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Grace Baptist Church |
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God Is Seeking You |
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Has anyone ever shown you from the Bible how you can know Jesus; how you can KNOW for sure that your sin is forgiven and that you are on your way to heaven? The Bible contains both BAD NEWS and GOOD NEWS. The bad news is something about YOU. The good news is something about GOD. Let's look at the bad news first... Bad News #1 We all are sinners. Romans 3:23 says, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." "Sinned" means that we have missed the mark. When we lie, hate, lust, or gossip, we have missed the standard God has set. Suppose you and I were each to throw a rock and try to hit the North Pole. You might throw farther than I, but neither of us would hit it. When the Bible says, "All have sinned and fall short," it means that we have all come short of God's standard of perfection. But the Bad news gets worse... Bad News #2 The penalty for sin is death. Romans 6:23 says, "For the wages of sin is death?" Suppose you worked for me and I paid you $50. That $50 was your wages. That's what you earned. The Bible says that by sinning we have earned death. That means we deserve to die and be separated from God forever. Since there was no way we could come to God, the Bible says, that God came to us! Good News #1 Christ died for you. Romans 5:8 says, "But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Suppose you are in a hospital dying of cancer. I come to you and say, "Let's take the cancer cells from your body and put them into my body." If that were possible, what would happen to me? What would happen to you? I would die in your place. I would die instead of you. The Bible says Christ took the penalty that we deserved for sin, placed it upon Himself, and died in our place. Three days later Christ came back to life to prove that sin and death have been conquered and that His claims to be God were true. Just as the bad news got worse, the good news gets better! Good News #2 You can be saved through faith in Christ. Ephesians 2:8,9 says, "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." Faith means trust. What must you trust Christ for? You must depend on Him alone to forgive you and to give you eternal life. Just as you trust a chair to hold you through no effort of your own, so you must trust Jesus to get you to heaven through no effort of your own. Would you like receive Jesus Christ as your Savior right now? Simply believe that Jesus is God, that He died on the cross for you sin personally, and trust only in Him for the forgiveness of your sin and the gift of eternal life. Please contact us so that we might help you in your new relationship with Christ. |
Jesus said that he came, “to seek and to save that which was lost.” Here’s why God is seeking you... |
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