The Power of Acceptance

Welcome to the intense podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday theft number 27.

If you are a believer in Jesus. No stank, no compromise, no past mistake can separate you from be motivated by the power of acceptance by God to live a life of holiness, which in turn blues divisions chapter 1 beginning in verse three and reading through verse six and the title of this message is the power of acceptance and pulses. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed as with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ are according as he has chosen us in him that is in Christ before the foundation of the world in order that we should be holy and without blame before him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he had made us accepted in the beloved. Now rejection is one of the most painful emotional experiences. Anybody can go through the feeling of being unwanted on law of all unworthy. That is the spirit and the feeling of rejection. Nobody wants me.

I'm unworthy. Nobody loves me they keep wondering why there is no real contentment of the Christian life. They wonder why if having been saved by the grace of God reading the Bible, praying, going to church doing all the things in order to do why is that, in spite of everything they do is just something out there that still always missing. They just can't quite get the relationship of the Lord just right. Well, if you are not understood for the impact of rejection. We will understand why some people's behavior is so illogical and so bizarre, why they respond in circumstances and situations the way they do what they are really feeling and what they're expressing is there expressing the sense of rejection. I don't feel wanted.

I don't feel love. I don't feel like I'm worth anything. So as a result of that, their reactions and their responses to each other are oftentimes put them in a position where people do reject them if we traced the difficulties the heartaches the burdens the hardships the broken marriages. The broken homes. The whole picture. The racial disturbances throughout our nation admitted cities.

Is it not because people feel rejected and unwanted.

Nobody wants to feel like nobody can. But the problem is that sometimes that is an inner feeling. When it's not factual, is that one of the world has meant to do with Ephesians chapter 1 verse six. It has everything to do with a gun if you will, in verse six he says to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. Renée says in verse four according as he had chosen was how in Christ Jesus in him.

He says we are accepted, how in Christ Jesus, and him only show you what he saying in the first thing I want you to jot down and the four things I want to say about the power of acceptance and that is our relationship to him. The awareness of acceptance by him first about the reality of that acceptance is out acceptance before God.

Something that we merely feel at times insular comes and goes. According to my performance my obedience and my lack of it, or is my acceptance before God.

A scriptural basic divine fact, given the word of God is and what he says. He says watch this. He says we have been accepted in the development. That means because of our relationship with Jesus Christ, God the father watch this now, God the father has looked upon your life and my life and because at some time in our life.

We said, I do recognize my simplest, I do need the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior. I do accept his death on the cross as atonement for my sin. I do here now accept him and receive him as my Savior, because we have done that.

He says we've been joined to Christ spiritually so that we are now in him in his life and he says he is enough is what he said on the basis of that God the father has looked down upon this life and when you came along, he says accepted accepted the stamp of approval has been placed upon every single one of God's children accepted he accepted a you you in the 11 I watch this. The crucial question is when did he accept you before the foundation world before you and I were ever born ever created. He says that God the father looked down into endless eternity in the segment of time called the space of time and are into the ultimate attorney Dick and he saw and knew because he is omniscient everybody who would ever be born. Now the only thing he required of mankind is that men would accept healing that is accept his gift of redemption and salvation from their sin. On the basis of the work of Jesus Christ. But he says he chose us in him before the foundation of the work.

I guess what that says to God did not accept you and you do not have the stamp of God's eternal acceptance in your life today based on your performance and listen the world today accepts us all rejections in the basis of three things, one of three things are all three, they accept us on the basis of your performance. You do a good job, great. You don't do a good job get up as a form of rejection. Secondly, on the basis of our parents. I like being around you, you good luck.

I don't want to be around you. You not address right. Thirdly, on the basis of our status.

You have a certain position in the society and that you don't so utterly I don't associate with you.

