God knows your sin and still chooses you!

Main message: God fully knows our sinfulness yet loves us with self-sacrificing agape love, dying for us even though many will reject him, to give us the opportunity to know him.

Key points:

• God knows everything about us, including our sin; the human heart is "deceitful and desperately wicked."
• Saying "I'm not that bad" is ignorance in light of God's knowledge.
• God's response to our sin is sacrificial love — he chooses to die for us anyway.
• The sermon emphasizes "agape" (self-giving) love, not eros or phileo.
• Jesus' death is portrayed as an offer of opportunity for people to know God despite likely rejection.

Scriptures mentioned: Jeremiah 17:9, John 3:16