Our Relationship with God is Fearless, Part 1 (TMF:1088)

Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Peace to Live By: Our Relationship with God is Fearless, Part 1 (TMF:1088) - Daniel Litton
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       So the mercy and grace we receive from God is because of what Christ has accomplished for us on the cross, and not because of anything we have done. But going further, there is a fundamental difference between having a reverent fear of God versus having a fear of what he might do to us if we don’t comply with whatever we feel he wants us to do. Consider this passage, again, from John. In 1 John 4, John again states the following: ““Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us” (15-19, ESV). So, God’s view of us is that as Jesus is (who is perfect), so also are we living our lives in this world. He sees us as perfect.