God’s Love Demonstrated
The greatest expression of the love of God came to us at our most unworthy state of being. It came to us when we stood in the place of being alienated from God, enemies to God, and sinners separated from God.
While we were without strength, devoid of life, living in darkness, and not even inclined to look for God, Christ died for us.
Jesus did not die because we were able to get our act together to a certain level, making it easier for God to love us, as though His love were so weak that it could not be offered apart from our effort to earn it.
God is love, and expressing that love is not a difficult thing for Him. Christ is the evidence of this truth.
Romans 5:6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
God did not just say that He loved us. God demonstrated His love for us by sending His beloved Son to the cross on our behalf.
Jesus' blood forever removed our sins. We are fully justified. We were not partially justified and put in a position of having to work to finalize it. The blood of Christ secured our justification.
We are saved from wrath through Jesus Christ. God is no longer angry with us now that we are in Christ. The wrath against sin cannot touch us now that we have been set free from sin by grace through faith in Christ Jesus. We are hidden from wrath by being placed in Christ.
We were not and are not reconciled to God through anything that we do. We were reconciled to God through the death of Jesus, and now that we are reconciled, we will no doubt be saved by Jesus' life.
Only by believing and taking God at His word concerning this are we empowered to rightly rejoice over our being reconciled. Sadly, many professing believers live their lives feeling less than reconciled to God. This is why the right gospel must be preached in the churches.
I want the gospel preached to my heart and soul over and over so that the seed of that word is buried deep in the soil of my heart and springs forth bearing an abundance of fruit. I know that God loves me and that He is not angry with me. I know He cares for me and will be faithful to me even during times when I am faithless. This revelation has a keeping anointing on it. It is anointed to motivate, empower, encourage, and strengthen any believer who will venture into it.
