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February 10, 2022 5:00 am
I don't know about you but when I was a little boy I heard people say God loves you and I got older and someone said God really loves you, and I think I intellectually believe that but I didn't feel it.
I didn't experience how do you experience the reality of God loves that your question stay with thanks for joining us for this edition of living only drift your very survival teacher for this international discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians in just a minute you picks up where he left off last time in a serious real love in real life by sharing what Jesus revealed about how we can truly experience the love God is a quick reminder if you mess up this program encourage you to catch up the chip and remap. It's a great way to listen to Living on the Edge anytime that stripped with the second half of his talk for kinds of love. Now here's the question right. How do you know God really loved.
I meant we got the son is going to write and now God loves me because Jesus died for my sins right yet that one and how many of you when you hear that may just be honest you can be honest in the private of your own mind.
God loves me.
He died for my sins, and if you can emotionally help. I really Packed my experiences we intellectually have that but we don't viscerally or emotionally get what really happened and what God actually did it. Sort of like a thought disorder like a phrase instead of a reality. So I want you do. I want you to turn to Romans chapter 5 and I want to give you a very specific clear picture of God's love and I want to explain what that is and how it looks, will begin at verse six when in the mind of the father the son and the Holy Spirit, and when he sets his gaze and affection on you personally and the Bible says he loves you. I want you to get a picture, not just theologically, what happened, not just relationally. What happened but also emotionally. What actually happened and what has actually occurred to every single person when you receive it or not, but this is this is his love verse six. You see, it just the right time when we were still powerless.
Picture yourself at the end of your rope you got nothing to bring Christ died for the ungodly.
The word for here literally means in the place of for rarely will anyone die for a righteous person over a good person. Someone might possibly dare to die. How I know God loves me but God demonstrates his own love for us in that why we were still sinners, Christ died for us, not when we got good not when our morality, cleaned up, not when our behavior change that when we try harder. Not when we are more moral. Why we were yet sinners were still sinners, Christ died in our place. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him. For if we were God's enemies we were reconciled to him to the death of his son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life. Now before I go on my experience with us. Unless you've done some theological thinking or training as you would go from this passage and you might even be in a course and they would take you to Romans chapter 3 and then it would use a lot of big words about you are justified and as resulting justified how that happened was redemption and redemption then leads to propitiation were the just wrath of God was placed on Christ and then this begins this process where you have a new standing with God and justification of propitiation, redemption, and a lot of really big words that are really really important that the average Christian probably 70 years ago.
New like that and understood what they meant and so I thought I want to do my best to tell you how Jesus death reveals God's love. This is how Jesus death reveals God, love, and this is sort of like without any of the big words but all big words are there, and by the way, can we just personalize us since you not the person next to you in a person what the person in your seat when Jesus died, he paid for your sin. See there was a coup.
There was a rebellion and we said we sang a song earlier about. He is my King, where he was the king of all the universe and there was a huge rebellion at the heart of every rebellion in my heart in your heart and everyone's heart is, I want to be king I want to call the shots I will live independently of God.
I know better. I'm to do my own thing and down deep. I don't think God has my best in my and in the midst of us being in rebellion against God. When Jesus died.
Number one he paid for your get a debt and insurmountable debt that you could never pay and the reason that Jesus was fully God and fully man. He had to be a human being in order to die and had to be fully God for his death to account for or cover and atone for all the sins of all people of all time.
The second thing that happened is he freed you from slavery.
The word for redemption is out of the slave market of sin.
Paul takes that imagery and he says you were a slave of sin. You are a slave to your passions into your selfishness into your addictions to your manipulation, your slave to your me-ism and what he did is he not only paid for your sin, but the chainsaw and he freed you once and for all he bought you out of it in the purchase price for you. You know how much you love the purchase price for your life was the death of the blood of Jesus. That's what we actually read the third thing that happens is Jesus absorbed the just anger of God. That's a part of theology to people talk a lot about want you to imagine the most horrendous act that anyone could do against you, or maybe one of your children are) and want you to imagine just anger. If someone killed when your children are willfully ran over your maker, your best friend with the car with no sense of remorse.
