Sunday, September 27, 2020

Proof of Salvation - Do you know?




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKJ3b2LO9nY&t=594s

Do you believe that the story of Jesus is a true story? That this was a man, the human form of God, who was born of a girl who had never had sex, lived a life free from sin (not free from peer pressure and more), CHOSE to not sin because He knew what his life was for. He lived until 30 years old as a regular carpenter, and then started a ministry that lasted only three years, living on the road, being followed by 12 disciples (all men), being mobbed and spit on among many other atrocities, SHOWING that He was God in humans form by performing miracles and knowing and speaking things even the "religious leader" didn't know, or had only heard in the ancient text.. and then was whipped, tortured, and murdered on a cross all because He loved all the people of the world, and He wanted to have a relationship with all of them. So he took all of our sins on His shoulders and carried them down to hell and left them there (I can't image how big and heavy that burden was), and then ascending into heaven. (Keep in mind, his body was placed in a tomb, visibly placed and wrapped in a borrowed tomb with a massive boulder rolled in front of it.. and his body vanished with the cloth remaining.. what?!)

Who does that?! Um, only the One God who is real and wants us to know about Him and live connected to Him and share everything about Him to everyone we knows! And the only way we can be "saved" by Him is by wanting to be in relationship with him, and accepting that forgiveness for all of it is because He gives us grace. 

This knowledge and this relationship is the only way we're ever going to get to a place called heaven (yes, I said a place. It's real). If we know this amazing truth and we don't share it, we keep it to ourselves, anybody who has NOT heard it or who has turned it down is going to a place called hell (yes, I said a place again. Because.. it's also real). 

What's your choice?
And do you know you are saved by faith? 
Have you accepted His grace?

Faith in the Incarnate Son of God
1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands3In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth7For there are three that testify: 8the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9We accept human testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 10Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

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