God Loves You

God Loves You
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? Romans 8:31-35

It can take a long time to learn that God the Father wants to bless our lives for His glory. The Father wants to lavish all the fullness of His blessings on us. He doesn't promise that everything will always be perfect or that He won't allow difficulty, temptations, or tribulations come. He does promise to be the Giver of good gifts to His children. He did absolutely everything He could to find us, to reach us, and to forgive us. Why? Because He is holy and because He is holy He loves us. Take a look at these verses…

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave his only Son”

Romans 5:8 says, "God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

Romans 5:6 “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.”

Romans 5:8 “but God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us”.

Romans 5:10 “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son,”

Romans 8:31-32 says, "If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His Own Son but gave Him up for us all."

1 John 4:8 “God is Love.”

I John 4:16 “God is Love.”

If you've ever wondered if God the Father cares about you, look at what He did for you, He "did not spare his own Son."

Question: Did not spare Him what?

Because God loves you, God the Father did not spare His Son the humiliation of becoming a man. Jesus, one of the persons in the Trinity, Creator of the universe, became a human being. Talk about a step-down, which is not even close to a CEO becoming a Bell-boy.

Because God loves you, the Father did not spare His Son the rejection of His family not to mention the disbelief of those that listened to Him when He lived here on earth or the constant abuse of those that came to get healed and then left not even thanking Him but instead told those that hated Him. Then at the end of His life the mocking, the torture, the crown of thorns were all laid on the precious Son of God because your heavenly Father loves you.

And because God loves you, our Father did not spare His Son crucifixion. Jesus became "obedient to the point of death," Philippians 2:7-8 “but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross”. A cross was the most humiliating, torturous way for a person to die.

Question: But why did God our Father not spare His own Son?

Because He loves you. He gave the best for the worst. He gave the highest for the lowest. He did the most for the least. He gave the pure for the impure, the cleanest for the filthiest, the Holy for the rubbish. That is God's message of love to you and me! That gives me a reason to serve Him and praise Him no matter what I have or what I am now going through!

TUPOS

Tupos (too-pos') is a Greek noun with a double meaning in English.

Tupos means:

(1) to be an example or a pattern for.

(2) to make an impact on or leave an impression from one object on another.

Tupos is the word found in 1st. Timothy 4:12 "Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity, show yourself an TUPOS/example/pattern/impact/leave an impression of those who believe".

God’s Property

I Peter 2:9 ‘But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His Own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.’ When I hear people talk about this verse they usually talk about the first three things we are when we trust Christ as our Lord our Master. The first three are great and that is true we are 1) chosen race (all Christians), 2) royal priesthood (now we can go directly to our Father in prayer), 3) holy nation (not USA remember we are exiles and sojourners here on earth our nation is not of this world). These three are great! I love them, but we forget about the fourth one 4) people for His Own possession. This is huge you are not your own person anymore, you have an owner and that owner can do with us anything He desires for His Own purposes. We are God’s possession.

All things that I own that I bought or made, I buy and make for a reason. We own things to help us out or to give us pleasure. Well, we are Gods possession. We are here for a reason and that reason is to proclaim the excellencies of God. That means all the time in bad times, in dark times, in great times you get the idea. It means at work, school, home, alone on the computer all of us that are chosen of God must proclaim the excellencies of God every place we go and all the time in how we talk, look and act. Why? Because He is God, because we are His possession, because He called you out of darkness and into His marvelous light.

This is hard to do in the world that we live in. However, it was harder to do in the time Peter wrote. These Christians may have faced death, would be treated as outcasts, they would have lost family, work and friends if they proclaimed the excellencies of Christ. Yes, it is hard, but we have to always remember who we are. We are a chosen race no longer Americans but Christians. We are a royal priesthood so we must all live like it and pray to our Father daily, study His Word/Bible, we must live out what we study and live not for ourselves and comfort but for God and His Name. We are a holy nation and we are not living in that nation yet, we are sojourners and exiles we are representatives of our heavenly nation and when people see us living for the comforts of this nation of this life we are terrible representatives. Above all we are God’s Own possession we do not belong to ourselves, all we have is His so lets act like it is all His. Then we will find truth joy.