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How to Know God’s Love
The heart of the human being longs for God, and logic demands divine existence. We know God must be holy and good. We see ourselves as unholy and not good. We mistakenly conclude that God is angry with us and we cannot know Him.
Good news! God’s Word tells us that He loves us as we are. That love will save us from our sin and make us what we should be as God’s children.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
– John 3:16
We hear Jesus say, “God so loved the world.” God’s love has no limitations. He loves “so.” More than we can imagine. He loves everyone — not just some.
Romans 5:8 tells us that God loved us so that “when we were in our sin Christ Jesus came to die for us.”
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
-Romans 3:23
This verse tells us that all people have sinned. We have fallen short of God’s intended purpose for us. God made us to know him… to receive His love and to love Him in return.
For love to be love… for God to be God… and for humans to be human… God gave us a choice. We can choose to love ourselves and turn to our selfish pursuits. That is sin, in our sin we cannot know God and his love.
The result of this sin is that we are lost… separated from God.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
– Romans 6:23
Wages are just payment… due reward… what one has coming because of labor. The just payment for our sin is death.
Death here means spiritual insensitivity. When we are still in our sin, we have no life with God. We are alive physically but dead spiritually. If we continue in that condition, we will be separated from God for all eternity.
The wages of sin is death, but God’s free gift is eternal life.
How can God remain true to His holiness and forgive unholy sinners? Jesus, His Son, has paid the price for sin by His death on the cross.
2 Corinthians 5.21 says, “He who knew no sin became sin for us, that we may be made the righteousness of God through Him.”
Jesus arose from the grave to conquer sin and death for all who receive Him as God’s free gift.
That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved: for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
– Romans 10:9-10
A person receives God’s free gift of love and life by placing faith in Jesus Christ. To believe is simply to take God at His word. With our heart (whole being) we believe that Jesus is God’s Son who died for our sin on the cross and arose from the grave to live in us as Savior and Lord.
To believe in Jesus will result in confessing that faith with one’s mouth.
whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved
– Romans 10:13
This verse says that any person who will call upon the name of Jesus the Lord, shall be saved.
To call means simply to ask in prayer. The verse does not require one to know more… do better… clean up one’s life… or in any way try to add to what Jesus has done for us.
Use whatever words are in your heart to call upon Jesus to save you from your sin so that you can know God’s love and forgiveness.
When anyone calls on the Lord in this manner that one is saved according to God’s Word. If you pray a prayer of repentance and faith, you are saved. You have God’s word on it.
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