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The History of God and Man
The entire history of God and man is very simple and easy to understand if we start from the beginning and interpret all Scripture from what Jesus revealed.
More than anything else, we must know that God is love and His every action is motivated by love.
It is the nature of love to express itself to someone who is capable of receiving it.
Love is perfected when that person responds by loving the One who loves them and loving what He loves. God created man in His own likeness and image, making us the only species in creation capable of receiving and giving His quality of love.
God did not create man because He needed servants or soldiers; He had the angels to do His bidding. He created man because He wanted a family. Our ultimate goal is to enjoy this life God gave us and abide as His family.
In the beginning, God put man in a Garden where all his needs were met. His primary purpose was to enjoy, appreciate and know that all these resources were a gift from his Father and Creator. God’s will was perfectly fulfilled in Planet Earth before man brought sin into the world. There was no sickness, lack, fear or negative experiences of any kind.
In order to experience God’s love we were created in His likeness and image. God crowned man with glory and honor, i.e. dignity and worth, and from this sense of identity and self-worth man ruled Planet Earth.
When man believed the lie that he was not really like God he rebelled against God as his Lord. Man didn’t reject God as the Creator but rejected Him as Lord, the One He would trust and follow, the One from whom he would receive his identity.
When man rebelled, he introduced sin and fear into the world. In the heart sin was manifested in unbelief. Man no longer believed he was who God said he was and unbelief produced fear. Man stopped trusting God which led to disobedience.
God is righteous and just and His justice required that sin be punished. But He didn’t create man to punish, He created him to love; yet, justice had to be satisfied.
Since man brought sin into the world only man could take sin out of the world; therefore, Jesus was born of a virgin as a man. He lived a sinless life and at the end of His life He was crucified. While on that cross God made Him to become our sin. Then He suffered all the wrath that we deserved so we would never have to face wrath. He died, went to Hades and was held in death by our sins. But He trusted what God had said about Him. He believed He was who God said He was and that God’s promises to Him were sure; therefore, God raised Him from the dead conquering the power of sin and death.
Jesus ascended into Heaven and totally conquered Satan and cast him out of Heaven. Then He purged the heavenly temple which will one day come to earth. He sat down at the right hand of God and received an inheritance which He offers to share freely with us.
Salvation comes to us because we believe the truth about Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection. We believe that He suffered all the penalties we should suffer; therefore, no curses of the law are allowed on us. Since He conquered Satan we will never have to fight him because we are more than conquerors. Because He received all the promises of God as His inheritance all those promises are ours.
If we believe the truth about His resurrection we must then confess Him as our Lord. Because of what He did for us we can trust Him. As Lord, we accept His interpretation and application of God’s Word. As Lord, we will trust and follow Him and His lifestyle all the days of our life. As Lord, we know He paid the price for our salvation.
If you’ve never surrendered to Jesus as Lord, now is a good time to pray this simple prayer and mean it!
Jesus, I believe You became a man, lived a sinless life and at the end of Your life You were crucified. On that cross You became my sin and suffered the penalty I deserve; therefore, I will never suffer that penalty. You were separated from God; therefore, I will never be separated from God. You died and went to Hades so I will never go to Hades and I will never taste death; I will pass from here to Your presence. You used Your faith to conquer death so I will never have to fight that battle. You completely conquered the devil and I will never have to fight him. You received an inheritance from God and I share in Your inheritance. Today, I call You my Lord. I will follow You. I will interpret and apply God’s Word as You taught and lived it.
Thank You that my sins are forgiven. Thank You for eternal life. Now that I believe, I am born again. You have removed my sinful nature and made me righteous. You have removed my spiritually dead and wick heart and given me a new heart. You have placed your Spirit in me and I am not the temple of God, the SPirit of the living God dwells in me. I am complete in Christ and can now live free from the scrutiny of the Law, under the powerful grace of God. I will choose to put on your Spirit daily. I choose to put on the new man and put off the old man. I will renew my mind daily and continually experience your transformative power from within. I trust that you wll never leave me nor forsake me. I am now eternally safe in you!
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Gospel Scriptures
God Loves you! God wants you in His family!
John 3:16 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.
All humans have sinned and fall short of God’s standard, which separates us from His perfection.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, lived a sinless life and died on the cross to take the punishment for our sins.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
Jesus rose from the dead, breaking the power of sin and death over humans, and offers eternal life to all who believe in Him.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.
Romans 4:25 He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
Salvation from sin and death is a free gift from God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by your own efforts.
Ephesians 2:8-9 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.
Titus 3:5 He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
When we believe in Jesus, we receive the Holy Spirit to live in us and strengthens us to bear fruit and empower us to walk in powerful spiritual gifts.
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
When you believe in Jesus, God gives you a new heart (nature) and you receive His Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
Ezekiel 36:26-27 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
You can turn from sin and live from the power of God’s grace.
Romans 6:14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under the Law but under grace.
Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Those who trust in Jesus will have eternal life and a restored relationship with God.
John 14:6 Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'
1 John 5:11-12 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
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