Sin is serious like terminal cancer. It eats away at you stealing your life. However, God's love is more powerful than sin. He loved you first. He pursued you in your sin. When you accept His love He ask you to sin no more. That starts a spiritual battle in your heart from your human nature and your Christlike nature. God's love shows you the way. He always gives you are out from sinning. The question is will you follow our chose to stay in sin?
You can read God's Word. You can conceptionally understand it. However, until you allow it into your heart it does not how power in you. You have to accept God's love and follow Jesus for knowledge to become wisdom. Following Jesus is the ultimate act of love because Jesus came to this world out of love for you.
God's character is love, but His love is not giving you everything you want. It is giving you free will to do what is good and right. You have the choice to follow Jesus or your own path. If you are His adopted child and you stray, then He will discipline you to show you the right way. That is love. Love does not allow you to destroy yourself. It show you how to be safe, productive, and good.
Salvation through Jesus is the only way to be rescued from your sins. It is the only way to become an adopted child of God. When you have salvation you have the freedom to live righteously. It is the beginning of your faith journey that will take you places you could never have gone without Jesus. You learn how to love purely, sacrificially, and without expecting anything in return.
God's love hold the deepest depth. You are a slave to death doomed to die eternally if you don't accept that love. Salvation is beginning of understanding the depth of God's love. It starts healing you, enables you to forgive, and enhances your ability to love. You start loving people where they are in life, but want more for them like Jesus did for you.
Sin deserves to die. The fact that Jesus took all his power and put it into a human body to give people a way out is unbelievable, but true. His power is more powerful than sin and everything that comes with it. He took what you deserved, so you could have freedom from the eternal consequences. He loves you enough to wait patiently for you without forcing or intimidating you into a decision. He loves you enough to never take your free will away from you. His powerful love is compassionate, kind, holds grace, merciful, slow to anger, faithful, strong, glorious, and true.
Numbers 21:4-9, Psalm 86:14-17, Isaiah 62:1-5, John 3:1-21, 7:50-53, 15:9-17, Romans 5:6-11, 2 Peter 3:8-10, & 1 John 4:7-8
The belief in all of the power that God has and that Jesus is real seems to be the hardest part for believers. Keep teaching and sharing!
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