Pastor John,
I was reading this morning and this really struck me. I never really considered being an enemy of God because of sin.
Romans 5:
10. For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
Verses 7 and 8 really touched me.
Romans 5:
7. Rarely will someone die for a righteous man, though for a good man, one might possibly bring himself to die,
8.but God commends to us His kind of love, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Matthew 5:
44. But I say to you, love your enemies; bless those who curse you; do good to those who hate you; and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
45. so that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For He makes His sun to rise upon the evil and the good, and sends rain upon the just and the unjust.
Beth D.