1 John 3 1-3
1How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears,[a]we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.
Last week we learned how much God loved us by the cross. This week, still in 1 John, we learned how much God loves us because we have been made His children. It's a wonderful privalige to be a child of God.
We were once rebellious and not wanting to know Him at all, but He has come to us and set us free, and by His grace made us His children. The gospel of John says in John 1v12 "Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—" We have been adopted into His family.
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