This is the most important eternal life-changing question and answer of your life.
It’s a simple “yes or no” question.
A “yes” means you know that you know that you know you are saved, a Christian, a born again believer, a follower of Jesus Christ, an adopted child of the one true and only living, Creator God and an heir to eternal life.
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… condemned and without hope and spiritually “dead” in our sin.
Nobody is born a Christian. Everybody doesn’t just go to heaven when they die. There are not millions of ways to get saved. Works won’t do it. Your family and friends can’t save you, you can’t save them and you certainly can’t save yourself. To be saved, you must be “born again.”
Your life on earth is short, like a vapor and time passes by quickly with no time outs or do-overs. Your physical body will die, but your soul & spirit will live forever in heaven with God or die forever in a fiery torment in hell without Him. You are not guaranteed another day in this world, not another breath, not one more heartbeat and you do not know the day and the hour when you will die or when Christ will return for His final judgment. But there is one thing that is absolutely for sure in this short life…
You are a sinner and need a Savior!
This is the image of the greatest expression of love in the history of the world.
(Most recent fine-tuning- December, 2024)
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The Gospel Truth App shares God’s plan of redemption with Bible based “Truths” to prepare minds and hearts to be used by the Holy Spirit so that “whosoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Acts 2:21 KJV)
Redemption restores the broken relationship between God and humanity caused by sin, offering forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life to believers through the blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection. It is important to understand that redemption is not us “accepting” Christ, but Christ accepting us by His grace. Redemption will require a complete surrender to Christ.
Our goal is to simply tell the “Truth” of the Good News of Jesus Christ and let the Holy Spirit do what only He can do.
The Gospel Truth App is designed only to bring glory to the one true and only living, Creator God. If the app helps lead just one person to faith in Jesus Christ, it will be well worth the effort.
As you read through these Gospel Truths which tell about the ‘greatest life ever lived and what He has done for you,‘ we pray that the Holy Spirit will submit you “sufficient light” in the midst of the darkness of your sin, draw you to Himself, unblind your eyes, “tug on” and soften your hardened heart, open your mind and “convict you about the guilt of sin, the punishment for it, your need for a Savior and about righteousness and judgment.” (adapted from John 16:8; emphasis added). We pray that God will release you from the bondage of your sin and enable you to come to Christ through genuine repentance and saving faith.
“If you, then, being evil [that is, sinful by nature], know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and continue to ask Him?” (Luke 11:13 AMP) Be persistent! Keep asking! Keep seeking! Keep knocking! Keep pleading! Eternity is a long, long time to be wrong. Don’t be wrong!
It is God’s will that you be saved.
“For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the (divine) truth.” (1 Timothy 2:3-4 NKJV; emphasis added)
Salvation is offered to everyone, but to receive it each individual must choose to accept God’s gracious offer through conversion by repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. It’s the only way.
Many will be saved, but most will not.
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction (eternal separation from God and never ending punishment in hell) and “many” enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life (salvation and eternity in Heaven) and only “few” find it.” (Matthew 7:13-14 AMP).
Are you one of the “many” or one of the “few?”
Our prayer is that when you are presented with “God’s absolute, unchanging and indisputable Truth,” you cannot come away from it unmoved and that you will be saved and both your earthly and eternal lives will be forever changed.
The app contains many repetitions; however, it is unavoidable, as individual subjects would be incomplete without them.
Let’s get started!
What is The Gospel Truth?
The word gospel means “good news.”
Truth is something that is “absolute, unchanging and indisputable.”
The good news we are sharing is the “Good News of Jesus Christ!,” for it is “the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.“
The Truth we are sharing is God’s Truth, “absolute, unchanging and indisputable.”
God is the Creator of the universe and everything in it, the one true sovereign God and only living God and the definition of “Truth.” Things are only true because He says they are. There could be no lies if there was no “Truth.” Many things are true, but there is only one “Truth.”
It is the “Truth” that applies to everyone, whether they choose to believe it or not. It is not subject to change based on human opinions or cultural trends. It stands firm and applies to all people, across all times and places.
It the is “Truth” that will set you free from the penalty of sin.
The Bad News First..
When Adam and Eve, the first man and woman of creation, disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden, they brought sin and death into God’s perfect world and Adam passed on the curse of his sin nature to all of mankind. Therefore we are all sinners, with no exceptions, separated from God and fall short every day of His perfect standard of righteousness… His glory.