The anger that you would have because life was snuffed out what sin has done is destroyed relationships sin introduce death God. Are you ready for this. He's mad at sin. Colossians 3 he says consider your earthly members as dad to immorality and impurity and evil desire and passion and creed which literally is idolatry. Because these are the things that the wrath of God is upon the sons of men, and in these you once walked, so God God is a just God and so he's very angry when kids gets abused.
He's very angry when I'm selfish and so the only way for God to appease his anger is when Jesus was hanging on the cross.
The reason is that my God, my God, why have you forsaken me because your sin and the anger of God. The propitiation we read it earlier. It was placed on Jesus so he paid for your sin he freed you from slavery.
He absorbed the just anger but guess what You God is not down on you. He's never down on you. Our job not to go to all the world and and convince people tell them how bad they are put their arm behind their back, straighten up your life. Ours is a message of the gospel. It's good news. Guess what, you're forgiven.
Guess what, you're already love your sins are paid for you been freed just anger about God's word and then Jesus transferred his righteousness to us. The second half of justification.
So when you receive Christ as your Savior literally. There's the Jesus column in the you column and all the sins on your column are deleted and all of his righteousness is drag paste and this is, in theory, this is the love of God, the God that you warship if you can grasp it looks upon you, through the lens of the blood of Christ as a righteous son or daughter to the object of his affection. He wants to love you direct you, bless you and help you fill you meet the deepest needs and the greatest delights of your heart and and finally your friends what the word reconciliation means. I mean real friends and I'll never let you down.
I'll never leave you all never forsake you the Scripture says there's a friend that sticks closer than to brother and all the stuff we talked about here like bio you come before God. I do live in community oh be on mission you want to get for trying to help people like would you like to know how to become a good friend was someone to hang out with them.
I just like hang out with them.
Would you like to to feel the love of God and get a hug from God, will he lives inside fellow Christians, and he might send an angel someday to hug you, but probably not.
Or very rare, but he doesn't need to the very life of Christ lives in each one of his followers, and when I hug you, or you hug me when you meet a need for me or I meet a need for you when you love one another. It's the living Christ and his body in community and when were on mission. We are just passing on this agape love. And so you love who would love love our neighbor as ourselves. Husband love your wives, love your enemies, forgive the person who betrayed you.
Forgive the X who did what they did forgive the boss who ripped you off it. You said I can do that. Of course you can't and so here's here's the design I want you to get.
I want you to see God's design and want you to think of agape love story. I love the Leo love than Eros love what you think of of the reservoir. Okay and want you to get this picture that at the bottom level. If you don't experience the agape love of God. If the water doesn't come up here, you will not be a good parent. You will not have a good marriage you you will not have a fond affection and so so agape love is number one and then when you filled up with agape love is choosing. By the way, it's a choice, it's hard. You don't feel like it, but as you choose. God gives grace and so after the agape love and the goal and the design was, you would experience in your family. I me were good at this. When their babies rightly cry. We don't go shop.
What's wrong with you I told you three times if you don't get into a good school, unlocking the love had their baby white, God's goal was the agape love would we would train early on that our children would grow up in a world where they would feel like you're valued and loved for who you are, not for what you can do your deeply loved just for you and then what happens is the next one is the Leo love in every culture. Girls have cuties because God wants us to develop same-sex relationships that are deep and strong been married 38 years.
