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  ON BECOMING MORE LOVABLE
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: A.W. Tozer emphasizes the importance of becoming Christlike to
fully receive and enjoy God's boundless love.

Topics: "Christlikeness", "God's Love"
Scripture References: Psalm 136:1, Isaiah 54:10, John 3:16, Romans 5:8, Romans 8:38-39, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 2:4-5, 1 John 3:1, 1 John 4:9-10

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DESCRIPTION
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A.W. Tozer emphasizes that God desires all individuals to become
Christlike, as this transformation allows them to receive His boundless
love more fully. He explains that conformity to Christ's nature restores
God's image within us, enabling a deeper experience of divine love.
Despite the struggle of sinful individuals to accept God's love due to
their conscience and moral failings, the Bible consistently affirms
God's love for humanity. Tozer encourages believers to trust in God's
declaration of love and to embrace the sanctifying grace of Christ to
fully enjoy this love.

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CONTENT
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God desires that all men should become Christlike, for in so doing they
present larger and more perfect objects for the reception of His
outpoured love. Conformity to the nature of Christ on the part of a
redeemed man restores the image of God in the soul and thus makes it
possible for God to lavish on the soul without restraint all the
boundless love of which He is the original fountain. It is hard for a
sinful man to believe that God loves Him. His own accusing conscience
tells him it could not be so. He knows that he is an enemy of God and
alienated in his mind through wicked works, and he sees in himself a
thousand moral discrepancies that unfit him for the just enjoyment of so
pure a love.

Yet the whole Bible proclaims the love of God for sinful men.

We must believe in His love because He declares it and avail ourselves
of the sanctifying grace of Christ in order to receive and enjoy that
love to the full.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/aw-tozer/on-becoming-more-lovable/
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