The experiences I have had of unconditional love have radically changed my whole belief system concerning who God is and therefore the reach of God’s love towards all of His creation. God’s love is unconditional for everyone and everything and that love has no boundaries or limitations.
“IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN OVERWHELMED and left breathless by the love and grace of a inclusive Father, then I would suggest you have not had an encounter with love and grace Himself.”
This can be an encouragement to some that there is more to come, or it can be a discouragement and make some people feel condemned because they do not know how. Love is unconditional so relax and enjoy, don’t strive for it. The Father wants each of His children to really know that they are unique, special and precious. We are each the apple of His eye and the treasure of His heart and He really wants us to know this experientially. Unconditional Love. We’ve wasted so much time trying to get there, when there is where we are to begin with! Dying to the unenlightened self; the fruit of the “I am not-Tree System, the old Adamic “law[1]man”, the DIY [Do It Yourself] – person, takes one simple conclusion, not a life long struggle! Unconditional Love. The conclusion is in agreeing with God about you! You died when Jesus died and were co-raised together with him and are now co-seated together with him in heavenly places!
Last time I shared about the testimony about Riaan, the former Satanist who found unconditional love, limitless grace and triumphant mercy. Someone sent me the typical evangelical response – he did not say he was sorry or repent so it can’t be real. Unconditional Love. WOW, how sad! But it is the typical response you get from those who say “Yes, God is love, BUT.” Religion always has a but. Bless them, hopefully they will have an epiphany and be enlightened to the real God who is love. There are no BUTS. God’s love is totally unconditional. I want to explode some more religious myths that kept me in a bondage to religious conditions that eventually unconditional love set me free from.
In previous sessions we looked at the truth about how God views sin, forgiveness, repentance and confession. We are going to look at the truth about faith, being born again and salvation in regards to unconditional love. What about faith? The term “My Christian faith” is a description often used by believers, but I believe it is better to focus on our relationship with God, not our beliefs about Him. Jesus did not come to start a new religion or faith but to enable us to have relationship with the Father. “Yes, but don’t I need faith to please God?” “Don’t I need to be obedient to please God?” These questions originate from deep religious programming and not personally experiencing unconditional love.
There is a difference between faith in regards to our reconciliation and salvation and how we use our faith to manifest our creativity. When we start to choose our reality as creative sons of God, we need to be able to draw things out of the unseen realm into manifestation. Quantum physics 1.01: faith is the evidence of the unseen.
Faith enables us to use the grace of God (which is His divine enabling power) to brood, resonate, become an oracle and pop a quantum qwiff. The living strings of light, the quantum lumens, respond to our faith when we express it as an oracle.
Rom 4:17 God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. Rom 4:17 God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being. Heb 11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, (Jesus) so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.
But our true identity comes from God’s faith in us, not our faith in God. What about the faith needed for our salvation? Where does faith come from? How much faith is needed? Whose faith saves us?
How do grace and faith relate to one another? My fire stones experience in 2008 in Eden (God’s garden) revealed the swirling of grace and faith I saw in the atomic structure as flames of unconditional love.
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. By grace, through the gift of God’s faith, not by our faith and works.
Rom 10:17 Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Christ. We know that Jesus is the word made flesh and He says, “My sheep hear MY voice and a stranger they will not follow”. So, faith comes from a hearing relationship with God who is Father, Son and Spirit, by hearing their voice to guide us daily.
We walk by faith, not by sight. That means we walk following His voice not by leaning to our own understanding or by faith in the Bible. We do not need our faith to be saved. Everyone is already saved: they just need the realization of that truth. All of that, He gifts to us all.
When we hear His voice and CHOOSE by desire to follow Him (because He never takes away our free will), then we will discover Him and know who we are. As a result, faith is manifested in our lives as trust. It is the by-product of our hearing relationship with Jesus. It is the expectation of the Truth.
We are not saved by our faith in God but by the faith that is of or from God. When translated of, it is God’s faith in us. When translated from, it is God’s faith given or gifted to us.
In English it is usually translated faith in but in Greek it is more accurately the faith of or from. That little change can make all the difference to our understanding and our experience.