Get a great marriage and a great wife. I will guarantee there's things about my life. My wife does not understand will not understand and can never grasp for one simple reason. She's a woman and there's a reason why the developmental process. God gives us this love, and they said I need a mom and I needed dad in every ideal situation and I want you to nurture and care, and strengthen and sometimes a soft love and sometimes it's tough love, but I want them to be to you like I am, so that they can experience that. And then as you go off on your own. I want you to have a relationship with someone that understands as a man what's like to be afraid. What it's like to be insecure or like as a woman. What's it like when you're your younger when you're developing in and wanted me to be feminine and so God wants us early on. Have these really strong. Same-sex relationships are completely nonsexual but so your understood and loved it back. I'll talk more about this later, but the reason a lot of marriages are in trouble is because you're asking your mate to deliver a whole bunch of stuff that are not equipped to your make and deliver some things but only another woman is can I help you grow in certain areas. If your woman and only another man can help you, and it takes time and energy in every single person needs to have at least two or three for at least one relationship of someone of the same sex that I mean it's no holds barred. There never shocked. They love you are there for you. They got your back. You can be completely vulnerable because the only alternative is to fake it, or to hide it, and it's in hidden struggles were the enemy begins to blow up our life and then finally when we have this design of God's loving and we have this family relationship. We have friends like that happen, as we mature. He wants us apart from those who are called to singleness to actually have a sexual relationship.
It's not about us in so many so many people in marriages.
The whole thing is you and if you talk to people that are experts in the whole unit but by late every couple has sexual struggles. Okay, if you haven't had any bless your heart, you will because usually it has nothing to do with sex as it was communication, unresolved anger, stress problems, fatigue, overwork, misplaced priorities, money problems when all those things start happening. There's a little unit that you know lying on the dashboard of your marriage and then of the sex and gotten your member murmur and so God actually longs for a couple to be experience agape store Gay the Leo love so that their sex life is not about techniques and level of experience, but a desire to be other centered and please and care for and love my marriage partner and it's amazing how that changes things now, unfortunately, has you look at God's design. Their sin in the world and so if you'll go down to agape love you notice I put a -1st John 419 and first John 419 it says God is love and then assess something very interesting. It says, but if I say I love God and hate my brother the love of God is not in me, I'm a liar so I want you to know is just I try to give you the this is this is real love. Agape store Gay the Leo Eros but because of the human heart in sin. There's also a counterfeit.
See if you look on the left side pseudo-love is about getting in my right the word me just write the word me about that and under real love write the word others and then underneath that pseudo-love has has two real things in security control every pseudo-love relationship is insecurity. I don't measure up somethings missing I need I need I need I need so I gotta get get get so I try to control.
Notice how it goes in the sexual love. I love you as long as you satisfy my lust and then you know what if if this is working to go to the next person, or if you gain a little bit too much weight. I go to the next person work on not kinda satisfied will just log on online or have an affair or I'll fill my life with romance novels or a watch a bunch of movies so I vicariously reliving my mind and my because it's about me felt satisfy my lust.
That's me centered the Lila love when it's about you insecurity and then control is the I love you so that I won't be alone is not a love that. How do I help you I love you so I will be alone.
Have you ever had one of these someone is really friendly and there really good friend until the light starts working out and they just kinda move on. Anybody had a friendship for you, feel used. Okay me. I have there's few things it ticked me off more. Could you think you think it's real you think the people really for you and then there's pressure there's difficulty or or you get into a crisis and you look up and soared your friends go. Guess what, they have friends notice in the store. Gay love and and with the best of intentions. I love you because you enhance my worth. It's very subtle. I don't love you for you I love you. If you're on the traveling team. I love you for getting A's. I love you if you you know go public. I love you. If you're a good-looking and stay good-looking. I love you as long as you enhance my worth your valuable part of this family and sometimes it's verbal sometimes is nonverbal and sometimes we reframe the whole thing. I really love my children so they have to be successful.
So I really pushing toward really do this and I really do that at the end of the day you need to take a good hard look in the mirror and ask yourself is this really about them is really about you.
We got family.
Some of you are living such ridiculous schedules.
You don't eat together, you don't talk. You don't go to bed at a decent hour your life is pulled from here there anything providing all these opportunities for your kids out to what your kids need is you and three or four nights sitting around the table eating a meal that someone in the house actually cooked and talk about how life is going and having the TV off for three or four nights a week and playing a board game and tickling one another and you just you be shocked the real love were chasing phantoms our children or our mates are not to enhance our worth. There are opportunity to what love them just for who they are and agape love. It's even creep into the church whole generation of people. I love you God. If you bless me if I'm wealthy, if unhealthy if you make my life work out for the flipside, a perverted side of love and other religions is this God will love you if you pray five times a day. This God will love you if you do this this this and this. This God will love you only if you go on in this round works works works works works. You don't give to get agape love is a choice of giving other people no matter what. What they really need when they least deserve it.
