God Gives Free Gift To Everyone

Salvation is often referred to as being "Born Again" or "Saved."  You are probably wondering exactly what you need to be saved from.   The Bible says that when Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the garden of Eden they allowed a sinful nature to take root in all mankind.  Their sin was not what they did physically by eating the fruit.  The sin they were guilty of was rejecting God as their Lord and obeying another god, satan.  (he doesn't deserve a capital s)

God stepped in and made temporary provision by shedding blood to provide a covering for the nakedness of their bodies and forgiveness for their sinful hearts.  God says, "without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin."  This was a temporary cover-up that could never fix the problem completely.  By nature, we are corrupt in our souls. 

Jesus is the permanent answer to our sinful ways.  He took the place of Adam and overcame death, hell and the grave for all mankind.  He died so that we might have eternal life.  Christ Jesus took the sin, sickness and bondage that has plagued mankind since the first Adam, even though he never actually sinned himself.  God accepted Jesus' sacrifice and raised him from the dead.  When we accept Christ as our savior, his shed blood becomes the one-time covering that makes us acceptable to God.  We don't have to keep offering sacrifices every time we do something wrong.  Jesus is the only way to attain salvation and eternal life.

God's word tells us that "if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.    This is a gift from your heavenly Father paid for by the blood of Jesus.  There is nothing you can do to make yourself acceptable to God.  Salvation is found only by believing in Jesus.  Even the faith to believe is a gift from God.  

Receiving salvation does not mean that you become perfect, but that you are forgiven.  There is a definite inward change in your life that produces an outward manifestation.  This is God's grace working in you.  You become a child of God and begin a journey that will end in heaven. 

The only way you can receive salvation is through Jesus Christ.  God tells us in his word  that "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.  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." 

The act of becoming born again is not hard nor scary, right now if you believe Jesus died to set you completely free, you are halfway there.

In His word, God makes the process of salvation very simple to understand.  Romans 10:9-10 tells us,  "That 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.  For it is with your heart that you believe and are made righteous, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."

God wants you to know that he loves you and desires to have a relationship with you as his son or daughter.