You Won’t Relent Series

Moses was one of the only ones who responded to God’s invitation and hungered to have fellowship with Him. May we pursue the same ambition Moses had: Exodus 33:15 Then Moses said, “If you don’t personally go with us, don’t make us leave this place.

COULD GO ON AND ON about how God RELENTLESSLY PURSUED AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP with His people throughout the ENTIRE BIBLE…Job & Samuel & Elijah & Daniel & Isaiah…

N.T. examples….Paul…Jesus…

AND HE’S RELELENTLESSLY PURSUING US TODAY! You won’t relent until You, have it all

And also throughout the scriptures, God describes His RELENTLESS PURSUIT of us as that of a BRIDE and GROOM…He is the Groom and we, the Body of Christ, the Church, are His bride! The use of the COVENANT MARRIAGE METAPHOR to describe the RELATIONSHIP God’s desires for His people is universal in the Bible. From the time that God chose Israel to be his own in the Desert, the covenant was pictured in terms of a marriage. Idolatry was equated with adultery. Yahweh is a jealous God.

The most AMAZING LOVE STORY EVERY TOLD…culminating in HEAVEN at THE wedding of all weddings! (GET MY HEAVEN MESSAGE!) The WEDDING FEAST, the MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB! The final UNION of Bride and Groom! God has chosen a BRIDE and as believers in Jesus Christ, we who are the bride of Christ wait with great anticipation for the day when we will be united with our Bridegroom.

Isaiah 54:5 (NLT) For your Creator will be your husband; the Lord of Heaven’s Armies is his name! He is your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of all the earth.

Isaiah 61:10 (NLT) I am overwhelmed with joy in the Lord my God! For he has dressed me with the clothing of salvation and draped me in a robe of righteousness. I am like a bridegroom in his wedding suit or a bride with her jewels.

Matthew 9:15 (NLT) Jesus replied, “Do wedding guests mourn while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

2 Corinthians 11:2 (NLT) For I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God himself. I promised you as a pure bride to one husband—Christ.

Ephesians 5:24-27 (NLT) As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.

Revelation 19:7-9 (NLT) Let us be glad and rejoice, and let us give honor to him. For the time has come for the wedding feast of the Lamb, and his bride has prepared herself. She has been given the finest of pure white linen to wear.” For the fine linen represents the good deeds of God’s holy people. And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb.” And he added, “These are true words that come from God.”