A great personal cost and what I want you to know is if you've never experienced the agape supernatural love of God, ask Christ to come into your life and forgive you and he will and if you're not experiencing his power and start getting to know him as a friend and I will tell you he just wants to help you. This is a summary of what we learned one were already deeply and completely love I've given you a passage to each one. I encourage you to check that out on your own already number two, we must receive his love by faith before we have the power to love him each other, our families are neighbors and our enemies. Just ask yourself. Have I received him by faith three pseudo-love promises life but destroys us in our relationships.
If the reservoir fills up this way with God.
It goes the other way here right it's all about sex than maybe become friends and maybe become a family or cohabitate for a while until it works and the pretty soon if it doesn't work and you serially move on to the next person and the kids are here and the kids are here in alimony's there, and the monies there in the pains there and it brings death for God has a specific design and process for us to experience real love in real life. It's a very clear design from the bottom up and number five. Love never fails.
It covers are past our faults, our mistakes, our sins, he redeems restores for gives inverse new life and new relationships.
I love that picture of agape love being learned in a family than a family pass it on so we can be those kind of friends and that we meet the right person at the right time. We have all those who express it physically and the very thing that we then experience what what sexuality certainly billings pressure but brings life God's love for life's plans. We experience his love come together. In the share that life is this message or kinds of love from a series of real love and real life. Have you ever wondered what real genuine love looks like what it means to be in love will in this five-part series trip tackles these tough questions and helps us understand the depths of God's love for us. Trip also reveals what causes failure and dysfunction in relationships and how we cannot only find real love but grow it. Keep it and make it last a lifetime.
You're not going to miss a single part of the series. Learn more about real love in real life and are many resources but going to LivingontheEdge.org or by calling us at AAA 333-6003 that's AAA 333-6003, or LivingontheEdge.org hapless nurse to have special offers will before we go on chip.
I can see you want to jump in here and talk about something that's really important to thanks Dave, you know, we live in very unsettling times.
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Thanks Dave. As we wrap up today's message. Can I encourage you go to our website and download the notes you know I've made this comparison between real love and pseudo-love and I think it would be super helpful for you and especially some of your relationships, you know, you might sit down and go through these notes with a friend or your boyfriend girlfriend maybe with your mate or for some of you may be going through these with with your kids would be a real resource to really think about what is real love and thinking about real love. You know, it really does. First and foremost begin with God, and those pseudo-relationships.
Those pseudo-ideas of love. They keep bombarding us at every turn, every commercial every magazine and we were living in a world that keeps telling us this is the way to love.
This is what you get. This is what you have to look like all these different messages and I would say especially to those of you that are moms and dads you need to train your kids and help them understand very early. What is real love because the pseudo-love brings disappointment. It brings heartache.
It promises one thing but it never delivers and then I think I have to be fair in and be really honest to say as you think about your own personal life.
Now is the time to really honestly evaluate and ask God you know what's the next step in my journey in relationships me first and foremost, where are you at with God.
What do you need to do to take the next step to being close deep authentic relationship with the God of the universe.
Second, I would encourage you to really look at the closest relationships and whether you're single or married may be a single parent may be your student. Ask yourself, how do you respond to people how would you relate your relationship connection, and then just kinda make a commitment that I'm gonna stay with Living on the Edge and I'm going to learn about relationships. I'm going to download the notes track with them.
Loving people deeply and being loved by people is the greatest thing that will ever happen in your life. We Living on the Edge want to help you do that, you'll find the message notes strip just mentioned a couple places go to LivingontheEdge.org and click the broadcasts tab hapless nurse will find them by tapping fill in notes, you will get is outlined all of the Scripture references. Lots of fillings to help you remember what your learning they really help you get the most out of every program, so we hope you'll take advantage of this resource. The next time you listen well for chip and the entire team. I'm really saying thanks for listening to this Edition of Living on the Edge