The Good News of Jesus Christ
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It is God’s will for you to be saved!
“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 3:17)
“God our Savior… desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Timothy 2:3-4)
“The Lord… is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)
A clear presentation of the gospel message must precede genuine repentance and saving faith. True faith always has content— the revealed Word of God. The Holy Spirit uses the Word to produce life.
“Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of Christ.” (Romans 10:17)
God commands people to hear a clear presentation of the gospel message and also requires a response. Our responsibility is to be confronted with the truth of the gospel and to not ignore it or suppress it when it is heard. And you will realize that you are sinner, lost, condemned and without hope, if not for faith in Jesus Christ. But it is the Holy Spirit who enables people to believe the truth and to be saved. You can’t do it yourself. Trust Him to do what only He can do.
As you hear or read the Good News—the Gospel of Jesus Christ, telling of the greatest life ever lived and what He has done for you— the Holy Spirit begins His unique work. In His own timing, He shines sufficient light into the darkness of your sin, where you are naturally unwilling and even unable to believe.
The Holy Spirit draws you to Himself, unblinds your eyes, “tugs on” and softens your hardened heart, opens your mind and “convicts you about the guilt of sin, the punishment for it, your need for a Savior and about righteousness and judgment.” (John 16:8-11)
When you hear the truth of the gospel and feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit, realizing that you are dead in your sin and need a Savior, cry out to God with all your heart and with a great sense of urgency — like your eternal life depends on it — because it does.
In your own words and with a Godly sorrow, confess that you are a sinner and plead with Him to be merciful and save you.
Jesus is your hope, your living hope, your only hope.
For Jesus said, “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out” (John 6:37).
God will never, ever reject the one who truly comes to Him in faith.
The Holy Spirit does a supernatural work of grace to reverse your unwillingness or ignorance and releases you from the bondage of your sin leading you to genuine repentance and takes your belief in Christ and applies it as saving faith, which leads to regeneration and justification, where you are “born again” as a new creation in Christ and God declares you righteous through the righteousness of Jesus— salvation!
This is the Good News of Jesus Christ!
God, the Creator of the universe and everything in it, the one true, sovereign and only living God is holy— perfectly righteous and pure, and you and I are not. That’s a serious problem, because one day you and I will stand before this holy God and in our sin we are completely unprepared and unequipped and will be judged, found guilty, and thrown into the lake of fire, the second death—an unspeakable, conscious fiery torment that never ceases— with no rest, forever and ever. It is permanent, irreversible and there is no way to escape it.
And eternity is a long, long time to be wrong!
How can an unholy person stand before the holy God, Jesus Christ, on the last day and expect anything but condemnation? We can’t! We are all sinners, without exception, and have fallen short of His perfect standard of righteousness— His glory. It is sin that separates us from God. If He is perfect and we are not, that’s sin. But the real issue was articulated by Jesus who said, you’re gonna get condemned because you don’t believe in Me.
That’s why by His grace and because of His mercy and love for us, God sent us exactly what we needed—a Savior. Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the living God, lived the perfect, sinless life we couldn’t live, died the death we deserved, and then rose again on the third day, conquering sin, death, hell, Satan and all the powers of darkness.
The resurrection is proof of God’s acceptance of Christ’s substitutional sacrifice for us. It is the most important event in the history of the world. It is what the other world religions do not have.
The absolute, unchanging and indisputable “TRUTH” for every living person is this:
“There is simply no solution to the human problem of sin and its eternal punishment, outside the grace of the one true and only living, Creator God and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
It is only Jesus who delivers you from the wrath to come. If you genuinely repent, turn away from sin and to God, and completely surrender your life to Christ and put your faith and trust in Him as the Holy Spirit leads you, you will be “born again” as a new creation in Christ.
And God, by His grace, will forgive you, declare you righteous through the righteousness of Jesus and give you eternal life!
This is the Good News of Jesus Christ!
How will you know that you know that you know you are saved?
By the inner testimony of the Holy Spirit giving assurance of your salvation and adoption into God’s family. “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.” (Romans 8:16)
The visible proof of “real salvation” is a transformed life!
“Do not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.” (from Romans 1:16)
The Very Heart of the Gospel
“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)
Jesus became that sinless human substitute that God’s justice required.
He (God) made Jesus sin— not that He made Jesus commit sin; He never sinned, but He made Him sin in this sense— He treated Jesus as if He had personally committed every sin ever committed by every person who would ever believe— though, in fact, He committed none of them.
Hanging on the cross, He was still holy, harmless, and undefiled. Hanging on the cross, He was the spotless Lamb of God. He was not—even for a split second—a sinner, but the Holy God bearing your sin, nailed to the cross.
