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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. (1 Corinthians 3:6-7) (1 Corinthians 10:31)
It is God’s will that you be saved.
To be saved is to be delivered from sin and death and judgment and hell.
“Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Romans 10:13)
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The One True, Sovereign, Living Creator God — It Is Sin That Separates Us From God — Our Big Problem- Sin! — The Consequences of Sin — The Work of the Holy Spirit — The Clear Presentation of the Gospel Message — Your Response – Next Steps for the Born Again Believer
The good news we are sharing is the Good News of the person and finished redemptive work of Jesus Christ, “for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.” Who Jesus is and what He did fills the essence of the objective content of the gospel which is empowered only by the grace of God with the power of the Holy Spirit.
The truth we are sharing is God’s TRUTH, absolute, unchanging and indisputable. Many people traveling the broad road may dispute it, but God Himself, by His very nature, declares it so. He doesn’t merely speak truth [set them apart for Your purposes, make them holy]; His Word is TRUTH. (John 17:17)
“And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.” (John 8:32)
This is the Gospel Truth
There is only one true, sovereign, living, Creator God — One Savior — One Mediator between God and man — One Holy Spirit — 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, He is the ONE way, He is the ONLY way to salvation.
Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth and the life. 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 and the Bible is the source of that Truth.
The One True, Sovereign, Living, Creator God
The Gospel Truth begins in the very first verse of the first chapter of the first book of the Bible:
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” – Genesis 1:1
The “God” referred to here is not just ‘a god’ among many false gods, but THE God—the Great “I AM,” the ever-existing, self-existent Creator.
God is a greater, supernatural infinite Being, a mind who is not physical or material, a spirit outside of space, time and matter, who was and who is and who is forever.
God’s official title is “Elohim,” meaning “He is God.” Jehovah is the personal name of God– which means “Redeemer.”
He is the Creator God, the divine “intelligent designer,” the Uncaused First Cause of the universe and everything in it. He made everything out of nothing and spoke it all into existence… “let there be!” He is the cause of all the effects which we can plainly see all around us. And just as a building has to have a builder and a painting has to have a painter… creation has to have a Creator. Nothing comes from nothing.
God is the provider and sustainer of all things which were were created by Him and for His glory. He makes the rules and sets the standards for the world He created.
He is the Judeo-Christian God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of the Bible, the God of heaven, the God of miracles, the one true, sovereign, and only living God and there is no other God besides Him. He makes redemption and salvation possible only by His grace through His Son, Jesus Christ. God is holy, utterly set apart—there is none like Him; and He is perfectly righteous and pure… and you and I are not— “no, not one.” We all fall short of His perfect standard of righteousness— His glory, and there is a penalty to be paid for that.
He is the triune God, one God, revealed in three distinct Persons. Elohim is a plural noun. In Hebrew, plural is three or more, revealing the Trinity– the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, which is also revealed in Genesis 1:26-27 in the words “us” and “our.” The three persons of God are:
God the Father – Who purposed salvation by His grace through His divine and perfect plan before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4-5).
God the Son – Jesus, who accomplished salvation through His sinless life, substitutional death and victorious resurrection (John 19:30).
God the Holy Spirit – Who produces and applies your salvation through conviction, regeneration, and sanctification (Titus 3:5). The Holy Spirit is fully God just as the Father and the Son are fully God.
God is transcendent—existing beyond and above creation and He is immanent—always present and active within it. He continually governs, fine-tunes, and sustains the universe He made.
He is omnipotent – God has unlimited power as evidenced by His miracles of the creation of the universe, the virgin birth, the resurrection of Christ, and the salvation and regeneration of souls and so much more.
He is omnipresent – He is everywhere at all times.
He is omniscient – He knows the past, the present, and the future— all at once.
From everlasting to everlasting, nothing can change who God is or separate us from His love. His promises are sure, and Jesus Christ is our living hope—for those promises which are sealed by the Holy Spirit until His return.
