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Child of the Covenant of Grace,

I am the LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. Exodus 34.6, 7

I reveal Myself and My love for you in Jesus, My Son. John 17.26
He is the express image of My being. Hebrews 1.3
He came not to condemn you, but to save you. John 3.16ff
I reconciled you to Myself by Jesus Christ. I was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Myself, not imputing your trespasses unto you. I have made you an ambassador for Christ that you might let others know to be reconciled to Me. 2 Corinthians 5.18-20

I made Jesus to be sin for you, this Jesus who knew no sin, that you might be made the righteousness of God in Christ. This is why you are urged not to receive My grace in vain. 2 Corinthians 5.21

Jesus' death is the ultimate expression of My love for you. Romans 8.31, 32 You need to know that if I am for you, who can be against you? Indeed, since I did not spare My own Son, but delivered Him up for all My children, how shall I not with Him also freely give you all things? Who shall lay anything to the charge of My elect ones? I am the One who justifies you, so who is it that condemns you? Romans 8.31-34

I am your Father, and I love you even as I love My Son, Jesus -- love [of] the same quantity and quality. John 17.23 In fact, Jesus is risen from the dead and sits at My right hand. He makes intercession for you as a faithful High Priest. Romans 8.34, Hebrews 4.14

You are a born-out-of-God one, and when you were born again, you received Christ and the power to become My child. 1 John 3.9; John 1.12 In acknowledging My Son, you have Me also. Abide. 1 John 2.23 Look at what manner of love I have bestowed upon you that you should be called My child. 1 John 3.1

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