kindness and in mercy and in grace and in truth and in love. He deals with you in truth. That's why Jesus died. Sin had to go somewhere. There had to be a death. And God looked at you and He said, I don't want you to die. So I'll die. I don't want you to die. I'll die in your place. So that we could live, you and me together. So that we could have life together. So that we could laugh together. So that we could cry together. So that we could rejoice together. So that we could work together. Co-laborers with Christ, Church. That's who you are. Co-laborers with Christ. We could work together. We could accomplish things together. We could be on the earth together. You could have a family. You could have a wife. You could have a husband. You could have children. And we could have it my way. And because your way, the way the world's just going to be messed up. But my way, it's heaven on earth. So that we could rejoice and joy. And so so you could know me. So that you could even experience the fellowship of my sufferings. And can so that you could be tempted. We sang a song earlier. I've got to replace some of the lyrics in it. So we even when you're tempted by the enemy. You know what just cut through that like a knife from me earlier? Count it all joy. Count it all joy. Even when Satan comes and tries to derail you. Even you call, even when that happens, you don't get all hung up on the temptation. I'm tempted by the enemy. Oh, everything's around me. Count it all joy just slices right into that. And so you laugh. And you rejoice in the Lord. And the enemy flees. That's the life God has for you. That's a small sliver of it. That's kind of all that's regular joy. And there's fullness of joy. And there's joy unspeakable and full of glory. Hallelujah. There's a peace that he's got for you. There's a strength that he's got for you. There's an authority that he's got for you. There's blessing upon blessing upon blessing upon blessing upon blessing upon blessing upon blessing that he's got for you. And do you see the difference between death and life? And do you see the difference? Following an idol can't do this. Following an idol, it may make you feel better for a time. Scripture will tell us there there are people successful by the world's standards, but only for a time. Because one day your foot will slip. God will be the one who does it. And I bet, even if you've maybe you're at that day right now and you're falling. But God is still talking to you. You denied me a year ago. You denied me five years ago. You denied me ten years ago. You denied me twenty years ago. But today is the day of your salvation. Today is the day I'm talking twenty years ago doesn't matter at that point. All the times you denied God before doesn't matter. God's speaking to you today. Even how how can he speak to you? The cross. The blood. But I don't believe that. I don't believe him. I don't even want that. Oh, he didn't ask you. He went ahead and put your sin on Jesus in advance. He went ahead and put your present sin all on him. And the only reason you're still under his wrath is because you resist him. Because you fight him, because you you're in unbelief. You're embracing other things. But God is coming to you in what we call the New Testament time. Sort of like how he came to Israel in the days of Jeremiah. Nebuchadnezzar was right there and it was starting to happen. So maybe you're in that position today. You're in that position today. Where you're falling. And the consequences are catching up. Whatever your flavor of sin is. The judgment is at the door. The Lord is returning. He will not let your sin go another day. He will not let the sin of your nation go. This is a call. To America, yes, but to you personally. That judgment is at the door. But God is talking to you while it's still at the door. Not inside yet. Coming inside the walls, not there yet. At the door. And saying, Today is the day of your salvation. I am the Lord your God, and I love you with a fierce, strong, passionate love. And I expressed it in Jesus. And I'm reaching to you in the Holy Ghost right now. I'm saying, return to me. This is Revelation 3.20. That's what Revelation 3.20 isn't for the lost. Revelation 3.20, when Jesus stands at the door and knocks, that's for the church. To the lost, you see Jesus. Your Savior. Will you trust him tonight? Amen. And church, will you let him in? Because when he comes into a church, he's not going to wreck the place, he's going to restore the place. You know what he says in Revelation? Um open the door to me, you know, and we'll sit, we'll sit down. And we'll have supper together. That's what he says. I'll have supper with you. We'll break bread together. We'll fellowship. Like we maybe haven't fellowship with you in a long time. Maybe you're lukewarm tonight. Well, God doesn't want to spee you out of his mouth. Um, he wants you to dine with him. Hallelujah. So have a supper with God that you'll never forget. At his invitation, on his dime that he already bought and paid for. And here's the he's giving it to you. Amen. Hallelujah. And lost man, lost woman, lost child, whether you're here tonight or whether you're abroad, whether you're watching this on a video or listening to it on a radio, um, and bless God, a lot of outlets we're in. And I believe God's just starting that. I believe we'll see more in the coming year. Um, but I hope you've heard of the passionate love of God for you. He doesn't want you to die. He wants you to live. He doesn't want you to be lost under his wrath. He wants you to be saved and full of his joy. Um, he wants you to be born again and healed and forgiven and strong in the Lord. Put your faith in him. That's all he asks. He already furnished everything else. Will you, using the capacity to believe that God gave you willingly, joyfully, desperately, honestly, turn to him and trust him. God loves you. Do you love him? Amen. And if that's you tonight, I want you to come forward if you're here. But if you're abroad, just stop everything and talk to Jesus. Ask him to be saved, ask him to be born again. Even use this verse. Lord, I'm without strength, and you died for me. You love me. I'm a sinner. Save me. If your words fail you, just use his. Hallelujah. Amen. But um, thank you for being here tonight. And thank you for for being there abroad. Um, keep on liking and sharing and subscribing and all that good stuff. And may the Lord continue to richly bless us. Amen. Amen.