Do You Know Why God Loves You?

1) God created man and woman in his image, with a pure heart, clear conscience and free will, to live in harmony and enjoy sonship and fellowship with Him eternally.

But because they once disobeyed God, sin entered their hearts, and they lost the privilege of being immortal and of having sonship and communion with God.

2) As a result of the transgression of the first man and woman, we have all inherited their sinful nature of thinking negative thoughts, speaking negative words, and doing negative actions. 

The power of sin is ruling our minds and hearts to the point that we do things we don't want to do, and we don't do things we want to do.

However, God didn't completely abandon us, as He sent prophets and gave us his commandments, the moral code to show us what sin is. But man could not follow the commandments by his own strength to have a pure heart and a clear conscience. 

3) Sin separates us from God's glory and brings us to eternal perdition.

However, according to the law God gave to Moses, forgiveness of sins is only achieved through the shedding of blood. To achieve this, animals had to be sacrificed every year. But these animal sacrifices could not purify men's consciences.

That’s why God sent Jesus—his divine and only Son, Messiah and Co-creator—about 2,000 years ago on a special mission.

Jesus came from Heaven and became human like the first man before he sinned. In fact, he was the only man who was born of a woman and of God's Spirit. That’s why he was sinless and could redeem us from our sinful nature and eternal perdition.

At the age of thirty, Jesus was baptized in water as a sign of his commitment to reveal his divine glory and to be persecuted and killed for openly confessing who he was. And right after, he received the fullness of God's own Holy Spirit, which descended from Heaven to anoint him and empower him to fulfill his mission on earth. 

Jesus proclaimed God's truth, healed the sick, and freed those oppressed by the devil. He continually showed his love and grace to all, until out of envy one day he was arrested, falsely accused and mistreated by the Jewish religious leaders. They then handed him over to be executed by the Romans, at the end of his ministry three and a half years later.

Jesus was cruelly beaten and whipped, then crucified, mocked, and cursed on a cross. And after some long hours of pain and agony, he died without mercy, rejected by all and even without the Spirit of his Father. 

Jesus shed his blood as a sin offering for our sins, as the perfect Lamb of God. His sacrifice was able to pay the debt we owed to God. Through his bloodshed and death, he was able to remove the curse of sin's power over us and forgive all our sins, so that we could be made righteous before God, his Father.

But because Jesus was sinless, God raised him from the dead on the third day. He ascended into heaven at the right hand of God and sent us his Holy Spirit so that Jesus can live in our hearts and work through us.

4) How can we be saved from the power of sin and be reconciled to God?

• We must believe that God sent Jesus to save us from the power of sin through his death and resurrection. 

• We must repent wholeheartedly of our sins and turn to God so that He may remove our hardened hearts and give us a tender one.

• We must be baptized in water in the name of Jesus to bury our old sinful nature and rise with him, so that our sins may be washed away and we may have a new life, and so that Jesus, who gave his life for us, may become our personal Lord and Savior.

• We must receive the gift of God's Holy Spirit (God's spiritual presence) within us. By receiving this gift, we become a new creation—adopted children of God with a divine nature.

At that moment, God will help us do good because sin no longer has dominion over us. We have a new nature, the glorious nature of God, and we want to do what pleases Him. 

5) What is God's will for us, his adopted and born again children? 

• God wants us to have a daily personal communion with Him and with Jesus, by praying in their Holy Spirit and meditating on their Holy Word, in order to receive more of their selfless love and to become one in mind and spirit with them. 

▪︎ God wants us to love all humanity with his selfless love, and especially those of the family of faith in Jesus.

• God wants us to proclaim boldly and faithfully the Good News of God's salvation (from the power of sin and eternal perdition) and reconciliation to Him, by his marvellous grace and through faith in Jesus' sacrifice and resurrection.

• God wants us to bless and heal those who need physical and/or spiritual healing, laying on hands and commanding healing to come in the name of Jesus and the power of God.