But God is treating Jesus as if He had lived your life. God punished Him for your sin and then—even two thousand years later— turns around and treats you as if you had lived Christ’s perfect, sinless life.
And what you get is complete forgiveness covered by the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
When God looks at the cross, He sees you and when He looks at you, He sees Christ.
The Truths of the Gospel
It is imperative for you to understand that because of the curse and consequences of sin we are all born “not saved,” lost, without faith in Christ— spiritually “dead” in our sin, and condemned without hope. (Ephesians 2:1)
God knew that Adam would sin and even before the foundation of the world, He had a plan to restore the relationship with humanity that was broken due to sin. (Ephesians 1:4)
We are all sinners, without exception, and have fallen short of God’s perfect standard of righteousness— His glory, and there is a penalty to be paid for that. (Romans 3:23, 6:23)
It is sin that separates us from God. Sin is breaking God’s law, like the Ten Commandments — an act of disobedience or rebellion against Him; lawlessness. It’s missing the mark — falling short of God’s holy standard of righteousness, His perfect measure of moral and ethical behavior that reflects His own nature. It’s an offense to God’s holiness. In fact, all unrighteousness (all things that aren’t right with God) is sin. If God is perfect and we are not— that’s sin. It is a chronic, fatal disease we all suffer from and there is only one cure… genuine repentance and saving faith in Jesus Christ, who paid the penalty of sin for us so we wouldn’t have to die for a second time and we wouldn’t have to go to hell.
God gave us the law just to prove we couldn’t keep it. We can’t. But even the 10 commandments don’t get to the real issue which was articulated by Jesus who said, “He who believes in Him (Jesus) is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18).
In other words, Jesus said, “You’re gonna get condemned because you don’t believe in me.”
Sooner or later you’ve got to get past the 10 commandments and get to the great sin of all sins, the ultimate sin, which is rejecting Jesus Christ. If you have not accepted Him, you have rejected Him.
Because of God’s wrath, the powerful and just anger of a holy God, and His rightful judgment, the ultimate penalty for all sinners is death (both spiritual and physical), separation from God and eternal punishment in the lake of fire. (Romans 6:23) (Hebrews 9:27) (Revelation 20:15)
We are already spiritually dead in Adam (Romans 5:12–19) and everyone on the earth will physically die one day. But if you live your earthly life and die as a believer in Christ, your soul and spirit will go to heaven. If you die as an unbeliever, you will soul and spirit will go to hell. When Christ returns to bring history to its proper conclusion, Satan, the Beast (the Antichrist), the False Prophet and all the enemies of God, including those whose names are not written in the Lamb’s book of life (unbelievers who rejected Jesus Christ), will be thrown into the lake of fire where they will be consciously tormented day and night, without rest and without reprieve, for eternity. (Revelation 20:10) And eternity is a long, long time to be wrong!
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)
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. (John 3:16)
You must either pay the penalty for your sin or someone else pays it for you. But God’s justice required that the person paying your penalty must be sinless. But there was not a single person who was without sin and able to do this. (Hebrews 7:26)
So that sinless human being had to be God Himself— God incarnate, God in human form, truly God and truly man— Jesus. So, God did what only He could do. He added humanity to His deity and God himself through His Son Jesus Christ, born of a miracle virgin birth, became that perfect, sinless substitute, “the perfect lamb,” who took your punishment and died in your place so you wouldn’t have to. (John 1:14)
And on the third day God raised Jesus from the dead and He walked out of that tomb in a victory over sin, death, hell, Satan and all the powers of darkness. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most important event in human history. It is the foundation of our hope for eternal life. (1 Corinthians 15:4)
The resurrection is what all the other world religions do not have. Game, set, match!
The absolute, unchanging and indisputable “TRUTH” for every living person is this:
“There is simply no solution to the human problem of sin and its eternal punishment outside the grace of the one true and only living, Creator God and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
If you genuinely repent, turning from sin and to God, and completely surrender your life to Christ and put your faith and trust in Him as the Holy Spirit leads you, God, by His grace, will forgive you, declare you righteous through the righteousness of Jesus and give you eternal life.
“Therefore there is now no condemnation [no guilty verdict, no punishment] for those who are in Christ Jesus [who believe in Him as personal Lord and Savior].” — (Romans 8:1 AMP)
And when Jesus, the Lord of History returns to bring history to its proper conclusion, those who are saved by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ, both Jew and Gentile as the Israel of God (Galatians 6:16), will spend eternity in His presence in that great city called New Jerusalem— the eternal city of God, the final dwelling place of believers, the capital city of the new heaven and new earth where God lives with His people forever. (Revelation 21)
Just to be clear—
Nobody is born a Christian. The flesh does not produce redemption. You don’t inherit it from your parents, nor do you magically become one over time.
