Our mission is simple— to share the absolute, unchanging, and indisputable Good News of Jesus Christ and trust the Holy Spirit to do what only He can do. This app exists for only one purpose— to bring glory to the one true, Creator God.
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The Gospel Truth is this…. There is only one true, sovereign, living, Creator God. One Savior. One Mediator between God and man. One true religion. One holy book. One gospel. One way to salvation. One way to eternal life.
Jesus—the Christ, the Son of the Living God—is that WAY. He is THE way, the ONE way, the ONLY way to salvation. Jesus says, “No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (from John 14:6)
The gospel is the most offensive claim to the many who are lost. It just happens to be the TRUTH— the absolute, unchanging, indisputable and exclusive truth of Christianity.
But 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.
But God knew that Adam would sin and even before time began, He had a plan to restore the relationship with humanity that was broken due to sin.
We are all sinners and have fallen short of God’s perfect standard of righteousness— His glory, and there is a penalty to be paid for that.
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 (spiritual and physical), separation from God and eternal punishment in the lake of fire.
Either you must 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. There was not one perfect, sinless human being alive at that time who could do that.
So that sinless human being had to be God Himself— God incarnate, God in human form, truly God and truly human. So, God did what only He could do. He added humanity to His deity and God himself through His Son Jesus Christ, born in 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.
And on the third day God raised Him from the dead in a victory over sin, death, Satan and all the powers of darkness. The resurrection is proof of God’s acceptance of Christ’s sacrifice and the guarantee of eternal life to all who genuinely repent and put their faith and trust in Him.
When you hear or read a clear presentation of the gospel message, the Holy Spirit begins His unique work. In His 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.” He then 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 enables you to come to faith in Christ.
By God’s grace and through your repentance and faith in Christ, the Holy Spirit transforms you into a spiritual rebirth, where you are “born again” (born for a second time), as a new creation Christ. Your old sinful self has been crucified with Him on the cross, the old you no longer exists and everything about you is made new— a new heart, a new mind, 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.
You have been declared righteous before the one true Holy God through the righteousness of Jesus and your identity is made complete and whole for the first time and for all time— from a sinner separated from God to a beloved child of God and joint-heir of eternal life— a Christian, a born again believer and follower of Jesus Christ, no longer identifying as who you are and what you have done, but by “whose” you are in Christ and what He has done for you. Your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Jesus Christ is the one true, sovereign God with all authority in heaven and on earth. To receive His grace, you must fully surrender to his authority and his will for your life.
And one day Jesus is coming back, this time as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, to bring history to its proper conclusion. And on that day, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord!
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for who you are and what you have done for me. Let your will be done, in my life— nothing more, nothing less and nothing else.
“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 1:3-5)
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