Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?Are not five sparrows sold for two pence? and not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.
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Do you know that Jesus said in Luke chapter 12 that there would be five sparrows sold for two denarius? Not one of them is forgotten before God, the text said. Not one of them is forgotten before God. God remembers the mother bird. Matthew 10 and verse 29, but even the very hair of your head is numbered. Fear not, for you are more valuable than many flocks of sparrows. What he's saying, what he's trying to teach us, is if I feel that way about a mother bird, how much more do I feel that way about you? 1 Peter chapter 3 and verse 10, and they that love life must refrain those who love life and want to see good days. Refrain your tongue from evil and your lilts from speaking guille," the King James says. For the eyes of the Lord watch over those who do right. BE FRIENDLY. FORGIVE. LOVE. You know why? Because he's a good God and he keeps good records. And when he sees you doing things that nobody else sees you doing in the realm of kindness and forgiveness, he says, hey, Holy Ghost win, get behind their back. …
… I've seen the affliction of my people. They're in Egypt. I've heard their cry. I know their sufferings and I've come down to rescue them. It reminds me of what Jesus says in Luke 12 verses six and seven how he says look he goes there's not a sparrow okay. These sparrows where you can get two of them for a penny. He goes not one of them will fall to the ground without my notice And then he says, every single hair on your head is numbered. Like, there's not a hair of your head that I am not aware of. Okay, do you believe that 100% right now? That God notices everything, everything. And that's what he's saying to these people. He goes, look, I know, I know my people are suffering. I've seen the affliction. I've heard their cry. I know what's going on down there. And yet he lets it play out for a bit for his glory. And then, you know, and then he tells Moses, I'm going to have you lead these people. You're the one that I'm going to use. I could pull them out otherwise, but I'm going to use you. You're going to deliver them. And so Moses, you know, says in verse 11, who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt? …
4. And it is no wonder: For only God himself can give a clear, consistent, perfect account (that is, as perfect as our weak understanding can receive, in this our infant state of existence; or, at least, as is consistent with the designs of his government) of his manner of governing the world. And this he hath done in his written word: All the oracles of God, all the Scriptures, both of the Old Testament and the New, describe so many scenes of divine providence. It is the beautiful remark of a fine writer, “Those who object to the Old Testament in particular, that it is not a connected history of nations, but only a congeries of broken, unconnected events, do not observe the nature and design of these writings. They do not see, that Scripture is the history of God.” Those who bear this upon their minds will easily perceive that the inspired writers never lose sight of it, but preserve one unbroken, connected chain from the beginning to the end. All over that wonderful book, as “life and immortality”(immortal life) is gradually “brought to light,” so is Immanuel, God with us, and his kingdom ruling over all. 5. In the verses preceding the text, our Lord had been arming his disciples against the fear of man: “Be not afraid,“says he,(verse 4, )“of them that can kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.” He guards them against this fear, first, by reminding them of what was infinitely more terrible than anything which man could inflict: “Fear Him, who after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell.” He guards them farther against it, by the consideration of an over-ruling providence: “Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?” Or, as the words are repeated by St. Matthew, with a very inconsiderable variation, (10:29, 30) “Not one of them shall fall on the ground without you Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.” …