“For all (everyone, without exception) have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (His perfect standard of righteousness). (Romans 3:23 NKJV; emphasis added)
It is sin that separates us from God.
God created Adam and Eve in His image, which means perfectly righteous; always right and never wrong. We are all held to His standard of perfection. Just one sin breaks that standard. By sinning, Adam and Eve were no longer perfectly righteous and neither are you. But in the Garden of Eden, not long after the first man sinned to bring eternal condemnation for all men, God revealed His plan of redemption for sinners like you and me:
“And I (God) will put enmity (open hostility)
Between you (Satan) and the woman (Mary),
And between your seed (offspring; demons) and her Seed (Jesus);
He (Jesus) shall [fatally] bruise your (Satan) head,
And you shall [only] bruise His heel.” (Genesis 3:15 AMP)
Many consider this verse to be the first announcement of the gospel which was made almost 4000 years before it actually happened. This is the first prophecy about the Messiah (Christ), who through His death on the cross and resurrection would ultimately defeat Satan, the power behind the serpent, with a death blow.
In the Bible, sin is defined as breaking God’s law, an act of disobedience or rebellion against Him; lawlessness. It is also described as “missing the mark” of God’s holy standard of righteousness, His absolute and perfect measure of moral and ethical behavior which reflects His own nature and character. In fact, all unrighteousness (wrongdoing) is sin).
But simply put, sin means thinking, saying and doing things that do not please God… Your thoughts, what you think, and your actions, what you say and do, either please God or they don’t; they are either Christ-like or they’re not and these should be the only standards for Christian character and behavior.
Our sin provokes God’s wrath, a powerful and just anger. Because of sin, you are deplorable in God’s sight. And because it is God who makes the rules and sets the standard in the world He created, the penalty for sin, God’s rightful judgment, is physical and spiritual death, separation from God and eternal punishment.
The penalty of death for sin entered the world through Adam‘s willful “disobedience.” Although it was Eve who sinned first after being deceived by Satan who appeared to her in the form of a walking, talking serpent, it was Adam who bore complete responsibility for sin because God had commanded him even before Eve was created: “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.” (Genesis 2:16-17 NKJV)
“For the wages of sin (even one sin) (the price that sin pays) is death, but the (free) gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23 NKJV; 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 NKJV; emphasis added)
That “eternal punishment” is horrendous and generally described as an “eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons, as both physical and spiritual never-ending torment and suffering where their “worm does not die” and the “unquenchable fire” of burning sulfur and brimstone, mentioned in Mark 9:48.
This is God’s justice for sin… “just” what we deserve.
So if you know your actions are not Christ-like and do not please God and you choose to do them anyway, then you must understand His wrath. In every willful sin, there is a contempt of the goodness of God.
God’s rightful judgment for sin does not imply in any way that He is spiteful, ill-tempered or unjust. To the contrary, God Himself, through Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay the penalty for your sin almost 2000 years ago. You can be forgiven. You do not have to face His wrath. His judgment simply signifies His hatred for sin and evil, His refusal to compromise with it and His unwillingness to tolerate it.
His justice requires that all sinners must die to pay the penalty for their sins unless someone else dies to pay the penalty for them, but God required that the substitute for man be a human who has committed no sin, because if the substitute had sinned, his death would only pay the penalty for his own sin.
There was not one perfect, sinless human who could be that substitute. Not yet.
But the Good News is this…
There was no sin and no evil in the world until the first man chose through his own free will to rebel against God’s authority. God knew that Adam would sin, but His perfect plan included redemption through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and that plan was already in place even before time began.
God, the Creator of the universe and everything in it, the one true God and only living God, loves you so much that while almost 2000 years before you were even born and yet already cursed with sin and condemned to eternal punishment for that sin, God Himself through His Son Jesus Christ, became that sinless human substitute, the perfect lamb, and died on a cross to pay the penalty for your sins and the sins of all mankind. There is no other “god” who loved sinful man so much that He would suffer and die for him.
Let this sink in…
God Himself died in your place so you wouldn’t have to.
Jesus, the only begotten Son of God, was God incarnate, which means God in human form, the Word of God in the flesh, both God and man… truly God and truly human who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin named Mary and the only human who ever lived a sinless, righteous life, making Him the only “human” who could pay the penalty for your sin, because He never sinned.
