We have all been created by God (Genesis 1:27).
God is:
eternal (1 Timothy 1:17),
perfect (Matthew 5:48)
holy (Isaiah 6:3)
just (Romans 3:26)
loving (John 3:16)
forgiving (Ephesians 4:32)
compassionate (Psalm 103:8)
merciful (Psalm 145:8)
caring (1 Peter 5:7)
all-knowing (1 John 3:20)
sovereign (Psalm 103:19)
there is no one like Him (1 Chronicles 17:20).
He is the creator and sustainer of all things (Colossians 1:16-17). He knows everything everyone has ever thought and done (Isaiah 66:18). Because of the just nature of God, He cannot let any sin go unpunished and the punishment of sin is death (Romans 6:23).
Adam and Eve were the first humans created (1 Timothy 2:13). They disobeyed God in the garden of Eden and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ushering sin into the world (Genesis 3:6). Every human is a descendent of Adam, conceived in sin (Psalm 51:5). All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Everyone is accountable to God (Romans 3:19).
God has given us His perfect law, which requires perfection in all of our thoughts and deeds (Psalm 19:7). God commands us to love the Lord with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our might & love our neighbor as ourself (Deuteronomy 6:5, Matthew 22:37-39). He also commands us not to steal or lie (Leviticus 19:11). We have all transgressed God’s perfect law and are considered His enemies and no one is righteous on their own before God (Romans 3:10). God hates sin (Proverbs 6:16-19, Proverbs 8:13, Psalm 11:5). The wrath of God will come upon those who practice immorality, impurity, covetousness, idolatry and all lawlessness (Ephesians 5:5-6).
God requires perfection and there is nothing we can do to save ourselves (Matthew 5:48). All our righteous acts are like filthy rags to God (Isaiah 64:6). God would be justified in ending our lives and sending us to hell forever (Luke 12:5).
The Lord does not desire that anyone would perish, and so he made a way to justify sinners to save them from His wrath (2 Peter 3:9). God is merciful and loving (Psalm 145:8). Since the fall of man, God had promised to send a savior into the world (Isaiah 52:13 - Isaiah 53). This was fulfilled in Jesus Christ of Nazareth born of a Virgin Mary (Luke 1:31-32). Jesus is fully God and fully man (Galatians 4:4). The glory of God is revealed in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:6). He lived the perfect, holy, and sinless life that we could never live (2 Corinthians 5:21). He performed countless miracles proving His deity (Mark 6:2). Jesus proclaimed the kingdom of God and called people to repentance (Mark 1:15). The religious leaders of His day were enraged at His claims of being God (Luke 5:21). Jesus was despised, rejected, whipped, crowned with thorns, and nailed to a cross (Mark 15:16-25). The full cup of the wrath of God was poured on Him and He bore all the punishment for the sin of the whole world (Isaiah 53:5). Jesus died (Matthew 27:50). He was buried in a tomb (Matthew 27:59-60). On the third day He rose from the dead and is still alive today (Matthew 28:6).
God has fixed a day in time when Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead (Acts 10:42). Jesus is highly exalted at the right hand of God and all authority is given to Him (John 5:27).
Everyone will be judged for everything they have ever done (Romans 2:16). Your only hope is to be washed in the blood of Jesus Christ. When you repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ all of your sins, past, present, and future, are washed away (Hebrews 10:10-14). This leads you to being born again and walking in newness of life (John 3:3, Romans 6:4). God sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins, for all who believe.
1 John 4:10 - "In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
2 Corinthians 5:21 - "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."
When you repent & believe on Jesus Christ, you have the righteousness of God. You receive the Holy Spirit which gives you a new heart that desires to live in a way pleasing to God (Ezekiel 11:19-20). For all who are in Christ are a new creation, the old is gone and the new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17). Jesus transforms from spiritual death to life (Romans 5:21). To those who obey the gospel, God promises eternal life in the glory of heaven (Revelation 21:22-23). He commands us to deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow Him (Matthew 16:24). Jesus said “ all who find their life will lose it, and all who lose their life for my sake will find it.” (Luke 17:33). When you put your faith in Christ, the old you has died & you no longer live for yourself, but for the one who died for you and rose again (2 Corinthians 5:14-15).
Jesus is the way and the truth and the life, no one comes to the father except through Him (John 14:6). He is Lord and Savior of the world, and He will not turn away anyone who comes to Him (John 6:37).
Because Jesus Christ rose again from the dead, and is Lord over all, this means we will all have resurrected bodies after death (John 5:28-29, 1 Corinthians 15:42-49). After death comes judgement (Hebrews 9:27), then you will either go to be with the Lord in glory for eternity (1 Peter 1:4, Revelation 21:4), or to eternal judgement, hell, where there is weeping & gnashing of teeth (Luke 15:28).
Hell is a truly terrible place. I don't like to talk about this, but it is a reality. All who are not found IN Christ will go there for eternity, and this is truly heartbreaking to me.
2 Thessalonians 1:8 - "dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus." Do you know God? Do you obey the gospel of the Lord Jesus?
Fear the Lord (Luke 12:5). Turn to him in repentance & believe on Christ before it is too late! Today is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2)! All who call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:9-13)
God bless!
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