Cont. of God Solution

"This is the testimony: God has given us eternal life…. I write these things to you who believe … so that you may know that you have eternal life." (1 John 5:11-13)

Jesus fulfilled God’s age-old plan by paying our sin penalty in full. God’s Good News for YOU is that the moment you believe (trust, rest in, place your confidence in) HIS way of forgiveness, God will forgive you, cleanse you and clothe you in HIS perfect righteousness. God will declare you righteous because you trust HIM and HIS way of salvation.

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)

“No one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.” (Romans 3:20-26)

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith— and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.” (Ephesians 2:8,9)

“I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness…” (Isaiah 61:10)

Clothed in His righteousness, we are equipped with all the perfection we need to live in the presence of a perfect, holy God. The gap has been bridged… forever.

“We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way;

And the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

(Isaiah 53:6, written 700 B.C.)

Is there any reason why you shouldn't cross over to God's side and be certain of eternal life?

Do you understand that God demands that all sin be punished, and that only perfectly righteous people can live with a perfect God?

Do you understand that you are a helpless sinner, and that you cannot make yourself good enough to escape the lake of fire, and have the right to live with God?

Do you understand that the Lord Jesus—the Eternal Word of God who became man—died on the cross in your place, paid your sin-debt in full, and then rose from the dead?

If you understand these things, then do you believe in your heart that the Lord Jesus died in your place? Do you believe that He conquered death by rising from the dead on the third day?

If you have truly and honestly said “Yes,” to all of the above, then on the basis of your trust in Him and His way of salvation, God has declared you forgiven and righteous.

If you have received by faith God’s wonderful gift of salvation, you may want to take time right now to thank Him. You might want to tell Him something like this:

Lord God, You are holy; I am sinful. How wrong I have been in my thinking! I thought I could make myself acceptable to You by my own efforts—by my prayers, by my almsgiving, by my good deeds… but now I understand that all my efforts are like filthy rags compared to Your glorious perfection! You are the Only One who can deliver me from sin’s penalty and declare me righteous. I believe that Jesus is your Eternal Word who became man. He is the One about whom all the prophets wrote. Lord Jesus, I thank you for willingly dying on the cross for me, in my place. Thank you for paying my sin penalty in full. Thank You for conquering death for me. I believe in You and what You have done for me through Your death and resurrection. Lord, I thank You for giving me the assurance that I will not go to hell, but that I will spend eternity with You in Heaven. I thank you too for the great privilege that is now mine to get to know you in a personal way, and to worship you in truth. I love you Lord. Thank you for first loving me! Amen.

As a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, you will find that, from now on, your life will be very different. For the Word of God teaches that, the instant you believe God’s way of salvation:

1.)    God will forgive you of your sins and declare you righteous in His sight, based on what Christ accomplished for you on the cross.

2.)    God will renew your heart by coming to live inside of you—by His Holy Spirit. He will give you a new, inborn desire to please the Lord in all you think, say and do.

  “Christ ... gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good!” (Titus 2:14)  

“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:17-21)

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If any of the above points make less than perfect sense to you, we invite you to log on to the following sites which clearly explain God’s story and message in greater detail:

ONE GOD ONE MESSAGE   http://one-god-one-message.com/

ALL THAT THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN   http://goodseed.com/theprophetsenglish.aspx

THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS   http://injil.org/TWOR/ (case sensitive)