God Cares and Loves You 1 - Part 2

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings? And not one of them is forgotten before God? How amazing! Not one sparrow forgotten before God? You know, again and again Jesus says, Your heavenly Father knoweth. Before you ask Him, Your heavenly Father knoweth. Your griefs, your sorrows.

See, how often we imagine nobody really cares. We do live in a very selfish world. And I want to tell you after dealing with thousands, millions, almost millions of people, in a very personal kind of way, or at least let me say hundreds of thousands, I never like an exaggeration, after helping and dealing with innumerable cases, what do I say? And what do I see? I see that the selfishness in the hearts of men is so great.

The greed that consumes them, it's something which blows your mind. And the callousness, the brutal side of human nature, you know, rejoicing when somebody is hurting. How can you do that? My dear friends, you don't know.

I can barely sleep when I hear of some sorrow or disaster in the life of some total stranger. He may be a total stranger. I find it so hard.

Although you might say, well, you've seen so many such cases, by now you should have gotten used to this kind of thing. No. Rejoicing when somebody is bleeding, somebody is hurting.

I can't understand, even if one is the devil incarnate, how such a thing is really possible. Of course, to the devil it would be natural. But that is the devilish side of you and me.

And that side has to be attended to quickly before disaster strikes. It is very sad, but that is it. Many of our sorrows are created by us.

If you trace them to their roots, you will find that indifference begets indifference. Selfishness begets selfishness. Greed begets greed.

Lust begets lust. Sin begets sin. So well, I am a father, and I see in my children those qualities which are not at all qualities that I can be proud of.

But who gave them some of those qualities? I. They're a part of me, my old nature. Although over the years, at the cross of Jesus, I have found release from that ugly side, that negative side of my makeup. Yet, I sowed some horrible seeds.

And as to where those horrible seeds of my old nature will lead any of my children is a dreadful thing to ponder, except for the cross. There would be no refuge, no remedy, no redemption, no restoration. So here is the Lord Jesus Christ saying, even a sparrow, five of them you can buy for two farthings.

You know, when I first started preaching in England as a very young man, well, I don't recall seeing a farthing. You know, four farthings were supposed to make a penny, you know. And I knew and used those old British pennies and shillings.

But I cannot recall a farthing. I think by that time it had gone out of use. Too trivial a coin which hardly buys anything.

Now the Lord Jesus Christ said, five sparrows are sold for two farthings. Yet your heavenly Father knows and does not forget them. My, can God zero in upon you and me in that fashion? And how it must hurt him to see our indifference.

You know, when you love and that love is not requited, and or when that love is purned, it must really hurt. I think we do live in a very loveless world where all that people are asking is, when it comes to marriage, they want a sex toy. How long do you play with the toy anyway? You don't play very long with the toy.

But that's all you ask for. And that we call is modern glamour and modern life. What is it worth? Nothing.

There isn't any love in it. Love endures. Love suffereth long and is kind, says the Bible.

Love envies not. I recall how shocked I was when one of the finest gentlemen, British gentlemen, who became a very good friend of mine when I was a young fellow, and he said to me, my fiancée is sailing over from Africa and we are to get married. But with great sorrow, he said to me,