You are a sinner. You cannot love God. You deserve the wrath of God. "For the wages of sin is death" Romans 6:23.
Ever wonder about the greatest commandment and how impossible it is to follow it? Love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your heart and all your mind. The superlative "all" is really an impossibility. How can we do this all the time with every faculty we have? The answer is: we can't.
That is why Jesus died. Because we can't even do a fraction of what God demands from us. Jesus absorbed the wrath of the Father: "In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation (an atoning sacrifice) for our sins" 1 John 4:10. Then He did for us what was impossible for us (Luke 18:27), he became that love necessary for us to have a passion for God, and joy in God.
Why am I writing this to you... because this is the gospel. Because I believe you need to hear that, though you deserve death, you have been given life. Who are you... you are a crowned in glory creation of God. Preach this, because if you don`t share the gospel BOLDLY and UNEQUIVOCALLY then you distort the Good News. Don`t let the gospel be a sidebar. Glorify God by making Jesus the center stage.
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Really, what makes what feminine? Pink? Colour?
If colour justifies my manliness more than the fact that I AM A MAN, then you might as well call me a femin-mascul-ine person because I like both pink and blue.
Don't make me climb on your head, put my foot down, and say "DIE!"
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