A Christian is not simply someone who believes in God. Even the demons believe—and tremble. Genuine repentance and faith are required. Belief in Christ without repentance is not true salvation. It requires a complete surrender to Him.
It’s not just joining and attending a church, following religious traditions, or even getting baptized in a group setting without even hearing about sin or grace or repentance or faith or surrendering your life to Jesus.
You don’t get baptized to “get saved,” but because you have been saved. The reality of the forgiveness of sins precedes the rite of baptism. Since we are united by faith with Him…. as baptism symbolizes, His death and burial become ours. We have also been united with Him in his resurrection. Peter was obeying Christ’s command from Matthew 28:19 (The Great Commission) when he urged the people who repented and turned to Christ for salvation to identify, through the waters of baptism, with His death, burial and resurrection.
Everybody does not go to heaven when they die. Some are traveling on the broad road which leads to destruction. You won’t get there because you “think you’re a good person.” Your self-righteousness is also a sin. Only God is perfectly good—and perfectly good is the standard we all fall short of every day, but it only takes one sin to be a sinner.
We do not become angels, we do not “get our wings,” and we will not be reunited with unbelieving family or friends in heaven. And family and friends who are saved won’t be reunited with you if you are not saved.
There are not millions of ways to be saved—only one. Works can’t save you. Your family and friends can’t save you and you certainly can’t save yourself.
Salvation comes only by the grace of the one true, living Creator God—through faith in Jesus Christ.
Right now, Jesus stands ready to forgive you, to cleanse you, and give you eternal life.
“At the acceptable time I listened to you,
And on the day of salvation I helped you.”
Behold, now is “the acceptable time,” behold, now is “the day of salvation”— (2 Corinthians 6:2)
You may never have another moment like this.
Please do not live here and leave here without Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Too many people do! Do not experience the second death. Too many people will!
And eternity is a long, long time to be wrong!
What is Your Response to the Gospel Truth?
We pray that after hearing the facts of the gospel, that you have been convicted by the Holy Spirit and have cried out to God for mercy and salvation and the Holy Spirit led you to genuine repentance and enabled you to come to faith in Jesus Christ, transforming you into a spiritual rebirth, ‘born again’ as a new creation in Christ. If so, the old you no longer exists and everything about you is made new— a new heart, a new way of thinking, a new way of acting and reacting, a new attitude, a new Christlike character and identity, and a new way of living your life in Christ.
Your identity is now made complete and whole for the first time and for all time—from a sinner separated from God to beloved child and heir of eternal life; no longer identifying by who are and what you have done, but by whose you are in Jesus Christ and what He has done for you. And because of your faith, God declared you righteousness through the righteousness of Jesus. You are saved!
You simply can not be saved and remain the same!
These beliefs are simply the honest expressions of what God has placed in your heart through the Holy Spirit:
You believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. ✅
You confess Jesus as Lord, the one true, sovereign God with all authority in heaven and on earth. ✅
You believe in your heart that Christ died on the cross to pay the penalty for your sin and that God raised Jesus from the dead, conquering sin, death, hell, Satan and all the powers of darkness and granting you eternal life. ✅
You genuinely repent and put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ and completely surrender to his authority and submit to His will for your life and have been born again as a new creation in Christ! ✅
All of these things are necessary to produce a lifestyle where you truly “know“ the Father and the Son through a personal and intimate relationship by spending time with Him each day in scripture and in prayer and then live out your faith daily every day in your thoughts, attitudes and actions; always Christlike, pleasing to God and bringing Him glory.
To know God is to be brought into a real, loving relationship with Him through Jesus Christ that results in trust, surrender, obedience, love, a changed heart and the assurance of our salvation.
And to all of these things… say Yes and Amen!
If you have truly put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ — according to scripture— YOU ARE SAVED! (Romans 10:9-10); Completely forgiven (Ephesians 1:7), reconciled to God through the righteousness of Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21), made a new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17), indwelled with the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13–14), and given eternal life which begins immediately upon salvation (John 17:3).
You are now a Christian, a born again believer and follower of Jesus Christ, a new creation in Christ, an adopted child of the one true, sovereign and only living, Creator God, and a joint-heir with Christ to eternal life.
This is the beginning of a brand-new life in Christ! You have been born again!
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.” (1 Peter 1:3-4)
And yes, your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life!
(Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:27)
Praise God!
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