It Is Sin That Separates Us From God
There was no sin or evil in the world until a high-ranking holy angel named Lucifer (now known as Satan, also called the devil, the enemy (adversary) of God), through self-generated pride (sin), rebelled against God. Because of his unrighteousness, he was banished from Heaven along with his army of rebel angels— possibly one third of all the angels— now called demons, who joined in the the rebellion (Revelation 12:4). They were thrown down to Earth and have been wreaking havoc ever since. Ultimately, they will be condemned to eternal fiery torment in the Lake of Fire. Justice will be served! (Revelation 20:10).
Jesus said, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like [a flash of] lightning.” – Luke 10:18 (AMP)
And then the first man—Adam—chose to disobey God’s command in the Garden of Eden.
“And the Lord God commanded the man (even before Eve was created), saying, ‘Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die‘” (from Genesis 2:16-17 NKJV; emphasis added). And they ate from the tree and immediately died a spiritual death with physical death becoming inevitable, but not instantaneous— just like it will for us.
They both disobeyed God, they sinned, they fell short of His perfect standard of righteousness. But it was Adam who bore complete responsibility for it and passed on the curse of his sin nature to all of mankind and because we are sinners, we, too have experienced spiritual death and will ultimately die physically. Every single person who has ever been alive will physically die at least once. Many will die a second death.
God knew that Satan and the angels would rebel and also knew that Adam and Eve would sin, but His perfect plan already included redemption. His plan, set in place before the foundation of the world, would restore the relationship with God that mankind had broken through sin and that would be accomplished through the death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ.
“He 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
This is the very heart of God’s plan of redemption, the gospel— the Good News of Jesus Christ!
Our Big Problem— SIN!
What is sin? It’s 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.
Sin is not just simply wrongdoing, 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. Without those two things, you remain lost and condemned.
Sin involves your thoughts, attitudes and actions— what you think, say and do. Thoughts originate in the mind and attitudes originate in the heart, and actions are what you “choose” to say and do— acting out your thoughts and attitudes.
Here’s the standard concerning the thoughts, attitudes and actions of a born again believer:
Are they Christlike? Do they please God and bring Him glory?
That’s the standard.
If they are not Christlike and they do not please God and bring Him glory— dismiss the thoughts immediately before you act on them. And if you have already acted on them, stop them immediately in their tracks, ask for forgiveness and replace them with righteous thoughts and actions.
Upon salvation, the Holy Spirit lives within you to help in these matters and will always convict you of your sin and help you overcome them.
Do not quench (ignore) Him or grieve (disappoint) Him. The Holy Spirit is Christ in you — by His Spirit. That is a powerful reality.
Jesus used God’s law (The Ten Commandments) to show the rich young ruler his sin. Read Mark 10:17–22. In fact, He gives us the law just to prove to us that we can’t keep it. We can’t keep it. Nobody can. Get that through your head.
Have you ever lied? Have you ever stolen— anything? Have you ever taken God’s name in vain? Have you ever dishonored your parents? Have you ever committed sexual immorality of any kind—even in your heart through lust?
That’s just five of the ten. The obvious answer to the questions? We all have. Why? Because we are not perfect. That’s the point. Only God is! It proves that you are guilty before God’s perfect standard. It only takes one sin to be sinner and to be condemned for it for eternity.
You say, “That’s not fair!” You gave up you right to fairness when you committed your first sin. And it wasn’t fair that Jesus Christ had to willfully shed his blood, suffer and die on the cross to save you from yourself. He died to pay the penalty for your sin, so you wouldn’t have to die yourself and spend eternity in a fiery pit.
But even the 10 commandments don’t get to the real issue which was articulated by Jesus who said, “He who believes in Him 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.
Though all of us are wretched, vile sinners (man, that’s hard to say, isn’t it?), cursed by our violation of God’s law and sinful by nature, Jesus emphasized that the fatal, unforgiveable, and eternal sin that ultimately damns people to hell is our unwillingness to believe in Him as the Messiah, the Christ and the Son of God. In truth, all other sins can be forgiven if this one is repented of. (from John 8:24 and 16:9)
What you ultimately must understand is that God is far more righteous than you think He is and that you are far less righteous than you think you are.
