FOUNDATION STATEMENT: Faith in God is faith in the Father's love towards you.  As a believer when you get a revelation of the Father's, love it will take your faith to new heights and new levels because you know that God loves you and He is faithful to His Word.

I.        God's love for you is unconditional and it is limitless

A.     God's love for you doesn't start with your obedience nor does it end with your disobedience  (Romans 5:6-11)

1.      Romans 5:6-10 (Message) - Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn't, and doesn't wait for us to get ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn't been so weak, we wouldn't have known what to do anyway.  We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him. Now that we are set right with God by means of this sacrificial death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a question of being at odds with God in any way.  If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we're at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life! Now that we have actually received this amazing friendship with God, we are no longer content to simply say it in plodding prose. We sing and shout our praises to God through Jesus the Messiah!

2.      You would have a hard time finding people who will die for a righteous man

a.      It would be something out of the ordinary for someone to die for a righteous man, but for a good man some would die and with good reason

3.      But God loved us so much that when we were unrighteous and against Him, He sent Jesus to die for us

a.      His love for us didn't begin when you started obeying Him

4.      If God sent his only Son to die for us when we were sinners or enemies against God, how much will He do for us now that we are His children

a.      MUCH MORE now that we are justified

5.      If God did all that to keep you protected when you were against Him, how much will He do to keep you protected now that you're with Him

a.      You can't be more saved (spiritually) now that you are saved spiritually

b.      He's talking about salvation from the things that work in this physical world

c.      11-All of this causes us to have great joy!

B.     Ephesians 2:1-13, 18-19

1.      You did whatever you felt like doing and you were by nature a child of God's wrath; you had an inheritance that was the judgment of your sins

2.      You had no covenant and no relationship with God

a.      You had no hope and you were without a Father

i.        We were spiritual orphans

ii.      Orphans have no one to whom they can look, no one obligated to him or her, and he has no inheritance

iii.    Your inheritance was hell and you were going to spend eternity there

b.      4-6-But God because of His love filled you with His life, His light, His power, and made you sit together with Him in Heavenly places far above all principality, all power, all dominion, and every name that is named (Ephesians 1:19)

c.      John 14:18 - Jesus said we would not be left orphans

i.        Romans 8:14-15 - I HAVE A FATHER!!!

ii.      In Hebrew law an adopted child is always equal to the first born

iii.    John 17:23 - My Father loves me as much as He loves Jesus

C.    God corrects His children, but He never does it outside of love (Hebrews 12:5)

1.      Hebrews 12:5 - God trains us, teaches us, and instructs us   

a.      John 14:26 - His Spirit is for our instruction, training

i.        That means there's nothing the Holy Spirit can't teach me

ii.      If I refuse his instruction and don't repent, the wages of sin is death

b.      2 Timothy 3:16-17 - His Word is for our instruction and training

i.        The scripture is given by inspiration of God to reprove me, correct me, and instruct me

ii.      John 15:3 - I'm clean through the Word, not through God putting something on me

c.      Ephesians 4:12-15 - His called and anointed people were given to the body to instruct and train

i.        People who minister the Word of God are given for the perfecting of the saints

2.      Isaiah 54:8

a.      8-When Jesus died on the cross and God turned His back on Jesus, that's when God turned his face

i.        The wrath of the curse of the covenant came down and there was only one sacrifice to bear it and it was Jesus

b.      9-The moment it was over with He said this is as the waters of Noah with me, My wrath will never come again

i.        Genesis 8:21- And the mark of the covenant was the rainbow that went 360 degrees around the throne of God

c.      10-My hesed/agape, loving-kindness, and goodness shall not depart from you

i.        Shall not - Covenant talk - there isn't anything else that is going to happen here besides what I have said

II.      Faith comes flowing out of the revelation of the Father's love

A.     When you know that God loves you and He's for you it will add boldness to your faith

1.      Psalm 118:6 - God's on my side, I will not fear, and what can man do to me?

B.     Faith that stems from the Father's love will be uncompromising (Romans 8:29 - 30)  

1.      Foreknow - 2 Timothy 2:19

a.      God knows all that are His

b.      Every one that takes the name of Christ departs from iniquity

2.      Predestinate - Ephesians 1:5 (AMP)

a.      For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [ because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]-

b.      His plan was that we be adopted by Him and become joint-heirs with Christ receiving the same inheritance that He did

3.      To be Conformed - 2 Corinthians 3:18

a.      He planned for us to look like Him

4.      Called - 1 Peter 2:9 (AMP)

a.      Revelation 1:5-6 - "You're a king!"

b.      He called you out of darkness into the light

5.      Justified - 1 Corinthians 6:11

a.      We've been completely forgiven of all of the sin and the guilt that comes with it

b.      We've been pronounced righteous

6.     After the Apostle got a revelation of the Father's Love, faith was welling up in his spirit to the point that these statements poured out of him:

a.      If God be for us who dare be against us

b.      If God gave us Jesus, with him He has free given us all other things

c.      Who has the right to judge me, when God has justified me

d.      What can separate me from the love of Christ

e.      We are more than conquerors

f.        Nothing can separate me from the Love of God

C.    When your heart is condemning you because of past sin, it will keep you from receiving from God (1 John 3:20-22)

1.      God forgives you when you confess your sins (1 John 1:9)

2.      He blots out our transgressions for His sake (Isaiah 43:25)

3.      When you know that you are right with the Father and that He loves you, it will arouse faith (Romans 1:17)

a.      ^{Ro 1:17} For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith [disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith]. As it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith.

III.    The real Bible kind of faith that will not compromise is faith that God loves me (1 John 4:16)

A.     You have to believe the love that God has toward you

1.      John 17:23 - He loves you as much as he loves Jesus

2.      Matthew 7:11 - You have to know that your Father loves you and that He wants great things for you

a.      You have to develop a level of faith that my Father loves me and he wants what's best for me.  He wants me to experience days of Heaven on the Earth.  He wants me to walk in healing, prosperity, and victory all the days of my life because He loves me.  He wants me to have all the desires of my heart and enjoy life on the Earth.

B.     There's something about knowing that God loves you that will take the boldness of your faith to new heights and take your unwillingness to compromise to new levels

1.      Psalm 23 - David is out here fleeing for his life in the middle of a desert place and this confession of faith comes out of his mouth

a.      Verses 1-5 were just the result of verse 6 working in his heart; surely goodness, loving-kindness, tender-mercies, agape, hesed shall be in hot pursuit of me all the days of my life

b.      He knew God loved him and was for him and that's why he didn't fear in the valley of the shadow of death

2.      Mark 4:35 - When you lack revelation of the Father's love it will produce fear, doubt, unbelief

3.      Daniel 3 - They had to have revelation of the Fathers' love

C.    When you know in whom you believe (Love), you will be fully persuaded

1.      2 Timothy 1:12