If Only We Knew How Good God Is (Pt.4) (354) – June 13 2026

This week we cover the following verses that do not need any introduction.

Titus 3:5
5 He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but because of His own pity and mercy, by [the] cleansing [bath] of the new birth (regeneration) and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Romans 5:1-3
1 Therefore, since we are justified ([a]acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God) through faith, let us [grasp the fact that we] have [the peace of reconciliation to hold and to [b]enjoy] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
2 Through Him also we have [our] access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God’s favor) in which we [firmly and safely] stand. And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God.
3 Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance.

Hebrews 13:5
5 Let your [a]character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] [b]Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor [c]give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [d][I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor [e]let [you] down ([f]relax My hold on you)! [[g]Assuredly not!]

This program covers the following Scriptures from the Amplified Classic version (AMPC): Titus 3:5, Romans 5:1-3, Hebrews 13:5.

Pastor Marc teaches on this topic this week.

Transcript

(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai.)

And a very good day to you, this is Pastor Marc with Touch of God, and we are still in this mini-series of If We Only Knew How Good God Is. And really, even though this is a short series of episodes on this topic, every day we should just be in awe of how good the Lord is, how great he is, how holy he is, how merciful and righteous he is, how wonderful he is, his plans, his purposes, his patience, his long-suffering, his forgiveness of our sins and our carnal minds at war with him when we don’t understand the truth of the Word of God in a certain area. He puts up with us, he is long-suffering, he loves us, he wants us to return to the knowledge of good, and only the knowledge of good.

But we sinned at that tree and we got to know the knowledge of evil as well. We need to be transformed from the fallen state we were in, now born again as Christians. If we have given our life to the Lord and confess him as Lord, now we get the opportunity to update our mind, update our thinking, update our understanding, to match not our old understanding but to match the Lord’s understanding of his Word.

Because of his goodness, he allows us to read his Word, to understand his Word, and he seeks for us to abide in him, that he may abide in us. And as we draw nigh unto him, he will draw nigh unto us. The Lord has made the move, now it’s our turn.

The Lord’s move was to send his Son Jesus to suffer on the cross and be persecuted and crucified for us and our sins, that we may choose the Lord and receive the gift of eternal salvation through Jesus’ sufferings and through his sacrifice and crucifixion at the cross, the death, burial, and resurrection of our precious Lord Jesus Christ. Now it is our move to make a decision to go deeper with the Lord, to read his Scriptures, to read the way, the truth, and the life that is Jesus. So Lord, we thank you today for your goodness, and we invite you to this moment when we discuss your Word and your greatness.

We invite you here. Lord, we thank you for being here with all these hundreds and thousands of listeners, each with their individual issues, each with their individual stories and testimonies, and each with their individual lists that they may trust in you to help them through the issues that they have, the problems that they have, the sicknesses that they may have. But Lord, instead of coming to you with a list, we decide to just come to you to seek you with all of our heart that we may find you.

And as we seek first your kingdom and your righteousness, all these things will be added unto us besides. So as we put this list down, this list of wants, this list of problems on your altar, we leave it there. We shift our focus in our minds from the list to your face, to your heart, and to your Word.

And we thank you. We bless your very hallowed holy name today. In Jesus’ name we pray, amen.

Titus chapter 3, verse 5. He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but because of his own pity and mercy, by the cleansing bath of the new birth, regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit. You see here in this verse, we could do nothing right to earn salvation, to earn being saved, to earn being delivered. We could never attain that from a position of fallenness and sinfulness and wickedness in our hearts.

Nothing we could do could pay, only the blood of Jesus, the sinless Lamb of God, who knew no sin, who became sin, that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Amen, hallelujah. Romans chapter 5, verses 1 to 3. Verse 1, therefore, since we are justified, which means acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God, through faith, since we are justified through faith, let us grasp the fact that we have the peace of reconciliation to hold and to enjoy, peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One.

In this first verse of Romans chapter 5, we find out that we were acquitted of all the wrongdoing through faith though. There is a condition. Do you see that in verse 1? Right after it says the words justified, acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God, it says the words through faith.

Now this is the amplified classic edition of the Bible, if you want to follow along, but in your version it should say through faith or by faith, since we are justified through faith. So it’s only through faith in Jesus Christ, becoming our Lord and believing that God raised him from the dead, being obedient to his word, are we acquitted and declared righteous and given a right standing with God. If we were to read this without understanding what went wrong in the Garden of Eden and that we could no longer be in fellowship with God after we ate at that tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then this verse would not have as much weight.

Yes, given a right standing with God is an amazing blessing, but to come from a position of being fallen, wicked, sinful, blaspheming the name of God and all the things we used to do in our ignorance against God, but obedience to the devil and his character, now we know that there is a huge blessing in the realization that the Lord is so merciful and graceful that he is able and has permitted and has desired to acquit us, to declare us as the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus and to allow us to be in right standing with God once again. As though in a sense the offense and the act at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil against God, but for the serpent, Satan, had never happened, but of course it did. And now we are acquitted, we are justified, but it’s only because of Jesus and his obedience to the Father and what Jesus did to finish the works of what was needed to allow mankind to be redeemed if mankind so chooses to receive Jesus as its Lord and Savior.

