Season 1 Episode 53 

God shows his steadfast love as our father who gave his eternal fatherly love to us through Jesus Christ in the covenant.

Psalm 89:15-26 affirms the steadfastness of God's covenant through one person and recapitulates the Gen. 3:15. We do not have ground to ask for God's mercy since we have betrayed him so have we deprived of all the good characters the image of God represents and its benefits. Just like our relationship is restored eternally by Jesus Christ, it was also eternally broken by the fall. We stopped worshiping God as our creator king, and we became our alone while the devil lords over us. What should we do? We are all in the slavery of sins. Who can help us?

The psalmist praised that God's steadfast love stands firm to eternity. God is unchanging God, but our betrayal has been done in eternity. How can I have anything blessings from God anymore? Since we abandoned our creator God, we are living outside of God's grace. How can we call God our father? The psalmist praised in verse 15, blessed are you people. God is the honor and glory of his people. The holy son of Israel is our strength and shield. God gave help to his people through his chosen one.

What's more. David was called the anointed one. He is the type of Christ. David is the son of Adam, a chosen one, God' s servant, a king. Jesus is also the Son of Man, the chosen one, the holy servant, the king. Jesus is the Son. God has established one person to be our sacrifice of atonement. One person for all. He is Jesus Christ, the eternal son of God. He is a perfect son, a son promised in the covenant, a son of man born under sin but never sinned, a son who subdued Satan and all its power. He is both man and God, from whom the eternal love of God the Father is derived and gave to us in me. Like us in every way but never sin. We obtained power through his victory over death. He led us out of temptation.

God Fatherly love to his son is the source of all greatest love. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. The eternal love of the Father towards his son is our greatest loss after the fall.

The Father loves the Son. Why didn’t He give the son for sinners? We know a father will not change his son, not even to have his son die for sinners. But our Heavenly Father loved us to give His only Son for us so that we will not perish but have eternal life. The best love in the world but the love of our Heavenly Father.

God gave us his son at the creation of the world. God created the world because of his love for his son. God the Father gave his only son for prodigal sons and the fatherless. He is the father of both the fathers and sons in this world from generation to generation.

If our biological father had hurt us, forgive him for he is also one of the prodigal sons.

If he loved us, embrace him and love him because he loved us like our Heavenly Father.

God loved the world. He gave his only son to us so that we will not perish but have eternal life. God loved us and made us his sons and daughters.

Music credit to Shane & Shane

Surely goodness, Surely mercy.

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