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Righteousness leads into Intimacy

➡ 3:00 - Understanding that God sees you as righteous sets the stage for intimacy with God - We’re trying to get to a place where we can talk about intimacy and communion with the Lord. But we’ve been talking about righteousness and why you even have a right to approach Him. You won’t have a continual intimacy with the Lord if you don’t see how He sees you. That's why we have been where we have been this week.

3:25 - Opening prayer time - Just begin to thank Him that He loves you - He smiles on you - that while you were yet a sinner He sent the Son and your heart has no agreement with sin. I don't want sin. I want you God. And I thank you that you have delivered me. Open up your heart and begin to declare your salvation to the Lord. Thank Him for His personal love - that He knows you out of billions of people. He has wooed you. Grace has touched your heart to make you even want to care. And you have responded to Him. God I thank you that today I have found favor in your sight. The blood of Jesus speaks on my behalf. The Spirit of God lives in me. And I thank you Father that I am not self-conscious. I am Christ-conscious. I fix my eyes on you. It's going to be a great day because You are inside of me and You love me. Father thank you. Give me understanding. Continue to grow me into You - into Truth. Grow me, grow me, grow me God. Come and etch me, mold me and shape me to look just like my Daddy. Holy Spirit I yield to you and say "yes" to all that You want to do in and through my life. I am just saying a very simple "yes." Come and have your way and make Yourself known to me and through me and manifest Your great name Lord Jesus. Thank You. Father we submit ourselves to You in this class today. We ask for great grace to pour upon it - that understanding would come in all of our getting - that today we would get understanding. Let our lives be transformed because we were together today in Your presence. In Jesus name.

5:00 - Prayer should be intimate communion - Not just a Christian work - You are yielding and committing yourself to Him in prayer. Most people don’t pray intimately like that but for needs, things they need God to change and people. Your prayer life will change through intimacy. You'll find that you won't need to pray as long on stuff and things but that things will just come into alignment. God just does stuff. It's what's on the wall: But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (Mt. 6:33) So you yield yourself to Him and accept His love and accept the identity He has given you and it says, "all of these things shall be added unto you." There is just a great flow of grace when you are walking in agreement with truth.

6:30 - Sometimes you can just think things and they come to pass. Because your heart and His heart are one. You are in tune, in touch with God.

6:50 - Otherwise prayer can just turn into works - where it is all about you and what you are saying, doing. And if things aren't happening, you are doing something wrong - "What am I not saying right?" - me, me, me. There has got to be something better than that out there. It's just knowing God.

How God sees Us - Righteous

➡ 7:30 - He sees you as holy, blameless and above reproach - Walk in this by faith - Recap of Colossians - Have you guys gotten something out of Colossians? Colossians says that you are holy, blameless and above reproach in His sight if you walk by faith. So... you are, if you believe it. How simple is that? So on God's end, He has no trouble seeing you through Christ and through the blood. And He says, how about you see what I see? You know this because... But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Rom 5:8)...

8:00 - Romans 5 - while you were yet a sinner… Romans 5,6,7,8 all one big letter. Read them together.

9:35 - Wear righteousness by faith - Background - He’s talking about righteousness being imputed to Abraham in Romans 4. In hope against hope.

10:00 - Romans 4 v.23 - Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; - Even Abraham was accounted righteous because he believed. You are made righteous through Christ and His finished work. But what makes you righteous and know that you are righteous and wear that righteousness? Answer: When you believe. How simple is that? God’s calling you to believe - to wear that righteousness.

Live by Faith - Not Feelings

➡ 10:45 - Live by faith in God and what He says - Not by how you feel - Review - Faith keeps you from living sensual - by how you feel. You don’t always feel righteous. You don’t always see yourself like God sees you. Sometime you get caught up in flashbacks or an old mood. That's where you have to be the steward of your heart and life and you have to shake yourself out of that - deal with your perspective and mindset. Just because you have become a Christian, you’re not always going to have right motivation, right desire, right perspective.

11:30 - You are responsible to be a good steward of your heart - Walk by faith not by counterproductive feelings - No you have to work out your salvation with a reverence before God - Phil. 2:12. In the face of all of these counterproductive feelings you have to be the steward of your heart. You have to walk this thing out. If you look in the mirror and aren’t seeing what the gospel says you have to keep declaring truth until the negativity gets washed away.

