See the Father's love for you!

"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation [that is, the atoning sacrifice, and the satisfying offering] for our sins [fulfilling God’s requirement for justice against sin and placating His wrath]." 1 John 4:10.

God Himself is Love. He gave up His own Son up to die for us. One death for our entire lifetime of sins. God so loved the world that He provided the Way for our entire lifetime of sins and their penalty to disappear. How?  Christ crucified and Christ raised from the dead is the LEGAL and RIGHTEOUS foundation on which every insult and every sin that we ever committed against our Maker have been made to disappear. This according to Romans 4:25-

“Who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous."

See the TPT: “Jesus was handed over to be crucified for the forgiveness of our sins and was raised back to life to prove that He had made us right with God!”

Christ would not have risen from the dead if our lifetime of sins had not been forgiven and we had not been declared righteous by God. His resurrection is akin to seeing someone who went to serve a death sentence in an impregnable prison for the crimes of another walking free.

The wages of sin is death. One death. Christ died that death ONCE for ALL. He died the death that the Law demanded of us, fulfilling every single demand that the Law made of us. Hebrews 9 tells us:

"27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. ..."

Believer, Jesus is not going to come and die again or demand payment for sins that you might commit in the future. All of our lifetime of sins have been fully paid by Him, ONCE. Believer, see how our Abba Father sees you and I who believe Christ and His finished work in Romans 5:9-

"And there is still much more to say of His unfailing love for us! For through the blood of Jesus we have heard the powerful declaration, “You are now righteous in My sight.” And because of the sacrifice of Jesus, you will never experience the wrath of God."

Believer - you who have Christ as your righteousness - by God's grace, always see yourself as our heavenly Father in Christ sees us: "Righteous through the blood of Jesus and forever free from His wrath because of Christ's sacrifice."

This has nothing to do with human effort/striving at keeping the Law. This is Grace - undeserved, unearned, unmerited favour.

Believing and confessing with our mouth the truth that we are righteous in God's sight through the blood of Jesus isn't something that we do just for the sake of it. By seeing ourselves as God sees us in Christ, we are being transformed. 

As we continue to see ourselves through the mirror of the word of God's Grace (righteous by Christ's blood) and not through the Law (which condemns the best of those who try to keep it and which Romans 5:20 says was given to increase sin,) we are being transformed by His Spirit: 2 Corinthians 3:18-

"But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."

Only imperfect people need transformation. The one who can transform himself to "be like God" by will-power and human striving (arm of flesh) at keeping the Law does not need the Spirit of the Lord to transform him. Such who think they can keep the Law are deceiving themselves and are not "doers of the word." The "word" is the word of God's Grace, not the Law as is being preached by those who twist and misinterpret James 1-

22 "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was."

The ones who are not "doers of the word" are churchgoers who hear about how God sees all believers through the blood of Jesus (100% righteous) but immediately forget who they are in Christ and start striving to keep the law in order to be righteous in His sight. This is an effort in futility: 

"For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the Law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are." Romans 3:20.

Believing this antichrist doctrine that twists the verse "..be doers of the word.. " to mean human striving at keeping the Law in order to get into God's good books is also the way to get cut off from Christ and fall from Grace:

"For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace." Galatians 5:4.

The Law is apart from Grace. Many churchgoers are depending on Christ (who is GRACE-personified) for salvation while trying to keep the LAW in order to remain in God's good books. This horrid mixture that is neither Law nor Grace is the "neither cold nor hot" that Christ speaks of in Revelation 3. One is either saved by Grace or not saved at all.

With Christ as our righteousness, we are 100% righteous in God's sight and "so lovely" to Jesus Christ our Shepherd-King, even though we don't have our "sin act" together. In Him, we have God's super-abounding Grace and His gift of righteousness that causes us to live in triumph over sin and death: Romans 5:16-17:

16 “And the result of God’s gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. For Adam’s sin led to condemnation, but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins. 17 For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one Man, Jesus Christ.”

Believer, this is Love. This is what God who so loved us sent our Saviour and Bridegroom Jesus Christ to do: Titus 2:14-

"He gave His life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us His very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds."

When your believing is right, right living will follow.