God loves us,
unconditionally, and that love was expressed in the person of the Lord Jesus
christ, but may I say, that having the
Knowledge of God and His ways is not enough to merit salvation.
We are not saved from sin by having the knowledge that god loves us.
The gospel (the good
news) of salvation that delivers us from the guilt and penalty of sin and gives
us eternal life now and forever (once we accept it from our hearts) is that
Christ died for all our sins, all of them, past, present and future, was buried
three days in the tomb, and came forth from the grave victorious of death, hell
and the grave.
So it is no longer a
sin question but a question of what have we done with the One who paid for our
sins.
He who was holy,
harmless, undefiled and separate from sin, went to the cross in our place and
stead and became sin for us, (as 2 Cor. 5:21 tells us).
On the cross He who was very
man and very God, received in his own sinless, perfect body the deadly
consequences of sin, and there on the cross paid for all our sins.
Now all that God
requires of us is that we accept that finished work on Calvary's cross for
ourselves and call on His name, inviting Him to come into our lives and live out
His life through us. (Romans 10:13)
When we do that, we
instantly pass from death unto life (John 5:24), we become new creatures in
Christ, (as we're told in 2 Cor. 5:17).
Once we are saved,
once we have called on the Name of the Lord and received for ourselves His
finished work on the cross, we are cleaned of all sin, we're instantly given
eternal life and we pass from death unto life.
Then, because we are saved, we now begin to reach out to others
encouraging them to also receive Christ as their personal Saviour.
Listen to Romans
6:23, "The wages of sin is death, but the GIFT OF GOD is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord.. You will
doubtless receive a number of gifts on the 25th of this month.
You will not work for any of those gifts simply because they are gifts.
You can't work for a gift or it ceases to
be a gift. All you can do is either
recive it and be grateful or give it back to the one giving it.
So, remember Romans 6:23, "The wages
of sin is death, but the GIFT OF GOD is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord." I hope the time will come soon,
when you will, with grateful heart, receive Christ as Saviour and Lord
and know the joy of eternal life and sins forgiven.
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