His death to pay the penalty for other men’s sin would never have to be repeated. It would apply to all mankind for all time!
And He did it for one reason…
LOVE!
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish (die) but have everlasting (eternal) life.” (John 3:16 NKJV; emphasis added)
“But God demonstrates (and proves) His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8 NKJV; emphasis added)
There is no greater love than this.
And on the third day when God raised Jesus from the dead and He walked out of that tomb, everyone had the righteousness of Jesus set to their account which would make them right and acceptable to God for the first time and for all time, through what Christ had done for them and grant them eternal life, but only by God’s grace, through repentance and faith in Christ.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most important event in the history of the world. It is the foundation of our hope.
As Paul wrote:
“And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile (worthless and powerless); you are still in your sins (condemned and under the control and penalty of sin)!” 1 Corinthians 15:17 NKJV; emphasis added)
But God did raise Jesus from the dead.
The historical evidence for the resurrection is overwhelming and if the resurrection of Jesus really happened (which it did), it proves that Christianity is true and everything else is not, because it is simply not possible to mistake a man raised from the dead. With His resurrection, as it had been prophesized and foretold by Jesus Himself, He proved that He was God.
“There is simply no solution to the human problem of sin and its eternal punishment but by the grace of the one true and only living, Creator God and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.“
As we wait patiently and look forward to His second coming, Jesus is our living hope, our “only hope” in this lost world and that hope is sealed by the Holy Spirit.
“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. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.“ (1 Peter 1:3-5 NIV)
You don’t have to believe any of this and nobody can make you believe it, but if you don’t believe it, you have no excuse and remain condemned.
By rejecting Jesus Christ, you are literally choosing to forfeit your soul for eternity.
“Whatever is the object (the things, types of sin) for which men forsake Christ, that is the price at which Satan (God’s enemy) buys their souls. Yet one soul (yours) is worth more than all the world.” (Matthew Henry Commentary; emphasis added)
The “objects,” whatever those objects are for you, are not worth the eternal “price” that must be paid for it… your soul. Repent and be saved!
Do not be deceived.
God offers redemption to every living person. The price of that redemption was paid for all on a cross almost 2000 years ago. To receive His grace will require genuine repentance and saving faith in who Jesus is and what He did for you. There no other way.
Your eternal life changing question is:
“Are you saved by God’s grace through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ?“
What was your immediate answer as you read that question?
Was it “yes?” or was it “no?”
From Ephesians 2:8-9; emphasis added:
“For by (God’s) grace you have been saved through (repentance and) faith (in Jesus Christ) and that not of yourselves (you didn’t do anything to deserve it); it is the (free) gift of God.”
“He who believes in Him (Jesus) is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” (John 3:18 NKJV; emphasis added)
Some non-believers, when presented with the plan of salvation might ask: “What does it mean to be saved? Saved from what? There are 4300 or more gods and religions in the world, which God are you referring to? What does grace mean? What does it mean to repent? What is faith? Who is Jesus Christ? How did Jesus Christ “save” me?”
Your eternal life-changing question is: “Are you saved by God’s grace through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ?”
Let’s break down this most important question:
(Are you “saved?”)
What does it mean to be “saved?” What is salvation?
Salvation means you are set free from the penalty of sin and its eternal punishment; God’s rightful judgment, by His grace and through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ because of what He did for you through His death and resurrection. Your sins are “forgiven” which means God has canceled your debt by paying the penalty owed for those sins, Himself, through His Son. You were spiritually “dead in your sin” and now have been transformed by the Holy Spirit through a spiritual rebirth, born again… for a second time, as a new creation in Christ.
“The greatest of all God’s miracles is the salvation of a soul.” C.H. Spurgeon
When you are “saved” it means you are a Christian, a born-again believer, a follower of Jesus Christ, an adopted child of the one true and only living, Creator God and an heir to eternal life.
How do you “know that you know that you know” you are saved?
The first reason you know is because when you are “saved,” born again, the Holy Spirit completely changes you from the inside-out as a new creation in Christ, with a new heart, a new way of thinking, new attitudes, new behavior, new Christ-like character and identity, new priorities and a new way of living your life. The old you no longer exists, everything about you is “new,” so you simply cannot be “saved” and remain the same.
