This page is one of our most
important. If you don't know Christ today,
please take the time to read what
God's Word says concerning your eternal
destination
What is the Gospel?
The Greek word for gospel is "euangelion" and appears over
115 times in the New Testament. The word means, “the good news”.
Paul, who wrote the Book of Romans, tells his readers in the first
four chapters of Romans that all men are accountable to God. Their
problem is that they have sinned and rebelled against God. The
solution to this rebellion and sin is the sacrificial death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ; and finally Paul tells his readers how
they can be personally included in this salvation.
At the heart of the gospel message are four crucial questions
involving God, man, Christ and man’s response:
1.
Who
made you, and to whom are you accountable?
2.
What
is your problem? Why are you in trouble?
3.
What is God’s solution
to your problem? How has He acted to save us from it?
4.
How
can I be included in God’s salvation? What makes
this good news for me personally right now?
In 1 Corinthians 15:1-5, Paul summarizes God’s solution to your
problem of sin:
“Now brothers, I want to clarify for you the gospel I proclaimed
to you; you received it and have taken your stand on it. You are
also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you –
unless you believed to no purpose. For I passed on to you as most
important what I also received: 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, and that He appeared
to Cephas then to the twelve.”
Yes, you are accountable to God for
living your life without God and making your life work anyway. This
is called sin. You were born into sin or a life without God and
this is your basic problem. This problem you attempt to solve
through pleasure, relationships, philosophy, religion, drugs, sexual
involvement and many other means. However, the fundamental problem
is that you are separated from God. To solve your dilemma God sent
His only Son Jesus Christ to become your sin and forgive your sin so
you could become His righteousness and become rightly related to God
and start over with God. If you would like to make this real to
you now, today, please continue to read the following Scriptures and
respond in prayer.
1) The Fact That You Are a Sinner
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23
Admit you are a sinner. Ask God right now to show you your sin and
your rebellion against Him, He will show you.
2) The Fact That You Are Now Dead in Sin
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23
This death is a spiritual death and separation from God. If you
were to die right now where would you go without God? The
Scriptures tell us you would end up in hell or eternally separated
from God.
3) Repent, Allow God to Change Your Mind About Your Sin and Turn
to God
“Therefore repent and turn back, that your sins may be wiped out so
that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.”- Acts 3:19
Right now fall on your knees and confess your sin to God. Let it
all out, He understands.
4) Know And Experience The Grace and Love of God
“For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from
yourselves; it is God’s gift – not from works, so that no one can
boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9
Grace is the divine action of God upon your heart and life. It is
the love and mercy of God in action when He sent His Son to bear
your sins in His own body on the cross and shed His blood for the
forgiveness of your sin.
5) Receive Christ Now by Trusting Totally In His Work On The
Cross
“If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in
your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
With the heart one believes, resulting in righteousness, and with
the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation… For whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Romans 10:9-10, 13
6) Pray To Receive Christ Jesus Into Your Heart and Life
Jesus said, “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.”- John
14:14
Therefore ask Him sincerely, in your own words, to come into your
heart and life or simply use the following prayer for guidance:
Lord Jesus, please come into my life and be my Savior and Lord. I
recognize my own death, burial and resurrection in Christ and want
to live for You. I confess my sin, please forgive my sins and give
me the gift of eternal life. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
If you have invited Jesus Christ into your life, the Scriptures say
you now have eternal life.
“God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. The one
who has the Son has life." - 1 John 5:11-12
7) You Now Have A Whole New Identity in Christ
You have whole new life and you are a new person in Christ, because
the old you died in Christ by faith and you have been raised in
Christ to walk in newness of life.
“Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order
that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the
Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life…. For we know that
our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin’s dominion
over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved
to sin, since a person who has died has been freed from sin…. So you
too, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in
Christ Jesus.” Romans 6:4, 6, 7, 11
If you have prayed to receive Christ, please e-mail me or call me to
let me know so I can pray for you.