12:20 - Let your faith be established - Your faith becomes your reality - With enough time these truths get settled in your heart. They become your reality. But I’ve spent a lot of time in my bedroom talking to what looked like the air - a lot of time living by faith - and my faith has become my reality. I'm not consciously thinking about faith. Your heart gets established. Your faith becomes your reality. So you are not waking up for 20 years trying to believe God's love for you. No, you started there but now it's just, "Duh, of course He loves me." Faith will take you there.

Receive Righteousness by Faith

13:40 - v.24 - But for us also, to whom it (righteousness) shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; -

You have to put on righteousness through faith - YOU have to receive it - The provision of righteousness has already been made through Jesus for you to be clean, holy and pure. But you only wear the robe of righteousness - you only manifest the benefits of what is freely given when you believe.

14:10 - Rom 5:17 - For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which RECEIVE abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) -

How do you receive abundance of grace?

14:35 - What receiving looks like - Let me show you how you receive the abundance of His grace - Father, I thank You that You are so towards me. I thank You today that there is nothing that I lack. That everything that is necessary to mold me and shape me into Christ is in me and in my spirit. You are illuminating my understanding. You are even molding my emotions, my disposition, the eye I look through. Your grace is sufficient for me and what I am, I am by the grace of God. I say "yes" to You. I'm created to be a son and today I'll live like a son. And I thank You that I am in the family of God... That's how you receive grace. You are believing and you are receiving.

Transformation through Communion

15:10 - If you take time to establish communion with Him now, when trials come you won't be shaken - You'll manifest Him - Because you’ve taken time to believe and enter in… when you get thrown into a trial the gospel defends you and manifests Christ in that situation - Instead of running to the gospel in time of trial, hoping the gospel works. Bumping into the problem and turning to God. No, you turn to God and when you bump into the problem God defends you - without you trying to apply the sermon you just heard. No, the word becomes flesh and when you get into a trial the gospel responds through your life because you’ve been in communion with God.

16:30 - Crossroads Christianity - Years ago God said to me, "Dan, I don't want you living 'crossroads Christianity'." I don't know what that is. Sitting on my bed talking to Him...

16:50 - Take time to be alone with God - By faith enter in - Even when it doesn't feel like He is there - I’m either wasting my time or God is there. I’m banking on God is there. So I’m going to sit there and just be there. And even if it seems like He’s not there… guess what? ...the Word says, He’s there. He sees me, He’s going to reward me. If I seek Him, He’ll be there. If I draw near, He’s coming. If I seek, I’ll find. So I’m not going to let intellectual thinking take me from that place. "Yeah but brother, I’ve tried that and it doesn’t seem to work for me…" That's deception, you are living by feelings - subverting faith - and there’s no grace over your revelation.

17:45 - Spend so much time with Him that you see situations like He sees them - His way and only His way - Crossroads Christianity (continued) - many people see a fork in the road and have to decide which way to go. I don’t want you to see forks - I want you to become the word made flesh and there is no fork, just the way and I want you on the way. When you bump into adversity, if you know who you are in Him such that it becomes your reality, you’ll respond without (stop, look and listen) trying to apply the last sermon you heard pertaining to this trial. Like, "what do I do now?" Because the gospel rises up and responds through you - defends you - your perspective, your responses. Because you have spent time alone with Him - two have become one - and the word has become flesh. That’s what we're pursuing in communion and relationship with God. (Example: car wreck) I'm not taking a deep breath and trying to manifest Him. It’s who I am.

➡ 20:05 - By faith - Not by the flesh - There's a big difference. The other way you are trying to do this in the flesh - biting your lip. We are hurt, despairing, angry but putting on a Christian face. I don't even want any of those things in me because none of those things are in Him. So there has to be a place alone with Him where I get free from all of that stuff. And that is where we are headed with this whole communion thing.

Grace meets Faith to Transform

20:30 - Grace meets faith - Release faith, grace touches that faith and makes it real - No faith, no grace - Romans 5:17 - Anytime you release faith, grace comes. You’re saved by grace through faith - so salvation - the saving grace of God meets faith. When you release faith, grace meets you - no faith, no grace. But is it available? Yes. Faith and grace go together. They work hand in hand. So as you release faith, even in a change of life... Let me answer this question...

21:20 - How do you let go of self-centeredness and make the transition to actually living by faith?