Phil 3:9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in (or from) Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11 in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Greek interlinear version says – And be found in Him not having my own righteousness which of the law but that through faith from Christ the of God righteousness on the basis of faith to know Him and the power of the resurrection of Him.
Phil 3:9 YLT not having my righteousness, which [is] of law, but that which [is] through faith of Christ – the righteousness that is of God by the faith, 10 to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death…
The translators mostly interpret according to the theology of those who pay them to translate and according to their own preconceived doctrinal perspectives. ‘In’ fits a works-based theology but of or from fits a grace inclusive understanding.
Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in (of or from) the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. 21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.
Gal 2:20 KJV I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Gal 2:20 YLT with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh – in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
Whose faith am I saved by and live by? My faith in God, or God’s faith in me, or God’s faith given to me? Am I relying on the measure of my faith to save me, however small an amount I think I need, or am I trusting in God’s faithfulness?
Does in or of really matter? The difference is, one has the “faith” as the possession of the Son, the other has “faith” as the possession of us. The question, then, is which is the best reading? The subjective genitive or the objective genitive.
In Dan Wallace’s “Greek Grammar Beyond The Basics,” he implies that he (and in fact many grammarians of our day) are actually in favour of the KJV’s rendering as of and not in. The grammatical argument for the objective genitive (in), then, has little to commend it.
Heb 11:1 Faith is the evidence of things not yet seen. This was true for the old covenant but it is not true in the new, if we have seen Him. Jesus came as the express image of God: He and the Father are one; and if we have seen Jesus, we have seen the Father.
Heb 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. Jesus has fully pleased the Father and we are all included in Him in the new covenant.
Heb 11:6 ‘Without faith it is impossible to please God’ was how they thought in the old covenant but not how we should think in the new. We are already pleasing to Him as we are His children.
Why would I need faith in the God that I have seen face to face? I do not need faith in God and I am not saved by my faith in God because I am saved by grace, His divine enabling power; through His faith in me, which He has revealed and brought me to a realisation of.
Hebrews lists all the people in the old covenant who died in faith having not seen or experienced the full fulfilment of the promises they believed in. Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Moses etc.
How much faith do you need? Jesus said, in the context of the old covenant, faith like a mustard seed – yet they did not even have that. Do you have enough faith in your works to save you? What if your faith fails?
This concept of faith keeps many people in fear of losing it or not maintaining it and therefore losing their salvation. It is God’s faith! James said ‘faith without works is dead’. Who was James writing to?
James 1:1 James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings. The book of James was written in the context of those still living under the old covenant, as slaves to lost identity, and that does not apply to us today.
James 2:18 But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” Abraham was not justified by his works but by His belief in God – that was the old covenant way.
Rom 4:2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” 4 Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness
In the new covenant it is not our belief that is credited to us as righteousness because God has already made us righteous. 2 Cor 5:21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
We also need to remember that Abraham did actually experience God. God spoke to Abraham and showed him that God would provide Himself as the offering instead of Isaac – looking forward to Jesus, the Seed of Abraham
John 8:56 “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.” Gal 3:8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”
Gal 3:16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to your seed,” that is, Christ. Jesus has fulfilled all the covenantal promises of God and they all ours in our inclusion in Him.
I am justified by God, my Dad. I am judged innocent by, my Dad. I am reconciled by God, my Dad. I am made righteous by God, my Dad. I am saved by God, my Dad.
I live by the faith of or from Jesus, my brother, who is the way the truth and the life. I am not saved by my faith in God – that would be me trying to be saved by works; and that would keep me weary, burdened and never in rest.
Titus 3:5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit. Salvation is God’s mercy and His work alone, by grace; and that has already been accomplished for everyone.
Unconditional love requires no works, including our faith. We have no need to labor or work hard to enter into the rest of His salvation. Be still and know that I am God – stop striving to attain by works.
Don’t I need to be born again or born from above to be saved and forgiven? Yes, but that occurred on the day of resurrection, when the whole of mankind was born from above, having been crucified, buried and resurrected with Jesus. Jesus represented and included all mankind in His death.
