If you have
been led to this page it is
not by accident. God is the
one who right now is opening
up your heart to Christ
because of the work of the
Holy Spirit working in you.
He is the one who shows us
our need and desire to come
to Jesus Christ. True
conversion is then embracing
Jesus Christ as He is freely
offered to us in the gospel,
the "Good news". You
see the Father has fulfilled
His promise to send a
Savior, (His only Son) to
rescue us from our desperate
plight.
First,
our condition
The Bible
says,
Ro 3:23 for
all have sinned and
fall short of the glory of
God, (NAS95)
Sin is
anything we do that breaks
God's law. Sin is what
separates us from God. Each
of us has sinned in our
thoughts, word, deeds, and
motives in our hearts. If
you have ever lied, cheated,
stolen something, said
something hurtful about
someone else, misled
someone, used profanity, you
have sinned. You may say
well, "I'm a good person"
"I help people", "I go to
church from time to time"
The Bible
says,
Ps 53:1
The fool has said in his
heart, "There is no
God," They are corrupt, and
have committed abominable
injustice;
There is no
one who does good.
Ps 53:2 God
has looked down from heaven
upon the sons of men To see
if there is anyone who
understands, Who seeks after
God.
Ps 53:3 Every
one of them has turned
aside; together they have
become corrupt; There is
no one who does good, not
even one. (NAS95)
Listen, even
if you and I kept all of the
Ten Commandments and broke
only one of them we would
still be guilty before Holy
God.
The Bible
says,
Jas 1:14 But
each one is tempted when he
is carried away and enticed
by his own lust.
Jas 1:15
Then when lust has
conceived, it gives birth to
sin; and when sin is
accomplished, it brings
forth death. (NAS95)
Jas 2:10 For
whoever keeps the whole law
and yet stumbles in one
point, he has become
guilty of all.
We will never
be able to get into heaven
by being good people.
You see, we
can't earn our way in.
Each of us
were born with a sin nature.
We inherited it from our
first parents,
Ro 5:12
Therefore, just as
through one man sin entered
into the world, and
death through sin, and so
death spread to all men,
because all sinned--
My Friend, we
need to see how serious the
condition of our life is to
understand the need for a
savior. Without Christ, we
are on our way to Hell,
forever separated from
Christ. The Bible tells us
that there is a payment for
our sins,
Ro 6:23 For
the wages, (payment) of
sin is death, but the
free gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.
I hope you
now see how hopeless our
condition is without a
savior. Listen; there
can be no genuine faith
without repentance.
If God is
working in your heart right
now, there is already
something alive and going on
inside you calling you to
turn away from sinning to
turning to God.
Second,
The solution
It is God the
Father who sent His only Son
Jesus Christ to die on that
Cross for our sins.
The
Bible says,
Ro 5:8 But
God demonstrates His own
love toward us, in that
while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.
1Pe 3:18 ¶
For Christ also died for
sins once for all, the just
for the unjust, so that
He might bring us to God,
having been put to death in
the flesh, but made alive in
the spirit; Ro 8:11 But if
the Spirit of Him who raised
Jesus from the dead dwells
in you, He who raised Christ
Jesus from the dead will
also give life to your
mortal bodies through His
Spirit who dwells in you.
(NAS95)
Read what
Romans 4:25 tells us
Ro 4:25 He
who was delivered over
because of our
transgressions, and was
raised because of our
justification.
Third,
Our response
The Bible
tells us
what we need to do in
response to our condition.
We need to repent, that
means that we need to turn
away from sinning
continually and turn to
Christ.
Ro 10:9 that
if you confess with your
mouth Jesus as Lord, and
believe in your heart that
God raised Him from the
dead, you will be saved;
Ro 10:10 for
with the heart a person
believes, resulting in
righteousness, and with
the mouth he confesses,
resulting in salvation.
1Jo 1:9 If we
confess our sins, He
is faithful and righteous
to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.
(NAS95)
Ac 26:18 to
open their eyes so that they
may turn from darkness to
light and from the dominion
of Satan to God, that they
may receive forgiveness of
sins and an inheritance
among those who have been
sanctified by faith in Me.'
Your hope, my
hope is only found in one
place and that is with a
personal relationship with
Jesus Christ. When a person
dies he is going somewhere.
He will either be in heaven
with the Lord or in hell,
eternally separated from
Christ, no exceptions.
The Bible
says
Joh
3:16 "For God so loved the
world, that He gave His
only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him
shall not perish, but have
eternal life. (NAS95)
1Jo 4:9 By
this the love of God was
manifested in us, that
God
has sent His only begotten
Son into the world so that
we might live through Him.
If you have
confessed your sins and have
surrendered your life to
Christ from this teaching,
let us here from you today!
Please go to our sermons
page on this website and
begin listening to the
teachings from the bible.
Also, find a solid bible
church in your area and plug
yourself into that church so
you can grow in you
relationship with Christ.
May the Lord richly bless
you today!
