God's Love For You Is Unconditional

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He 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:58.400 doesn't call us when we're perfect, when we've got ourselves. 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.120 Looking good, when we're just like we think we should be. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:02.760 God calls each and. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.480 Every one of us just the way we are. And 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.840 when he calls us, he calls us from that place 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.079 of love and commitment to us. You know, it would 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.480 be so freeing to live a life where you felt 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.280 like everybody loved you, wouldn't it. It'd be like you'd 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.200 be so free from thinking of saying the wrong thing 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.480 or doing the wrong thing. You would be so free 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.320 to live out of a place of abundance not judgment. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:30.079 You know, it's interesting. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.520 I don't know if lately people get so uptight about 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:38.120 things because of Instagram and Facebook. You know, it's interesting 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:42.720 because the way we present ourselves is so important. I mean, 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.880 they've got filters to make things look better. We've got 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.640 apps to give us the right curves. We've got things 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.680 to make our eyes more green or more blue. I mean, 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.400 we present ourself so that we can have the approval 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:57.560 of other people. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.959 You know, you can get caught up and all that. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.640 Can I tell you this, though, God doesn't need you 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.480 to put a filter on your life. He doesn't need 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.280 you to download it out to make yourself look better. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.960 God likes you. He loves you just the way you are. 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:22.040 Live in the freedom that God loves you unconditionally. You see, 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.720 if we'll build our life on this foundation each and 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.800 every day, if we'll get up and we'll truly say, God, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.160 I'm not gonna condemn myself. I don't believe you're condemning me. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.280 I believe that you love me with an everlasting love. 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.800 I'm gonna go out those doors being my very best today, 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:43.880 honoring you, knowing that I'm not perfect, but you are, 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.560 and that there's nothing you can't do through me. I 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.680 believe when we live our life like that, we'll be steady. 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.800 We'll be strong. You See. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:04:00.240 Sometimes we fall into the thinking that God loves us 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:05.040 according to our performance. If we do everything right, then 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:05.800 God will love us. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:08.560 But that is not true. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.040 That couldn't be further from the truth. See, God loves 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.320 us unconditionally. The Bible says he loves us. 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:18.080 Actions. 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:23.960 If you're basing God's love on your actions, that's conditional. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.080 See you're saying, God, when I do right, you love me. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.359 When I miss the mark, you get mad at me. 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:37.040 See. God doesn't love us like that. God loves us 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:41.720 because of Jesus Christ. You can't work for God's love. 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.640 You See when we start thinking like that, when we 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.640 have attitudes like God, I have been so good lately. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.240 You know I'm gonna do this God because I want 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.240 your blessing. I want you to be proud of me 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:53.400 and love me even more. 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:55.559 You know what you're doing. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:05:01.039 You're shifting yourself from a place of unconditional love to 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:06.279 a place of works. And it's so easy to get 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:07.279 caught up in works. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.240 Because when you get caught up in works, you know 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:09.680 what you do. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.279 You begin to look at other people and say, you 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.040 know what, God, they're not as good as me. They're 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.120 not acting as good as me, they're not doing as 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:18.920 well as I am. 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:20.760 Why are they getting all the blessings? 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.719 We begin to shift our perspective and we begin to 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.279 see through these eyes of who deserves it and who doesn't? 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.080 And why should you have it? And why do I not? 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.200 The work has been done. You can't work for God's 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:36.400 blessing and love. 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:41.800 You know what. You can only receive it. It's a 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.719 simple thing. 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:48.120 You can only receive it. It's only what you believe. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.919 If you believe that Jesus died for you, if you 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.680 believe that he closed the gap between heaven and earth, 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.760 and now you are this way with God. You are 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.160 in God's you are in God's grace, and you are 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:02.960 in God's love. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.080 You can only receive that. You can't work for it. 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:11.680 The price was too great. You could never pay the 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.800 price that Jesus paid. Joel and I have been married 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:22.200 about thirty years now, almost thirty years. And it's interesting 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.800 because I can look back over our marriage and we 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.720 have a great marriage. But our marriage was built on 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:33.480 unconditional love. See, our marriage wasn't built on Joel being perfect. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.600 I know y'all think he is. He almost is. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.520 It wasn't built on Joel being perfect. It wasn't built 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:46.480 on us a green on everything. It was built on 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.320 a commitment of knowing. We go back to the place 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.080 that we love each other unconditionally. See, we don't get 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.320 up in the morning and we don't decide today you 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.120 did wrong, so I don't love you as much. You 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.239 didn't agree with me, you didn't meet all my needs, 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:03.760 So you know what, I don't quite. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:05.800 Love you as much today as I did yesterday. 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.200 Can you imagine if I would come into Joel's presence 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:14.080 and I would feel all low because maybe I didn't 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:15.160 do right. 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.640 Maybe I didn't meet an expectation he had. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.400 Maybe I burned the dinner, I didn't balance the check book, 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.720 I spent too much money. Can you imagine if I 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.160 would come into his presence like that, how I would feel. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:28.720 I would feel so worthless. 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.520 I would feel like, you know, I would project my 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.840 worthlessness on him. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.160 I would think if I feel. 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.520 Bad, if I'm inadequate, you must think I am bad 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:42.400 and inadequate. 