God Discovered Jesus MeetUp Week 9 Is God Mad At You? Click the icon for the one-page, front and back, printable version of this small group lesson as The Jesus MeetUp | Is God Mad At You? | Week 9 You are LOVED...believe it! When you accept, by FAITH, that God is your loving Father, then does he need no further reason to love you other than because you want to be his! And accepting by faith means JUST saying in a quiet time: "Father, I want to have faith in you, but I am not sure how or what that means. Help me, please!" Then, spend a bit more in quiet time going about your day living in the BELIEF that you are behaving as his son/daughter! 2:6.7 God is never wrathful, vengeful, or angry.It is true that wisdom does often restrain his love, while justice conditions his rejected mercy. Definitionwrathful: full of or characterized by intense anger. So, what is the origin of this idea? It comes from the prophets in the Old Testament, which is the history of the relationship the Jews had with God. Today we understand that over our own lifetime, as little children, we are corrected by an adult. While we may be upset about the correction/punishment at the time, as an adult now, we no longer think of those times, as we grew to understand the intention behind the action designed to change wrong behavior. Add to this information, that Jesus, who WAS the revelation of the Father in his perfectly lived life, showed us in every way the LOVE of his and our Father now and forever. Since God IS love, and knows not the experience of being "mad" or looking for ways to "get even", it is inconceivable that he can be angry with you. “God is love”; therefore his only personal attitude towards the affairs of the universe is always a reaction of divine AFFECTION. 2:5.1 He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” Do you think you fall into any of those categories? Well, now you know you're covered by his love! We ALL are! God has NO favorites. We are each loved EQUALLY, for our own individuality, how ever imperfect we are, ALL the time! 2:5.2 It is wrong to think of God as being coaxed into loving his children because of the sacrifices of his Sons or the intercession of his subordinate creatures, “for the Father himself loves you.” Definitions: Coaxed: gently and persistently persuaded (someone) to do something.Intercession: the action of intervening on behalf of another.Subordinate: lower in rank or position; to treat or regard as of lesser importance than something else. See, it is so unlike a loving Divine Father to be influenced in any way to do something good for his children. He just desires to! And we certainly do not need anybody to speak to our Father for us, as the clergy of the religious institutions of the world would have us believe. You are not lesser than these religious men and women, but are equal to them, as you are their brother/sister. THIS is a universe and planetary fact! 2:6.8 God loves the sinner and hates the sin...Sin is not a person. God loves the sinner because he is a personality reality... The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God destroys the sin. I hope you are getting the STRONG impression and truth-fact that any sin you are worried about is DESTROYED...in fact, look at this: 156:5.8 "Be not downcast by your failure wholly to forget some of your regrettable experiences. The mistakes which you fail to forget in time will be forgotten in eternity". We each have regrettable experiences, REALLY regrettable, and yet, look at what you and I are told. Forgiveness? Fear? Superstition? Consider this passage. I believe it! So should you! 131:6.2 "When man looks to God for forgiveness, and when he makes bold to enjoy such liberty, he is thereby delivered from fear." DefinitionLiberty: the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. Let's look at this statement which Jesus identified as a true statement from the Jainist religion of 2000 years ago, and see how he makes equal the ideas of being FREE and the connection to and result of FORGIVENESS. SO wonderful, isn’t it? And then! we are freed from FEAR. Wow. "Fear" from what, do you think? Maybe...hell? Will it relieve you to know that hell does not exist? But it is a tool to control the believers in churches? There IS a way to "disappear" the iniquitous ones, those who have chosen to always and only serve themselves and their own selfish ends, shall just no longer exist. 174:1.3 "Divine forgiveness is inevitable; it is inherent and inalienable in God’s infinite understanding, in his perfect knowledge of all that concerns the mistaken judgment and erroneous choosing of the child." DefinitionsInevitable: certain to happen; unavoidable.Inherent: existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute
Click the icon for the one-page, front and back, printable version of this small group lesson as The Jesus MeetUp | Is God Mad At You? | Week 9 You are LOVED...believe it! When you accept, by FAITH, that God is your loving Father, then does he need no further reason to love you other than because you want to be his! And accepting by faith means JUST saying in a quiet time: "Father, I want to have faith in you, but I am not sure how or what that means. Help me, please!" Then, spend a bit more in quiet time going about your day living in the BELIEF that you are behaving as his son/daughter! 2:6.7 God is never wrathful, vengeful, or angry.It is true that wisdom does often restrain his love, while justice conditions his rejected mercy. Definitionwrathful: full of or characterized by intense anger. So, what is the origin of this idea? It comes from the prophets in the Old Testament, which is the history of the relationship the Jews had with God. Today we understand that over our own lifetime, as little children, we are corrected by an adult. While we may be upset about the correction/punishment at the time, as an adult now, we no longer think of those times, as we grew to understand the intention behind the action designed to change wrong behavior. Add to this information, that Jesus, who WAS the revelation of the Father in his perfectly lived life, showed us in every way the LOVE of his and our Father now and forever. Since God IS love, and knows not the experience of being "mad" or looking for ways to "get even", it is inconceivable that he can be angry with you. “God is love”; therefore his only personal attitude towards the affairs of the universe is always a reaction of divine AFFECTION. 2:5.1 He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” Do you think you fall into any of those categories? Well, now you know you're covered by his love! We ALL are! God has NO favorites. We are each loved EQUALLY, for our own individuality, how ever imperfect we are, ALL the time! 2:5.2 It is wrong to think of God as being coaxed into loving his children because of the sacrifices of his Sons or the intercession of his subordinate creatures, “for the Father himself loves you.” Definitions: Coaxed: gently and persistently persuaded (someone) to do something.Intercession: the action of intervening on behalf of another.Subordinate: lower in rank or position; to treat or regard as of lesser importance than something else. See, it is so unlike a loving Divine Father to be influenced in any way to do something good for his children. He just desires to! And we certainly do not need anybody to speak to our Father for us, as the clergy of the religious institutions of the world would have us believe. You are not lesser than these religious men and women, but are equal to them, as you are their brother/sister. THIS is a universe and planetary fact! 2:6.8 God loves the sinner and hates the sin...Sin is not a person. God loves the sinner because he is a personality reality... The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God destroys the sin. I hope you are getting the STRONG impression and truth-fact that any sin you are worried about is DESTROYED...in fact, look at this: 156:5.8 "Be not downcast by your failure wholly to forget some of your regrettable experiences. The mistakes which you fail to forget in time will be forgotten in eternity". We each have regrettable experiences, REALLY regrettable, and yet, look at what you and I are told. Forgiveness? Fear? Superstition? Consider this passage. I believe it! So should you! 131:6.2 "When man looks to God for forgiveness, and when he makes bold to enjoy such liberty, he is thereby delivered from fear." DefinitionLiberty: the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. Let's look at this statement which Jesus identified as a true statement from the Jainist religion of 2000 years ago, and see how he makes equal the ideas of being FREE and the connection to and result of FORGIVENESS. SO wonderful, isn’t it? And then! we are freed from FEAR. Wow. "Fear" from what, do you think? Maybe...hell? Will it relieve you to know that hell does not exist? But it is a tool to control the believers in churches? There IS a way to "disappear" the iniquitous ones, those who have chosen to always and only serve themselves and their own selfish ends, shall just no longer exist. 174:1.3 "Divine forgiveness is inevitable; it is inherent and inalienable in God’s infinite understanding, in his perfect knowledge of all that concerns the mistaken judgment and erroneous choosing of the child." DefinitionsInevitable: certain to happen; unavoidable.Inherent: existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute
