As we explore the simplicity of love this week, today we'll look at how God's love has redeemed us.

There is an amazing Brennan Manning quote that says,

In loving me, you made me lovable.

And that is basically the concept we'll be unpacking today. God's love

has come in and given us meaning, beauty, redemption, and purpose. It's through God loving us that we

become sons and daughters. We become saints. I hope today you'll open your heart up to this life-changing love and never be the same again.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast.

The eternal redemption afforded to us by the powerful sacrifice of Jesus is a wonderful,

life-giving demonstration of God's unconditional, unchanging love.

I've gone through much of my life feeling condemned.

I look at my thoughts, actions, reactions, and failures, and apply my condemning perspective

to my perception of my Heavenly Father.

But in reality, he has so faithfully demonstrated his overwhelming love to me through the securing

of my redemption.

In reality, he loves me just as I am, even with all my failures and faults.

Colossians 1, 19 through 22 says,

For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,

and through him to reconcile to himself all things,

whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled

in his body of flesh by his death in order to present you holy and blameless and above

reproach before him. God sees you and me as holy and blameless and above reproach before him. God sees you and me as

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