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How can God STILL love me
when I continue to sin?


How can God STILL love me
when I continue to sin?

 

Q. How can God STILL love me when I continue in the same sin even though I don't want to? How can I get my life back from the devil?

A. We have all lost our lives to Satan, which is why Jesus had to come and literally buy us back or redeem us (Galatians 3:13). Jesus specifically bought us back from the devil. Christ owns us now, not the devil.

In Matthew 12 Jesus taught what sins will be forgiven:

'Therefore I say to you, EVERY SIN AND BLASPHEMY will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.  Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him;  but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.'" (Matthew 12:31-32, NKJV throughout)

The sin that is not forgiven is commonly referred to as the unpardonable sin. Basically, the unpardonable sin is the sin a person WILLFULLY (and not out of weakness or deception which we can all fall prey to) REFUSES to ask God to pardon (forgive).

God wants to save everyone (1Timothy 2:4). The only question is how much pain do we want to go through before we decide to believe God and not the devil. In Hebrews 12 Paul says God, as a loving Father, corrects every child He works with:

"And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:  'My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;  For whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives.'

"If you endure chastening (correction), God deals with you as with sons;  for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?  But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
"Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect.  Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?  For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness." (Hebrews 12:5-10)

Satan's will is to have you think how bad you are and to believe God doesn't love you. No matter how sinful you are God ALWAYS loves you and will allow you to go through as much suffering as is necessary to finally believe Him and not His adversary. God wants us to repent (Acts 2:38), which means to change our mind from seeking the will of the devil (e.g. to not forgive yourself after God has already done so) to His will.

In his Sermon on the Mount Jesus said that if we ask God for something (according to His perfect love and will) He will give it to us:

"'Ask, and it will be given to you;  seek, and you will find;  knock, and it will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.'" (Matthew 7:7-8)

It is God's will that we ask for forgiveness. Although He knows we are weak and sometimes give in to the temptations and deceptions of sin, He promises to forgive:

"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  If we CONFESS OUR SINS, He is faithful and just to FORGIVE US our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1John 1:8-9)

When you pray to God, ask Him to help you believe Him and accept His forgiveness no matter how bad you think your sins are. Belief (faith) in God can lead you to repentance.

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