The second reason is through the testimony of the Holy Spirit where He provides new believers with the assurance of their salvation and of their adoption into God’s family. The Holy Spirit reveals this “truth” to your spirit.
“The (Holy) Spirit Himself testifies and confirms together with our spirit [assuring us] that we [born again believers] are (beloved) children of God.” (Romans 8:16 AMP)
“And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, ‘Abba! (Our) Father!'” (Galatians 4:6 AMP)
(Are you saved by “God’s grace?“)
Who is God?
God is a greater, supernatural infinite Being, a mind who is not physical or material, an eternal spirit outside of space, time and matter who is eternal and has always been and will always be. There is no other God besides Him. He is the Creator God, the Uncaused First Cause of the universe and everything in it. He is the Judeo-Christian God, the God of the Bible, the one true sovereign God and the only living God and He is the only God who, by His grace, makes your redemption and salvation possible. He is perfectly righteous and just.
He is the ONE God, revealed in three distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, who each have vital roles in your salvation; God who purposed it through His divine and perfect plan, Jesus who accomplished it through His death and resurrection and the Holy Spirit who applies it by transforming you into a spiritual rebirth, where you are born again as a new creation in Christ. He is not limited to space and time like we are, nor is He limited by any other possibly existing dimensions. He is immanent which means always present and operating within space and time and all other possibly existing dimensions. He governs, fine tunes and controls all aspects of the universe which He created from nothing.
God is omnipotent with unlimited power as evidenced by His creation of the universe, the virgin birth, the resurrection of Christ and the salvation of souls. He is omnipresent and is everywhere, all the time. He is omniscient and He knows everything… the past, the present and the future, all at the same time.
And He is so much more.
The Truth is this: God is THE God with a capital “G” and He is not just “a god,” His name IS God. He is the great “I AM,” and there is not any person or anything in this world that can change that or separate us from His love. God is who He said He is and He will do what He said He would do. He keeps His promises and Jesus Christ is our living hope for those promises which are sealed by the Holy Spirit.
What is grace?
Grace is God’s unmerited favor for you which means that because of His love and mercy, He gives you what you need (a Savior) and not what you deserve (death and eternal punishment). It is God’s grace that draws you to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ through His Holy Spirit. It is His grace you accept when you become a born-again believer in Christ.
(Are you saved by God’s grace through “repentance“)
Repentance means changing your mind about sin and intentionally turning away from your sin and turning toward a righteous relationship with the one true, living God. It is the repudiation (rejection) of not only the act of sin and also the repudiation of self for allowing sin to separate you from God. It requires a complete surrender to God and His will for your life. It must be genuine, heartfelt and real; a life-changing decision.
You cannot have genuine repentance without saving faith or saving faith without genuine repentance. They are inseparable, yet distinct acts.
Repent and believe the gospel truth.
(Are you saved by God’s grace through repentance and “faith“)
What is faith?
Faith the is belief, trust and complete confidence in who Jesus is and what He has done for you through His death and resurrection.
It means turning to, trusting in, and relying on Him.
“So faith comes from hearing the Good News (the gospel). And people hear the Good News when someone tells them about Christ.” (Romans 10:17 ERV; emphasis added).
Saving faith requires a knowledge of what God has said through His Word. It is by hearing the the Good News that the Holy Spirit begins to do His work in you. It is the Holy Spirit who grants you the gift of faith, enabling you to believe in Jesus Christ.
Not “temporary” faith where you believe for a while and then fall away or “intellectual” faith where your faith in Christ is in your head, but not in your heart or “dead” faith where there are no actions to show the evidence of your faith, but real “saving” faith where you confess with your mouth for all to hear that you repent of you sins and that Jesus is your Lord and Savior and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead so that you might have eternal life.
This “saving” faith is imbedded in your “new” heart when you are “born again.” It completely changes you from the inside-out. It shapes and defines the content of your new Christ-like character that grows and matures each day until God calls you home.
It is not something you can do all by yourself; it’s saving faith, real faith, permanent faith, which is granted only by the Holy Spirit who only grants your faith when it’s real.
(Are you saved by God’s grace through repentance and faith in “Jesus Christ?“)
Who is Jesus Christ?
Let’s begin with the question Jesus asked His disciples in Matthew 16:15-16 (NKJV):
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
But more importantly, “who do “you” say that Jesus is?
