The Problem: My sin

How Did We Get to this Point?  God created the world. At first everything was perfect, exactly as God made it.  But now we all commit wrong actions that break God’s Law. (Romans 3:23; Exodus 20:3-17; James 2:10) We fail to live up to God’s holy standards, and so we’re guilty.  The Bible calls this “sin.”  Our sin separates us from God and makes us His enemy. 

God's Solution: A Perfect Sacrifice

God loves you very much and wants you to love Him in return.  God loves you and desires that you would honor Him and have a close relationship with Him.  What you were unable to do, (keeping God's Law perfectly), Jesus did by coming to Earth to live a perfect life and to die on the cross for you.  He took the punishment for your sin upon Himself, and so Jesus became the way between God the Father and you.  (John 3:16; Ephesians 2:1-3;  I Peter 2:24)

 If you don’t come to God for forgiveness through Jesus, you will never know God personally and your life will be filled with sin and its consequences.  When you die you’ll be separated from God forever in Hell.  This is the just punishment for your sin by a Holy God. (John 5:28-29; Romans 6:23; Revelation 14:10-11)

 How Do I Find My Way to God?

1)     Acknowledge that you’ve sinned against God and are in need of a Savior. (Romans 3:23; I John 1:8-10) Jesus shares a parable to show the importance of humbling ourselves and acknowledging our sinfulness before God inLuke Chapter 18 "And He (Jesus) also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’ 13 But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

2)    Repent of your sins and believe (have faith) that when Jesus died on the cross He took the punishment for all your sin and He rose again to new life and conquered death. (I Peter 2:24; Acts 17:30-31; Romans 10:9-13)

3)    Receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior (Mark 8:34-38; Romans 10:9-10; Titus 2:11-14)