The Love of God: God’s Counterpart (Part2) God’s Greatest Desire: Why He Longs for You

The young man was standing under a fig tree, and he was a patriot, and he despised the Romans, and he had a lot of thoughts under that fig tree, and his brother walked up to him, and he said, “Come, we have found the Messiah.” He said, “Oh, that you had found the Messiah. How we need a Messiah.” And he came to the Lord, and he saw Him. And what did Nathaniel need? He needed a King, for he was a hot-blooded patriot for Israel. He was a good American citizen. He needed a king. What did he say of Jesus Christ? What did he say? You’re the Messiah, the Son of God, the King of Israel.

What did Peter need? He needed a God. And he looked at Jesus, and he said, “Thou art the Christ, the Messiah, the anointed one, the Son of God.” He needed a Messiah and God. That’s what they needed, and that’s what they saw. What did Jesus need? He came to earth to find Himself one upon whom He could finally, after all eternity and all of time, pour out His love. Read the record. John the Baptist called Him the Lamb of God because that’s what he needed. Nathaniel called Him the King of Israel because that’s what he needed. Peter called Him the Messiah because that’s what he needed.

But listen to the Lord Jesus Christ refer to Himself. And in general, unless He is teaching some spiritual truth, when He refers to Himself, He gives only two names to Himself. What? I am the Son of Man. Do you know what that means? That means if mankind ever gave birth to its essence, to all that it really is, Jesus would be that essence. He said, “I am the Son of Man. I did not cease to be God; I have been Man, and I have the passion of a man, the need, the longing of a man. I am the Son of Man. I am a man. He called Himself one other name. I am the Groom.

All other grooms have been a picture of that groom. There’s not a groom who has ever lived, who lives now, or who will be like that Groom. Glories? Brothers, glories? This Groom – handsome, single, young, perfect…love tied up inside of His being since before time. Praise the Lord – God fell in Love! It was someone whom He could pour out His Love, the like of which my soul cannot comprehend. But if my spirit ever sees it, if my spirit ever sees…God, open eyes that are not in our head; ears that are not, and let us hear God’s love…And he is not a type. With all the power of His being and the passion of eternity behind it, God comes, and God in Christ is looking for a woman, and upon that girl, upon that woman, He wishes to pour out bottomless oceans of love. He wishes to love her, and make love to her, and in a passion – love her.

God fell in love. Do you know who He fell in love with? He fell in love with you. He fell in love. He’ll love you with an indescribable love. Don’t ask me to say He fell in love with the church. I’ll not do it. God became a man and fell in love…with me. God fell in love with you. He must be the most frustrated lover of all recorded and unrecorded history. Do you know why? Because you didn’t know what you just heard tonight. That doesn’t keep from making it true. It doesn’t matter how you feel about Jesus Christ. Young, passionate, scouring the universe…He found it in you. And you know something else? He can love. He can love you, for you have something in you that can hear and feel that love. Praise the living God.

Somewhere deep inside your being is that same indescribable love. We didn’t know. Open the eyes of our spirit that we see who we are and behold Your beauty, Your holiness, and the end of Your frustration. God had a bride who cried to the heavens with all the passion of her being, “God.”

Praise the Father. Even so, I sit in the presence of my Lord. We mean to be Your bride, and we mean to love You. Lord Jesus, You must help us, for we didn’t even know who we were. Oh my God, stir the depths of our spirit until there breaks out among us a depth of the exchange of the love of God. Have the desire of ages in our midst. Amen.