You don’t become born again by your repentance and faith. You, as part of mankind, are now alive in Jesus as much as mankind was once lost and dead in Adam. Jesus told His disciples when this would occur as recorded in John 14:20
John 14:3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also… 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me;
John 14:18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. 19 After a little while, the world no longer is going to see Me, but you are going to see Me; because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I in you.
John 20:21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be to you; just as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
1 Cor 15:21 For since by a man death came, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all died, so also in Christ all are made alive. This is the unconditional love of Jesus at work for all, on the cross and in the resurrection.
The evangelical process and timeline for salvation is known as the ‘4 spiritual laws’ or the ‘ABC of salvation’. Acknowledge and confess you are a sinner. Repent from your sins. Believe that Jesus died for your sins. Confess that Jesus is your savior.
You then become born again and the Holy Spirit enters you. You get baptized in water (and for Pentecostals and Charismatics, you get baptized in the spirit). All this is dependent on your works. Therefore, in evangelicalism our salvation is dependent on us.
What is wrong with this teaching? It has reversed the process, making salvation about what man still has to do, rather than what God has already done. This makes salvation sin-conscious rather than grace-conscious and can trap people in guilt and performance mode.
Being reconciled, forgiven, saved, born from above, and having God who is Father, Son and Spirit dwelling in us has already been accomplished for everyone in full on the day of resurrection. Sadly, most do not yet know or have a full realization of this truth.
Saul of Tarsus was the greatest biblical example of this truth. Paul was following self-righteous religion whilst Jesus was already within Him, seeking to reveal the truth to Him – but he was resisting and kicking against Him.
Gal 1:15 But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him in (not among) the Gentiles. This was all before Paul responded to this amazing revelation.
The Father revealed that Paul was born from above, alive, and included in Christ, before he did anything (and while he was still antagonistic) and that became his message of inclusion to the Gentile world. Paul described this encounter as a heavenly vision. It took a revelation of unconditional love to transform Saul from a murderer and persecutor of believers bound in old covenant religion into Paul, a champion of inclusion with a mission to reveal God’s amazing grace to the world.
Acts 26:15 “And I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. 16 But get up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to appoint you as a servant and a witness not only to the things in which you have seen Me, but also to the things in which I will appear to you… 18 to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God…’ 19 For that reason, King Agrippa, I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision…
Paul’s heavenly vision was the Father revealing that Jesus was already in Him and sending Him on a mission to preach that Jesus was already in the Gentiles. This vision of inclusion was central to Paul’s teaching of God’s unconditional love, grace and mercy.
Paul did not preach an evangelical message that you must do penance to be born again. Paul preached that because of God’s unconditional love, Jesus was already in them and they were already included in Him. Realization was the only issue.
We are already forgiven, reconciled back to God, and saved from our lost identity and its consequences. God’s salvation includes our forgiveness, freedom from our past, and healing and wholeness from brokenness.
Salvation is only our realization of what unconditional love has already done so that the benefits can be enjoyed. It is no wonder Paul encouraged us to rejoice always. Paul wanted everyone to experience what He had.
The gospel is the good news message of inclusion not the bad news message of exclusion until certain conditions are met and works are done. The evangelical gospel is a message of dead works to try to get God to save and accept us.
The evangelical gospel often uses fear of punishment and future separation in eternal torment to try to force people to accept this bad news. If we are already included through redemption and reconciliation, we cannot be separated eternally from unconditional love.
Our Father is so unconditionally loving that He has already done everything possible to ensure that all His children will eventually know unconditional love and come to know and experience the truth of who God is and who they are.
Eph 2:1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. 3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
Eph 2:4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
Eph 2:1 (Mirror) Picture where God found us. We were in a death trap of an inferior lifestyle, constantly living below the 1blueprint measure of our lives. (The word sin, is the word 1hamartia, from ha, negative or without and meros, portion or form, thus to be without your allotted portion or without form, pointing to a disorientated, distorted, bankrupt identity; the word meros, is the stem of morphe, as in 2 Corinthians 3:18 the word metamorphe, with form, which is the opposite of hamartia – without form.
Sin is to live out of context with the blueprint of one’s design; to behave out of tune with God’s original harmony. See Deuteronomy 32:18, “You have forgotten the Rock that begot you and have gotten out of step with the God who danced with you!” Hebrew, khul or kheel, to dance.)
