God’s great provision for you!

YOU MAY ASK YOURSELF, WHY DOES GOD NEED TO PROVIDE ANYTHING FOR ME TO ENTER HIS HEAVEN?

WHY? “I’m a good person, I believe in God, I have faith, I go to church, I pray, I do good things, I respect others, I obey the laws, I haven’t done anything bad to hurt anybody—besides, I believe in God in my own way and all religions believe in God but in different ways.” YES, this is true and makes all the sense in the world when we compare ourselves to one another on OUR own terms. But it is not our terms that determine entrance to Heaven, BUT God’s terms. It’s His heaven.

THE PROBLEM

My problem, your problem, everyone’s problem, is that we cannot meet God’s terms because we have ALL broken HIS commandments. It is God’s law that has been broken and violated that Separates you from HIM and entrance into HIS heaven. God calls this offense SIN. No Sin can exist in HIS heaven.

The PROBLEM is not the way we see SIN, The PROBLEM is the way God sees SIN.

In the sight of God, SIN is evil, wicked, rebellious, dark, vile, destructive, criminal, repulsive, and offensive to Him. The result of sin is spiritual death and God hates it.

WHY?

Because God by nature is unchangeably HOLY, JUST, RIGHTEOUS, PERFECT, and GOOD in all HIS ways, GOD must judge your SIN and mine, or HE would not be Holy or a Righteous and Just Judge.

Thankfully, God by nature is ALSO unchangeably LOVING, MERCIFUL, GRACIOUS, COMPASSIONATE, and KIND. In HIS LOVE and Mercy, God was first to take the initiative by desiring and providing a way to RECONCILE you back to Himself.

WHAT PROVISION DID GOD MAKE FOR YOU TO REMEDY YOUR SIN PROBLEM ON HIS TERMS WHILE MAINTAINING HIS HOLINESS, JUSTICE, LOVE, AND MERCY WITHOUT DENYING HIS UNCHANGEABLE NATURE?

GOD’S GREAT PROVISION FOR YOU: JESUS CHRIST

In HIS LOVE, God became a man like you, born of a woman in human flesh, born under HIS own law, but WITHOUT SIN.

The God/man, Jesus, the Christ/Messiah, lived a perfect and sinless life before the one and only true God. He fulfilled all God’s laws and obeyed all HIS commandments all His life on your behalf … something that was impossible for you to ever do.

Being sinless, innocent, and blameless, Jesus was sentenced to die as a criminal. He willingly submitted Himself to be publicly and brutally crucified on a Roman cross.

On the cross, during three hours of darkness, Jesus took upon Himself the full brunt of God’s curse, wrath, judgment, condemnation, and separation from God that should have fallen on you as the penalty for your sins. By His shed blood, Jesus fully satisfied, appeased, placated, and extinguished God’s HOLY AND JUST anger toward your sin. As the Passover Lamb, Christ died, being the final perfect substitutionary sacrifice God required for the Atonement of your sins. In so doing, He maintained His own HOLINESS and JUSTICE while demonstrating HIS LOVE and MERCY toward you.

Being raised from the dead and shown alive to over 500 eyewitnesses, His resurrection confirmed what Jesus said about Himself to be true. He validated God’s total acceptance of His one-time sacrifice, being victorious over death, the grave, and hell, and finishing the work God sent Him to earth to do for you.

HOW IS GOD’S GREAT PERFECT LOVE PROVISION OF ANY BENEFIT TO YOU?

By repentance and confessing that you have sinned against God, by receiving Jesus Christ by Faith as your personal LORD and SAVIOR, and by believing IN YOUR HEART Jesus died for your sins, was buried and raised from the dead—God will save, rescue, redeem, and forgive you of and from the penalty of all your sins.

WHAT DOES GOD DO FOR YOU BY YOUR REPENTANCE AND FAITH IN JESUS?

Your sins … past, present, and future are forgiven and forgotten by God.

You are “Justified” by faith ALONE in Jesus Christ ALONE before God. As the only supreme judge, God declares you to be innocent of any sin and you now stand righteous before Him. God took all your sin and guilt and imputed (credited) it to Jesus. Then God took all the righteousness and sinlessness of Jesus and imputed (credited) it to You. God Judged and Condemned His innocent Son for Your sins then Acquitted you for them while You were yet guilty and didn’t deserve to be set free. My friend, it is appointed once for man to die and after this comes the judgment, so God, being a just and righteous judge, on judgment day, will not judge and condemn you for your sins because He already judged Jesus for them!

The SIN debt you owed to God that was impossible for you to pay, God Himself paid for you in full by your faith in Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, and not by any good works or deeds you could ever do to please Him. As a result, you NOW have eternal life guaranteed in heaven, you are born into God’s family, and have an inner lasting peace and joy that can’t be found in this life that no one can take away from you.

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

My friend, please think … on judgment day, God does NOT want to have to judge you for your sins; He has provided a way for you to be forgiven of them through His Son. God appeals to you in His love for you, be RECONCILED to HIM, enter HIS heaven on HIS terms by accepting THE GREAT PROVISION God has made for you … JESUS CHRIST.