Matt Chandler - Jesus Wants the Rose

"A Shepherd and His Unregenerate Sheep"
2009 Desiring God Conference for Pastors
February 3, 2009

Full message @: http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1620_shepherds_and_unregenerate_sheep/

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[embluewinged]

@TraumaConcept I was an atheist until I was 20. I wasn't looking for the meaning of life or the Bible. He just made Himself known to me. I was in awe. I also hated Christianity for many of the spiritual abuse that satan has inflicted on people and using people to inflict it. I had no idea what spiritual abuse was until God opened my eyes to it. So wonderful to hear of another atheist that God reached :) No one needs to lose faith if they have a loved one who does not believe in God.

[vrobl3s]

@embluewinged I was an atheist until very recently, and it's amazing that even on something as superfluous as youtube you can feel connected to other believers. The beauty of the gospel seems really difficult to articulate, and then you see someone like Chandler preaching and you can't help but see the work God is doing through His people.

[hellbindercda]

@Tony2xs1 To God the entire universe is the size of the head of a pin.

[hellbindercda]

MetroPraise, neither you nor john edwards have one clue who God is, or what He is really all about. There are many supposed "men of God" throughout history who litterally had nothing whatsoever to do with God. You want the real Gospel? Read Jesus, Read about the new Covenant in Jeremiah, Read Paul. even read James. You will not find an "Angry" god anywhere in there. Wrath in the new testament in the word Orge wich simply means strong passionate desire.

[ksteele008]

Thank you for this amazing message!

[Tony2xs1]

You know how people carry the team on their shoulda and they make that joke "my back hurts from carrying the team".... Jesus' back must be broken from carrying the world

[cinderella9202003]

@MetroPraise you missed the point of what Matt Chandler is saying. The preacher was saying that no one would want something tattered and broken like that, but that Jesus did want the rose, because we don't have to be clean and perfect to be saved, in fact the whole purpose of Him coming to earth was because we can't save ourselves. If you've listened to either of their sermons, you would know that they aren't "gospel light" like you proclaim they are getting

[lavernlarsen48]

I want this video on my M530w phone.

[gracereceive]

@TheLatinGuitarist Yes I love the emphasis by Matt C. on God's free gift of grace & God's ferocious love for all. Guys like Matt C help us to talk to God intimately as our Father, as we come to Him in all of our desperate fallen far short need. Being needy and admitting we are a sinner & that we are "far gone" before God--this is a good thing...because only then can God save us, heal us & help us to see that God totally accepts us undeservedly and unconditionally. All gift.

[TheLatinGuitarist]

That was beautiful.

[MetroPraise]

Just one more quote from Edwards... I believe this is the best one, "Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth: yea, doubtless, with many that are now in this congregation, who it may be are at ease, than he is with many of those who are now in the flames of hell." Ahhhhhh... love hearing the real Gospel win souls to Christ!

[MetroPraise]

@MetroPraise Another Quote from Edwards, "They are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of God, that is expressed in the torments of hell. And the reason why they do not go down to hell at each moment, is not because God, in whose power they are, is not then very angry with them; as he is with many miserable creatures now tormented in hell, who there feel and bear the fierceness of his wrath."