So, with these things in mind, there two things that are absolutely true if you have not yet repented and surrendered your life to Christ and put your faith and trust in Him:
You are a sinner and you need a Savior!
The Consequences of Sin
There are consequences for sin—real, eternal consequences. Your sin provokes God’s wrath, the powerful and just anger of a holy God, and brings His rightful judgment. Even one sin brings spiritually death. A holy God must reject all that is unholy.
Because God makes the rules and sets the standards in the perfect world He created, the wages for sin, the price that pays, is death— both spiritual and physical— and eternal punishment.
“For the wages of sin (the price that sin pays) is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” — (Romans 6:23); emphasis added.
“Therefore, just as through one man (Adam) sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned…” — (Romans 5:12); emphasis added.
Because of sin, you will die. We all will— a spiritual death and separation from God upon your first sin, a physical death one time on the earth (for everybody), and then a second death when Jesus returns in judgment for those whose name is not found in the Lamb’s book of life; those who physically died in their earthly lives who had refused to repent and accept God’s pardon of sin through Christ. Warning: You do not want to die a second death.
Eternal Punishment Described
“But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will repay to each according to his works” (Romans 2:5-6).
The Bible describes the eternal punishment for sin as:
A horrendous, but rightful judgment for sin against a Holy God. An eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons (Matthew 25:41). A place where there will be a fully informed conscience— relentlessly accusing the sinner forever— causing anguish, weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. He cannot deny it or escape it. It is a place where the ungodly will never escape the conscience in the end. It can not longer be ignored. Never-ending fiery torment and conscious suffering where “their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:48)
The lake of fire is the final hell, “the second death” (Revelation 20:14)—a place of eternal punishment for all unrepentant rebels, angelic or human (Revelation 20:10, 15), where “the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night” (Revelation 14:11). It burns with “fire and brimstone” (Revelation 21:8), an endless sea of molten judgment where light reveals no hope and darkness offers no hiding place. The stench of sulfur chokes the air as waves of flame crash again and again, yet never consume. Here, mercy is gone, justice is final, and It is conscious, unending, and without escape.
“And anyone not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” — (Revelation 20:15)
The book of life contains the names of all those who will inherit eternal life.
- Born once (physically), die twice (physical and spiritual death).
- Born twice (physically and spiritually — “born again”), die once (physical death only).
You do not want to die twice.
God’s justice for sin is just what we deserve—and just what Jesus saved us from.
God promised in Genesis 2:17 that sinners “shall surely die” unless a substitute dies in their place. That substitute had to be truly God and truly human and without sin (the perfect lamb):
No one met that standard. Not one…
Until Jesus!
Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of God, took our place, paid our penalty, and rose again—offering eternal life to all who believe.
The gospel only makes sense when you understand God’s divine judgment.
And you have to know the consequences of violating the law of God for which Jesus shed His blood and died for you. The wages of sin, the price that sin pays, is death! — spiritual death and separation from God upon your first sin, physical death one time on the earth (everybody), and a second death on Judgment Day for those who die the without faith in Christ.
Warning: You do not want to die for a second time when Jesus returns! Born twice, die once. Born once, die twice.
The Work of the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the triune God, fully God like the Father and Son are fully God. He is the God’s agent who produces and applies your salvation through conviction, regeneration, and sanctification (Titus 3:5).
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 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.” (Romans 16:8)
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 enables you to come to saving faith in Christ.
Nothing happens without the Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit who initiates and enables. Nothing else can save you and you certainly can’t save yourself.
No sinner can repent or believe apart from His work (John 6:44; Titus 3:5).
The crucial truth is that God saves sinners entirely by grace through Christ, produced and applied by the Holy Spirit.
Your words in confessing that “Jesus is Lord” that you “believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead” are simply the honest expressions of what God had already placed in your heart.
Confessing “Jesus as Lord” means you are turning from sin and to God in genuine repentance and placing your faith and trust in Him alone for salvation. You are surrendering to His authority and submitting to His will for your life. It is more than a profession of faith— it is the possession of faith (James 2:17–18).