Simon Peter spoke the “Truth,” just as you should, and answered:
“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Jesus praises Peter for his accurate confession of faith in Him as Messiah, as deity, as divinity and as the anointed one of God.
Jesus is the only begotten Son of the one true and only living, Creator God, the Christ, the long awaited Messiah, the Anointed One, the Chosen One, the Perfect Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. He is God incarnate, the deity of God in human form, the Word of God in the flesh, truly God and truly man who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin named Mary and the only human being who ever lived a sinless, righteous life. Jesus is also the only human who was not born of the seed of Adam and therefore not cursed with the sin nature like all of us. His name means, “Savior. He will save His people from their sins.” That’s why he came. That’s why He was born. That’s why He died. That’s why God raised Him from the dead. And that is why we should repent and put our faith and trust in Him.
What did Jesus do to “Save” You?
The timeless message of Isaiah is reflected in the Old Testament prophet’s emphasis on God’s sovereign control of history and in his many predictions describing the ministry of the Savior that God would send to deliver his people. The Savior, Jesus Christ, described so powerfully by Isaiah, has appeared with the offer of salvation for all. Ultimately, in God’s own time, Jesus will return to earth, and then all things truly will be set right.
He was arrested, beaten, falsely convicted, had His hands and feet nailed to a cross, His side pierced with a spear, willfully bled and died to pay the penalty for your sin and the sin of all mankind. On the third day, God raised Him in a victory over death to grant you eternal life in Heaven.
But His righteousness is not yours until you choose to accept God’s gift of grace through your repentance and faith in Christ; “justified” and declared “not guilty” by God through the righteousness of Jesus; justification.
The Cosmic War Between Go(o)d and Evil!
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden defined the two distinct paths that mankind takes by their own free will, each going in opposite directions and drew the lines for the cosmic war, spiritual warfare, between good and evil; between God and His enemy, Satan.
God deliberately allows every human being to be exposed to evil and its source in the spiritual realm. The apostle Paul explains:
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness (the Devil and his demons) in the heavenly (supernatural) places. Therefore, put on the complete armor of God, so that you will be able to [successfully] resist and stand your ground in the evil day [of danger], and having done everything [that the crisis demands], to stand firm [in your place, fully prepared, immovable, victorious].” (Ephesians 6:12-13 AMP)
Evil (sin) can only exist if good exists and good can only exist if God exists.
There are only two sides in this epic battle, a winning side and a losing side, each revealed in the book of Revelation. God is the winning side, representing goodness, making the rules and setting the perfect standards for life and death as only the Creator of the universe could do.
Satan, also called the Devil, is the enemy (adversary) of God, who through unrighteousness in the form of self-generated pride as a high-ranking, holy angel named Lucifer (which means Morning Star), rebelled against God and was banished from Heaven along with his army of rebel angels (now known as “demons) who assisted in the plot. They were thrown down to Earth and will ultimately be condemned to Hell.
Satan is the personification of evil who was given a temporary right by God to rule over the world system. He is the god of “this” world, the prince of the power of the air and the father of lies, who is now at work in the lives of those who are dead in their sin and separated from God. “He is “evil” on a supernatural level with a force of demons who use their powers to seduce and deceive humanity and to fight the purposes of God and are primarily involved in the development of false religion systems of all kinds. They are the purveyors of doctrines of demons and are very sophisticated and relentless in their efforts.”
The devil is the source of unbelief and every moral and spiritual evil. You see his influence all around us. Satan hates God because He is God and he, the devil, is not and he wants you to hate God, too. He and his minions, including Godless human beings in every walk of life, work to make bad things look good and good things look bad, to make right look wrong and wrong look right.
Sinners are constantly being “hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok and flat out deceived” by the enemy of God and his demons. This is a perfect description of what these demons constantly attempt to do to all of us, even born again believers.
Satan’s goal is to destroy man or make man destroy himself and wind up in a fiery torment in hell for eternity. He has influence over every living human, but he can’t “make” you do anything. He can only lie, deceive and confuse in order to tempt you to make the wrong choices and turn way from God. But he does not make the choices for you. Only you can make those choices.
