Many people wrongly think, “Yes I know I’m not perfect, sure I’m a sinner and have done things wrong in my life, but if God is Love (which He is) then can’t He just forgive me?”
But think about that?If a criminal broke into your home and did something horrible, raping and murdering a loved one, and that murderer was brought before the courts and the Judge said “I find you guilty, but hey, I’m a judge of love, I’m merciful, so you’re free to go.” Be honest, you would not think what that judge did was loving, but you’d think he was worse than the murderer. A loving judge would see that justice is done, and because God’s love is infinite, His justice is also infinite, and so God will punish all sin wherever it’s found. Just one sin is enough to send someone to Hell for all eternity (James 2:10), and let’s face it we’ve all sinned a lot more than once.
Why Does God Send People To Hell forever?
If you saw someone stamp on an ant, no one would call the police. If a homeless person was murdered, that's a different matter. The murderer would probably get six-to-seven years in prison. However, if the Queen was murdered, then the murderer would probably never see daylight again. Same crime there, MURDER, all 3 times, but a different punishment each time. Why? Because the one whom the crime was committed against is esteemed higher. Now
when you consider all of our sins are committed against an Infinitely Righteous & Holy God, then all of our sins, even what we deem as ‘little sins’, are crimes of an infinite magnitude.
How Do We Know The Bible Is True
& Really The Word Of God?
The Bible gives us the
inbuilt proof of prophecy. The Bible predicts the future in great detail, far in advance and has always been 100% accurate in doing so. No other religious book can make this claim. I’ll give you one example:
Psalm 22, written 1000 years Before Christ, is a long and vivid description of the Messiah to come, on the cross, and in verse 16 it says,
They pierced my hands and my feet. Now obviously that is referring to the nails on the cross. But the significance of this is that this prophecy in Psalm 22, was written 1000 years before Christ, yet crucifixion in all it’s forms
was not even invented for another 400 years, until 600 BC, and then it was only hands, the feet came much later. David the Prophet who wrote Psalm 22 had no idea what crucifixion was, and yet he describes the crucifixion account so vividly there.
The Bible is full of detailed and accurate prophecy like this proving beyond doubt it is of supernatural origin.
Who Is Jesus Christ?
In Zechariah 12:10, a prophecy written 500 years before Christ, the LORD God says,
they shall look upon me whom they have pierced.
God says there, hundreds of years before, it is God Himself who would be pierced for our sins on the cross.
Why Was Jesus Crucified?
As you can see from the above prophecies, the cross of Jesus Christ was no accident, but was the reason He came.
The Bible speaks of our sin as a debt, like a fine penalty, and every time you sin
you are treasuring up for yourself wrath to be revealed against you on the Day of Judgement.~Rom 2:5
In order for us to be forgiven, the penalty for our sin must be paid in full, and as our penalty is infinite, only an infinite God could pay our fine. So God Himself paying the penalty for our sin was the only way to save us.
God did something wonderful, so that you
can be forgiven and made right with God.
You may have heard the Scripture,
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.~Jn 3:16
2000 years ago, the God who made this universe, so loved YOU, that He entered into His own Creation and became a man, and dwelt among us. He was born of a virgin. Then Jesus lived a sinless life, He was perfect in all his ways, He never lied, never stole,
He did miracles proving His Deity, that He was God.
Jesus walked on water in a fierce storm, (When was the last time you saw someone walking on water?)
He fed 5000 people with just 5 loaves and 2 fishes,
He calmed the storm, the wind and the waves, at the command of His voice,
He healed incurable diseases, made the blind see, the deaf hear, and the lame walk.
He raised Lazarus from the dead at the command of His voice.
And then, Jesus went to the cross. Why?To pay the penalty in full for our sins. To take upon Himself the wrath of God that we deserve. To take our Hell for us, so that we don’t have to.
Like Isaiah prophesised 700 BC
he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement [the punishment]
of our peace [peace with God]
was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.And then on the 3rd Day, Jesus rose from the dead. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most attested fact in history, even our calendar BC & AD is based upon it.
Death and the grave could not hold Jesus Christ, and if you will go to Him. If you will turn away from your own way and surrender your life to Him, then death and the grave, Hell, will have no hold on you.
This is the eternal life that Jesus offers YOU.
It’s like, if you had a fine of £10,000 pounds, and someone else paid your fine for you. Could the judge then come after you and ask you to pay the fine? The answer is no, because your fine has already been paid in full. That’s why the Bible says
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ JesusFor all those truly in Christ, there’s no Hell to pay, because Christ has already paid on the cross the penalty for all of their sin.
Salvation, being completely forgiven and made right with God, comes by turning away from self, and unto Jesus Christ. Stop thinking you’re good enough to get to Heaven, when the Bible says you’re not. You must completely give up, surrender, and fall into the arms of Jesus Christ and follow Him, trusting solely that you’re going to Heaven, because of what Jesus has done for you in paying for your sin on the cross.
Jesus said him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out~Jn 6:37 He will by no means refuse. If you truly want eternal life, if you truly want to go to Jesus and have complete forgiveness of sins, then He says there, He will by no means refuse you.
Jesus said,
If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.
Whoever you are, whatever you’ve done, behold, now is the accepted time;
behold, now is the day of salvation. You may not have tomorrow. Death nearly always comes unexpected.
For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. There is nothing more important that being right with God.
What are you waiting for?
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