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 not ignore it or suppress it when it is heard and through the conviction of the Holy Spirit, you will realize that you are sinner, lost, condemned and without hope and need a Savior. It is the Holy Spirit who enables people to believe the truth and be saved. You can’t do it yourself. Trust Him to do what only He can do.
It is imperative for you to understand that because of the curse and consequences of sin we are all born “not saved” in Adam— 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… God’s grace, genuine repentance and saving faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus paid the penalty of sin for us on the cross so we would not 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 that 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.”
The very One who warned of condemnation is also the One who came to save us from it. Jesus, the sinless Son of God, took our punishment upon Himself by dying on the cross for our sins, shedding His blood to pay the debt we could never pay. He was buried and rose again three days later, defeating sin and death, so that all who genuinely repent and place their faith in Him can be forgiven, reconciled to God, and given eternal life.
Sooner or later you’ve got to get past the law and the 10 commandments and get to the great sin of all sins, the ultimate sin, which is rejecting God’s saving grace in Jesus Christ.
The wages of sin— the price that sin pays, even just one sin— is death. (from Romans 6:23; emphasis added)
Because of God’s wrath, the powerful and just anger of a holy God, and His rightful judgment, the penalty for all sinners is death (both spiritual and physical), separation from God and eternal punishment in the lake of fire. (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 still 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, and 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, the Christ, the Son of the living God. So God did what only He could do, He added humanity to His deity and God himself through His Son was 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 Jesus was raised from the dead and He walked out of that tomb conquering 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 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 Jesus by putting your faith and trust in Him as the Holy Spirit leads you, you will be transformed 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!
“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 on the Day of the Lord 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)
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