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)
We are saved by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ! It is the ONE way, the ONLY way to be saved from God’s wrath and His rightful judgment caused by sin.
God commands people to hear the gospel message and also requires a response. Our responsibility is to be confronted with the truth of the gospel and not ignore it or suppress it when it is heard and trust the Holy Spirit to do what only He can do. It is the Holy Spirit who enables people to believe the truth and be saved. You cannot do it yourself and nobody else can do it for you.
As you hear or read the Good News, telling of the greatest life ever lived and what He has done for you— the Holy Spirit begins His unique work. In His perfect timing, He shines sufficient light into the darkness of your sin, where you are naturally unwilling and even unable to believe.
He 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 and about righteousness and judgment” (John 16:8-11) and you realize that you are sinner— lost, condemned, without hope— and need a Savior; and the only thing you can do is “cry out to God and ask Him to be merciful and save you.“
It is only Jesus who delivers you from the wrath to come— and wrath is coming! This wrath is the powerful and just anger of a holy God against sin and evil in this world; His rightful judgment. The Holy Spirit does a supernatural work of grace and releases you from the bondage of your sin, leading you to genuine repentance, “forsaking sin and turning to God for salvation,” and enables you to come to faith in Christ, transforming you into a spiritual rebirth— where you are “born again,” as a new creation in Christ!
And God, by His grace, forgives you, declares you righteous through the righteousness of Jesus and gives you eternal life!
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 ultimately thrown into the lake of fire— the second death, where because of sin and the fact that we have rejected the grace of Jesus Christ, we will be consciously tormented day and night, without rest and without reprieve, forever and ever. The is the justice of a Holy God who has offered redemption through the blood of Christ!
And forever and ever 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 and there is an eternal penalty to be paid for that. (Romans 3:23; 6:23)
But God!— by His grace and because of His mercy and love for us, sent us exactly what we needed—a Savior.
“He (God) made Him (Jesus) 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; emphasis added)
Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the living God, became the sinless human substitute that God’s justice required and lived the perfect life we couldn’t live, suffered, bled and died the death we deserved, and then rose again on the third day, conquering sin, death, hell, Satan and all the powers of darkness and granting eternal life to those who repent and put their faith and trust in Him.
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. The resurrection of Christ 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.”
“For by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)
By God’s grace and because you have and put your faith and trust in Christ— you are saved, reconciled to God, declared righteous with the Father through the righteousness of His Son, a Christian and follower of Jesus Christ, a born again believer, a new creation in Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit, delivered from the darkness of sin, an adopted child of the one true and only living, Creator God, and a joint-heir with Jesus to eternal life!
The old you no longer exists and everything about you is made new in Christ— a new heart, a new way of thinking, a new way acting and reacting, new attitudes, new character and a new identity. You no longer identify as who you are and what you have done, but as whose you are in Christ and what He has done for you and now live out your faith every day with righteous thoughts, attitudes and actions— always Christlike, pleasing to God and bringing Him glory.
And because you are a born again believer— whatever happens in your life each day, always conduct yourself in a manner worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ! (from Philippians 1:27; emphasis added)
“Therefore there is now no condemnation [no guilty verdict, no punishment, no hell] for those who are in Christ Jesus [who have repented and put their faith and trust in Him as personal Lord and Savior].” — (Romans 8:1)
Thank you Lord Jesus!
How Do You Know You Are Saved?
Just to be clear—
We will all die physically one day. Everybody does (except the prophets Enoch and Elijah). But our souls are eternal and will spend forever either in a place where God is (heaven) or a place where God is not (hell). We are living in a grace period between the first coming of Christ and His return, although we do not know the day or the hour, and your life on earth is brief and uncertain. The Gospel is not merely information to admire—it is truth that demands a response. The greatest tragedy in life is not poverty, sickness, failure, or death; it is to reject the saving grace of Jesus Christ. The greatest success is to know God through His Son. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). He also said, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). The invitation is open today. Turn to Christ while there is still time. Trust Him completely. Receive the forgiveness, salvation, peace, and eternal life that only He can give.
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 in fear of God’s wrath to come. Genuine repentance and faith are required. Belief in Christ without repentance is not true salvation. It is the faith, trust and complete confidence in who Jesus is and what He has done for you.
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,” you get baptized because you have been saved. You get saved when Jesus baptizes you with the Holy Spirit. The reality of the forgiveness of sins precedes the rite of baptism. Since we are united by faith with Him…. as water 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 when we die, 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, sovereign, living, Creator God—through faith in Jesus Christ. “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). You cannot be saved and remain the same.
Right now, no matter where you are and what you’re doing, 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.
Stay in the Gospel and trust the Holy Spirit to do what only He can do. Be persistent! Keep asking! Keep seeking! Keep knocking! Keep pleading!
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!
Don’t be wrong!
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.
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).
And yes, your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life!
(Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:27)
Praise God and Give Him All the Glory!
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