The Work of God is Going on in Your Life, Part II

In our previous lesson, we establish that one incontrovertible fact of the life in Christ is that we are the sons of God. We examined the life of Christ, as son of God, being the firstborn of our type, whose coming was prophesied in scripture by several prophets and at different times, validated by several miracles, signs and wonders begining with his supernatural conception, divine confirmation at his baptism by a reputable prophet. Furthermore, he went out performing several miracles, healing sick folks, casting out devils, raising the dead etc, etc, and the ultimate of them all, his resurrection from the dead. Yet, Jesus was not accepted by his own family, his kinsmen rejected him, and his nation condemned him to death despite the great things written about him. But in all, he arrived at his place of glory, the right hand of God.

Tonight, we add to the lesson.

Another incontrovertible fact of the life in Christ is that we are loved, loved by God, love we have not earned, will never be able to pay for and would never be separate from.

1 John 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

1 John 4:9-10
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world , that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:31-32 (Read 31-39)
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us , who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Ephesians 2:4-7
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

This extent of love is the rocky foundation on which our opinion of God must be built. So Paul prayed for the church

Ephesians 3:17-19 (Read 14-19)
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

When your heart is assured in the love of God, you will not have misgivings about the disposition of God toward you regardless of what the world throws at you. You will consider God faithful to the declaration of His love for your, which he demonstrated with the highest level of sacrifice to prove (as we have seen in all the passages we have read).

1. So, when things are quiet and it seem God is not hearing you let alone answer you, still you judge God faithful.
2. When the world works against you, every element thereof not working in your favor or to your advantage, you judge God yet faithful.
3. When people treat you like scum of the earth, treat you unfairly, rejected by men on every turn, you account God loving and faithful still.
4. When you have poor reward for your labors, doing much with little to show for it, doing all that you can to progress but result shows failure, you account God yet faithful.

There is nothing more for God to do to prove to you that he loves you so dearly that can be greater than the sacrifice of his son, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:8

You cannot sacrifice a reality in Christ such as the love of God on the altar of life's difficult experiences.