You may be a person who does not know anything about God. Well that is all right because He knows all about you and He still loves you. For those of you who do not know God or know very little about Him, let us tell you about Him.
Before there ever was an earth or planets and the like, God existed. He has always existed and He always will. For reasons known only to Him He created the heavens, the earth and all the creatures on the earth. He then created the first human being who we know as Adam. He created him from the dust of the earth and breathed life into him. He placed him in what is known as the Garden of Eden where he lived for an unknown length of time. God then decided to create Adam a companion. He caused a deep sleep to come over Adam and God removed one of Adam's ribs and with it he created Eve - the first woman.
Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden and walked and talked with God each day in the cool of the evening. It was a perfect enviorment with everything that they needed. The only thing that they were not to do was eat of the fruit of a certain tree in the garden. God told them that if they ate of the tree they would surely die.
At some point in time there came what was called a serpent and told Eve that she would not die if she ate of the fruit of the tree but if she ate of it, her eyes would be opened and she would be as God knowing good and evil. Eve saw that the tree was good for food and pleasant to look at and a tree to be desired to make a person wise so she ate some of the fruit. She also gave some of the fruit to her husband, Adam, and he ate some also.
When God later asked them if they had eaten of the fruit, Adam blamed his wife for giving the fruit to him and Eve blamed the serpent. As a result of this act of disobedence, God banned them from the Garden of Eden and they both died spiriturally. God is a Holy God and a Just God and can not condone any single act of disobedience. They had to suffer the consequences of their actions. They no longer had fellowship with God. They did not die at that time physically, but spiriturally. They were created just like we are today, they had a body, a soul, (the mind or intellect, the will and emotions), and an eternal spirit but now their eternal spirit was seperated from God.
It was not the fruit itself that caused the problem it was their act of disobedience. They had chose to do what they thought was best for them (to be their own God's) and not to do what God had commanded them to do which is always best for us all. By this act of disobediance all mankind and womankind were now seperated from God. As Adam and Eve had children they were born spiritually dead as far as having a fellowship and a personal relationship with God. All that were born after them came under this same condemnation. Man now had no hope for eternal life except apart from God.
But God, in his mercy, created a way that man might come back into a relationship and communion with Him. About 2,000 years ago God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to be born as a human being to redeem lost mankind and womankind back to Himself. Jesus was God and He too like God the Father has always existed but He chose to come to this earth and be born as a little baby. He was born of a virgin woman named Mary. You say how could a virgin have a baby . The Holy Spirit of God came upon her and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, Jesus. Since man, (meaning all of humankind), had been the one who had been disobedient and had lost his eternal life with God, then it required that man be obedient to restore what was lost. Jesus lived a sinless life on this earth. (He always obeyed God, never failing once. The essence of sin is self-rule and not God ruled. Sin is seen in lying, stealing, murder and the like but they are only the manifested acts from a heart of disobedience. Sin is ruling my life for my sake and not letting God rule it. It is when I am the lord or director of my life and not God).
Jesus lived on this earth and grew up. He preformed many miracles of healing the sick, forgiving sins and raising the dead to prove that He was God. All these things were recorded for us by people who were with Him at the time. These records are now in what we call the New Testament which is part of the Bible. The Bible is a record for us of all that God has revealed to us about Himself. In the New Testament we are told that Jesus was crucified on a cross by Roman soldiers and died. After living a sinless life He gave up his life for all man and woman kind. What this means is that God the Father sent His Son to this earth to live and then die for all of humanity. Jesus represented all humankind to God. Jesus took every act of disobedience that every human had ever committed and was punished on the cross for all those sins to satisfy the justice of God. As we mentioned before God is Holy and Just and can not condone a single act of disobedience. If all of this seems to be negative where is some good news. Well there is much good news for you and me, in fact the is the best good news we will every have. As Christians we call THE GOOD NEWS THE:
How is this possible? All you have to do is admitt to God that you are a sinner. You are admitting that you have been living in rebellion toward God, living for yourself, running your own life for your own selfish ends. Then you must believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died for your sins. (He took you place in judgement. He paid the price and was punished for you to meet the demands of the Holiness and Judgement of God the Father.). You must be willing to repent of your sins. (You must be willing to turn from the sins you commit, stop living for yourself, take youself off the throne of your life and start living for God and let Him be Lord of your life). You must then receive God's Spirit to live in your life. (HIs Spirit will come and day by day enable you to live this new life. To help you to live a pure life and to reveal God to you). By doing this you wil immediately be forgiven of all your sins and you will become a child of God. You will be restored to fellowship and communion with God and live with Him forever more.
You might say, how can this be? I don't deserve this? I am not worthy of this. That's why we call it the GRACE of God. Grace is God's unmerited favor toward you. He gives you this gift because He loves you as we told you before. He wants and longs to have fellowship with you. To make something beautiful out of your life. To give you the gift of Himself. It is LOVE, love for you from God!
Some people try to work their way to heaven by good works but that is impossible. Unless those people repent and believe they will be enternally lost forever. They will be in what God calls HELL!! He speaks of it as a place of fire, of total darkness where there is crying and biting of teeth. A place eternally, forever, seperated from God!!
Won't you please give your life to God right now. Please don't hesitate. You never know if you have another day or even another minute. All you need to do is pray this simple prayer in sincerity.
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