1 John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Now we can be clean, we can be whiter than snow, just like the white bead. And, through confession, we can be clean - without a doubt of ALL our sin! Praise God! This is why we say God's love is complete: he doesn't leave any loopholes or exceptions. First, he makes us all in His image, then all of us sin. God makes a way and desires that all men be saved, and now all our sins are forgiven! There is no need to dwell in darkness, back there with the dark bead. No, there is a pure white light shining: "If we walk in teh light as he is in the light... the blood of Jesus Christ has Son cleanses us from all sins." Have you been washed by the blood of Jesus Christ to become spotlessly white?
5. God's Love through confession: Blue
Romans 6:4 says, "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the FAther, even so we also should walk in newness of life." AFter God has taken a hopeless sinner and restored his broken life, making him a new creature in Christ, than man must make a public confession of this change through baptism. Baptism symbolically buries our sins in a grave of water that washes them away as far as east is from west, and then we emerge, clean and pure through God's love, for all to see. Luke 9:26 says that "Whosoever shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels." We cannot be ashamed of God's love: we must make a confession before others, and the blue bead represents the ceremony of water baptism where God allows us to publicly accept His love."
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