Eph 2:2 We were all part of a common pattern, swept along under a powerful invisible influence, a spirit-energy that adopted us as sons to its dictates through unbelief.
Eph 2:3 Throughout that time everyone of us were warped and corrupted in our conduct; snared in a jumble of forbidden lusts, driven by the desires of the senses, completely engaged in an expression of a life ruled by mind games; it was as if a twisted passion parented a universal breed of people.
Eph 2:4 None of this could distract from the extravagant love of God; he continued to love us with the exact same intensity. 5 This is how grace rescued us: sin left us dead towards God, like spiritual corpses; yet in that state of deadness and indifference, God co-quickened us together with Christ. Sin proved how dead we were (the law confirmed it!) Grace reveals how alive we now are (the gospel announces it!) Before anyone but God believed it, he made us alive together with him and raised us up together with him.
We had no contribution to our salvation! God’s masterplan unfolded in the mystery of the gospel declaring our joint inclusion in Christ’s death and resurrection; God found us in Christ before he lost us in Adam! [Eph 1:4] In the economy of God, when Jesus died we died. God saw us in Christ, in his death and resurrection before we saw ourselves there! He declared our co[1]resurrection with Christ 800 BC [Hos 6:2]!)
Hos 6:2 “He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, that we may live before Him…” Eph 4:1 We were all predestined to return to face-to-face innocence in love.
Col 2:13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins. Rom 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
2 Cor 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. Are we are ambassadors of unconditional love?
God saved all mankind, who were dead in Adam; made them alive, born from above; included all mankind in Christ; and dwells in everyone. What is our part them? Only to come to a realization of the truth of what has already occurred and embrace it to renew our minds.
“I’m realizing that as long as I have a ‘sin consciousness’, I will always see something wrong with me, big or small, that God is not pleased with. That will always bring guilt and shame, which makes us run from God. Love, grace and righteousness consciousness will always bring peace and joy. God is always smiling over us!”
Many believers spend so much time trying to please or appease God they have very little time to enjoy Him and live loved. Life can become wearisome and lacking in joy if we are striving to please and be acceptable enough so that God will love us.
Our salvation, reconciliation and forgiveness is already true: we only need to come to that realization to experientially enter into what has already been accomplished for us by Jesus, and be loved, so that we can live loved, loving living and live loving.
Love applies equally to everyone and everything with no exceptions because God is love and expresses Himself towards all that He has created. Love is consistent and constant and never fails or changes; it is totally dependable because God is 100% love
I would suggest that we all need to be deprogrammed from our religious thinking so we can hear and perceive more clearly. Our personal experiences of engaging God face to face will create the cognitive dissonance necessary to deconstruct and renew our minds if we cooperate.
When you receive revelation of unconditional love, it transforms life from slavery to duty and obligation into the freedom of a joyous love relationship of rest and creativity. Rest becomes a state of being we are in, even in the things we do as part of everyday life.
Have you experienced unconditional love? Are you living in unconditional love? Are you demonstrating unconditional love? Do you have a heavenly vision of unconditional love?
Rest is the key to living loved. Start to focus on your breathing, slowing it down and focus your thinking on God is love. Breathe in deeply the unconditional love of the Father. Feel unconditional love flow through your being Be still and let God love on you. Be still and know that I am God. Be still and know that I am unconditional love. Be still and know that I am joy, I am peace, I am truth, I am light, I am limitless grace, I am triumphant mercy.
Invite love, joy and peace to come on you, to flow in you and through you to create an atmosphere of rest around you. Feel unconditional love flow through your whole being. Be still and let God love on you.
You are in a safe place Start to think of an open heaven and set your desire upon engaging the Father’s heart. Engage the realm of light to experience the light of love and truth at a deeper level of being.
Live loved, free from guilt, shame and condemnation. Old clothes. Love living and enjoy the joy of life. Live loving and be merciful, choosing to forgive and release all things. Rest in love, joy and peace.
The realm of light in perfection is our resting place, our home, where we can dwell. The light is the light of love and truth. Enter in the light and look into the Father’s face and see His loving smile. Look into His eyes, which are deep pools of unconditional love.