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Who is a God Like You?

Sunday, February 23, 2025
Pastor Jojo Ma

 

18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. 19 He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. 20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

J.I. Packer: “Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives...we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it. The world becomes a strange, mad, painful place, and life in it a disappointing and unpleasant business, for those who do not know about God. Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfold, as it were, with no sense of direction, and no understanding of what surrounds you.”

A.W. Tozer: “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”

I.         What the Lord delights in [18]
II.        What the Lord forgets [19]
III.       What the Lord remembers [20]

I.         What the Lord delights in [18]
18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love 

Theology is meant for doxology. Learning about God is meant for worshiping God.

Eph 1:3-7 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.

18 He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.

Jn 10:16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

J.I. Packer: “Knowing God is a relationship calculated to thrill a man’s heart.”

II.        What the Lord forgets [19]
19 He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

“Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore, Our sins they are many His mercy is more!”

Dale Ralph Davis: “[God] gives them the Egyptian treatment...Once those Egyptians went down under, Israel never saw them again...Yahweh does that with His people’s sins...What a sweeping picture of forgiveness!”

Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.

The sins that you won’t forget, God won’t remember. His forgiveness is both powerful and permanent. He tramples our sins (powerful) and then He throws them away forever (permanent).

III.      What the Lord remembers [20]
20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

Dale Ralph Davis: “Because God didn’t start working when you came on the scene.”

Gal 3:7 Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.

I.          What the Lord delights in [18]
II.        What the Lord forgets [19]
III.       What the Lord remembers [20]