Who Was Jesus?
To many people, the name Jesus Christ is no more than a religeous by-word; an overused and often abused spiritual figure by which some men make millions of dollars from their naive "followers." Yes, throughout history men have used Christianity as a means to gain wealth and even power, but those men missed the true riches of Christianity.
As the song says, "All we are is dust in the wind..." The Bible teaches that God created man from dust, and that man was separated from God because of Sin. People have a tendency to blame God for their problems and suffering. In truth, the only reason we are in such a state is that we ARE separated from the fellowship of God from the moment we are born because of our very nature. It's hard to admit it, but we are a sinful race, and we inherited that sin from the first man Adam. Here is where some say, "But that's not FAIR! Why should I be punished for something some far distant ancestor did!?" Well since we did nothing to inherit sin and death, but be born, God made a way for us to inherit life by doing nothing of ourselves to earn or merit it. This is where Jesus Christ came in.
God is perfect. And in his perfection, he established a law that pronounced death and an eternity in Hell as the punishment for sin and required innocent blood to be shed for the forgiveness of sin. In the time of the Old Testament, a lamb was sacrificed, but that lamb only temporarily covered man's sin. God wanted to make a way for man to be permanantly redeemed (free from the law's requirement of death.) He sent his only begotten Son to leave his throne in Heaven and come down to Earth to give himself as the perfect sacrifice for Mankind's sin. Jesus had a human mother, but was supernaturally concieved without a human father. By this, Jesus Christ was born as a human but did not inherit the Sin nature that we all inherited. He was, as we were, born to die. In the 33rd year of his life, Jesus allowed himself to be crucified on a cross by the very men he was dying for. While on that cross, he took upon himself the sin, past, present, and future, of all men. He literally suffered our Hell for us!! He did this because he loves us... more than we will ever understand! That was God's perfect sacrifice... the Lamb of God, but it was not the final victory. After three days in the tomb, Jesus Christ was victorious over death itself and he rose again. This was Christ's ultimate victory over Sin and Death and now he offers all men the chance to have Eternal Life!
This is the most important message you will ever read! Jesus' sacrifice was given as a free offering to any who would accept him as their savior. Our sin still separates us from God until we simply ask Jesus to apply his shed blood to our lives and accept him as our Savior. Consider the following words from the Bible and make the most important decision of your life!!
Isaiah 64:6 - "But we are as an unclean thing, and our righteousnesses are as filthy rags..."
Romans 5:12 - "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:"
Romans 3:23 - "for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."
John 3:16 - "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.
Romans 5:6-8 - "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commended his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
Romans 10:9 - "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
All you must do to be saved and have the promise of eternal life with the Lord Jesus Christ is pray this simple prayer (you can pray this in your own words):
Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner and that the Bible says the price for sin is an Eternity in Hell. I want to live my life no longer for myself but for you who have already done so much for me. Lord please forgive me and come into my heart and be my savior! Amen.
If you have prayed this prayer and believed in the Son of God, then you are now part of God's family!! The Bible teaches that God will never take away the eternal life that he has promised you, and that he desires that you serve him in this life so that he can reward you in the next life.
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