I. EXORDIUM:
Are we forsaken by GOD?
No, NEVER, in any way.
Deuteronomy 31:6 (Amplified Bible)
Be strong, courageous, and firm; fear not nor be in terror before them, for it is the Lord your God Who goes with you; He will not fail you or forsake you.
Hebrews 13:5 (Amplified Bible)
Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers/unbelievers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that GOD will never forsake us because He has already forsaken the LORD JESUS on our place, and GOD is well pleased to make us His people.
IV. TEXT:
1 Samuel 12:22 (Amplified Bible)
The Lord will not forsake His people for His great name’s sake, for it has pleased Him to make you a people for Himself.
V. THESIS:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You will never forsake us, not in any way relax Your hold on us and You are well pleased to make us your people.
VI. TITLE:
For CHRIST's sake GOD will not forsake us as His people
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: unknown
B. Date written: After 1011 B.C.
C. Purpose: To record the founding of the Hebrew monarchy
D. To whom written: The nation of Israel
E. Keyword: king
F. Key verses:
1 Samuel 8:7-8 (Amplified Bible)
And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken to the voice of the people in all they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not be King over them.
According to all the works which they have done since I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking Me and serving other gods, so they also do to you.
1 Samuel 15:22 (Amplified Bible)
Samuel said, Has the Lord as great a delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
VIII. MAIN BODY:
1 Samuel 12:22 (New King James Version)
For the Lord will not forsake His people, for His great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you His people.
1 Samuel 12:22 (Amplified Bible)
The Lord will not forsake His people for His great name’s sake, for it has pleased Him to make you a people for Himself.
A. The LORD GOD will not forsake us for the sake of CHRIST JESUS's Name.
"The Lord will not forsake His people for His great name’s sake,"
Forsake or "natash" in the Hebrew language meaning "to pound, that is smite, to disperse, to thrust off, down, out, reject, let alone, permit, let fall, forsake, leave, suffer" The ALEPH-TAV signature of the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the Ending was placed after the word "forsake" giving it a special meaning. The LORD GOD was forsaken so we will not be forsaken.
Mark 15:34 (Amplified Bible)
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?—which means, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me [deserting Me and leaving Me helpless and abandoned]?
Psalms 22:1 (Amplified Bible)
To the Chief Musician; set to [the tune of] Aijeleth Hashshahar [the hind of the morning dawn]. A Psalm of David. MY GOD, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
The LORD JESUS CHRIST in His love for us changed places with us, instead of us being crucified, He took the suffering on Himself, by becoming not the lowest of slave - humans, but the sins of humans
2 Corinthians 5:21 (Amplified Bible)
For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].
ILLUSTRATION: I am amazed and often times cry at the unbelief of people around me. They don't lack the intelligence to accept what's written on the bible, but they devise philosophical ways to evade and not believe GOD'S WORDS but their own opinion, what they have been taught. I cry because I know they will regret their decisions in hell, not to accept the LORD JESUS is a nightmare. They will regret their decisions of not accepting the LORD JESUS, for He is the Only Way to be saved.
Lamentations 3:31-32 (Amplified Bible)
For the Lord will not cast off forever!
But though He causes grief, yet will He be moved to compassion according to the multitude of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.
Hebrews 13:5 (Amplified Bible)
Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]
Deuteronomy 31:6 (Amplified Bible)
Be strong, courageous, and firm; fear not nor be in terror before them, for it is the Lord your God Who goes with you; He will not fail you or forsake you.
GOD will never in any way abandon or forsake us, no way, because He has already forsaken His Only Begotten Son to pay for all our sins instead two thousand years ago. It already happened, we can no longer reverse it, the LORD JESUS has already won.
Psalms 94:14 (Amplified Bible)
For the Lord will not cast off nor spurn His people, neither will He abandon His heritage.
The LORD JESUS already said "MY GOD, MY GOD WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" so we can say "MY FATHER WHY HAVE YOU LOVED ME SO MUCH!"
1 John 3:1 (Amplified Bible)
SEE WHAT [an incredible] quality of love the Father has given (shown, bestowed on) us, that we should [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! The reason that the world does not know (recognize, acknowledge) us is that it does not know (recognize, acknowledge) Him.
B. It's pleasing the LORD GOD to make us His people.
"for it has pleased Him to make you a people for Himself"
John 15:16 (Amplified Bible)
You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you [I have planted you], that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit may be lasting [that it may remain, abide], so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], He may give it to you.
Romans 9:13-18 (Amplified Bible)
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated (held in relative disregard in comparison with My feeling for Jacob).
What shall we conclude then? Is there injustice upon God’s part? Certainly not!
For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion (pity) on whom I will have compassion.
So then [God’s gift] is not a question of human will and human effort, but of God’s mercy. [It depends not on one’s own willingness nor on his strenuous exertion as in running a race, but on God’s having mercy on him.]
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, I have raised you up for this very purpose of displaying My power in [dealing with] you, so that My name may be proclaimed the whole world over.
So then He has mercy on whomever He wills (chooses) and He hardens (makes stubborn and unyielding the heart of) whomever He wills.
Romans 11:29 (Amplified Bible)
For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable. [He never withdraws them when once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call.]
1 Corinthians 4:7 (Amplified Bible)
For who separates you from the others [as a faction leader]? [Who makes you superior and sets you apart from another, giving you the preeminence?] What have you that was not given to you? If then you received it [from someone], why do you boast as if you had not received [but had gained it by your own efforts]?
Philippians 1:6 (Amplified Bible)
And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you.
GOD will continue His good work started on us, and He will make sure we will be taken into glory with Him.
Romans 8:18 (Amplified Bible)
[But what of that?] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us!
1 Peter 4:13 (Amplified Bible)
But insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that when His glory [full of radiance and splendor] is revealed, you may also rejoice with triumph [exultantly].
1 Peter 5:1 (Amplified Bible)
I WARN and counsel the elders among you (the pastors and spiritual guides of the church) as a fellow elder and as an eyewitness [called to testify] of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a sharer in the glory (the honor and splendor) that is to be revealed (disclosed, unfolded):
We are called sharers in His glory, He will never forget us, that we suffered here on earth for His Name's Sake, because we are continually being denied of our priveleges and rights to listen to worship songs, and the WORD OF GOD at our work places. They laughed at us until we are insulted but I treat it as blessings, because later the LORD JESUS together with us will take revenge against them that insulted us.
1 Peter 4:14 (Amplified Bible)
If you are censured and suffer abuse [because you bear] the name of Christ, blessed [are you—happy, fortunate, to be envied, with life-joy, and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, regardless of your outward condition], because the Spirit of glory, the Spirit of God, is resting upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.
Matthew 5:11 (Amplified Bible)
Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous—with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, regardless of your outward conditions) are you when people revile you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things against you falsely on My account.
Luke 6:22 (Amplified Bible)
Blessed (happy—with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition—and to be envied) are you when people despise (hate) you, and when they exclude and excommunicate you [as disreputable] and revile and denounce you and defame and cast out and spurn your name as evil (wicked) on account of the Son of Man.
Jude 1:14-15 (Amplified Bible)
It was of these people, moreover, that Enoch in the seventh [generation] from Adam prophesied when he said, Behold, the Lord comes with His myriads of holy ones (ten thousands of His saints)
To execute judgment upon all and to convict all the impious (unholy ones) of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed [in such an] ungodly [way], and of all the severe (abusive, jarring) things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
IX. CONCLUSION:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You will never forsake us, not in any way relax Your hold on us and You are well pleased to make us your people.