When there is evil anywhere in the world, Satan and his demons are right in the middle of it all. He even recruits fellow humans beings, maybe even family and friends to help with the deceit. The devil is the author of confusion who makes it difficult for you the discern the “Truth.” He will never tell you the “Truth” because he is evil and absolutely incapable of telling the “Truth.” But for “born again” believers in Christ, the “Truth” is imbedded in your heart through the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Satan and Evil Will Lose
Because of his pride Satan took on a task that he had no chance to win, but his chaos and destruction continues all around us on the Earth, but ultimately God’s justice will be served and Satan, his demons and all of God’s enemies (the Anti-Christ, the False Prophet and all those who reject Christ) will be thrown into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10) where they “will be tormented, without ceasing, forever and ever.”
Once the full number of individuals willing to receive God’s offer of forgiveness and transformation has been reached, God will permanently remove them from this creation and also remove from their presence anything less than perfect goodness (all evil). God designed every aspect of this vast universe for the eradication of evil, separating the “wheat from the chaff.” Woe (judgment) is coming for evil in our world; God’s justice; “just” what we deserve when we deny Jesus Christ. (Source: Romans 8:18-25; Revelation 20-22).
We are all participants in this great battle every day of our earthly lives… willing or not, on one side or the other, but you cannot be on both sides at the same time. You must choose a side. One will win. One will lose… for eternity and eternity is a long, long time to be wrong. Don’t be wrong!
All non-believers, those who have never accepted or outright reject Jesus as their Lord and Savior, are also the enemies of God. And just to make it clear, if you are a non-believer, you too, are the enemy of God.
Which side are you on? Which road do you travel? Which gate will you enter? Be one of the few. Seek Him. Accept his free gift of grace. Tell others about His love.
There are approximately 8 billion people in the world today. 85% of these “claim” some sort of a “religion.” The other 15% are atheists, denying the existence of God altogether. Some actually worship the devil. There are over 4300 religions/gods/idols and all believe their religion is the “right” religion. And because of all these thousands of “religious” choices at home and all around the world, you can see the deception and mass confusion it causes and Satan, along with his demons, loves every single moment of it.
But only one of those 4300+ religions believe that repentance and faith in Jesus Christ (Christianity) is the only way to salvation and eternal life.
There is only one true, living, Creator God. All the others are “gods” are created by man, but none are “THE God,” the “Great I Am,” the Uncaused First Cause of the universe and everything in it, who has always existed and always will exist.
How Can You Know the “Real” Truth?
The Bible is the one source of absolute, unchanging and indisputable “Truth” right at your fingertips. It is the inerrant, authoritative, inspired Word of God, which presents powerful and convincing proof that Christianity is the one true religion, that the triune God is the one and only God of the universe and that Christ died to pay the penalty for you sin so that you could live for Him.
“All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage]; so that the man of God may be complete and proficient, outfitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17 AMP)
With this app, your Bible is with you everywhere you go, just like your mobile phone is. You have access to God’s Word any time you want it, but especially when you need it.
The 66 books of the Bible (39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament) present an active historical account of the creation of the universe and all that is in it. Experts agree that it is a true narrative, not just poetry and certainly not fiction.
The Bible describes the major events in the creation of life on Earth and places them in the scientifically correct order. All of this could only come from the Creator Himself. No mere human would be capable of such predictive power.
The Bible proclaims one great theme, redemption through Jesus Christ, points to the one true and only living, Creator God and offers to all one plan of salvation. The Old Testament says Jesus is coming, the Gospels say He’s here, the book of Acts proclaims Him, the Epistles explain Him and Revelation says He’s coming again.”
Compared to the other “holy books,” the Bible is the only one that stands up to the test and proves to be both historically and scientifically accurate, where the others fail to do so.
“The Bible accurately foretells specific events, in detail, many years, sometimes centuries, before they occur. Approximately 2,500 prophecies appear in the pages of the Bible with about 2,000 of which have already been fulfilled to the letter, with no errors. These fulfilled prophesies provide more evidence for the reliability of the Bible.”
Jesus proved that He was the Creator and the Redeemer through the perfectly moral life He lived on Earth and by the miracles He publicly performed, the most significant of which was His resurrection from the dead, which He also foretold.
Only one God’s divine plan of redemption includes restoring His perfect world for eternity through the virgin birth, sinless life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
In fact, God’s greatest miracle, the creation of the massive universe with over 200 billion galaxies and 400 billion, trillion stars, which He spoke into existence from absolutely nothing and still continuously fine-tunes every day, exists only for us, in the exercise of mercy for those who by their free will accept Jesus Christ and judgment for those who by their free will do not. The awesomeness of this “Truth” could not be more evident.
