Doesn't God Love us "just as we are"?
Doesn't God Love us How we are?
No.
1. He loved us in this way. While we were His enemies, and He made a way to reconcile us to God. In order to bring us to God. With reconciliation ....comes change.
2. Nothing sinful can be in God's presence and live. It will be judged and His wrath abides on the sinner. God is perfect and Holy and nothing sinful/ stained with sin can be in His presence. Nothing sinful will have a relationship with God, nor enter Heaven. It's impossible. It's why the plan to redeem mankind was created, promised, and carried out & completed by God (in Jesus). And the offer of redemption is via obeying the Gospel.
When we come to God, He changes us. Instantly into a completely new person. We are no longer who we used to be.
It is by His power & Love that its possible. His love proven on the Cross. What had to be done in order to save/redeem us from sin. He saved us to change us and made us His at conversion (thru the gospel on moment you turned to Jesus).
The whole point is to restore what was lost in Eden when Adam sinned. To give spiritual life back to the humans who spiritually died in Adam when he sinned. By the gospel, God will fix broken humans (resurrect from the spiritually dead - to reconnect giving the humans Spirit life, connecting us to God, and giving us a new nature that loves righteousness & God; no longer loves sin nor lives in it). It's like a reinstall to the original design. And when He saves us, God sets us aside for Jesus to be his people forever.
By His power He enables us to follow Him, submit to Him. Our ways and worldview changes, and we align with what Scripture teaches.
Justification
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4KSxA7K3ppTgoceb9HTCv5?si=iGTLigJoTdahRehErkFQMw&utm_source=copy-link
Sanctification
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5gIP9awlwV3cQnNAe9jqZr?si=fjN8Za51R6e3kpHvCa9W6A&utm_source=copy-link
Not sinless perfection
Until we get to Heaven we still have ability to sin, but once we get there, recieve our eternal body, it will be a sinless nature for eternity, so we will never sin nor have sinful thoughts again. In the current body we will struggle with & wage war with sin, conquering and having victory over sins as we go through the sanctification process. Hating sin and getting rid of it. The focus is to become more like Christ, more holy and righteous daily, NOT to continue in sins like before we came to Jesus.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/066wecVMDzRKbDGRtx8ff2?si=D4D-6VN5Rs6swf-1BBqHfQ&utm_source=copy-link
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