The following paragraphs
tell the good news from the Holy Bible about how
to be right with God by faith in Jesus Christ.
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Jesus replied: "' Love
the Lord your God with all your heart and with
all your soul and with all your mind. This is the
first and greatest commandment. And the second
is like it: ' Love your
neighbor as yourself. '" (Matt.
22:37-39)
All
of God ' s
commandments are summed up into these
two: perfect love for God and perfect love
for all people. Have you lived up to these
two commands?
" Not everyone who says to me, ' Lord,
Lord, ' will enter the
Kingdom of heaven, but only he who
does the will of my Father who is in
heaven...Be perfect, therefore, as
your heavenly Father is perfect. " (Matt.
7:21, 5:48)
No one
will enter heaven unless they do the
will of God perfectly! Have you been
perfect?
...for
all have sinned and fall short
of the glory of God... (Romans
3:23)
Everyone
has failed God; there is no one who had kept
the will of God perfectly.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift
of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans
6:23)
What
we earn from our sin against
God is
death. Death is separation from
God. But
God has a gift for
us. This
gift is a personal relationship
with God
through Jesus Christ.
If you receive the
gift of
Jesus Christ before you die,
you will
never die - you
will never
be separated from Him. This closeness with
God begins
the moment you receive Jesus Christ and
continues
for all of eternity.
For Christ died for sins once for all, the
righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to
God. (1
Peter
3:18)
Christ,
the only man who
ever lived
in perfect love
for God and man
(because He
was both
God and man),
died on
the cross
for us who are
sinners, in
order to bring
us into a personal
relationship with
God. He
paid for our
sins
so that we could
be right with
God. And
He died for all, that those
who live should no longer
live for themselves but for
Him who died for them and
was raised again. (2
Corinthians 5:15) He
died for all of us so that
we would no longer live
for ourselves but for God.
" For God so loved the world
that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal
life. " (John 3:16)
God,
out of
love, gave His Son, Jesus Christ, so
that whoever believes in Him, instead of himself
and his good works, will not be separated
from God but will have a personal relationship
with God forever. God already gave His
Son two thousand years ago. What do you have
to do? You have to believe in Him personally.
In
reply Jesus declared, " I
tell you the truth, no one can see the
kingdom of God unless he is born again. " (John
3:3)
This
personal relationship
requires a
new birth.
What does
this mean?
Yet
to all who
received Him, to those who believed
in His name, He gave the right
to become children of God - children born
not of natural descent, nor of human
decision or a husbands ' will,
but born of God. (John
1:12-13)
When
we receive
Jesus Christ
and believe
in His
name to
save us
personally from
the wrath
our rebellion
against God
and our
sins deserve,
we are " born-again. " This
simply means that God, the Holy Spirit,
causes our spirit to become alive
to God. This spiritual birth is also
known as " regeneration. "
Jesus
replied, " I
am the way and the truth and the
life. No one comes
to the Father except through me. " (John
14:6)
There
is no
other way
to be
right with
God except
through faith
in Jesus
Christ! "
Here
I am! I stand at the door and
knock.
If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,
I will come
in and eat with him, and he with
me. " (Revelation
3:20)
This
is Jesus
talking
to you. The
door He
is knocking
on is
your heart.
Will you
open the
door of
your heart
and let
Him in?
(The coming
in and
eating with
you is
a metaphor
for personal
relationship.)
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