Only then is that person justified, because they’re only justified through faith. So if they have the faith the size of a grain of mustard seed, but they do not use that faith towards Jesus, they are still not considered justified. Because when you and I were lost, we had to already have faith to believe enough in Christ Jesus to receive him as Lord, to believe these scriptures like John chapter 3 verse 16 in order to become saved.

So we had faith even when we were lost and blinded by the devil. But now we are using the faith that I believe is bigger than the size of a grain of mustard seed. But size does not really matter, it’s what we do with the faith we have, because we know that it doesn’t have to be any bigger than the size of a grain of mustard seed for us to be able to stay to this mountain, be cast into the sea.

And when we do not doubt in our heart, the scripture says in Mark chapter 11, 20 to 24, that it shall be done for us, and that was what Jesus told his disciples. So it’s through faith that we are justified, because God is good, and he is merciful and graceful all the time. It says, let us grasp the fact that we have the peace of reconciliation to hold and to enjoy peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One.

Remember that Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except by me or through me. Well you see here in verse 1 of Romans 5, that we are able to grasp the fact that we have the peace of reconciliation, a restored relationship, to hold and to enjoy peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One. We cannot have peace with the Father without coming through Jesus and being in Christ.

Remember that it is not us who are alive, but Christ is alive in us. That is the position, but what is the experiential? Are we still alive in our carnal mind? Is part of us still alive that needs to be dead so that Christ can live more fully through us? Let us renew our minds today, brethren, to the Word of God, that we may be transformed, no longer conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewing of our mind. Verse 2 in Romans chapter 5 says, through him, that’s through Jesus, also we have our access, entrance, introduction, by faith into this grace, state of God’s favor, in which we firmly and safely stand.

And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God. So through Jesus, we have this access, this entrance, introduction by faith. There it is again, faith is critical, Jesus is critical, and God’s favor is critical for all this to be possible here.

Through him also we have our access, entrance, introduction by faith into this grace, state of God’s favor, in which we firmly and safely stand. So if you’re concerned or worried today about anything, renew your time with the Lord and trust in him. Lean not to your own understanding, trust in him with all your heart.

Lean not on your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your paths. But when you trust in him with all of your heart, no part of your heart will be left to doubt and to fear and to worry and anxiety. And realize that when you’re in faith, trusting in the Lord by faith, you are firmly and safely standing.

Firmly and safely. Doesn’t it remind you of Psalm 91? In the shadow of the Almighty, he protects us, but he protects those who are in his shadow, who are abiding in him. We are protected by him because of his very presence, but when we step out of his presence, when we are having a very worldly week or month or even day, are we really facing Jesus in those moments or are we facing away from Jesus? So be very careful because Jesus in John chapter 15 says, without me you can do nothing.

We need to be bearing fruit. We need to be really a part of this vine. We are the branches.

Let our branches not be cast off by the bindress of the Father into the fire. Let us know the Lord Jesus. Let us get to know him more on a deeper level.

There is no end to the Lord. He is the Alpha and the Omega. Even the Holy Spirit searches all things of the Lord.

And the end of that verse in verse 2, it says, and let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God. See, there is no end to the Lord and God is good. He is light.

He is love. He is your protection. He is holy.

Peter says, let us be holy as he is holy. He, the Lord, is holy. And so we need to spend time with the Lord on a daily basis, with him in silence and with him reading his word, with him worshipping and praising him for his greatness and his goodness of his nature and also what he has done for us in our lives that we have never deserved from him.

We have never deserved his rescue. We have never deserved any good thing. It doesn’t matter if we give to charity every month.

Nothing comes close to the holiness of the Lord that he expects from us. And that’s why Jesus also wanted us to be his disciples, that we may grow up into him, into all things, that we may be partakers of Christ’s salvation, that we may be partakers of his nature by the Holy Spirit guiding us into all truth, that we may speak like Jesus, that we may act like Jesus. He is our example, is he not? As a pastor, I have flaws.

I was born into sin like everyone else except for Jesus. Jesus was not born into sin. I grew up in a fallen state.

I sinned. I blasphemed the Lord. I regret doing that now, but I became born again.

And to this day, I’m still reading the Word, trying to be less carnal every day so that I can be conformed to the Lord’s nature based on his truth. I can be transformed and no longer conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of my mind. So I pray that the Lord helps me read these scriptures and relay his heart to you the best that a human being can do, but I pray that it’s the Holy Spirit teaching you today and not me.

And please, we love you so much. Spend time with the Lord after this broadcast when you have a time in your secret place. Ask the Holy Spirit about these scriptures.

Ask the Lord to speak to you personally one-on-one in the secret place about his love for you and about you being firmly and safely standing in his grace, in his favor, enjoying the glory of God and experiencing his peace. Knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. And let’s talk about this for a moment.

It says, let us also be full of joy now. So that must sound very surreal to some of us because how can I be joyful in a very tough moment in my life? It is because in our troubles, we will exult and triumph in them and rejoice in our sufferings knowing that to get the unswerving endurance, we have to be pressured through affliction and hardship which produce the patient and unswerving endurance. So it’s like you have to be willing to go through the fire so that you can be sanctified and purified and toughened.

