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Rwanda - boy that is a word that many Americans had never even heard before a few years ago. And then, suddenly that little African nation was all over our TV and our newspaper. Tens of thousands of Rwandans, remember, they were slaughtered in a bloody civil war. Now Billy Graham's son, Franklin Graham, took a medical team to try to help them, and I heard him tell about one little girl that he could never forget, and I don't think I will. He was in this rebel camp, and he was walking by an army truck, and he noticed this one little girl, sitting in the back of it, and she was just rocking back and forth, back and forth, and she was singing something very softly, bur in a language that Franklin couldn't understand. There was a soldier standing by there paying no attention to the girl, and Franklin said, "What happened to this little girl?" And he said, "Ah, same as all the others, she's got nobody left." Franklin said, "Well, would you do me one more favor, would you tell me what she is singing?" He seemed a little annoyed, but he listened for a minute, and he said, "Ah yeah, it's ..." And then he went on to translate it. Well, when he translated the song, it was clear, that this little Rwandan orphan hadn't lost everyone.
I'm Ron Hutchcraft, and I want to have A Word With You today about Unloseable.
The soldier after hearing the songs sung by that little Rwandan orphan girl said, "Ah yeah, it is something about Jesus loving her." Franklin Graham said, "Is it 'Jesus loves me this I know, For the Bible tells me so?'" "Yeah, yeah, that's it." With her world torn apart, with every human who loved her gone, this precious little victim had one unloseable relationship.
Our word for today from the Word of God comes from Romans, Chapter 8. It begins talking about the worst things that could happen to you in life, and in Verse 37 it says, "Though we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced . . . In verse 38 that neither death nor life nor angels nor demons, nothing in the present or the future, nor any powers. Well that covers everything . . . neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, our Lord." A love you can never lose . . . that will never lose you.
Jesus is the unloseable person that we have looked for all our lives. Actually, we're built to belong to our Creator. If it weren't for Jesus, though, we would never have the possibility of that heart satisfying relationship because of the gap between God and us called sin. It is basically the self-rule of our lives. So the God that we're built by and for is out of our reach until the sin bill is paid.
You talk about love. God's only Son came to remove the only thing that can keep us from his love - the death penalty for our sin. And from the moment you say, "Jesus, I'm putting my total trust in You, and what you did on the cross was for me," you belong to God - you always will. Nothing in heaven or hell or on earth can end that relationship. God has guaranteed it.
Several years ago Karen and I spent a week at a little house at the Jersey Shore. It was like a little honeymoon, and two weeks later, she came down with a life-threatening case of hepatitis. I will never forget the night when she almost died, and I realized the one person who would never choose to leave me. It was at that moment not in our hands. I'm so glad God spared her, I'm so grateful. But that night I realized that the closest thing I have on earth to an unloseable person is loseable. But if and when I ever lose the earth person I love the most, I will still be able to sing, "Jesus Loves Me This I Know" - I hope you can too.
You probably thought you would never learn anything from a little Rwandan orphan girl, but she's hanging on to Jesus with all her heart. Isn't it time you grabbed Jesus hand - the only hand that will never let you go.
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