Just to be clear, God is not asking you to get into a “religion.” He is not in the religion business. Religion’s got nothing to do with it. He’s asking you to enter into a relationship with Him called love. It is a relationship that will set you free. The focus is not on a religion, a denomination, a family tradition or anything else… just His grace through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.
Jesus made it perfectly clear when He said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)
When He said “I am the way”… He was saying He is the ONE way, the ONLY way to salvation. Without Him you remain “lost” and condemned.
When He said “I am the Truth”… He was saying He is the divine incarnate Word of God, the deity of God in human form, truly God and truly man, the source of all Truth which is absolute, unchanging and indisputable.
And when He said “I am the life”… He was saying that because of His death and resurrection and by accepting God’s grace through genuine repentance and faith in Christ, you are no longer “dead” in your sin and have been granted eternal life. Jesus died so you could live. Because He lives, your earthly and eternal lives are forever changed the moment accept Him your Lord and Savior. Jesus said, “I come that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows”]… abundant life in Christ, both here and for eternity. (John 10:10 AMP; emphasis added)
Our Lord Jesus Christ declared himself to be both the Resurrection and the Life. In every sense He is the Resurrection; the source, the substance, the first-fruits, the cause of it. The redeemed soul lives after death in happiness; and after the resurrection, both body and soul are kept from all evil forever. (Matthew Henry’s Commentary; John 11:25)
Salvation means freedom from the penalty of God’s wrath and rightful punishment for sin and it “is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” (Acts 14:6)
And that name, above all names is:
JESUS!
God purposed your salvation by His grace through His divine and perfect plan that existed even before time began, Jesus accomplished it through His death and resurrection and the Holy Spirit applies it through your spiritual rebirth.
To get saved, to become a Christian, you must be “born again” and that begins with your conversion, converting from lost to saved, from condemned to redeemed, from guilty to not guilty, only through genuine repentance and saving faith in Jesus Christ.
Justification is next where you are made right and acceptable with God through the righteousness of Jesus by His death and resurrection and then, regeneration, your spiritual rebirth, where you will be “born again” as a new creation in Christ!
Only the names of those who are born for a “second time,” born again, will appear in the Lamb’s Book of Life on that great day when Christ returns for His final judgment.
God created you to know Him, to love Him and to have a perfect eternal relationship with Him. He loves you and He wants you to reciprocate His love… to love Him back. But He won’t mandate it. Jesus said the greatest commandment (law) is that you should love God with everything you have, your heart, your soul, your mind and your strength, but it’s your choice. He won’t make you love Him because that would not be true love. It has to be your idea, your choice. Adam, in the Garden, had “grace,” but chose “evil.” You, on the other hand, already because of sin have “evil” and must choose “grace.”
Woe (judgment, wrath) is coming for those who reject Jesus Christ. God is going to punish sin wherever it is found. You have broken God’s law with even just one sin. There is no doubt that we are all sinners, with no exceptions, and fall short every day of God’s perfect standard of righteousness. There’s no denying or escaping that fact. And although God gave you a way out through the blood of Jesus, if you die in your sin, He will be forced to give you justice, because that’s what He said He would do. God is just, He does not lie and He keeps His promises. He always has and always will.
“Working together with Him (Jesus), we strongly urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain [by turning away from sound doctrine and His merciful kindness]. For He (Christ) says,
‘At the acceptable time (the time of grace) I listened to you,
And I helped you on the day of salvation.’
Behold, now is “the acceptable time,” behold, now is “the day of salvation”— (2 Corinthians 6:1-2 AMP)
The gospel is a word of grace sounding in our ears. The gospel day is a day of salvation, the means of grace are the means of salvation, the offers of the gospel are the offers of salvation, and the present time is the proper time to accept these offers. The morrow is none of ours: we know not what will be on the morrow, nor where we shall be. We now enjoy a day of grace; then let all be careful not to neglect it. (Matthew Henry’s Commentary on 2 Corinthians 6:1-2)
Today is the day of salvation!
Be careful not to neglect the day of grace while you still have air in your lungs.
Repentance and faith are the necessary responses you must make to the gospel message. They work hand-in-hand. Learn more here.
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