If someone played Beethoven poorly, would you play blame Beethoven?
As Frank Turek suggests, “Of course not!”
The fact that Christians are unable to live-up to Jesus’s standards, only affirms our desperate NEED for Jesus and what He did on our behalf (Isaiah 53; 1 Co 15; 1 John 4).
If we are completely transparent, friends, we should all admit that we can’t even live up to our own standards, consistently…let alone, God’s.
Let this sink in:
God lovingly came down because WE need Him. We need freed from the sin which enslaves us (Eph 2; Rom 5; 1 Cor 15). It’s a work only God can do. And it’s a gift given to humanity!
“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” (1 Jn 4:9-10).
📕1 Corinthians 15: https://lnkd.in/g43SZ6Ji
📕1 John 4: https://biblehub.com/esv/1_john/4.htm
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