What then should be our reaction to this awesome news? This brings us to the last and most important part. So this is the Good News-that even though we were still enemies of God (as one translation says), Jesus came to die on the cross and pay the price for our sins so that we could have a relationship with Him again. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Romans 5:8 says, “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” We were stranded without any way of getting back to our Creator, and we needed a way to pay for our sins and be clean again so that we could be welcomed back to be with Him. There is only one way to find peace with God, and the Bible says it is through Jesus Christ. “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death” (Proverbs 14:12). We try to get there by being good people, or through religion, money, morality, philosophy, education, or any number of other ways, but eventually we find out that none of it works. We (humankind) have tried to find our way back to God and a perfect world on our own ever since then, and without any luck. This is especially bad news because there is no way for us to get across that gap on our own. Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” and in Isaiah 59:2 we’re told, “your iniquities have separated you from your God your sins have hidden his face from you so that he will not hear.” Sin separated us from God, and everything changed. In short, life was good.īut why isn’t life like that anymore? What happened to mess everything up? This brings us to the second point: when we (humankind) chose to do the opposite of what God told us, sin poisoned the world. In Genesis 1:26, when God created the first humans, He said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness”, then God blessed them and spent the days walking and talking with the people He had created.
The “Gospel” that the Bible talks about literally means, “the Good News,” and the news is good indeed!įirst, we have to start at the beginning. What is He like? What can we do to please Him? How can we get to Heaven? If we work hard enough to be a good enough person will He accept us then? If we do enough religious activities to get His attention, will that do it?įortunately for us, the answer is surprisingly simple. One of the oldest questions humankind has been asking is, “How can I know God?” The question is a valid one.
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