Every single person on earth has done something that is wrong.
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No one is perfect.
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The only One who is perfect is God.
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God loves us and wants all people to be a part of His family.
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The wrong things we do keep us from being a part of God’s perfect family.
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God sent His Son Jesus to earth to be born a human.
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Jesus lived on earth for 33 years and was perfect.
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Because He loves us, Jesus allowed Himself to be killed on a cross.
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Even though we did the wrong things, Jesus took our punishment for us.
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Because Jesus is the Son of God, He rose from the dead.
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By rising from the dead, He won a victory over death.
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That victory means that Jesus can forgive us for the wrong things we have done.
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If we believe Jesus is the Son of God, and we ask Him to forgive us, He will forgive us.
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When He forgives us, God says we are now allowed to be in His family.
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Jesus erases the wrong things we have done.
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He adopts us and calls us a child of God.
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That is how we can live with Him forever in eternity when we die.
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If a person is not a child of God, that person cannot live with God.
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As a child of God, all God asks of us is that we obey Him.
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When we obey Him, we prove we are His child and that we love Him.
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God promises to help us obey Him.
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When we believe in Him, He places His Holy Spirit inside of us.
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The Holy Spirit talks to our heart and helps us act more like Jesus.
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If we disobey Him and do wrong things again, He promises to forgive us.
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If we keep disobeying Him and keep doing wrong things, we hurt ourselves and other people.
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The devil is real and wants us to hurt ourselves and others by doing wrong things.
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If we keep doing wrong things, those things will hurt us, and might cause us to hate God.
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If that happens, then God can’t forgive us.
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Then we won’t be able to live with Him forever in eternity.
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That is why it is important that we obey God.
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The way we know what God wants us to do is by reading God’s Word, the Holy Bible.
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The Bible is God’s instruction book on how He wants us to live.
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The Bible is true, and we can trust it to tell us what God thinks.
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If we do what the Bible tells us to do, then we will obey God.
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Then we can be sure that we will live with God forever for all eternity.