Covenant Love Church

GOD'S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

WHILE READING JOHN 3:16, 17 WE NOTICE GOD LOVED THE WORLD AT IT'S WORST, A WORLD OF SIN AND REBELLION AGAINST GOD, BUT HIS LOVE LOOKED PAST OUR FAULTS AND FAILURES AND SENT HIS SINLESS SON JESUS TO BE CRUCIFIED. GOD SENT JESUS TO LOVE US. (1 JOHN 4:9)

WE READ IN VERSE 17 "...HE SENT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD NOT TO CONDEMN US..." CONDEMN IS A STRONG DISAPPROVAL OF SOMEONE. GOD DOES NOT CONDEMN OR REJECT REGARDLESS OF THE SIN WE DID YESTERDAY OR TODAY OR TOMORROW.

GOD EXPRESSES HIS LOVE TO THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD UNCONDITIONALLY IN HOPE THE PEOPLE WOULD COME TO THE SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD. ALL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ARE GOD'S CREATION, WE ARE ALL THE OFF SPRING OF ADAM AND EVE. GOD CREATED US IN HIS IMAGE AFTER HIS LIKENESS.

THE SIN THAT SEPERATED US FROM GOD HAD TO BE DEALT WITH AND JESUS WAS THE ONLY ONE TO PAY THE PRICE. JESUS CAME TO REDEEM US BACK TO RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. II COR 5:21"...GOD MADE HIM WHO HAD NO SIN TO BE SIN FOR US, SO THAT IN HIM WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN CHRIST". THIS GIFT OF BEING IN RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, COMES AFTER WE HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS AS SAVIOR.

ONCE WE ARE IN CHRIST WE ARE GOD'S CHILDREN. I JOHN 3:1 "HOW GREAT IS THE LOVE THE FATHER HAS LAVISHED ON US, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED CHILDREN OF GOD, AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE. THE REASON THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW US IS THAT IT DID NOT KNOW HIM". KNOWING GOD IS KNOWING THE WORD OF GOD. WHEN WE UNDERSTAND OUR RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES IN CHRIST WE WILL BE ABLE TO WALK AND TALK WITH GOD ON A DAILY BASIS WITHOUT FEELING UNWORTHY. THE UNWORTHINESS WE FEEL AT TIMES COMES FROM US OR THE ENEMY NOT FROM GOD. NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD. AT TIMES THIS IS HARD TO ACCEPT, BUT IT IS WHO GOD IS TO US. I JOHN 4:7-10 TELLS US GOD IS LOVE AND SENT HIS SON TO PROVE HIS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TO US. IF YOU STRUGGLE IN THIS AREA OF GOD ACCEPTING YOU UNCONDITIONALLY, READ THESE SCRIPTURES AND EACH TIME YOU DO YOU WILL EXPERIENCE AND FEEL THE LOVE OF GOD.

GOD BLESS YOU ,

PHILLIP O'RAND