You can be right with God
If you have never experienced the joy of responding to God’s call to turn to him, confessed your sin, received immediate and absolute forgiveness for everything, been adopted as his very own child and received a magnificent life that goes on forever, read on.
There’s great News ahead!
If you already have experienced the joy of responding to God’s call to turn to him, confessed your sin, received immediate and absolute forgiveness for everything, been adopted as his very own child and received a magnificent life that goes on forever, well, read on.
There’s even more great News ahead!
There’s a verse in the Bible that goes like this, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed – a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: ‘The righteous will live by faith.’” (Romans 1:16,17)
When God offers you salvation and eternal life through the death and resurrection of Christ on the cross, he’s offering you an enormous gift.
• He is offering to remove the condition of sin into which you have been born and save you from an eternity separated from him. That’s why so many of my friends who are “saved” have an unusual peace and joy in this life and anticipate the same for the life to come.
• He is offering to deliver you from all forms of evil like demonization, emotional bondage, harmful habits, deep-rooted hurts and demoralizing hang-ups. That’s why the marriages of two friends of mine who had been bound by an addiction to alcohol and were on the verge of losing everything they held dear, have been completely restored. Both of them are now involved together with their wives in active service to others.
• He is offering to surround you with his strong arms of love and keep you safe from anything that would bring you harm. That’s why, when I awake in the middle of the night tortured by anxiety, he gives me calmness as I worship him, and rehearse again his promises of who I am and what I have in Christ.
• He is offering to keep and preserve you – always faithfully working to keep you “saved” – advising, checking on, encouraging and sustaining you. That’s why people who follow Christ remain steadfast, attending constantly to the pursuit of holiness, are patient, continuing unswervingly in the pattern God has set out for them, and persist, adhering firmly to truth.
• He is offering to heal you. That’s why two people very close to me have been miraculously healed recently after receiving prayer from God’s people: one from a severe stress-related illness that kept him off work for six months, and the other from severe and chronic back pain. The first person has returned fully to work and the other has not needed to visit her chiropractor, whom she was seeing three times every week for a very long time.
• He is offering to give you his presence in all its forms. That’s why the life-force of all who have given themselves to Christ, now filled with his spirit, is becoming the prevailing influence wherever they go.
But there’s even more: you receive what is called “the righteousness of God.” This means that you are made … well … right.
• You are placed in a right relationship with God, as another verse in the Bible says, “Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ …” (Gal. 2:16a)
• The very righteousness that God himself has is transferred to you, as still another verse in the Bible says, “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Cor. 5:21)
• Your circumstances become right, as yet another verse in the Bible says, “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” (Rom 8:28)
• Finally, your influence on others becomes effective and fruitful, as even another Bible verse says, “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit – fruit that will last – and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.” (John 15:16)
As I said earlier, there’s great News ahead!
