EPISODE · Feb 28, 2024 · 32 MIN
"The Heart of Faithfulness" (Mark 10:1-9, Hebrews 10:23)
from RUF at UNCW · host Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW
Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at how the Spirit of God transforms our relationships. This week, we look at the aspect of Jesus's character called "faithfulness." Maintaining faithfulness in relationships has always been difficult— it’s why Jesus is asked this question in Mark 10. But the Bible actually promises that God will teach us to live like him— to live lives of reliability, dependability and fidelity. Where can we find hope for a people struggling with faithfulness? The only hope for an unfaithful people is that they have a faithful Savior. Because God faithfully holds fast to an unfaithful people, we can learn to live in covenant faithfulness. “The reality is that every marriage is a partnership of two broken [people] with good intentions and varying degrees of ability to deliver … If you want to stay married, the first thing you need to do it is to be insane. Because staying married is insane. Getting married is not. Getting married is fun. In the weeks and months before the wedding, you're in passionate love with this glorious gift of a human: the ring, the announcement, the engagement photos where you hold hands and close your eyes and lean in and touch your foreheads together like a pair of telepathic freaks, that part is fun. Staying married is not fun. Staying married is like being kicked repeatedly in the head by a mule who loves you, and the mule is God.”— Harrison Scott Key “Often and often, I have in my folly torn up my copy of God’s covenant with me; but, blessed be His name, He keeps it in heaven safe; and He stands by it always.”— Samuel Rutherford “The attachments of Jesus were abiding; fickleness and instability could never be charged on him. Others love for a little while and then grow cold; they profess eternal attachment and yet forsake; they admire and esteem us till a slight misunderstanding snaps every bond of friendship; but our Lord was the mirror of constancy, the pattern of fidelity, the paragon of unchanging love.”- Charles Spurgeon
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Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at how the Spirit of God transforms our relationships. This week, we look at the aspect of Jesus's character called "faithfulness." Maintaining faithfulness in relationships has always been difficult— it’s why Jesus is asked this question in Mark 10. But the Bible actually promises that God will teach us to live like him— to live lives of reliability, dependability and fidelity. Where can we find hope for a people struggling with faithfulness? The only hope for an unfaithful people is that they have a faithful Savior. Because God faithfully holds fast to an unfaithful people, we can learn to live in covenant faithfulness. “The reality is that every marriage is a partnership of two broken [people] with good intentions and varying degrees of ability to deliver … If you want to stay married, the first thing you need to do it is to be insane. Because staying married is insane. Getting married is not. Getting married is fun. In the weeks and months before the wedding, you're in passionate love with this glorious gift of a human: the ring, the announcement, the engagement photos where you hold hands and close your eyes and lean in and touch your foreheads together like a pair of telepathic freaks, that part is fun. Staying married is not fun. Staying married is like being kicked repeatedly in the head by a mule who loves you, and the mule is God.”— Harrison Scott Key “Often and often, I have in my folly torn up my copy of God’s covenant with me; but, blessed be His name, He keeps it in heaven safe; and He stands by it always.”— Samuel Rutherford “The attachments of Jesus were abiding; fickleness and instability could never be charged on him. Others love for a little while and then grow cold; they profess eternal attachment and yet forsake; they admire and esteem us till a slight misunderstanding snaps every bond of friendship; but our Lord was the mirror of constancy, the pattern of fidelity, the paragon of unchanging love.”- Charles Spurgeon
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