ArchivedHow is this for a salvation message?Hi all,
God loves you and knows you personally, out of all the many millions of people on the earth, He even knows how many hairs there are on your head. God loves you with the same intensity as a mother or father loves their children, and He is indeed a parent to you, because He created you.
God loved you so much that He made the greatest sacrifice anyone can make for another, He died so you could be with Him forever. You see, there was a problem, and a barrier separating man from God, a barrier that still stands for most people today. That barrier is sin. God is absolutely perfect, He cannot sin, has never sinned, and never will sin. Can you imagine, if you had never done wrong, never even felt the desire to do so, how utterly abhorrent you would find the sight of someone doing wrong? And now imagine that you had created those people who sinned - that they were your children - and you could see how much pain their sin caused themselves and others, but could not, without violating their free will, make them stop? You see, God doesn't want a bunch of drones slavishly doing whatever He commands, being forced to do so, He wants people who choose to obey Him. You don't have to follow God - He's not going to come round with a big stick and make you - though He has made sure you know what the consequences are of not obeying Him, you are still free to ignore Him. God is justice, as well as love, and He cannot let you enter heaven unless you have no sin.
And that is why Jesus came. In the Old Testament, blood sacrifices of perfect, unblemished animals were made to cleanse sin:
Jesus was slain as a perfect Lamb, taking upon Himself everyone's sin so that through belief in him our sins could be forgiven, and more than forgiven, blotted out completely, made as though they had never been, all though Jesus' sacrifice. So, how do you get this forgiveness and the gift of eternal life?
You can use this prayer, if you like: Father, I know that I have sinned against You and I need forgiveness. I believe that You died on the cross for me, to cleanse my sins. I want to turn from my sins and follow You for the rest of my life. I acknowledge You as my Savior and my Lord, and I ask that You enter my heart and my life. Help me to love and serve you with all my body and soul. In Jesus name, Amen. If you have given your heart to God, then there are some verses which you may find useful: Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 8:37-39 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 John 5:12-13 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. So, what do you think? /Lucilius |
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