If people continue to walk in disobedience to God’s Word and God’s will, and we tell them, “You can keep doing what you’re doing because Jesus loves you, and we love you,” we are not helping them. We are hurting them by affirming them in their sins rather than challenging them to change. Jesus loves us as we are, but He loves us too much to leave us like we are. He will always offer us a way to rise up, to press on, to be more in Him than we could be without Him. But if we dig in our heels and refuse to grow, we are living in rebellion, and God never blesses a rebellious spirit.
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