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YOU MAY ASK, 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 terms. BUT it is not on our terms that determine entrance to heaven, BUT GOD’S terms. It is 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 we have broken and violated that SEPERATES you and I 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 OUR SIN.

God is angry because we have broken His commandments. Because God is unchangeably HOLY, RIGHTEOUS AND JUST in all His ways, God’s nature requires He judge your SIN and mine or He would not be who He is … a HOLY, RIGHTEOUS and JUST judge.

Thankfully, God is also LOVING, MERCIFUL, GRACIOUS, COMPASSIONATE and KIND. Because HE LOVES YOU, God was first to take the initiative by desiring and PROVIDING a way to RECONCILE you and I back to Himself.

WHAT PROVISION DID GOD MAKE FOR YOU TO REMOVE YOUR SIN PROBLEM ON HIS TERMS WHILE STILL BEING UNCHANGEABLY HOLY, RIGHTEOUS, JUST, LOVING, MERCIFUL, GRACIOUS AND COMPASSIONATE?

GOD’S GREAT PROVISION FOR YOU: JESUS CHRIST

Because God LOVES YOU, 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. Jesus fulfilled all of God’s laws and obeyed all God’s 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 anger, curse, wrath, judgment, condemnation and separation from God that should have fallen on you for your sins. By his shed blood, Jesus fully satisfied, appeased, placated and extinguished God’s anger toward sin. As the Passover Lamb, Jesus died being the final perfect substitutionary sacrifice God required to be able to forgive YOU for breaking His commandments.

Being raised from the dead and shown alive to over 500 eyewitnesses, his resurrection confirmed all that 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 finished the work God sent him to earth to do FOR YOU.

HOW DOES GOD’S GREAT LOVE PROVISION BENEFIT YOU?

By repenting and confessing that you have sinned against God, by receiving Jesus Christ BY FAITH as your personal LORD and SAVIOR and 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 REPENTANCE AND FAITH IN JESUS?

All your sins are forgiven and forgotten by God. You are “JUSTIFIED” (declared righteous) 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 blameless 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! Because of God’s LOVE FOR YOU, God JUDGED and condemned His innocent Son for your sins then ACQUITED you for them while you were yet guilty. Because it is appointed once for man to die and after this comes the judgment, on judgment day, God 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 peace and joy that can’t be found in this life because you have victory over death … a peace and joy 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 judge you for your sins. God has clearly shown you how much HE LOVES YOU in the death of His Son. Don’t reject God’s LOVE FOR YOU. Be RECONCILED to God and enter HIS heaven on HIS terms by accepting and following GOD’S GREAT PROVISION FOR YOU … JESUS CHRIST.

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