I will associate with you. That's the way the world operates. God chose you and me not of the basis of our performance because no accidents before the world ever began. He saw every active sin, you never commit and God knowing all the evil all the wickedness all the stench. Although file all the garbage of the sin of the disobedience of the rebellion, all that stuff he saw every bit of that. Indeed, he chose you before the foundation of the world and with the stamp of acceptance of you listen before you could ever do anything to improve yourself before God and the only thing he says that you and I must do is to accept his acceptance which comes through Jesus Christ. I watch this because you think this is a basic problem a lot of people's lives that because of our relationship to Jesus Christ. You have been made except Israel feel accepted as nothing to do with is in fact I don't even act except as nothing to do with when you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.

What happens is the reality of the experience of acceptance becomes yours you receive acceptance already chosen before the foundation will notice if you disobey God, you going to be chastisement. I watch this very important that you not remember this for two reasons for ourselves and for our children.

If you are not disobey God, having received him as our Savior, God rejects my disobedient action. God never rejects me evil reject your active disobedience and chastise you for, but he never rejects you as a person, he said. For example, is it he that cometh to me, and I will in no wise cast out. Which is his website. Anyone who comes to me and my son Jesus Christ. He says I will rejected God does not reject because we reject him.

God is never rejected anybody who's come to him through his son. We reject him by rejecting him a son. He said he that is seen mincing the father. Jesus on the father one. He says if you know me you know the father. If you receive may you receive the father reject me, Jesus, that is the reject the file so that God the father has provided acceptance for all of us in his son, and the key to that now.

Is it has nothing to do with performance. It has nothing aluminum to live up to another master?

How many of you have set standards for your life that you try to live up to it sometime and let's be honest you set some kind of standards in your life that you like to live up to you not being grounds, use elements right you set him up there and you not lived up to them on a massive question. How can you believe that God has standards real life. All right you feel like you lived up to your own standards. No takers. Master question if you live up to your own standards. How many of you think you live up to God stamp is what I want you to see that is an absolute impossible task if we can't live up to their own standards and our standards are not perfect. How can we expect to live up to God standards and get his approval. If we can't live after all. We certainly can't live up to his. He knew before the creation of the world you will gonna blow a thousand times. You know what, having foreknown that you, Lord. He chose the love you and save you and accept you, knowing all the junk that was going to be in your likeness and feeling of rejection of not quite feeling that we have God's approval and God's acceptance is one of Satan's choicest tools of cheating out of the liberty of the goddess provided rise in Christ Jesus, he says, before the foundation of what he accepted us so that we are accepted on the basis of our relationship to Jesus Christ and not on the basis of our good have been regarded versus a yard and I was all the that doesn't give me license to sin. God hates sin and hates actions of sin. But listen, he never hates the sin on the watchlist. God rejects acts of disobedience, but he never rejects the person he will not and cannot reject this is a short watchlist. Once a person is able to accept his acceptance in God that God loves me. Hallelujah he will never change his mind about me the same yesterday today and forever will always love me. I'm always accepted by God makes a difference. What I do if I disobey him.

I'm going to be chasing for.

I'm going to pay the penalty of my disobedience, but has nothing to do with God's loving acceptance of listen when you and I are able to just resting and accept the fact I don't have to live up anything. The massive question what standard do you not have to live up to to be made acceptable before God is the 10 Commandments. No, the Bible specifically says the purpose of the 10 Commandments was to make me aware that I was a sinner that I needed God and within myself and totally inadequate. The 10 Commandments is not given me to reach up to that level to be accepted before God. God did not give it community accepted by he gave the 10 Commandments for me to show me and to show you our inability or incapacity to live up to God's standard of the 10 Commandments that thrust us up on him.

Told to trust in him to do in us and through us through Jesus Christ.

We can never Abraham was saved by faith. When the 10 Commandments came along and were still saved by faith, not matching up to the 10 Commandments he says in James every single one of us is guilty of breaking all 10 of them guilty of one you broken the whole law because it is intent it's one law with hidden compartments. The birds one law on this what he saying here is this.

We have been accepted and once unable to accept my acceptance. The thing that does for me and for you is deliverance just what happened and motive changes. We don't keep the 10 Commandments, because if we don't, God, your wife is up. We want to obey the law of God to be obedient to what because we loving this.

There is rest, there is liberty as a whole new sense of motivation is nonsense about who you know what else happens.

