Does that have your attention? Good, I thougth it would. This is a true free gift and all you have to do is take it. My life consits of making sure everyone I know has this free gift, so what better way to let everyone know about it than here? The free gift I am talking about is from God. It is eternal salvation with him in heaven, and it does not cost a thing. If anyone tells you it cost money for this gift, it is a scam. (We all know there are a lot of scams these days.) If anyone tells you you have to work to get this gift, it is a scam. All you have to do is accept it. So I am going to tell you how you can have this free gift. I promise, it will be the best gift you will ever recieve.
The first thing you need to know, is that we are all sinners. What is a sinner? Anyone who does anything wrong. No one is sin free, we all sin, and sometimes we do it more than one time a day. (No, I am not perfect. There, I said it.) How do I know this? Read in the bible: Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." We have all sinned. We have all done things that are displeasing to God. There is no one who is innocent.
Now, when I do something wrong, there is a punishment, but God gives us a way out of this punishment. He sent his son, Jesus, to this earth to die on a cross for our sins. Romans 6:23, teaches us about the consequences of sin - "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." The punishment that we have earned for our sins is death. Not just physical death, but eternal death! God gives us a way out.
Romans 6:23 "but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 5:8 declares, "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Jesus Christ died for us! Jesus' death paid for the price of our sins. Jesus' resurrection proves that God accepted Jesus' death as the payment for our sins.
Isn't it awesome to know someone else paid our debt? Al you have to do to recieve this gift is let God know you are a sinner and ask him to be a part of your life. (Yes, it really is that easy. No need to pay money to anyone or say hail Marys or bow down to a buddha, or even be baptised.)
Romans 10:9, "that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Because of Jesus' death on our behalf, all we have to do is believe in Him, trusting His death as the payment for our sins - and we will be saved! Romans 10:13 says it again, "for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Jesus died to pay the penalty for our sins and rescue us from eternal death. Salvation, the forgiveness of sins, is available to anyone who will trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
God promises that once we are his, no one can take us away from him. We will be tempted by the devil still, bad things may still happen. God does not promise an easy life with him in it, but he does promise protection. In fact, life may even get harder as people will want to condemn you for your choice to be a follower of God. Here are versus that show us his promise.
Romans 5:1 "Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Through Jesus Christ we can have a relationship of peace with God. Romans 8:1 teaches us, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Because of Jesus' death on our behalf, we will never be condemned for our sins. Finally, we have this precious promise of God from Romans 8:38-39, "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
All you have to do is pray to God and ask for this gift, but you must truly mean it in your heart, not just saying it, but meaning every word. I have given an example to help you if you are not sure how to start this. Saying this prayer is a way to declare to God that you are relying on Jesus Christ for your salvation. The words themselves will not save you. Only faith in Jesus Christ can provide salvation! "God, I know that I have sinned against you and am deserving of punishment. But Jesus Christ took the punishment that I deserve so that through faith in Him I could be forgiven. With your help, I place my trust in You for salvation. Thank You for Your wonderful grace and forgiveness - the gift of eternal life! Amen!"
My life would not be filled with the joy I have in it if not for this prayer, so how can I keep it form you? Living a good life and being a good person does not save you. Only trust in Jesus Christ. If you are not sure about this and would like to talk to me, my phone and e-mail is open to you.
Feel free to copy and paste this if you would like to re-use it. And on a side not, you may not agree with what i have written, but if I am wrong, what have I lost? Nothing, just lived a better life becasue of my faith. If you are wrong and you don't have this gift, what have you lost? EVERYTHING I know Christans at times can be judgemental or maybe even hypocritical. But there is where the problem lies. When you rely on other people for your faith, you will be let down every single time. When you rely soley on God, you will never be let down.
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