The whole purpose of the plan of salvation is to restore the image of God in humans. Moreover, creatures again to be in harmony with their Creator. Our own hearts separate us from God: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. Isaiah 59:2. Furthermore, we cannot of ourselves change them: Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. Job 14:4. Though sin has brought enmity: Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can be. Romans 8:7. God's purpose is peace through Christ: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11. A complete change is wrought through Jesus: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17; which is nothing less than creation: For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. Galassians 6:15. The Gospel is the same creative power manifested in humans salvation: For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; Romans 1:16. But we have learned that this creative power is in God's Word (lesson 2). Moreover, it is equally true whether applied to the creation of a world or a new heart. Thus through faith in God’s promises our natures may be changed by the power of His Word. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 1:4. When God speaks righteousness in place of sin: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; Romans 3:23-25; and declaring righteous the ungodly: But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Romans 4:5; we are to believe in the power of His Word supplying the fact. Find out more - https://www.upliftingchrist.net