“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
John 3:16-17
Do you believe this?
Whether you believe it or not, it is true because the Bible says so (John 17:17).
God is creator and He created you in His image either male or female (Genesis 1:27).
Why?
For His glory (Isaiah 43:7).
God created you to be in a personal relationship with Him (Revelation 3:20).
But sadly that relationship was broken.
Why?
Because “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
That means that you, me and everyone else are sinners.
Sin is anything you think, say or do that breaks God’s commandments.
God gave mankind ten commandments that Jesus summed up into two laws (Matthew 22:36-40):
1. Love God.
2. Love your neighbor.
Sounds simple, right?
But God requires that we obey the law to love God and others perfectly.
That’s impossible!
Since no one can keep the law perfectly, the law shows you, me and everyone else that we are sinners (Romans 3:20).
And because no one has loved God or others perfectly, God says that what we have earned is death for our sin (BAD NEWS) (Romans 6:23a).
But God offers His perfect Son, Jesus Christ, as a gift to anyone who believes the Gospel (GOOD NEWS) by faith (Romans 6:23b, John 1:12, Romans 1:17, Ephesians 2:8-9).
The Gospel (GOOD NEWS): Jesus is 100% God and 100% human. Jesus came down from heaven over 2,000 years ago as a baby and grew as a man in order to live a life of perfect obedience to God’s commandments, die a death that each person earned, and rise again on the third day conquering death (Isaiah 7:14, Luke 2:53, 1 Corinthians 15:4, ).
The fact is that eventually everyone is going to die (Ecclesiastes 9:2). Nobody can dispute the 100% death rate. John 3:5 says that unless you are born-again you will die in your sins and therefore not enter heaven (Matthew 25:41).
Maybe you don’t care about going to heaven. Maybe you love your sin more than God (John 3:19). Maybe you think that you are not “that bad” or you think that you are “too bad”. Regrettably, there was a time when I didn’t care or think that I was “that bad” and I loved my sin more than God. However, on September 28, 2007, God kindly showed me that He loved me while I was a sinner (Romans 2:4, 5:8). Jesus met me right where I was at. So I willfully gave Jesus my sin and He in return lavished me with His mercy, grace, forgiveness – a new life – the start of an abundant life on earth and the promise of eternal life one day (2 Corinthians 5:17, John 10:10).
Everyone, whether born-again or not, will stand before God after death (2 Corinthians 5:10). The difference is that only those who are born-again have Jesus as their “defense attorney”. We are not judged on a scale of “good outweighing the bad” because one sin is just as bad as breaking all of God’s laws (James 2:10). God requires perfect obedience. No human ever did or ever will obey God perfectly except for Jesus Christ.
Dear Beloved Soul, I pray that right now you will repent of your sin and call upon Jesus Christ to save you (Romans 2:5-6, 10:13, John 14:6, Mark 1:14-15). Jesus wants to restore you by His love.
Will you receive the gift of salvation through the precious blood of Jesus Christ today?