Seven Ways in Which Our God Loves Us by Chinwe Soares:
Every night as a team we partake in a devotional. In this devotional one of us will talk about a passage from the Bible, or certain prayer requests that people might have, or give a personal testimony about how God has been working in their lives. On Monday the 28th of July, Chinwe gave us a talk about some of the numerous ways in which God loves us, this is what she said...
The Seven Ways:
God loves us with...
- Atoning love
- Calling love
- Redeeming love
- Justifying love
- Adopting love
- Sanctifying love
- Glorifying love
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God's Atoning Love:
John 3: 16 - 17 "For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him."
- God's love for us is what motivated him to send Christ into the world to save us, his sacrifice brings us into a personal and loving relationship with him.
God's Calling Love:
1 Peter 2: 9 "But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God's very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light"
- He calls us out of sinful darkness into the light of fellowship, he calls us to himself promising to protect our relationship with him, he has promised that he will never leave or forsake us.
God's Redeeming Love:
Romans 8: 3 - 4 "The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we winners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin's control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit."
- Because of our sinful nature we have no power to fulfill God's love. But God's love is demonstrated through Christ who paid the price we owed for our rebellion.
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God's Justifying Love:
Romans 3: 23 - 25 "For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard. Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for Sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past"
- He shows His love by declaring us innocent by grace through faith in Christ. God see's us through Christ's righteousness instead of through our sin.
God's Adopting Love:
Romans 8: 15 "So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead you received God's Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him 'Abba Father'."
- God shows how deep his love is, not only by cleansing our sins, but also by adopting us into his family. He has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints.
God's Sanctifying Love:
Hebrews 10: 10 "For God's will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time"
- We are sanctified positionally and progressively. Positionally - Christ made himself as the perfect sacrifice and has paid for all of our sins, so we are set apart to obtain salvation through Christ. Progressively - we are saved through grace and not through our works, its about how we live after we are saved, to live and be more like Christ Jesus.
God's Glorifying Love:
1 John 3: 1 - 2 "See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us and his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don't recognise that we are God's children because they don't know him. Dear friends, we are already God's children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is."
- Throughout our lives we will wrestle with sin, but we're promised that the good work God beings in us will be completed. When we go to be with the Lord our sinful nature will be left behind and we'll like him and with him we will prosper.
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All of the Bible verses where taken from the New Living Translation.
