These Are the Facts

God Loves You

He made you. He knows how you feel. He understands all your problems. He knows your background. He knows your name. And God loves you and wants you to have the best for your life. Everything God does, He does out of love. His love is not just a good feeling about His Universe, but an unselfish CHOICE to will our highest good. “Herein is love; not the we loved God, but that He loves US and sent His Son to be the way through which we could be forgiven and come back to Him.”

Sin Has Come Between You and God

Sin is really selfishness; a “me first” attitude of heart and life. It is denying God’s right to be God in your life; it is breaking His laws, and scorning His guidelines for happiness. It is putting ourselves first above everyone else; living first of all to serve and please ME instead of God, and refusing to treat all others according to their rightful place and value in the Universe. “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world; and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil…” “ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”

God Hates Sin Because It Costs So Much

Sin is the cause of all the heartache in our world. God didn’t plan sin. He never plans unhappiness. He wants man to be happy and free. Sin is the reason why there is pain, misery and death in our land. Sin enslaves us to our feelings instead of our doing what is right and smart. Sin makes us feel guilty and afraid and alone. Sin is the most expensive thing in the Universe. It cost God His only Son. It cost Jesus Christ His life.

God, Who must be just, never can allow sin to go unpunished, or His Universe would be overrun by evil. When God’s infinitely important law of love for happiness is broken, any law-breaker must pay the penalty. A law without a penalty is only advice. That penalty must be as important as the law it is designed to protect. For such a terribly important law as God’s law, made to direct and protect His intelligent moral creatures, the penalty is awful - endless death, or separation forever from His Universe and all the rights and privileges of living and growing in it through eternity. “The soul that sins shall die…The wages of sin is death.”

You, As A Sinner, Deserve To Be Punished

You know that deep inside. By right you should pay the penalty of your sin. You knew what was right, but did not do it. You have made a mess of your life. If you are really honest, you know you have no excuses to make. Nothing you could say to God could possibly justify the choices you have made to please yourself. “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of law … for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His Word is not in us.”

But in His great love and wisdom,
God found a way to forgive you,
and still be just –
IF you are willing to meet His conditions.

The Lord Jesus humbled Himself and became man. He lived a perfect life and never broke His Father’s law of love. He offered His own perfect life as a sacrifice to provide a substitute for the penalty of your sin. His death on the cross shows at once how much God loves you and how much He hates your sin. You can choose one of two things: pay the penalty for your sin OR resolve to turn your back on the past and give your life to God, letting the Lord Jesus be your substitute.

God CANNOT forgive you unless you are willing to stop fighting Him and make Him your Boss. His Holy Spirit makes you willing to change, and He draws you now by His love. He wants to help you make a life-changing decision NOW. Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life; no man comes to the Father but by Me.” “He that trusts his life wholly to the Son is experiencing eternal life; he that does not believe on the Son of God shall not see life; but the anger of God abides on him.”

SALVATION is God’s plan to restore man to a holy, happy relationship with Him. All problems of sin, doubt, failure and lack of victory or God’s power can be conquered by the following steps:

Rethink…

Stop running away from the Voice of God and look at your life. We do not naturally want to obey God; only if we let the Holy Spirit show us our sin as GOD sees it will we realize just how bad we have been. To do this, you MUST be TOTALLY HONEST! Don’t pretend. Don’t “play down” your sin. Stop making excuses! Admit it from your heart: “God, I am all wrong!” If necessary, get a paper and pencil and WRITE DOWN the things that have come between you and God, and stopped you from serving Him as you ought.

Repent…

Turn your back on your old way of life. Be WILLING to lose any habit, any plan, any friend that you have been living your life for instead of God. This is not easy, but Jesus said if we wanted to follow Him, we must first count the cost (Luke 14:25-33). Salvation is like a real marriage. Two people promise themselves to each other, pledge their love to each other before a watching world, and give up forever all their old dates and unholy alliances. This is what God wants you to do to know His love.

Renounce…

Give up all RIGHTS to your own life. If you are going to be a part of God’s world-changing family, you cannot be your own boss any longer. You must DIE to your own plans, dreams and ambitions, and be willing to do whatever God wants you to do. He knows EXACTLY what will make you most happy. It may hurt to surrender everything at first, but God knows best, and will never ask you to do anything that you will regret in the end. A true Christian has nothing of his or her own; time, talents, money, possessions, friends, career, and future - all must be surrendered for his King’s service wherever and whenever He wants them.

Replan…

Be prepared to make many changes in your life! The very moment you make this heart-choice for God, the old “you” will die, and a new person inside you will begin to live. If the Holy Spirit is speaking to you about getting something right with someone, you must be willing to do it for God to help you. Wherever you need to confess wrong, or restore or repay something to someone, the Lord Jesus will give you the courage and the words to say. Becoming a Christian implies the WILLINGNESS, as far as is humanly possible, to right all known wrong (Proverbs 28:13). If you write out a list of things that have come between you and God, ask His forgiveness for those done against Him; plan to make right all others with people you know you have wronged, and know you are guilty of. The circle of confession must fit the circle of committal of sin. Those against God, confess only to Him; those against one person, to that person alone; those against a group, to the group.

Receive…

The Lord Jesus Christ by FAITH (a loyalty of love to the Word of God) to rule in your heart as King. He must be your absolute Boss from now on! This act of faith is neither an idea or a mere feeling but an ACT, a CHOICE of your WILL, made intelligently and carefully. Give Him your doubts, your weakness and your loneliness. Your heart will never have peace, your doubts will never clear up, you will never die to the world until you trust, surrender, BELIEVE from your heart! Be totally honest with Him. Receive Christ into your life as your Lord and Master to live for Him from this moment on, forever. (Romans 10:9-10)

Now - Ready?

THERE IS NO TIME LIKE NOW…
GOD HAS DONE EVERYTHING HE CAN FOR YOU…
THE NEXT MOVE MUST BE YOURS!!!

Are you willing to trust His love? Will you choose His life, or turn your back on His love and choose a future without Christ, without hope and without an end? Will you be very honest with Him right now? Talk to God before the touch of His Holy Spirit lifts off your life.

Tell Him in your own words something like this:

“God, I’m sorry I’ve been selfish and rebellious so long. I’m sick of my old life and I want to change. Please forgive my sin, and give me the power to live my life from this moment on for You. I give you my heart; take over everything I have and am, and be my Lord and King. Amen.”