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"For God so loved the world,
that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish,
but have everlasting life."
John 3:16
Man, as a sinner, is in danger of the wrath of God and is beyond human repairs.
Sin is the transgression of God’s Holy Law. Each of us has inherited a sin
nature from the first representative of the human family (Adam), because of his
choice to disobey the Eternal God. We are born into this world under the curse
of a thrice Holy sin-hating God, and are victims and practitioners of the many sins that contribute to the chaos and suffering of this dark world.
Because of sin all men are depraved and
outside of Christ stands guilty before a Holy God. And as long as any man
remains in sin he is outside the pale of Divine fellowship.
The Bible does not have one good thing to say about man apart from the inwrought
grace of God. The Bible says the carnal mind is enmity against God, and they
that are in the flesh cannot please God. (Romans 8:7,8)
The Eternal
God has decreed that this present evil world will be destroyed and His wrath
will be poured out during the “Great Tribulation” in judgment of sin.
The Good News (The Gospel) is that God has made a way of escape in the Person of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ is man’s only hope of Salvation.
Salvation is the greatest blessing which can possibly come to a human soul.
Without salvation it would be better for one to have never been born. Salvation
is deliverance from both guilt and defilement.
God commands
all men everywhere to repent (Acts 17/30). The Gospel is to be preached to all
men without exception.
During this dispensation of grace the thrice Holy God is giving men space to
repent and believe the Gospel before He judges the world for sin.
The Good News is that Christ died for the ungodly. The wonder of wonders is
“…that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself,…” (2 Cor. 5:19).
He shed His precious blood for the remission of sin (Acts 20:28; Heb. 9:14). “God
gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn
the world; but that the world through Him might be saved” (John 3:16,17).
Christ took upon Him a human body (without sin) in the form a Servant and was
born of a virgin, lived a life of perfect obedience to the Father unto death,
even the death of the cross (Phil. 2:8). He suffered, bled, and died for the
sins of His people. He was raised the third day according to the Scriptures and
is now seated at the right hand of the Father making intercession for the saints
(Heb. 7:25; Rom. 8:34).
Salvation comes to us entirely from God’s side, and it comes to us in spite of
ourselves. It is not something we deserve or merit. We don’t deserve it when we
get it nor after we get it. We have no right to it whatsoever. We deserve
nothing but punishment and banishment from the sight of God throughout eternity;
yet, instead of that, He has granted to us, free of charge, His salvation,
because of His love, grace, and mercy (Titus 3:5).
We’re saved
entirely and solely as a result of God’s grace.
For by grace
are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
not of works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8,9).
These are the
last days in which the Eternal God extends grace to all mankind. There is no
other name given whereby we must be saved, other than the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ (Acts 4:12).
The
authoritative Word of God plainly teaches that in the final hour at the Great
White Throne Judgment, those who neglect the Great Salvation provided by the
Eternal God by failing to believe the report of the Saving Work of Christ Jesus
(The Virgin Birth, Substitutionary Death, Burial, Bodily Resurrection, and
Ascension) will be held accountable for their failure to respond to the Gospel
and for violation of His Holy Law.
Knowing the
terror of God, we persuade men to flee from the wrath to come.
Visitor, if
you are unsaved, those who love The Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity pray that the
Holy Spirit will speak to your heart and illuminate your understanding so that
the light of the Glorious Gospel will shine unto you before it is eternally too
late.
May God have
mercy on your soul!
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