Yes OK, so maybe you have done a few bad things, but nothing major. Nothing that would really go against you!
I mean you haven't done anyone any real harm, now have you, nothing too serious.
I mean God only sends really evil people to Hell, like murderers and rapists, those folk who have done horrific crimes.
So you'll be okay, you are a good person so you don't need God, you will be fine because you aren't a bad person, right?
Well that kind of thinking is so wrong, there is not even a shred of truth in any of it.
You need God, in fact you need his Son the Lord Jesus Christ to get right with God the Father, there is no other way. And that is simply non-negotiable.
Satan, (the devil) the ruler of the world, is responsible for peddling these lies about you being good enough on your own merit and not needing God or His Son Jesus Christ. The devil is our enemy and wants to keep us in darkness. Satan wants us to believe that nonsense about we don't need Jesus to be saved. And that our good deeds will be enough for us to get to Heaven.
If you think the devil isn't real then he has done a good job on you.
Believe this!!!
Satan wants you to be ignorant and to think you'll be okay living day to day doing what you want. He hates God and never wants you to get to know Jesus. He wants your soul condemned, bound for Hell when you die.
When God created the world, it was perfect and good. Then he made Adam and Eve and gave them their own free will, so they would have a choice whether to follow and obey God. But they were tempted by Satan to disobey God, and they sinned. This separated them (and everyone that came after them, including us) from being able to have a close relationship with God.
God is perfect and holy and must judge sin.
As sinners, we couldn't reconcile ourselves to God on our own. So God made a way that we could be united with Him in heaven.
The Bible says:
‘For 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’
Jesus was born to die for our sins. Our sins are all the things that we have ever done wrong. Even the nicest person you ever met who wouldn’t hurt a fly is a sinner many thousand times over. God the Father demands perfection, he will not tolerate sin, even one will keep you out of Heaven.
The truth is that nobody apart from Jesus lived a sin free life. That is why His death on the cross is so vitally important.
The Bible says:
‘For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ’
Three days after Jesus died, He rose from the dead, claiming victory over death and the devil. Jesus repaired the gap between God and man so that we may have a personal relationship with Him BUT ONLY if we only believe, trust Him with all our hearts and be willing to repent and live for Jesus.
Jesus is the only way of salvation because He is the only One who can pay our the penalty for our many many sins.
Jesus had to be God so that He could pay our debt. Jesus had to be man so He could die. Salvation is available only through faith in Jesus Christ!
The Bible says:
‘Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved’
You really need Jesus, we all do, everyone who has ever lived. Will you believe that? Or will you take your chances and believe the devil's lies.
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. You are lost if you do not trust in Him and ask Him into your heart and let God change you.
‘Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new’
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