21:40 - The only way... because any other way would be your strength, your ability - the best you can do - and it still won't be good enough. So let's just stop trying so hard.) The only way is through your communion and intimacy with God. You get alone with God…

22:00 - Surrender yourself and release your desire to Him - You get alone with God and acknowledge that... You know what Lord. I wasn't created for me. I wasn't created to live self-centered. I wasn't created to live emotionally driven and live sensual and moved by every whim and every thing and live by how it seems. And Father, I give myself to You. I'm a man of faith. I thank You Father. I surrender my life to You. I'm not here to live for myself. I'm here to live for You and Your great name and the world around me. And I give myself to You. And I thank You that Your grace is so abundantly upon me. You are the One that rules and reins in my heart. You are the one that orchestrates my emotions and redeems me from the fall of man. I am not a hurt, I am not a despairing, I am not a disappointed fellow. I am full of joy and full of life and my eye agrees with You. And I thank you that Your love rules in my heart...

22:50 - Transformation comes through communion - It doesn't come through the flesh - That’s how you kill self and resurrect Christ. It's in your communion. All I am doing is releasing my desire. Because I can’t make myself like God. But I can sure want to be like Him. If you try to become like God through your flesh - your strength, your effort - you’ll end up very discouraged - “I've tried that and it didn’t work for me.” Then you will have a flesh excuse to be where you are when it is really all a deception.

23:30 - Release your sincere desire to Him - Don't let feelings quench the faith that is met by grace - I release my desire (to be like Him) to Him. And that’s called faith. And we are saved by grace through faith - Eph. 2:8. So now that I am in faith, grace is in the room. This is what makes it faith because it is all supernatural. Sincere expression of desire - the pure in heart shall see God - pour out sincere desire (even knowing where I have been and what I have done) but understanding that I’m qualified and God is working in me making me like His Son. The Bible says that I am saved by grace through faith, so if I am in faith, grace has to be in the room.

25:00 - If you live sensual - living by the way you feel - you’ll continually pull the plug on faith and stop the work of grace.

25:20 - By faith build on what is good - Even struggles show that you care - You're alive - We've struggled way too much. But the fact that we struggle reveals that we do really care. That’s good news. If you didn’t care, you wouldn’t struggle. So build on what’s good - even on the struggle. But stop struggling. It's faith and grace. Thank God for the capacity to struggle. It means that there is root in you - sincerity - purity. It means you care enough to struggle. There is something down inside of you crying out that wants change. And God can work with that. If God sent his Son while you were still a sinner, I bet He is not threatened by your struggle. When you didn't even care - lost and deceived, God had the ability to see beyond that. Now that you do care, I'm sure that He is bigger than your struggle.

Receive

27:00 - the abundance of grace - Way more than necessary. You have to receive the abundance of grace. You have to believe that God loves you - is for you - wants to get His hands on you and make a masterpiece.

27:30 - God is working on the inside of you to fashion His masterpiece - You're going to look like Him - I picture myself under a tarp with God as the master potter and the bedroom where He works secretly. One day He opens the door up with light shining out, removing the tarp and “TADA!” He reveals His masterpiece. That is better than beating yourself down - only seeing the worst in your life and just trying to get esteem from others. That's the rat race we talked about.

29:00 - No, see your potential - what you are becoming - it’s going to look like Him. He’s working on me. I’m a masterpiece of God. And in that secret place is where He does His finest work. Nobody sees the skill of His hand. But one day He will reveal His masterpiece.

30:00 - the gift - Open up His gift of righteousness and wear it - YOU have to put it on - v.17 - the gift - You have to open up a gift. How do you receive the blessing of a (gift) coat until you put it on? You don't just put it in the closet and never put it on. You have to put it on. You have to put on the gift of righteousness. What does that mean? You have to live that way - live free from sin-consciousness - live free from "Oh, dumb me. I'll never get it right." - live righteous-conscious. You’re the one who puts it on. And...

You are the only one who can take it off - God won't change His mind - And the devil can't take it off of you - And you are the only one who can take it off. God will never change His mind about giving you the coat. God will never change His mind despite your struggles.

33:15 - God's heart is for you to receive His gift - God is more like "Oh honey, Why are you wearing that when you look so beautiful in what I gave you? That is so not you. I know who you are. I know how beautiful you are. Just wear what I have given you."

33:25 - That's God the Father. That's why you get convictions when you know things aren't right. That's why you think twice when things aren't going smooth. God the Father's love is wooing you home. Because He knows who you are in the face of the little detour you have taken. And He knows how beautiful you are in Him.

