Monday, May 8, 2023

Giver of Eternal Life

 God always existed, but we had a beginning. God created all things.  Our purpose is to be reconnected to God who is pure and good.  We are not pure. The Bible calls our lack of moral purity "sin."  A sinful people cannot come into the presence of God who is pure and perfect.  His mercy has made a way for us to connect with him.  He sent his eternal Son, Jesus Christ to come in the form of a human to be a perfect and sinless person to die in our place for our sins. After three days in the grave, the soul and spirit returned and Jesus was alive forever more.  The good news is that through faith in Jesus Christ we are forgiven of our sins and are to be in the eternal kingdom of God.  Satan's power was defeated on the cross.


John 3:16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 


God loves his world that he created. He showed his mercy by sending his Son Jesus, to give us eternal life with him. All that God brings to faith in Jesus His Son will be given eternal life.


John 17:3  And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 


It is by faith in Jesus Christ that we are saved, having our sins and trespasses forgiven.


Eph 2:4  But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 

Eph 2:5  even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us  alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 

Eph 2:6  and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 

Eph 2:7  so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 

Eph 2:8  For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 

Eph 2:9  not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 


The important thing to remember is that we are separated from God because of our sins  and that Jesus became our savior and mediator to bring us to God and eternal life through the forgiveness of our sins.


John 14:5  Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 

John 14:6  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 


Be aware that you cannot come to God with your sins. Right now ask Jesus to remove your sins and to give you a new life in him. Ask him now, he will hear you. It is life or death, choose life