The Gospel

Before we start there are 2 questions for you to answer.

#1. Have you come to a place in your spiritual life that if you were to die today you know 100% that you would go to heaven? (be honest and examine your life). Its yes or no, your answer cannot be maybe because that isn’t knowing for sure.

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#2. If you were to die today and stand before God and He said “Ok (your name here) why should I let you into my heaven”?
Be honest with your answer. Now write down your reasons that you think God should let you in.

NOW FOR THE MOST AWESOME NEWS YOU
ARE ABOUT TO HERE BROKEN DOWN INTO 5 POINTS.
It’s the Gospel which means Good News!

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Heaven is a free gift. Romans 6:23 tells us that the gift of God is eternal life.
A gift has to be received meaning that we cannot work for it.
Ephesians 2:8-9 says for it is by grace you have been saved through faith and not of yourself, it is the Gift of God not by works so no one can boast.

Imagine on your birthday after receiving your gifts you went around the room and tried to repay everyone that gave you a gift. They would think that your odd or maybe they may be insulted especially if the gift cost $500.00 and you were handing a $20.00 bill to everybody. The gift was to be received, it was given in love.

The bible tells us that heaven must be a free gift because of the nature of man.

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All Humans are sinners. Romans 3:23 tells us that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. That means you and me, from Mother Theresa to Osama bin laden. We know that breaking the 10 commandments are a sin. Remember they are 10 commandments not 10 suggestions. The bible says that a bad thought is a sin so you can imagine how many times a day we sin. Let’s say you had a good day and only sinned 3 times per day. Now that would be pretty good. Well over the course of a year that would be about a 1000 sins. If you lived to be 80 that would be 80,000 sins. If you had 80,000 parking tickets would the judge let you go for the good deeds you told him that you have done? Of course not.
Well God has a standard. The bible tells us that we are to be perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48).

Imagine if you were working in the hot sun and someone came and offered you a glass of ice cold water but before they handed it to you, you saw that person put one drop of poison in the water, Would you drink it?

I’m sure you answered No. Well that one drop of poison is what one sin in our life is to God. That one sin ruins us before God.

The bible says that there is a book that records all our sin. The first page being our birth certificate and the last being our death certificate and every sin we ever committed in the middle. Scary Huh!

Now look at your answer again to question #2. Can you see how that stuff is not going to have any favor with god because of your sin.

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The bible tells us, God is Love (1 John 4:8) but also tells us that God is perfect and just and must punish sin (Exodus 34:7). The bible tells us that after we committed one sin we our guilty of all the law (James 2:10). We like to belittle our sins when we compare them to rape and murder but the bible describes sin as sin. God is Holy and righteous and punished all sin.

If times were rough for you financially and you decided to rob a bank. You have never done anything like this before; you had a clean record up until this time. Your family was hungry and your about to be evicted from your home. So you hold the bank up with a squirt gun that looks real so no one gets hurt. Well the bank teller hits the silent alarm and you’re arrested on the sidewalk. Now you’re before the judge and you plead your case. You tell the judge you have never done anything like this before and that you had a clean record up until this point. No one was hurt and the bank got their money back. Can you please let me slide on this one? If the judge is just and upholds the law should he let you go? Of course not, right.
Now imagine the same thing happened to you but you lived in a small town of 500 people and the judge was your own dad. You tell your dad the same thing. “Come on dad you know me. I have never done anything this radical. The bank got their money back and no one was hurt.” Now if your dad was a just judge and had to uphold the law would he let you go? Well he can’t if he is just. Our Father in heaven has to punish our sin just the same. Sin separates us from Gods presence.
God gave us a way out of this problem; Remember I said God is love……

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God gave us a way out of this problem through the person of Jesus Christ.
The bible tells us that Jesus is 100% God ( John 1:1-4 and John 1:14 to name one verse there are many). Remember why the Jews crucified him. They crucified him for blasphemy which means he was claiming to be God.

The bible also tells us that Jesus is 100% man. He experienced everything we experience as far as pain and emotions and yet remained sinless because he is God.

Jesus is the Son of God but also God the Son

Jesus paid for our sin buy being crucified on a cross. He presented his body on the cross to be the sacrifice for our sins. The reason he is the perfect sacrifice is because he is perfectly without sin and his blood washes our sin away. (John 3:16). He took the beating so that we could be saved from the wrath to come, HELL. Just before he died on the cross he yelled out the words Tetelisti which means it is finished. Tetelisti was a merchant term that was used at the docks that meant paid in full. He took your book of sin that I told you about earlier and stamped paid in full on every sin. He paid for all your sins past present and future. The bible says that he washed us white as snow with his blood and put our sins as far as the east is from the west. This is the gift that he has given us. But this gift has to be received by saving faith.


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To accept the Gift we need to have saving faith in Jesus Christ in what he did for us.
Saving faith is not just an intellectual belief that He died on the Cross for us.
I believe and I'm sure you believe that George Washington was the first president of the USA, but are you trusting in George Washington for anything today? Of course not. He is dead. He can no longer do anything for you. Jesus Christ is alive.
Saving faith is not a temporal faith. Example: lets say you are on a plane and you hit some serious turbulence and you start praying Jesus save me and then you land and forget about him and go party it up. That is not saving faith.
Saving faith is relying on what Jesus did on the cross alone and nothing else for your eternal salvation.
Jesus wants you to get out of the driver seat and let him be in the driver seat. You see Jesus will never force his way in. He says draw close to me and I will draw close to you.

Let’s imagine that you are on a white water rafting trip and you fall out of the raft and the water is getting rough and there is a waterfall coming up. You start to panic and grab on to a log and you’re holding on for dear life. Then a Man comes to the shore and throws you a life line. Well that log represents any good works that you think may get you into heaven. Maybe it’s a perfect church attendance or feeding the poor or being a loving father or mother. The Man on the shore represents Jesus Christ and he wants you to let go of that log with both hands and grab onto that life line with both hands that he is throwing you and rely on nothing else to get you into heaven except for what he did for you.

Remember if there was any other way for us to make it Jesus would not have had to die on the cross. The night before the Romans arrested Jesus for his claims of being divine he prayed to The Father in heaven “ if there is any other way that they might be saved take this cup from me.” Jesus had to go to the cross. The bible tells us that he was sweating blood. And he did it for you.

So would you like to accept this free gift that Jesus purchased for you? It is by no means cheap! It cost God everything, and he lovingly paid the price just for you.

Remember to not make a choice for Jesus is to make a choice to go against him (John 8:24). That leads to a road of destruction that you choose to take (Mathew 7:13-14). If you reject Jesus, Why? What do you believe and why. What evidence do you have to support your ideas. You better be sure because its not just 6ft under for you, its everlasting life in Hell. Your choice.
Remember that Jesus said that he is not willing that any should perish. He wants us all to accept his free gift. But many will reject because they love darkness. You have nothing to loose to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior but you have everything to gain.

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