33:45 - God is a wooer and a lover. He understands how people get deceived - get into wrong thinking and do things that they wish they hadn't. But here is the deal: God will never change His mind. He has judged you righteous. He knows your potential and destiny. That can never change. And we have the opportunity to put the coat on and walk through life with it on. And you are the only one who can take it off.

34:25 - The devil can’t take it off you. And God won’t take it off of you.

34:40 - You are the one who chooses what you believe - You will reign in life through the One - but you've got to believe it. You could let life have a louder voice and let life overwhelm you. But it’s still true and waiting for you. So what are you giving your heart, mind and eye to? What are you giving your faith too? To the way things feel and seem and appear. Or to the way that God proclaims it by the Spirit?

Sowing Seed & Correcting Others

35:40 - What do I do if I am not confident about how to share this amazing truth? Should I wait?

Sow seed, water seed but don't try to force the gospel onto people - This news is so good. Graham Cook says that the gospel hinges on fairy tale - it sounds too good to be true. Good news is good news and you should sow some seed. But be careful not to project - to push, to force the gospel on people. But at the same time look for opportunities to sow seed, water seed. Pray for opportunities.

37:00 - Be careful not to touch wrong - Sometimes when it looks like there is no opportunity to share, it becomes more of a prayer thing for a while. There’s not a right and wrong… more of a pure heart. Don't feel compelled to change your loved ones. And you are not going to find grace on that. We touch people wrong sometimes... in zeal, condescension, etc... and we don't even realize it.

38:00 - Hernia healed - Man with a hernia - healed - word of knowledge - When I see that kind of miracle happen, what do you do with me now?

40:20 - People tried to "correct" me regarding healing - When people started to get healed - "Now Dan, you’ve got to be careful. You know the devil can heal." Why? Because the devil was so freaked out and afraid that I would get a hold of this - I’m fresh, I’m young, I’m on fire, my heart is alive - and the devil wants to quench it and wrap religion over it. Get some people in his life who seem to have some wisdom and tone him down.

41:05 - I think I survived some of that. I am barely saved and I saw two miracles in two months. What do you do with me now? I'm ready, excited, pumped.

41:45 - Grace attends the pure motive of love when you correct and speak the truth to someone - re question: There’s no real right or wrong with it. Make sure your heart is pure and your motives clean in what you do. God graces pure motives. Grace attends pure motives. Love gives you great permission to be real. It doesn't have boundaries. There are no rules wrapped around love. Love doesn't understand seminary rules of do's and don'ts.

43:15 - If I use the exact same words, but with the wrong motive - just to set someone straight or the need to be right - and I would be in the wrong.

43:25 - Correcting children - Parenting children - motive of love. Your motive: because you could cry for them - because you see where this is taking them. Exact same words with wrong motives (frustration) can cause harm to your child. God attends truth and love. We speak the truth in love. When you speak the truth in love, God is on that.

44:10 - Correct others from love - Not from a need to be "right" - It’s not about being right. Being right doesn't make it (the way that you correct them) right. Sometimes you are too busy being "right" and setting people right. And forgetting the value of their life - forgetting love - forgetting that love is the motive to say anything in the first place. Don't speak because you know that someone is "wrong." Speak because you realize the value of their life and you love them. If love is not why you are speaking, don't speak.

45:10 - Don't correct out of pride - Pride in knowledge - We get proud and knowledge puffs us up. We read the word and say, "Well the word says this. And you shouldn't be doing that." We don't even love them. We are just setting them straight. We are proud in our own knowledge. And then we are just correcting everybody's words and sentences.

45:45 - Correcting others beliefs - gently, carefully - take time with them. Share why it is limiting or where it will lead. Be discerning - find a way.

46:45 - The value of having a good name - they will listen to correction. The more that people see Christ in your life, the more that they will be able to accept your words and where you are coming from.

47:30 - Correct for their sake - So that they run well - My only reason for talking to them is not to set them straight. It's not just because I have the Bible knowledge. It's because I know where that belief is going to lead them. And one day they are going to cry because of that and be limited because of that and the kingdom will be sold short because of that. So for their sake, with nobody around, I am just talking to them so that they will run well. That's actually selfless.