At the end of the day, Jesus went through much persecution and suffering and he did no wrong. We must continue to run the race and we must finish the race. We must not faint and pull off to the side and sit down and quit and throw in the towel as they say.

Only the power and the grace of God can get us through this life allowing us to be joyful in moments of hardship and affliction in our sufferings. But when we know that if we are not suffering, if we are not being persecuted, then we are not really growing and we’re not growing in endurance. Then we need to realize that do we really want to be in the state of not moving forward in that sense? It’s almost like, Lord, put us through some troubles, Lord.

Put us through some sufferings. Now even Jesus had a tough time in the garden at the end where he wanted the father to take the cup from him. But then he caught himself and he said, not my will but yours, Lord.

Your will be done. Because he knew what had to be done because a lot was at stake. Your soul, my soul, our eternity was on the line.

It was at stake and Jesus knew the very great price that he was about to pay. But with the father’s heart being satisfied with Jesus’ sufferings and endurance and sacrifice, it allowed the father to know that the human race he created through Jesus would have the choice and have a way back to the father through reconciliation, to hold and to enjoy peace with the father through Jesus, the Messiah, the Anointed One. Back to verse 1. I don’t know about you, but when you go through a challenge or trial and you come out the other side and you’re still breathing and then someone says you’re going to have to go through it again.

The second time is not as bad because you knew that you went through it already and you came out without something really bad happening. The Lord is with us through all our trials and tribulations. He doesn’t leave us in them.

He walks with us in the valley of the shadow of death. We are to fear no evil for the Lord with his rod and his staff, he’s with us. He will never leave those who have made him their Lord.

So, whatever you’re going through, it is not that the Lord has left you or caused you this trouble. He may be allowing it to happen, but any good parent wants their child to grow in every way possible. It is built into the human nature that we want to succeed.

The father wants us to succeed and grow up into his son. He wants us to become like his son in his nature. And one of the benefits of that is that we can be on display, not with an ego, not with it’s all about me, but we can be a witness to those around us who may not know Jesus yet and may still be walking in darkness.

They, those precious souls is what the Lord Jesus came to seek and save. So, let us tell other people about how good God is. Amen.

Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5. And this is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. It’s only one of my favorites because of the version I’m reading it from. Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5 in the Amplified Classic.

I want you to read this when you get time. And if you don’t have an Amplified Classic Bible, you can go to your phone and go to the internet if you have access to it and go to a website called biblegateway.com. Biblegateway.com. And then in the drop down on the right hand side, you’ll see all the different versions of the Bible and scroll up till you get to the letters A and you will see one called Amplified Classic Edition. Select that.

And then on the left hand side, type in Hebrews 13 and do a search and scroll down and you’ll get to verse 5 and this is what it will say. Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions and be satisfied with your present circumstances and with what you have. For he God himself has said, I will not in any way fail you, nor give you up, nor leave you without support.

I will not, I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless, nor forsake, nor let you down, relax my hold on you, assuredly not. Now I don’t know about you, but this is a verse to treasure with your heart. I would encourage you to read this verse and realize the Lord’s heart, what he is saying here by his Holy Spirit influenced the writer to write this verse and take note of the Lord’s heart.

I want to read it one more time. It says, let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions and be satisfied with your present circumstances and with what you have. For he God himself has said, I will not in any way fail you, nor give you up, nor leave you without support.

I will not, I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless, nor forsake, nor let you down, relax my hold on you, assuredly not. So, brother and sister of Christ, isn’t this amazing to see from the Lord’s heart that he doesn’t want to relax his hold on us? And he says the words, I will not four times in this passage. And he also ends with the words, assuredly not.

So, you could say technically five times he’s saying, he will not let you down. He will not forsake you. He will not leave you without support.

He will not relax his hold on you. He will not in any way fail you. So, anytime the enemy tries to come at you with a thought that you’re in lack, say no, because what comes out of your mouth could be life or death in the power of that tongue.

Proverbs chapter 18 verse 21, we have to be very careful what we speak, especially as believers, because what we speak can actually come to pass. So, if you speak something that is opposite the word of God, be careful because that thing may come upon you. So, be careful that you speak the word of God.

And this is a great verse to read and absorb and meditate and contemplate day or night as it tells us in Psalm chapter 1 verses 1 and 2 to do. So, understand the Lord’s nature here in this verse and how he loves you and he does not want to let you go. But remember, this is for the believers.

This is for the sons of God. This is for those who have made Jesus their Lord and are having a relationship with him. The Lord is not going to force himself upon anyone.

This verse is not for the lost. It is for the saved. So, that is why we need to spread the gospel to the lost that they may be comforted and come into the presence of the Lord and receive his salvation for him not to fail them and leave them without support and so on.

Let us spread Jesus and not just keep Jesus to ourselves. Amen. So, if you would like us to pray for you, please go to our website at touchofgod.world. Touchofgod.world and tap on the button that says send prayer request.

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In the meantime, thank you so much for listening and until next week, you have a blessed week. Amen.