The Love of God (Part 3): Discover His Relentless Love for You

First, I want you to know this was a love affair. I don’t mean to be light, but it was like God on a white horse. Here were the Jews in Egypt, in slavery. None of them were free. No one in the universe cared for them. They were the scum. In our generation, we have seen the black people in this country and other parts of the world throw off their yoke because they have been considered the bottom of the pile. Brothers, that’s what the Jews were in that day. They were at the bottom of the pile. No one cared for them. They were the lowest of the lowest slaves…and they were in Egypt. They were fed by Pharaoh’s soldiers. They had no freedom. All they had was food to eat, and they were being overworked, and their people were being killed.

In this terrible state, what did the Lord do? What did He do? He fell in love with them. And then what did He do? He came with a mighty hand and rescued them from Egypt. Then what did He do? He took her into the wilderness, and there she learned to love the Lord. And the Lord said, “I love you. Love Me. Love Me…with what? All your heart. All your soul. All your mind. What does that mean? Love Me with all the passion of all your being. Love Me that much. I don’t think three weeks ago you would say you had that idea, did you? To love the Lord with all the passion of your being.

Brothers, sisters, in the wilderness she learned to love Him. She grew, and she grew, and she grew. God took her out of the wilderness and put her where? Where did He put her? In the land. What was the name of the land? Canaan. Belonged to the Canaanites. What are some of the other names for that place? The promised land, Israel, Palestine, and someone called it Beulah. He often called them ‘the land.’ “This land has gone to sinning.” “This land shall prosper.” “This land shall be called Beulah.” And you all know what Beulah means, but in case there’s anyone who does not… “The day will come when I will call you Beulah. I will call you married to Me. I will call you married.”

Brothers and sisters, the Lord led her into this place. She was ugly. She was despised. Her father was an Amorite, and her mother was a Hittite. You couldn’t have said anything lower than that, and even the mother and the father would have nothing to do with her. She was thrown out, still in the encasement of birth. No one cared for her on this earth, but the Lord walked by, cared for her, and in the land of Canaan, He raised her up.

Did she grow up to be something beautiful? During the days of King Solomon, she was the most beautiful thing in the whole world. She was decked in gold, silver, and precious stones. You’ve probably read II Kings, about the seventh chapter, I think, a description of what the land of Israel was like during the days of King Solomon.

Please listen to me very carefully, because what I’m going to say must be deeply impressed on you, or the next message that is built, the one that is the reality of the picture, it will totally miss you…If you do not see this simple thing. She was nothing. God fell in love with her. She went into the land. She grew up and became so beautiful. Brother and sister, He had told her, “Love Me with all your heart. Love Me.”

I have heard many of you talking about how deeply the Lord has impressed you with how much He loved her. When you get back here Friday night, will you tell us that? I’ll have to end tonight on a negative note, out of necessity, but what the Lord has shown you in the Old Testament has been very positive. I know there is more here than I will tell you tonight. I myself am hungry to know more, especially passages…just some of the most unseen, unnoticed verses come alive. Some of you have found the Song of Solomon to be a whole new book for you. So, don’t let my negative note discourage you from telling us the rest of the story, would you?

Now I ask the brothers to help me. Brother, what kind of love story should we have here? Did Adam have a lovely wife? Was she beautiful? Now I’m going to ask you a strange question: did Adam deserve such a beautiful wife? Say yes or no. You bet your life he did. Isn’t it marvelous that Adam got a lovely, pure, wonderful bride? I told you the other night: she stood before Adam, and the word pure would not even be enough. Tell me, did David have a lovely wife? Did he? Yes, he did. What about Boaz? Did he have a lovely wife? Did he deserve her? Yes, he deserved her.

Who else? Abraham. Did he have a beautiful wife? Was she a deserving wife? Yes or no? Yes. Even recently, there were some archaeological discoveries, and some of the ancient traditions of the Jews were dug up, that Sarah was such a beautiful woman and so pure and so holy. You know, one of the kings of – I’ve forgotten where – out in the Gaza Strip, I believe, up in northern Egypt, fell in love with her. He didn’t know she was married. God’s wrath fell on that king just because he had affection for Abraham’s wife.

What about Jacob? Did he have a beautiful wife? Did he deserve her? Brothers, you bet your life he deserved her. He worked for fourteen years. God used those fourteen years to begin changing that man from the supplanter to a prince of God. Every one of those is a beautiful love story, and they are very, very precious, are they not? Yes, they are.

I show you now a picture. She grew up and became beautiful. Did God deserve a beautiful woman? Did He deserve one pure and holy? Yes or no? Who of all creatures in all time or eternity should have and deserve the loveliest of all women? Who? The Lord. She grew up so beautiful. She was so loved. Who was the greatest possible love to whom she could turn? Tell me, who of all would she turn to to be her counterpart? The Lord. Brothers, what did she do? She turned…to Egypt, the very place from where she had been rescued.

God created this one called man to have a counterpart, and what did man do? He fell. Then God brought forth a picture…a picture, and this was the picture of an unloved, unlovely thing, and He redeemed her. He brought her forth and made her pure. And what did she do? She became a harlot woman.