Hope and Restoration through Christ, Our Redeemer
We all have sinned, but because of God’s mercy and grace we have the opportunity and privilege to be redeemed through Christ, and become children of God and have eternal life. Jesus, the son of God, died a sinless death on the cross in order to take our penalty of death so that we may live through His righteousness and be free of the bondage of sin. This is a free gift given by God’s grace that we can only receive if we accept it. We have free will, and therefore have a decision to make. We can accept His mercy, and His love, or we can reject it. To accept it, we must acknowledge that we are sinners and are lost without His forgiveness, and that we are in need of a Savior to reconcile us with God. We must repent, confess, and turn from our sinful ways into a new life. We must believe that Jesus died on the cross in our place so that we may be forgiven through His blood. We must believe that He rose from the dead and He awaits for us in heaven where He lives and intercedes for us until we are united in eternity. This is the most profound and significant decision we will ever make. It will affect our heart, mind, soul and spirit. This decision is eternal and life changing. It will determine the trajectory of our current life and more importantly, our entire future existence. God loves you and wants to have a relationship with you. This is why He extends His mercy to the whole world, desiring that all come to repentance and partake in the fullness of His grace.
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
Romans 3:23
“But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God,
And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.”
Isaiah 59:2
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 5:8
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9
“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
1 John 4:10
“For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;”
1 Peter 3:18
“Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.”
Hebrews 7:25
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead”
1 Peter 1:3
“Knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.”
Peter 1:18-19
“The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”
2 Peter 3:9
“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)”
Ephesians 2:4-5
“For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.”
Matthew 24:44
Reader’s Note: All verses are quotes from the NASB1995 version