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.000 You see, I would project. 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.640 That on him and he may not even be thinking that, 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.200 he may not even care. But I would think he 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.240 doesn't love me because I did all these things. 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:57.680 You know what. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.520 That wouldn't make me grow, It wouldn't make me flourish, 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.040 it wouldn't make our marriage strong. But if I come 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.360 in and I say, amen, I spent a little too 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:12.080 much money today, but I did get it on sale. Hey, 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.720 I'm sorry, I'll do better next time, and I come 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.240 in with an attitude of you know what, he loves 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:20.320 me unconditionally. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:22.800 It empowers me to do better. 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.680 And do you know when you build your life on 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.200 this unconditional love with. 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.559 God, that's the only way you're gonna get better. 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:34.160 Then you're gonna say God, I'm sorry, I messed up 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.679 big time. But thank you that you still love me, 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.640 thank you that I can do better, thank you that. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:41.440 I can improve. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.600 Children grow develop and become everything when they're in a 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:53.280 nurturing and loving environment, not when they're in a harsh 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:54.360 and critical place. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.000 And see, we have to. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.839 Understand that what was done on the Cross was demonstration 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:06.480 of love to us way before we ever accepted Jesus. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.640 The Bible says it like this, while you were yet sinners, 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:14.800 Christ died for you. He gave, he demonstrated the greatest 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:20.199 love ever, believing that you were gonna accept him, knowing 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.800 that what He did for you is all there needs 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.040 to be done. So I just want to encourage us. 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:31.520 Don't take your own faults and your own inadequacies and 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:35.679 put them on God. Don't decide if I can't forgive myself, 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.480 if I don't like myself, I guess God doesn't either. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.960 And we walk around with this mentality of I've got 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:48.200 a work for God. If I'm ever gonna be anything, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.200 I've got to show God. I was talking to a 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.920 really nice young man the other day and he told me, 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.360 I used to tell God, God, why do all these 0:09:58.400 --> 0:09:59.240 things happen to me? 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.040 What's wrong with me? 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:05.680 God? Why what have I done to deserve all these 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.800 crazy things that have gone on in my life? I've 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.959 been divorced, lost my children. I just I'm just struggling 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.720 all the time. You see, he was looking at what 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.240 was going on in his life and deciding that's the 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:21.040 way God loved him he was worth about that much 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:26.040 until one day he shift his perspective and he quit 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.920 looking through the lens of the victim and decided he 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.040 was going to look through the lens of the victoria, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:38.480 the one who had it all through Jesus Christ. Somehow 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.640 that message came through to him, and he said, it 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.200 was interesting when I began to change my perspective and 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.440 I begin to say, God, show me your love. God, 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.160 teach me, what is it you want me to learn 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.880 from these situations? He said, my whole life changed. My 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.880 whole life opened up. He said, I wasn't disappointed all 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.920 the time, but God, I'd started bringing things into my life, 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:06.400 relationships and people. He literally took that veil that was 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:10.480 covering his own thinking and allowed the goodness of God 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.760 to get to him. Listen to this, It says in 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.720 Roman's ad, this is Paul, and he you know the 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:18.480 life of Paul. 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:20.679 He had been through many trials. 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:25.280 He'd been shipwrecked, he'd been persecuted, he'd been beaten, he'd 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.040 been thrown in prison. And this is what he wrote 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:33.120 in Romans A. He says, what can separate us from 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:37.120 the love of Christ? That was his question, What can 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.600 separate us from the love of Christ. And then he 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:45.679 goes on to say, difficulties, trials, persecutions, challenges, none of 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:49.680 this can separate us from Christ's love. What he was saying, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.360 what I'm going through right now, That doesn't mean God 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:56.640 doesn't love me. There is no separation in God's love. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.520 But can I ask you this question? Can we separate 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.840 ourself from thinking God loves us. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:07.520 From the way we think? 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:13.040 Can we make that separation in our own mind when 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:17.400 it's not true? And when we separate ourselves in our 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.959 own thinking, how do we get to the goodness of God? 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.280 How do we believe in the Cross? How do we 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:30.400 live that stable and secure life? See, that's why the 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:35.559 enemy wants you to reflect your worthlessness on God. If 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.079 he can make you think you're not worthy, he'll make 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.640 you think God thinks you're not worthy. And can I 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.760 tell you got to point yourself back to the Cross 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.720 because you don't deserve it. No, you don't deserve it. 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:51.040 I don't deserve it. The Jesus thinks we do. And 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.079 he paid it all for us. He paid it all 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.160 for us. Listen, as long as you're alive, as long 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.800 as you're walking on this planet Earth. There is going 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:03.200 to be voices that are going to discourage you. There's 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.760 going to be doubt. There's going to be plenty of 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.880 times that you can feel worthless. 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:09.439 But can I tell. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:13.079 You this, God made you worthy. You've got to build 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.920 your life on this foundation. When you live on the 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:23.679 foundation of unconditional love and approval forgiveness, see all of 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.840 that God gave you on the cross. 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.880 He accepted you, he forgave you, He approved you. 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.280 When you live under the umbrella of God's grace, guess 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:37.480 what you not only will improve your life, but you 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.280 will have so much love in your life that you'll 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:41.839 begin to give it away. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:46.680 Amen. Amen to overflow with His love. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:51.000 Thank you for listening to the joel Ostine podcast. 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