Let me share something to you about God:
God has created the world and everything in it. He has also created you in your mother's womb. Your mother may have delivered you, but she did not create you. God is the one who gave you the limbs, organs, muscles, and the soul that was made in His likeness. He is the one who has given you life. Not only that, God has so far blessed you with fresh air, food, family, health, money, talents, a job and every other thing you have. By His word you are kept alive and have your being.
But the bad news is that you haven't glorified God as God.
You haven't given Him thanks for the things you have received from God. Even though you say you may have at some point, the problem is that you haven't glorified nor gave thanks to God in every single moment of your life with a 100% genuine heart. You don't love God with all your heart, mind and with all your strength, all the time.
Not only you haven't given your whole to and for God, you have only used your time on this world for your own self. You have been worshipping and serving your own self for your entire life, living only for your will, your passions and your desires. You have made yourself your own God.
Not only that, you have made the things of this world gods and delighted in them and worshipped them. Things that God has given you - money, career, recognition, family, sex, hobbies, etc - you have loved more than God, and lived your life for them and served them. You would even die and sacrifice yourself for them. These are idols you have made and followed after, instead of God who has created all things.
However, the biggest problem is that you have done things that you know is wrong. You have sinned against God. You have done wicked, evil things. You have lied, you have stolen, cheated, thought evil things, been angry and violent at people, been bitter, hating and cussing, having adulterous and perverted evil imaginations, etc. You have done and thought things that you wouldn't mention to anyone, not even to your best friend. You have sinned and done things that are evil and wrong not only in God's holy eyes, but even in your own eyes.
So for all these things, you are under the just wrath and anger of God. You will die physically because of your sins, and afterward face the judgement of God. You have failed God in every aspect and have come nowhere close to pleasing God. God is Good so therefore He shall by His justice punish all the evil you have done and thought and spoken. You have lived your life for yourself, for things and for sin, when you should have lived your life for the glory of God and in thanksgiving to God. All the good that you have ever done is to please your own self and make yourself look righteous to yourself and to others. But God looks at it and says your righteousness is as filthy rags, because you are corrupted and evil on the inside and love evil.
And as if that wasn't enough, you have judged and condemned those who sinned the same sins you commit. You hate liars and acts of injustice, and you condemn them, but you yourself lie and do acts of injustice to your neighbors. God will be the only righteous judge, who will condemn your unrighteous judgments.
Death, corruption and eternal fire awaits you in hell. Hell is nothing but an eternal punishment for your sins in eternal torment and suffering. Just as you have abused the blessings that God has given you in this life and offended an eternal God, you will die forever in an eternal hell of endless suffering. Just as you were useless to God in giving Him all the glory in this life, you will involuntarily give glory to Him in the flames of hell as an involuntary burnt offering to God. This is the suffering that awaits you in your current state.
But God has pronounced His Good News to the world.
This Good News is what God has done for you in His Son Jesus Christ so that you may escape the wrath of God. Not only that, it is what God has done for you so that you may become His child and enjoy His eternal blessings and love forever.
God sent His only Son to the world, who was born of a virgin, to be born as a human being, clothed with human flesh. Jesus Christ, though He was equal to God, came and lived a sinless life in this world. Not only that, He lived a life that was pleasing to God, glorifying God and doing good towards man, being confirmed by God by many miracles He performed. However, men did not believe in Him, but condemned and crucified Jesus Christ. But little did they realize that through this act they were performing the will of God ordained and planned from the foundation of the world:
God had laid on His Son all your sins and my sins, and crucified Him on a tree, making Him to be sin who knew no sin. God laid on Jesus Christ all the curse and the wrath of God that should have fallen upon you, and slaughtered His own Son instead. Through the suffering death of His Son, God made it possible for you to be forgiven, even though you have sinned against Him continuously. God did this because He loved you, even though you despised Him and gave Him not the honour that He deserves. He sacrificed and gave away His own Son for you so that you don't have to go to Hell, so you don't have to be judged for your sins. This is the great Gospel, the Good News of God. This is the love of God, manifested for the whole world to see. And not only that, Jesus Christ rose again from the dead. It was God's confirmation and proof and a sign to the world that Jesus Christ was indeed the Son of God and that everything He spoke was true, and that Jesus Himself was not a sinner, but that He lived a life perfectly pleasing to God.
This Jesus ascended to Heaven, to appear in front of God for whoever believes and trusts in Him. This Jesus will come back and judge the world for all its evil and unrighteousness.
This is what you have to do to be saved. You must believe. Believe that this Good News that God is preaching is true and every bit of it is God's work and that it is the only way for you to be saved. Believe God and His Son to be true in what they have spoken and done in this world.
Second, trust in Jesus Christ the person Himself. He is the only mediator, the only Bridge between God and man. Jesus Christ is the only way you can have true peace with God, and have a right relationship with God. All other roads lead to Hell, because God has not given us any other name by which we must be saved. No other gods or mediators will save you from the eternal condemnation. Jesus is the only God that can save you from the eternal fire. Trust in Jesus Christ to save you from the wrath to come.
When you believe and put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, God says He will grant you the authority to become a true child of God. Because you receive His Son Jesus Christ, God also adopts you as His own son. You become the child of God by the grace of God. God's Holy Spirit will live within you, to guide you and lead you in the path of righteousness and holiness. The Holy Spirit will give you new desires and make you understand more about Jesus Christ and the love of the Father. As a child of God you become the heir of eternal life and become a king and priest of God, and shall one day rule the world with Christ the King.
Turn your life today and become a child of God. Repent of your sins and confess everything you have done that has displeased God in your life. And ask God for forgiveness. Ask Him to blot out your transgressions by the merit of what His Son Jesus Christ has done. Save yourself from this wicked and twisted generation. Stop loving sin and evil more than God, stop your rebellion against God, and believe and trust in what God has done for you. God has given everything He can give so that you may not die. Love Him, and you can start by appreciating what His Son has done for you. Turn to God, by the Way of Jesus Christ. Give glory to Him and thanks to Him by believing in Him and the promise of eternal life that God has given you. Do this today and don't put it off until tomorrow as God hasn't promised tomorrow to you. Save yourself today and you will have the courage to face death and the confidence to enter into heaven!
Friday, February 25, 2011
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