“Believing in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead” means that you believe and trust that the resurrection of Christ is the supreme validation of His person and ministry and that He is exactly who He claimed to be—the Son of God—and that the Father fully accepted His sacrifice on your behalf. You believe that through His resurrection, Jesus conquered sin, death, hell, Satan and all the powers of darkness, and that He is alive, reigning even now, and will return again to bring history to its appointed and glorious conclusion. Belief isn’t just intellectual agreement — it is personal faith and trust in the living Christ (John 20:29; Hebrews 11:1). There is no other way to be saved!
The Clear Presentation of the Gospel Message
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. (James 1:18)
“Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of Christ.”(Romans 10:17)
Salvation comes to those who hear and believe the facts of the gospel. (1 Corinthians 15:1-2)
This is the Good News of Jesus Christ
Read or hear the absolute, unchanging, and indisputable Good News of Jesus Christ and trust the Holy Spirit to do what only He can do and lead to repentance and faith in 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 for eternity.
How can an unholy person like you and me stand before the holy God on the last day and expect anything but condemnation? We can’t. We are all sinners and have fallen short of His perfect standard of righteousness. That’s why God, in His mercy and because of His love for us, sent us exactly what we needed—a Savior. Jesus Christ lived the perfect life we couldn’t live, died the death we deserved, and then rose again, conquering sin, death, hell, Satan and all the powers of darkness.
If you genuinely repent of your sins and completely surrender your life to Christ and put your faith and trust in Him, God, by His grace, will forgive you, declare you righteous through the righteousness of Jesus, and give you eternal life.
These are the facts of the true gospel of Jesus Christ you must believe in your heart in order to be saved.
Let’s Break It Down
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)
But 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)
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)
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. There was not one perfect, sinless human being alive at that time who could do that. (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 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. (Romans 4:25)
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most important event in human history.
It is the foundation of our hope for eternal life. Without the resurrection, we would all remain lost and condemned.
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 resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
It is THE way, the ONE way, the ONLY way to salvation.
Your Response
Repentance and faith are the necessary responses you must make to God’s gracious offer of salvation. They are inseparable, two sides of the same coin and linked in scripture, yet distinct acts that work hand-in-hand. Both are gifts of God’s grace and neither is possible without the work of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus first preached the gospel of God in Galilee, saying: “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel” (Mark 1:15). Repentance and faith.
This is the human side of salvation—called conversion—where the Holy Spirit convicts you of your sin and leads you to repentance with a Godly sorrow you change your thinking about sin and make a decisive turn from sin and to God in order to restore your relationship with Him, and place your faith and trust in Jesus Christ for who He is and what He has done for you through His death and resurrection, all which results in righteous living. (1 Thessalonians 1:9)
This turning leads to the divine side of salvation called regeneration where you are transformed by the Holy Spirit into a spiritual rebirth, where you are “born again” as a new creation in Christ, and justification, where because of your faith in Christ, God credits the perfect righteousness of Jesus to you, acquits you of all guilt and declares you innocent, removes your status as His enemy, and declares you to be in right standing with Him—fully pardoned and accepted. (Romans 5:1)
By repentance, you give glory to your Creator, God the Father, whom you have offended over and over. By faith, you give glory to your Redeemer, God the Son, Jesus Christ, who came to save you from your sins.
It requires a total surrender to His authority and His will for your life, as you repent and confess your faith in Jesus.
Paul says if these are genuinely true of you — confession with the mouth, belief in the heart — then the Holy Spirit grants you faith and you are saved.
Have you genuinely repented of your sins? Are you ready to put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ and completely surrender to His authority and submit to His will for your life?
Do you confess Jesus as Lord, the one true, sovereign God with all authority in heaven and on earth? (Romans 10:9)
Do you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, conquering sin, death, Satan and all the powers of darkness and to grant you eternal life? (Romans 10:10)
If you do— according to scripture— YOU ARE SAVED! 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).
Praise God!
Next Steps for the Born Again Believer!
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