Does God’s Love Save You?

From the beginning, our story reveals we were created by God’s love. God’s immense love is moving, it is powerful and it is good BUT… and that’s where we pick up in this episode, with the weighty ‘however.’  Does God’s Love Save You?

Because reducing God’s love for us to a mere feeling subtracts the power and freedom and consequences we have been given the ability to choose. 

Also, from the beginning, scripture reveals the cost of our sin. Our society is softening that part of our story, saying Sin is covered by God’s all-encompassing love. 

We can’t gloss over the very real consequences when we choose our own way. God’s love is more than sentimentality. It is a commitment. 

Allow this episode to challenge you you to a better understanding of God’s love for you.

Highlights:

God’s love is not just a feeling that He has towards us. God’s love is something that moves Him toward action, moves Him in a direction

There’s authority and power in what we do. And, either we are aligning ourselves and saying ‘yes’ to God’s kingdom or we are saying ‘no’ to God’s kingdom.

The modern message is undermining our ability and authority to bring destruction to ourselves and to the universe and the magnitude of the destruction sin has wrought on the Earth.

Extras:

Hebrews 9:22 “In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.”

In Genesis 3 God lays out the consequences for the Sin of man and woman and how their Sin introduces a new universe because of what they’ve done.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done. CS LEWIS

John 14:21 “Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” 

If you want to learn more, check out Josh's latest writings on this very topic at, Why You Need More than God’s Grandfatherly Love


Transcription:

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