▪︎ God wants us to build one another up, equip new believers in the faith, and work together to advance God's Kingdom by bringing Jesus to many.

6) Jesus lived a holy life on Earth, constantly thanking and praying to God in the Spirit, and loving everyone. And also he lived in obedience to God, speaking his words of truth and showing his miraculous healing power, and dying for all humanity. 

If we follow Jesus' teachings, we will also live holy and obedient lives. And consequently, we will love God and anyone around, and fulfill Jesus' command to spread God's Good News everywhere and at every opportunity, so that many may enter his marvellous heavenly Kingdom.

God loved us so much that He sent his only Son Jesus to give his whole life for our sake, so that we might live eternally. Are you willing to give Jesus your whole life, to follow him and obey his commandments to love God intimately and those around you as you love yourself?

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The Good News of Redemption and Reconciliation

God created man to live eternally and have fellowship with Him. But man was deceived by Satan, disobeyed God, and fell short of His Glory. That is why sin entered the heart of man and this was a great PROBLEM for all of us. 

But by his grace and mercy, God sent his Son Jesus the Messiah into the world, to be the perfect atoning Lamb who must suffer and die on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins, and free us from the power of sin and our sinful nature. 

Because of Jesus' love and obedience to God his Father, He became the ANSWER to man's problem and, in fact, is the Good News of freedom and redemption from sin and condemnation for humanity.  So, whoever fully believes and repents and turns to God the Father, and buries his old self and resurrects in newness of life with Jesus through water baptism for the washing of sins, and receives the gift of the Holy Spirit through prayer, then he is made holy and becomes a completely new creation. 

Jesus reconciled us to God through his death and resurrection.  And when we believe the Good News and are baptized, then the Spiritual Presence of God comes to live in us and work through us. 

Jesus poured out his Holy Spirit upon us so that we could have constant communion with Him and with God the Father, praying in the Spirit and meditating on the Holy Word.  The Holy Spirit and the Holy Word in us will help us to faithfully love God in prayer and serve Him, by spreading the Gospel and making followers of Jesus wherever we are and at every opportunity. 

After the day of judgment of all humanity, God will receive and reward only those who believed and obeyed Him to the end, placing them in a new Heaven and a new Earth to be in communion with Him, the Lord God Almighty, and with His Son Jesus, the Lamb, forever and ever!  Amen.

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Jesus Reconciled Us to God

The main reason God sent Jesus was so that through his sacrifice we could be reconciled to God his Father.  Jesus in the beginning was a Spirit like his Father (John 4:24), but He became human to be able to pay the price of dying for us, so that we would be freed from the power of sin and the fear of death (John 1:14; Hebrews 2:14-15).

Once we turn to God, and are baptized in water into Christ Jesus, and receive the Holy Spirit, we are then set free from sin (John 3:1-8; Acts 2:37-39).  And therefore our friendship with God the Father is restored, and we have fellowship with Him and with his Son, through the Spirit and Word of God (John 4:23 -24; Luke 10:38-42; 1 John 1:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14; Jude 1:20-21).

And the ultimate goal of receiving the Holy Spirit is so that we can obey the GREAT TASK of reconciling others to God the Father through the Spirit of Christ in us (Galatians 2:20; 4:6; 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 ).

Some Scriptures on Reconciliation

   "God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God."

Romans 5:8 - 11

   "Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. 

   "This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 

   "And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this Task of reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful Message of Reconciliation. 

   "So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin by making him sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ."

2 Corinthians 5:14 - 15 ,17 - 21

   "All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. 

   "Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. 

   "So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son. He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding."

Ephesians 1:3‭-‬8

   "For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross."

Colossians 1:19‭-‬20

   "Don’t forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders. You were called “uncircumcised heathens” by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts. In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope. But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ. 

   "For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups.   

   "Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death. 

   "He brought this Good News of peace to you Gentiles who were far away from him, and peace to the Jews who were near. Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us."

Ephesians 2:11‭-‬18 

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