Understanding Facts From God’s Perspective:

We are all preoccupied with many issues in our lives, but God is only focused on one thing: saving us. The question that many ask is, “Saving us from what?”

We were created as perfect beings who would live forever in a perfect world. In the Book of Genesis, we learn that God gave the first man the ability to choose good or evil. Adam chose evil and the perfect world God wanted for us to have, was shattered.

This is the risk of freedom and a vivid display of the consequences of our choices that are often catastrophic. The Bible defines the choice of evil rather than good, as sin—missing the mark of perfection.

God is perfect in every way. He created us “in His image,” meaning morally perfect like Himself. Also like God, He gave each of us the right to choose our destiny. If we choose good, we live forever; if we choose evil, we die forever.

Also like God, we are primarily an eternal spirit—living in a physical body. Both our spirit and our body were designed to live forever, with the stipulation that we remain morally perfect like God. The moment Adam chose sin and moral imperfection, he began the process of death. The reason that we die today is that each of us has also chosen sin over moral perfection.

It is from sin and death that we must be saved. It was the purpose of Jesus in coming to Earth, to remove our sins and make us perfect again. Jesus accomplished this goal by dying for the sins of every person, but we must agree with God that we are a sinner, and ask Him to take away our sins by Jesus’ death for us.

The Moral Law of God demands perfection, but we are not capable of perfection. No one can save themselves and reacquire eternal life again. Only if God acts to take away our sins, our moral imperfection, can He offer us a second chance at eternal life in a perfect world.

When God created the universe He also created laws that govern its function and continuation. Gravity sets the course of Earth in its rotation around the Sun. It holds us on the earth so we don’t fly off into space. The Law of Gravity determines whether human beings can live on Earth.

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If we decide that we don’t like the Law of gravity and we take the elevator to the top of a tall building, we might think we can fly off the top floor and do as we like. We would be wrong because the Law of gravity will punish us for doing as we please. There will be a sudden and unwelcome end to our experiment.

When God created the Earth and made it ready for us to live here, He also created moral laws that would ensure that we could live forever and enjoy all that He created for us, forever.

God told Adam that on the day he chose sin, he would die. After Adam chose evil over good, he began the process of physical death. The eternal spirit that lived within Adams’s body also died. Adam no longer had access to a relationship with God, because He is perfect and only perfect beings can have fellowship with Him. Before Adam chose sin, God walked in fellowship with Adam. After Adam chose sin over God, he could no longer enjoy this former fellowship, he lost access to God.

Genesis 2:15-17 “The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. But the LORD God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”

God is Holy. He does not sin and He cannot have fellowship with sin

Habakkuk 1:13 “You, Lord, are pure and cannot stand the sight of evil.”

1 John 1:8-10 “If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.”

What allowed Adam to live forever as an eternal being, was his holiness. Adam was created perfect, apart from sin, evil, and death. When Adam sinned and brought sin into the world, he also began to die physically. Sin causes death, and it prohibits human beings from living forever.

If Adam had never sinned, all of us today would never die. It was sin, and it is still sin, that causes us to age, get sick, and die.

Sin is, simply put, the absence of moral perfection. When God created us, He made us like Himself, absolutely perfect. After God created Adam and Eve, he said that they were “very good.” Genesis 1:31 “Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!”

If we find anything on earth today that is not very good, God did not create these things, we did. We can blame Adam for bringing sin into human life, but then we would also be condemning ourselves, because every one of us, sins, every day.

Is It Logically Impossible For God And Evil To Coexist?

Romans 3:23-25 “For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood.”

• This is why the first issue that God wants to deal with in our lives is sin.
• The greatest need that every person born on earth has, is sins forgiven.
• It is more important that sins be forgiven than any other need we have in our lives.

Jesus came to earth for the single purpose of forgiving all sins. Jesus wants to deal with the most important, most basic issue first, sins.

In Mark’s Gospel, chapter 2, a man who is paralyzed has many friends who love him. They hear that Jesus can heal any sickness and disease. In love for their friend, they bring him to the home of Peter where Jesus is teaching a large crowd.

The number of people is so great that the friends of the man paralyzed, cannot get him close enough to Jesus to ask Him to heal their friend.

These friends will not be prohibited from finding help for their friends. They climb up onto the roof of Peter’s house and take off the tiles covering the roof. They open a hole to the inside of the house where Jesus is teaching, and they lower their friend into the house.’