49:00 - Be discerning on how to correct - There is no text book - Discernment will help you know how to handle - some you save out of the fire, others with compassion - Jude 1:22. You know the difference by discernment. There’s no textbook. It's discernment.

49:15 - question cont. - The way we get rid of self-centeredness and grow in the things of the Spirit is through personal intimacy with God.

Putting off & Putting on

49:25 - How do you “put off” the old man and "put on" the new without getting into works?

Put off the old man by separating it from your identity as you commune with God - You separate it from your identity. Get alone with God and say, “I wasn’t created for this. This has nothing to do with who I am. I’m not a man of anger etc……

49:50 - Separate the "old man" from your identity - You get alone with God and say... I wasn't created for this. This has nothing to do with who I am. I'm not a man of anger and wrath of... (this or that) And I thank You Father that You created me for Your goodness, Your glory. I'm a man of Your love. Your heart is my heart. When I look through these eyes I see exactly what You see because we are One. And I know that grace empowers me to have Your vision. Father, I am not ashamed to be called Your son... When I talk like that, it makes me happy inside.

50:15 - Most people don’t pray/think that way. They just try to do better and be better - which shows their hearts are sincere and pure. God can work with that but in all our getting we need to get understanding.

50:30 - Be aware of how you are coming across - Avoid needless offense - Coming across the wrong way with people - overzealous. I was only 4 months saved. I was vulnerable to touching people wrong. My heart is on fire but not a lot of knowledge. Some people's hearts are not on fire but they have a lot of Christian knowledge. But I was experiencing miracles.

51:40 - Example: Touching someone wrong in counseling - Stress - Man with intestinal problem - stress - touching people the wrong way - didn’t mean wrong - overzealous - Christian for 22 yrs

54:30 - Hot in the warehouse - Too hot in the warehouse - 106 - on fast - glass of water - importance of mindset, the eye you see through

57:30 - Call to pastor - Said no 3 times to being a full time pastor

58:20 - Hot in the warehouse (cont.) - Better counseling - Lollipop - Warehouse continued… Sometimes you just make me so mad. You need to come back down to the earth with the rest of us. - I’m trying to invite her in. Tears. Hot, moody - now the environment is lord - permission to be everything the Lord is not. Sorry I hurt you. You didn’t hurt me. I saw your tears. Let me explain - two kids on playground - and I just found two lollipops. I opened one up and it was the best thing I ever tasted. And I tried to give you the other one and you said, “No, I don’t like that flavor.” They were the tears. Not because you hurt me. But because you don’t have the ears to hear - the glory of what I’m trying to share with you. And you won’t unwrap the lollipop and at least lick it. You just judged it by the cover.

104:00 - Offended by others - Natural knowledge says you have to be hurt when someone treats you wrong. The kingdom says there is no cause for offense in your brother when you become love. I'm way past being offended by you.

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104:30 - Romans 4:25 - Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. - He's not a dead philosophy or doctrine. He is a living Lord.

105:50 - Romans 5:1 - Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: -

Christianity is more than a prayer to go to heaven one day - No, the kingdom has come - here and now - justified through faith - prayer to go to heaven. We need to get a better grip. This thing is not about praying a prayer to go to heaven and get Jesus in your heart and then still feel the same way, live by the same motivations, produce the same fruits - but at least a bus is going to pick me up someday when the trumpet blows.

107:00 - No, it's: walk in a manner worthy of Him. It's: bear the fruit of righteousness. It's a whole lot bigger than waiting to go to heaven. Heaven has come back to us. The kingdom is where? Here. It's at hand. I'm looking at the kingdom of God right now. Jesus said, "Don't look here or there the kingdom is within you." So I am looking at the kingdom of God. And if we start seeing what He sees, we'll start to manifest that truth.

107:40 - He's looking at the kingdom in us and we are saying, "Who me?"

108:00 - We have peace with God - God cursed sin in the flesh. He has annulled the power and the voice and judgement of any sin that has ever been found - crushed the power of sin. He casts it in the sea of forgetfulness and will remember it no more. And He will call you out of the darkness into the light. If you see the gospel clearly it puts integrity in you - honor in you and desire in you for the things of God.

108:45 - The devil wants to keep you from seeing and receiving the love of God - He wants to substitute works and religion - This is why people struggle so much with receiving the love of God, because the devil knows that if people ever just see, accept, receive the first love of God, they will find out the beauty of who God is and they will find out who they are and they will manifest truth. Because if you love God you will keep His commandments. So why not get them to struggle with the love of God, get them into works, try to keep His commandments and fail, weigh themselves short and never see themselves as lovable even though He already does love them and get them to miss it. Let's get them into legalism, religion and works. Let's get them trapped just going to a church service and hoping they are saved. That's the devil.

