How To Become a
Child of God
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For
God.......................So
Loved....................The
World
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God Made Everything--earth,
sun, moon and stars. and ALL PEOPLE. He is
the King of kings, ultimately Sovereign
over the whole universe. God is Three
persons:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
What Is
One Thing That Makes
God So Special?
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The ruler wider than planet
earth (across the globe to the left,
above) stands for how much God loves us.
Psalm 103, in the Bible, God's Word says:
"As FAR AS THE EAST IS FROM THE WEST..."
so great is Jesus' love and forgiveness
for us! That is GREAT NEWS! God's love is
so big that it is beyond being measured.
Jesus (the Christ & Messiah, our
Saviour), is God the Son. Jesus was sent
by His Father, Father God, to do something
no one else could do. Jesus took on the
form of a human being and showed us in
person how much God wants to reach us with
his love.
Who Does
God Love So Much?
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The world means people. We
are very special to God because He gave us
a spirit & soul (the real us inside)
which will live forever. Even after each
person's body dies, the real person INSIDE
will live on forever. However, we all have
a problem that the Bible calls sin (sin
means to "miss the mark" or fall short of
who we were meant to be). We have all
disobeyed God's rules--lying, cheating,
stealing, disobeying parents, not loving
God, His Word or other people.
We have all sinned.
Romans
3:23
What Must
God Do About Sin?
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That He
Gave........His One and Only
Son.........That Whoever
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God wants to give us a very
special gift. You cannot buy or earn it.
Or try to be good enough to get it. It is
a GIFT. "For the wages of sin is eternal
separation (from God & Heaven), but
the FREE GIFT of God is eternal life IN
JESUS our Lord." (Rom. 6:23) When God
offers us this gift, we can say "yes" or
"no" to it. Jesus is God's gift to us.
Jesus wants to give us eternal life,
forgiveness of sins, a home in heaven, and
His Holy Spirit to be with us forever.
That's why Jesus came, so that we could be
with God the Father, in Heaven,
forever.
How can
Jesus Give Us All This?
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Jesus is God's only Son. He
died on a cross for our sins. Dying this
way was a punishment usually only for the
very worst criminals. But Jesus had never
done anything wrong. While hanging on the
cross, God the Father placed all of the
punishment and penalty for our sin on
Jesus. Jesus suffered and was punished for
us. Jesus died that way on the cross, but
three days later came back to life
again!
I Peter 2: 24
Why Did Jesus Die on the cross for our
sins?
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So that anybody who
believes, any kind of person -- whether
they seem better or worse, older or
younger, red, yellow, black, white, rich
or poor --anyone who believes can receive
God's gift.
Does That Mean You too?
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Believes in
Him......Shall Not Perish......But Have
Eternal Life
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With your heart each person
needs to receive God's gift personally.
The Bible uses the word, "saved," to
describe those who are rescued by Jesus
from hell, the ultimate punishment,
deserved by anyone who has sinned. Hell is
not just for really bad people. It is for
anyone, even people we think are "good."
Because the Bible says that "ALL have
sinned and fall short of the glory of
God." Romans 3:23 And "no one is (really)
good (enough, way deep down), no one
except God Himself." The death of Jesus,
then, was the punishment we deserve.
But when we believe in Jesus, He forgives
our sins and He is able to give us new
lives. From then on, Jesus calls us
children of God. That, the Bible says, is
like being "born again." John 3 This time
though, our Father is not on earth but
in Heaven. Now that is
great news!
John 1:12
Romans
10:9
What
Happens To Those Who Do not want to Trust Jesus To
Save Them?
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Separation from God forever
in a place called Hell.
John 3:36
Luke 16:23,
26
What Does
Jesus Give To Those Who Do Trust Him To Save
Them?
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Eternal life means knowing
God personally. God is both your Father
& your Friend. He is also to obeyed
like your Boss. The only difference
between God and earthly bosses is that God
is always right and always has your best
in mind. So it always makes the best sense
to do what God says. 'Cause God knows
everything. And He always knows what's
best.
Once we receive eternal
life as a gift from Jesus, God said He
will always be with us and someday will
take us to be with Him in His heavenly
home.
Do You
Know For Sure today that You Have Eternal
Life?
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"Dear Jesus, I may have
made the mistake sometimes of thinking
myself a pretty good person, but now I
know everyone needs Your forgiveness. I
know that I am a sinner and cannot save
myself or do anything to earn a home in
Heaven. I believe You are the Son of God,
and that You died on the cross for MY
sins. I believe You rose again from the
dead for ME. Right now, the best I know
how, I tell You I am sorry for my sins. I
ask You to forgive all the wrong things I
have done (or even thought about) in my
life. Please come into my heart and life
today and be my Savior & Lord. Jesus,
help me to seek You and know You. I know
You are worth more than anything in this
whole world! Help me to follow You
faithfully all the days of my life. Father
God, please send Your Holy Spirit into my
life to open up the pages of the Bible to
my understanding. I want to read the Bible
every day so I might learn how wonderful
You are and grow to live as a Christian is
meant to. A Christian is someone Who is
related to You and I want to be in the
eternal family of Jesus Christ! Please
send Your Holy Spirit to live within me
and teach me and help me every day. I want
to spend forever with you, Jesus. I
believe you are God, the Christ, the
Everlasting Prince of Peace, the Messiah,
my Saviour. Jesus, I know that your Father
is the true Lord over all. Jesus, help me
to know You. I want to be with You,
forever.
I pray these things to you now, in Your
Name Jesus, the Name of God,
Amen."
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