These friends wanted healing for the man paralyzed, but Jesus looked at him on the stretcher unable to move, and He said, “Your sins are forgiven.”

His friends were probably upset that Jesus didn’t address the issue that was most concerning to them, healing their friends.

The most important issue for Jesus was the forgiveness of this man’s sins. Jesus did care that he was paralyzed and lying on a mat. Jesus saw the faith of his friends who brought him through the room of Peter’s house so that he could be healed.

Mark 2:1-12 “When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home. Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them, four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”

“But some of the teachers of religious law who were sitting there thought to themselves, “What is he saying? This is blasphemy! Only God can forgive sins!” Jesus knew immediately what they were thinking, so he asked them, “Why do you question this in your hearts? Is it easier to say to the paralyzed man ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk’? So I will prove to you that the Son of Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins.” Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!” And the man jumped up, grabbed his mat, and walked out through the stunned onlookers. They were all amazed and praised God, exclaiming, “We’ve never seen anything like this before!”

Sin Is The Violation Of God’s Law, Therefore, All Sin Is Always Against God

For this reason, only God can forgive sin.

In Psalm 51, King David is praying to God after committing adultery with Bathsheba, and having her husband, Uriah, killed.

David prayed: “”Have mercy upon me Oh God according to Your Mercy. Wipe away my sins. Against You and You only have I sinned.”

David recognized that his sins, adultery, and murder, were against God:

1. “You shall not commit adultery.”
2. “You shall not murder.”

David Broke The Law Of God, As All Of Us Do

Therefore, all of our sins are against God, and only He can forgive our sins.

We do sin against people. David sinned against Bathsheba and her husband Uriah. Our sins do affect people, they do cause them hurt and loss.

If we go to the people we have sinned against and admit we have done wrong and ask for forgiveness—if the person

we sinned against loves God, they are bound by scripture to forgive us for what we have done.

Sins against people that we have done are serious and relative, and we are all accountable for the wrong that we do to people…

…But these sins are really, at their source, against God.

If we forgive someone for what they have done, this does not bring forgiveness to this person from God.

We must all ask God for His forgiveness because it is the Law of God that we broke—we have sinned against God.

Only God Can Forgive Our Sins And Restore Us To A Relationship With Him

We should be sorry for the sins we commit against people and ask for their forgiveness.

Even more so, we should be sorry for the sins we commit against God as we have all broken His Law, and we should ask Him to forgive us.

• Our sins against God have placed us under His condemnation.
• Our sins against God place us under the penalty of death. God said: “All souls are mine, the soul that sins will die…” ~Ezekiel 18:4
• We must come to God, each one of us, and deal with this issue.

Romans 8:1-3 “So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body, God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.”

If we have not come to God with genuine sorrow over the sins that we have committed against Him, we do not have His forgiveness.

The penalty of death that exists today for our sins, must either be paid by us, or we can choose to allow Jesus to pay for it Himself. This is the reason that Jesus came to earth; to die for all sins and offer every person complete forgiveness, and eternal life.

We do not have these things until we come to God and ask Him for them

No matter who we are or what we have done, Jesus has already died for all sins. All Sins are already forgiven by Jesus’ death on the cross and resurrection on the third day.

Jesus’ death releases us from the old life; Jesus’ resurrection allows us to enter into the new life.”

“My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” ~Galatians 5:20

“For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.” ~1 Peter 1:23

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” ~2 Corinthians 5:17

Sin is a big deal, but not so much that it has to keep us separated from God. We can change our eternal destiny right now. If we come to God in genuine sorrow over the sins that we have ultimately committed against Him, He is ready to forgive us and cleanse our record of wrong—forever.

This was the purpose the Jesus coming to our world, living a sinless life as a man, and offering His life in payment for all of our sins—that we might be forgiven. This is the most important thing in our life, it is the reason we were born and are alive today. We have only one chance to hear this Good News and call on Jesus to forgive us and receive the forgiveness of our sins and the gift of eternal life in heaven.

I hope you will join all of us sinners who have been forgiven and saved by Jesus and are not on our way to living in a perfect world that will never end. This is the reason you are alive right now, it is the most important issue of our lives.

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• We Must Have A Personal Relationship With Jesus And Make A Decision For Christ For Salvation
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