Perspective on Trials

109:20 - v.2-3 - By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; -

Trials are the opportunity to stand firm and show that you are for real - Let Jesus come out - Paul jumps right into --> We’re all going to go through trials. And he is excited. He is building. We're for real. God rocks. And we are going to win. Trials don’t have the power to challenge your communion with God. Your relationship with God is already settled. And when your relationship with God is already settled, you have the power to triumph over circumstances.

111:20 - Tribulation is going to bring out the best in you. Tribulation gives you the opportunity and platform to stand and show that you're for real. Freak the devil out - every time he touches you Jesus comes out. He forms you in Christ. You want that process going on in your life. Every time he touches you, you manifest truth.

112:30 - The purpose behind trials - The devil can't defeat God - But he believes he can defeat God's purpose through man - The devil was played at the cross. When he kills Jesus he loses. Now many, many people will live. So, how can he defeat God? Only by getting us to fail to stand in truth, to fail to stand in agreement with God. He knows he can't defeat God personally but He believes he can defeat God and God's purpose in us. He has been messing with people since the garden. He knows that he can't knock Jesus off the throne but he believes he can get Jesus off the throne of your own soul.

113:40 - We glory in tribulation -

Be prepared for tribulation through right perspective - That's not a normal response to tribulation. It's usually tears and a phone call. If you can't see through a good eye that rejoices in truth and looks for the manifestation of Jesus, you have to see that there is still a self-centered, vein here - self-defending thing working in me. "Why me?" That's where you have to go back into that secret place and die to to that self-centered thing.

114:30 - Die to self-centeredness and stay dead - God, this is not the mindset I am created for. This is not productive. This is like a vulnerability. This is like a bulls eye over my spiritual life. Satan is trying to take advantage - an opportunity of a wrong perspective here. And I am not alive for me. It's not about what I am going through. It's about the truth of what You went through and who I am because of You. Thanks for building that in me and making it strong and fortify it God... And you stay in this place. When that stuff is exposed don't fall out and lose your identity and drag your lip on the ground for 3 days and say that you're a loser.

115:15 - Shake yourself out of feeling sorry for yourself - But if you get caught in that - wrong identity - feeling sorry for yourself - Once you realize that don't continue in it but shake out of feeling sorry for yourself - Father, I so thank You for the light in my life that exposes that for what it is. What a lie. I used to live that way all the time. God, You're sharpening me. You're pulling me out of this. I am changing. God I thank You that I am home... You ought to rejoice because you are free. There was a time that you lived that way and thought it was normal.

Righteousness (cont.)

115:50 - v.4,5 - And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. - Hope does not disappoint because we are rooted and grounded in God's love.

116:15 - v.6 - For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. - Jesus did this because He saw our value, our destiny, our inheritance.

116:30 - v.7,8 - For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. -

117:10 - While we were yet sinners - at nature, at heart - driven by selfishness - that's all the human eye could see - but God saw something more in us.

117:45 - v.9 - Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

117:50 - Much more then, being now justified... - You are assumed by the writer now to be justified. It's already done.

You are justified - See and receive God's first love - justified! You are acquitted. It's over. You are innocent. Just a moment ago you were alienated and an enemy by the wicked works of your minds (Col 1:21) and now because He rose from the dead you are holy, blameless and above reproach (Col. 1:22). The blood is amazing. You have to believe that first because that will shake you into transformation. That’s what puts integrity in you. That’s what it means to receive the first love of God. Knowing that the way you were, God saw better in you - more about you - deeper in you.

118:55 - That's the first love of God. God didn’t judge the book (us) by its cover (sin). We were doing all of those things. And He said, "That is not who you are. I know who you are. I've known you from the beginning. And I know what I created you for. Son go pay the price. I'm bringing them home."

119:35 - Fear of judgement - we shall be saved from wrath through him - That means judgement. Perfect love casts out all fear.  People fear torment and condemnation. The only reason that condemnation can live is that we are not perfected in love. He did not send His Son to condemn the world… but that through Him the world might be saved - saved, healed, delivered, protected, preserved, made whole, kept safe and sound.