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O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: An Advent Study Paperback

https://www.amazon.com/Come-Emmanuel-Advent-Study/dp/1087715717

Scripture:

Genesis 3:1-7

The Fall

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%203:1-7&version=NIV

In this Emanuel Bible Study, we are asked this Question:

“Have you ever paused to consider what a mercy it is that God still invites us into his presence, even though we are sinners?”

God loves us unconditionally.

We do not have to clean ourselves up to follow Jesus, he will get into our messy lives and work with us on his timing. He will help us clean up our mess. He is really the only one who can do it the right way imo. A change of the heart definitely outlasts a changing of the mind from my personal experience.

The fact that God loves us so much that he maintains an invitation to us to be with him for eternity shows us that even in our broken state he loves us. That his love for us is forever. He wants to have a relationship with us just as he did with Adam and Eve in the Garden. He didnt have to spend time with them in the Garden, but he made time for them. Even after they went against his orders, and ate from the tree of good and evil, he could have killed them ont he spot, but he didn't. He loved them enough to show them mercy. If you every catch yourself not feeling close to God , just remember that he has an open door policy. You don't have to be dressed fancy, talk fancy, or attend a bible college to be close to God. God created humans before an of that existed. His intent is to have a genuine relationship with us. If he meant to abandon us, he would never have sent Jesus to be born and later die for all of our sins. The death of Jesus on the cross , paying our sin debt, was a huge invitation.

John 3:16

New International Version

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%203%3A16&version=NIV

5 Things I am doing to fight the gloomy cold weather approaching while living in the shut down life.

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