Listen once we are able to accept the acceptance of God know what happens to we began to be able to accept other people regardless of their status. Regardless of their appearance, and regardless of their performance. You just accept people for being somebody and another thing that happens is this when you not realize that acceptance what we think we are realizing how much God loves us. Listen once you are able to accept, listen, accept the unconditional love of God for ourselves, then we are able to do what all that unconditional love that on somebody else and they don't have to do anything to deserve the last thing I want to share video that's this and that is the readjustments that you and I may have to make once we began to be able to accept God's acceptance in his love in our heart we don't have to make an adjustment. Here's what the adjustments going to be a watchlist feelings and facts not always the same. What is the fact what is the feeling about your relationship because you may feel that God hasn't accepted you fully and totally you Mesa feel like that you don't really quite have God's acceptance of you don't feel like that you really worth very much in his eyes should not work nearly as much as most people that's what you feel. But what's the fact.

The fact is, God has fully accepted you. The fact is that God fully loves you. The fact is that you just his work as much is anybody else in the face of Europe. The eyes of God. You see our feelings drag us down, and the fact standards are God does not want us living by feelings. He wants us to be about that now you are saying the feeling right now.

The one you are saved by accept being what the fact the truth of the word of God says the moment you will and by faith receive Jesus Christ as your Savior and his death as payment for your sin, you are saving that moment you given some of you didn't feel anything. Somebody said this is the way, did you accepted that is a fact and use them on the base what you said.

I did receive his Muslim element later on. You really felt something and we been feeling something. Ever since, but you aren't saved by giving the listen when you are able to accept your acceptance in the eyes of God because your personal because of how you perform who you are and what you given what you haven't done when you are able to accept his love and his acceptance. It was what happened at first, you only have a bit uncomfortable.

You ignore them in a manner I'm not trying as hard as I use the trial hold all here, I was beginning to backslide right in front of us because we have been added for so long trying to live up to the law trying to be accepted. Check enough to have my private devotions this morning with attendance environment.

All my goodness up against bigger testing before I get to work this one because I didn't spend 31 minutes before God in prayer. It's funny to us, but I will tell you something.

You'd be surprised how many very very committed godly people who live on the everyday you know will happen you have to readjust yourself to get to begin to get comfortable using what you mean to get comfortable sinning against God. You know I'll guess what I mean and mean getting comfortable living and resting and walking free of this.

Also below that you carry all of your life of feeling rejected because you see, once you feel accepted, you know what happens is all the you stop having to force yourself to live up to expectations. You cannot make music. If you been trying to live up to God's standard and get his approval by keeping the 10 Commandments and and looking this way in thinking that way and saying this is not saying that you already know you can do but still have water choices there. The rest of your life knowing that you will be living in total disobedience to God on the great load of guilt of claiming what he's all and accepting it by faith. You are accepted in the home in the beloved. And the guilt rose all and the burden rose away and you get freed and liberated to do what the accept of the people you've never been able to accept and a lot of folks that you never were able to love and to receive love and to receive acceptance of the total of all that says when you get liberated and live your life the way Almighty God intended that you never received Jesus Christ as your Savior what you've done as you have rejected his acceptance and the only way for you to receive his acceptance is to receive Christ as your Savior and the moment you are able to receive him and willing to receive him all the acceptance of God becomes a living part of your life and experience in your life.

I want to invite somebody here. If you've never received Jesus Christ or just taken as your Savior today and if you have identified with any one part of a great part of what I've said you need to go home the day all right where you are. You need to tell the Lord, Lord, I want you let that soak in my mind and heart because I need acceptance and I want acceptance and use that I have acceptance but I want you to make your acceptance of me a reality in my life because I want this burden on I want to be free. I want to be literate. I want to rest and what you have provided for me in Christ Jesus, and my friend, if you will allow him he will liberate you to become the person he intended you to be all the days of your life not somebody that you make yourself but somebody he will become in your thank you for listening to the power of acceptance. If you'd like to know more about Charles Stanley for intense ministries that my hands had started writing this podcast is a presentation of intense ministries Atlanta, Georgia