Pure hearts clean hands4/23/2024 ![]() But God’s grace trains us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s return. There is not anything we can do in ourselves to earn or to deserve our own salvation. Now, it is by God’s grace through faith, both of which are gifted to us by God, that any of us are saved from our sins and have the hope of eternal life with God. unless God persuades him as to his sin nature and of his need to be delivered out of his life of slavery to sin to now serve the Lord in a walk of obedience to the Lord in purity of devotion to the Lord and to his will for our lives (John 14:6 John 6:44 Romans 1:18-32 Acts 26:18). And no one comes to Christ unless God the Father first draws him to Christ, i.e. Now if we want to be in a faith relationship with God, it has to be through faith in Jesus Christ, for no one comes to the Father but through faith in Jesus Christ. And in that way he was able to be our pure sacrifice for our sins. While he lived on this earth he was fully God and fully man, and he was capable of sin because he lived in a flesh body, and he was tempted to sin like we are, but he did not sin. So God the Father was his birth Father, and so he was not born in the image of Adam with a sin nature like we are. Now Jesus Christ left his throne in heaven, and he came to earth, and he was born as a baby to a human mother but conceived of the Holy Spirit and not of man. ![]() And he always existed with God, and he is God, our creator God. For Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah promised to the Jews of old, who was to come and who did come to save his people from their sins. ![]() He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of the Israelites of old and of all who believe in Jesus Christ today, whether Jew or Gentile by physical birth. ![]() God – Father, Son (Jesus Christ), and Holy Spirit – is our God, our creator God who formed the earth and all living creatures who live upon the earth. He is the King of glory! Selah” (Psalms 24:1-10 ESV) ![]()
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