Love God
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His atoning death means he is free not to scrutinize. He needs not. All has been wiped clean. Faults remain, not just in our past but in our present. But the whole atmosphere in which we live has been transformed from one of scrutiny into one of welcome. “Welcome one another as X has welcomed you." Dane Ortlund 7 Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. (Rom 15:7)

His mercy to sinners is not calculating, scale-weighing, It is lavish, outrageous, unfettered. Dane Ortlund 11 On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. 12 And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance 13 and lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” 14 When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed. 15 Then one of

Unlike the laws of ritual cleanliness in Leviticus, Jesus Christ’s touch of messy humans like me does not contaminate It cleanses me. In the OT, clean + unclean = unclean. With Jesus, clean + unclean = clean. Dane Ortlund 41 Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” (Mark 1:41)