Paid in full…a debt payment of infinite significance had been transacted.

With “It is finished,” Jesus Christ ended the agony of bearing the punishment for the debt of the world on a Roman execution cross – mine and your sins included. “who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.” 1 Peter 2:24.

“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. “ 2 Corinthians 5:21

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At this moment, all God asks is that you acknowledge the debt and accept the payment – that’s “believing in Christ” for salvation.

It’s so simple and yet so difficult for humans to accept. Our debt to God was so great that we could never pay it off. AND God offered to pay for us in FULL if only we will ACCEPT it.

God’s promise for all who believe is that He will declare their debt PAID IN FULL, and He will also credit their account with Christ’s sinless righteousness and give them eternal life. “He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” John 3:36

And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household’ Acts 16:30-31

“but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness – for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.” Romans 4:24,25

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“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” John 3:18

Only God can save us from the thing we really must fear – eternal condemnation.

God sent His Son to pay for our pardon.

To ‘believe’ is more than intellectual assent that Jesus is LORD. “You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble!” James 2:19

Believe means to put our trust, confidence and conviction in Christ Jesus that He alone can save us. Believing is both trusting His words as reliable and relying on Him for the power to change.

This life on earth is just the introduction to eternity. Receive this eternal life by faith in Christ.

“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:17

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“..Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”  2 Corinthians 6:2 The most central of all CHOICES is before you…

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God offers salvation to all people. Many people postpone  a DECISION – The CHOICE for Christ, thinking & rationalising that there will be another opportunity, a better time,– but there could easily miss, relinquish & forgo the greatest opportunity altogether and thereto REGRET for all ETERNITY. 

Bumper sticker = “Many who seek God at the 11th hour die at 10:30” If one were to procrastinate, to wait until tomorrow – the last possible moment to turn to God  to receive Christ, then one may have waited too late, if tomorrow never comes. “Carpe’ Diem” not only means to seize life at the moment…but to answer the call of faith in Christ now as well. There is no time like the present to obtain God’s forgiveness. 

The time for action is now!!! “.

Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”  2 Corinthians 6:2 

The most central of all CHOICES is before you…

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God who gave us the seeds of greatness and LIFE also gives us the liberty to choose our eternal destiny, and no other choice can be more important than this. Thus with this choice comes the greatest of responsibility for one’s own soul.

Human beings are given the inalienable rights to choose – you may choose to receive GOD into your life & reject Him. However you cannot choose the CONSEQUENCES that follows your decision. For instance, you do not harvest grapes from thorn bushes if you had chosen to sow seeds of thorn bushes BUT remember you DO have the full LIBERTY to choose the type of seeds you want to sow in the first place.

Likewise you have total freedom to either commit a crime or not to commit a crime, if you so decide to commit a crime, you cannot choose the consequences arising from this choice – expect the enforcement of the law of the land. If we who are imperfect, do demand retribution for those who make evil choices, what more would you expect from a PERFECT & HOLY GOD who cannot tolerate sin. The payment for sin is eternity in hell fire.

“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matthew 10:28 “in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 2 Thessalonians 1:8 “And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”Matthew 25:46

Why would you want to pay for your penalty of sin and not accept the gift of God instead?

God said “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) … For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord God. “Therefore turn and live!” (Ezekiel 18:32)

God has made a way for us to escape the ultimate punishment of sin – the choice is yours to accept or not to accept His way of salvation which is found in John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” John 3:17-18

“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9

 

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