 Rhema Word, February
2006: True Love
Taught at the
Hosanna Honies Workshop, 02/2006
The entire teaching will be out of Romans,
Chapter Five, KJV
When I was inquiring of the Lord what I should
bring to the meeting this month, He brought to my
remembrance this beauitiful voice I heard singing
@ the Prayer Furnance last month. It was during
their prophetic worship and she began to sing:
We have what the whole world is
looking for, dying for, crying out for...True
Love..... True Love....
I kept coming back to that song... True
Love... how we don't fully understand the Love
that God has for us! He opened my eyes to these
simple truths that will change things for you in
your walk with Christ forever.
Verse 6: For when we
were yet without strength, in due time, Christ
dies for the ungodly
**There are two things I want
you to notice in this verse: a.) there was a time
when we were powerless that we could save
ourselves and b.) died for the ungodly. Jay Snell describes ungodly as"
not like God... if there is any area in your life
that is not like God, this means you..." It
is in this condition of no strength that Jesus
died for us. His death did not depend on us
becoming better people. He died when we were at
our lowest point.
Verse 8:
But God commendeth His love toward us, in that,
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Being good
enough has nothing to do with God's love for us.
It was while we were YET sinners, while we were
at our weakest, while we were at our most
worldly, that God extended His love for you.
Selah!
Verse 9:
Much more then, being now justified by His blood,
we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
If God focused
His love on you while you were disconnected to
Him, how much MORE does God love you NOW that you
are His daughter? Justified in the Greek means cleared
of all guilt. For a Christian, since God
loved you while you were at your weakest point,
someone unsaved, and you accepted His Love
through Christ, you HAVE BEEN CLEARED of ALL
GUILT! You are cleared as far as God is
concerned.
You must master
this salvation! If you don't understand God's
love for you, then you will go around thinking
you are unworthy. How much more unworthy is a
godless sinner? While you were in that same
state, instead of wrath, it DREW God's love in
the death of Christ! Your weaken state did not
stop God from the ultimate act of Love. The
difference between you and your former state: you
are now guiltless. Guiltless because the Blood of
Jesus says so.
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