The God of Compassion

Psalm chapter 103, the purpose of this psalm that we're looking at in this series is meant to revive the pulse of [praise] in your heart toward God.

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows [compassion] to those who fear him.

God is like a heavenly father who is [crazy] about his children.

For He knows our frame. He remembers that we are [dust].

It is His knowledge of His frame, His knowledge of your weakness, the knowledge of your sin that does what? It draws Him [closer] to you.

There's nothing that you can do in your life if you're a child of God that can [separate] you from His love.

Our sins and weaknesses are the very [resume] items that qualify us to approach Him.

Most people relate to God, not as if He's a heavenly Father, but as if He's an earthly [boss].

When you're relating to your boss, your relationship is based on one thing. It's [performance].

If you're a parent in this room, you've been there where your kid begins to go off the rails, or your kid is suffering with something. What happens in your relationship? Does it not [intensify]?

Jesus says, when you pray, say what? Our [Father] in Heaven.

When you are a child of God, everything else that God is, is seen through the filter first and foremost. He's my [dad].

At any point, his children can come and jump on him, throw their arms around him because to them, he's [dead].

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to [everlasting] on those who fear Him.

This love, 200, 300 years from now, when you're long dead and gone, no longer remembered on this earth. In that day, you will still be experiencing the everlasting love of the [Father].

There is a love that can break the [chains] of that generational sin.

If it comes into your life and it changes you can stop that and instead extend this steadfast love of the Lord to your children and to their [children].