When God first created the earth, the earth was perfect. Everything was perfect. But it was us, man, who chose to rule our own life, to go against God, therefore we sin against God. Is that the end of mankind?
There's still a way to enter into the kingdom of God. Which is to have faith in God, in everything that he has done. There's no way that we can earn it, as our God is a sovereign God, He does everything for the best of us, according to His own will. Before entering the kingdom, we need to be born again, born again by God, born again by Spirit and water.
From Ezekiel 36:24-29, we can see what God has promised us, believers. He promised that He will gather us together, no matter where we are, that he will cleansed us and give us a heart of flesh and He will be our God. In John Chapter 1, we saw that Jesus is delcared as God's son, the center of God's promises to us. Jesus is the Messiah, the anoited one, the one who will usher in the day of restoration
In John 3:16-21, Jesus is explanation the Gospel to Nicodemus. From the few verses, we can learn many things about God, Jesus, Believers and Non-believers.
We can see that God loves the world, he gave his ony and only Son for us. He did not send Jesus to condemn the world but to save it and that God is sovereign and everything is done through him. We also see that Jesus is God's one and only Son, his purpose here is to save the world, he is the light of the world.
How about us believers?? We believers will not perish and have eternal life, we will not be condemned, we live by the truth, love the light and our deeds are all done through God, so glory will be given to God and there is nothing that we can boast about. In opposite, non believers will perish, eternally condemned and they their own things, controling everything themselves..
We people always like to go for things that is free. There will always be a queue when there free gifts given away. 1 thing I don't understand, why can't we mankind treat this salvation and gosepl, that was given to us freely, with the same attitude with the free gifts?? All we need to do is to believe in Jesus's death on the cross.
From John 3:22-36, we saw why we can depend on Jesus,
- he comes from above (heaven)
- Jesus speaks the word of God
- the Father loves him and He is God's Son
- God had placed everything in Jesus's hand
- Jesus is the Christ
- whoever do not believe in Jesus with accumulate God's wrath
Therefore, how should we live our lifes in response to what God has done? Place our faith in Jesus, he is the one and only way to God's kingdom.
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