Proof that God Loves You
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Good Morning
Good Morning
Good Morning Everybody! We are so thankful you are here in worship with us this morning whether you are joining us in person or online we want to welcome you. My name is Terry I Serve here as a the Lead Pastor. We have an amazing team of people here at Freedom Chapel that work so diligently to help this church family live up to our Mission of Bringing Hope to our Community by being a Place to Belong a Church for the Whole Family.
This morning we get to share in an amazing experience. Today we get to celebrate Baptism. Baptism involves so much symbolism.........
Kenny Would you join me up here........
Can we praise God this morning for new life and for his saving Work.
Yesterday I jumped out of an airplane a 10,000 feet. When the instructor finally pulled the rip cord and the parachute deployed “ He screamed wow that is a rush. That never gets old.....
This morning as I thought about leading Kenny to the Lord in my office three weeks ago.....All I could think of is Wow that was a rush. That never gets old. Eternity celebrates every time the lost comes to know Jesus.
I can remember him asking me what are the rules..........There was this moment in the hour plus conversation in my office that he said to me that he wanted to establish his religion before he and Cassie had their first child.
It is amazing where our mind goes when it comes to working out our salvation. It was in that moment that I looked at him and said “ Kenny this is not about a religion. This is about the Creator of the Universe. The one who holds the Earth on it’s axis wanting to be your best friend.
It is hard to look at God and realize that He Loves You, He wants to be your friend, Your Father, Your Guide. Today we are going to talk about the love of God. We are going to dive back into Romans.
What I love about this section of scripture is that Paul doesn’t start out this letter by telling you about all the good things that come from God. He starts out by telling us all the reasons we don’t deserve love. He lays out all the charges against us and how deserving we are of judgement and condemnation. He then tells us that nothing we can do can earn our way into God’s love and grace. He tells us that we can’t be good enough, we can’t do enough. We can not I repeat can not make it on our own ability to follow the rules.
Then he tells us bout how Jesus enters the room and takes our place on the judgment seat and justifies us. How Jesus’s death on the cross allows God to forgive the sin of a unsaved person and then credits to us righteousness when we activate the faith that God has placed inside of us and believe.
If you are in this room or watching online I want to stop and tell you God loves you. He loves you just as you are and right where you are at. However, He loves you too much to leave you there. So we today we are going to look at what he did to make a way for you.
Today we are going to talk about the proof that we have in God’s love for us.
Kenny like so many others have found themselves searching for God only to see examples of relationships with god that are Rooted in ritual and religion. When what we really should be seek is what Paul talks about in Ephesians.
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Turn to your neighbor and ask them what are you rooted in.
Turn with me to Romans 5:6-11
6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
This morning I want you to hear something. God has proved his love for you in three ways.
1. God proved his love by what He did.
1. God proved his love by what He did.
Romans 5:6–10 (ESV)
6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son......
Romans 5:8 (NKJV)
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
You may not know it yet but God has counted you as a friend and has been working out things in your life to get you to this point where you would have the opportunity to accept his friendship.
1 John 4:10 (NLT)
10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
2. God proved his love by who God He did it for.
2. God proved his love by who God He did it for.
1. He died for the weak
1. He died for the weak
Romans 5:6a(ESV)
6a For while we were still weak...
Weak: without strength, utterly helpless, completely powerless, we were totally incapable of saving ourselves.
Romans 5:6a (ESV)
6a For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died....
God’s timing is perfect.
2. He died for the ungodly
2. He died for the ungodly
6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
3. He died for sinners
7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
He died for sinners so we could experience a transformation.
2 You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—the commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.
3 All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature. By our very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else.
4. He died for his enemies.
4. He died for his enemies.
3. God proved his love by how He relates to us.
3. God proved his love by how He relates to us.
9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Justification is the act of God whereby He forgives the unsaved person’s sin and assigns to them the righteousness of Christ when through faith they believe.
Justification is the act of God whereby He forgives the unsaved person’s sin and assigns to them the righteousness of Christ when through faith they believe.
1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 5:10 (ESV)
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Here is another Big Christian Word: Reconciled.
Justification leads to Reconciliation.
Romans 5:10–11 (The Message)
10 If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son...
just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life!
11 Now that we have actually received this amazing friendship with God...
But there is More......
But there is More......
Romans 5:11 (ESV)
11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
11 So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God.