To SEEK and to SAVE and to DWELL

To SEEK and to SAVE and to DWELL

Pastor Steve Anderson  |  1.28.26

Luke 19:10 

10 For the Son of Man (Jesus) came to seek and save those who are lost.

John 3:16 

16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 

John 3:17

17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

 

His pursuit is driven and directed by His love for each of us.

 

Ezekiel 33:11

11 As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live.  Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel! Why should you die?

John 3:17

17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. 

John 6:40 

40 For it is my Father’s will that all who see his Son and believe in him should have eternal life. I will raise them up at the last day.”

 

His pursuit is and persistent, yet patient.

 

Joel 2:13

13 Return to the Lord your God, for He is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.  He is eager to relent and not punish.

Romans 10:13 

13 For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

2 Peter 3:9 & 15

9 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent…………

15 And remember, our Lord’s patience gives people time to be saved. This is what our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you with the wisdom God gave him.

John 6:37

37 ……those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them.

 

God doesn’t just wait….He ways to bring us back/redeem us.

 

2 Samuel 14:14

14 All of us must die eventually. Our lives are like water spilled out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God does not just sweep life away; instead,  

Amos 5: 4 

4 Now this is what the Lord says to the family of Israel: “Come back to me and live!

1 Timothy 2:1-6

1 I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. 

2 Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity. 

3 This is good and pleases God our Savior, 

4 who wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth. 

5 For there is only one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and humanity—the man Christ Jesus. 

6 He gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone. This is the message God gave to the world at just the right time.

 

God Takes the .

 

Romans 10:20 (NIV)  

20 And Isaiah boldly says, “I was found by those who did not seek me; I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me.”

John 6:40 & 44

40 For it is my Father’s will that all who see his Son and believe in him should have eternal life. I will raise them up at the last day.”…….

44 For no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me, and at the last day I will raise them up.

 

Even in our sin, God is always .

 

Jeremiah 29:10-13

10 (NIV)  This is what the Lord says: “You will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again. 

11 (NIV)  For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 

12 (NIV)  In those days when you pray, I will listen. 

13 (NIV)  If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.

 

God Pursues Us to Us

 

Matthew 18:12-14

12 “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? 

13 And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn’t wander away! 

14 In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father’s will that even one of these little ones should perish.

 

We can’t hide from His .

 

Psalm 139:7-12

7 I can never escape from your Spirit!  I can never get away from your presence! 

8 If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. 

9 If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, 

10 even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. 1

11 I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night— 

12  but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.

 

He will never us.

 

Hebrews 13:5b 

5 For God has said, “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.”

 

John 14:16-17

16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. 

17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. 

 

Matthew 28:20b

20 And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

 

God has an objective.

 

Leviticus 26:11-12

11 I will live among you, and I will not despise you. 

12 I will walk among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people.

 

Ezekiel 37:26-28

26 And I will make a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant. I will give them their land and increase their numbers,[a] and I will put my Temple among them forever. 

27 I will make my home among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 

28 And when my Temple is among them forever, the nations will know that I am the Lord, who makes Israel holy.”

 

Zechariah 2:10-11

10 The Lord says, “Shout and rejoice, O beautiful Jerusalem, for I am coming to live among you. 

11 Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day, and they, too, will be my people. I will live among you, and you will know that the Lord of Heaven’s Armies sent me to you.

 

Jesus was part of God’s to dwell/live with us:

 

Matthew 1:23

23 “Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’”

 

 

John 1:1-4 7 14

1 In the beginning the Word (Logos…revealed mind/expression of God) already existed. The Word/Logos was with God, and was  God.  

2 He existed in the beginning with God. 

3 God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him.  

4 The Word gave life to everything that was created, and his life brought light to everyone……..

14 So the Word became human and made his home among us.

 

 

2 Corinthians 6:16 

16 And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live in them and walk among them.  I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

 

 

Revelation 21:3 (NIV)

3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them.  They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.

 

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