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You were meant to live with God Forver:
Man is destined to live eternally, the question is where? In the Gospel of John Chapter 14 verses 1-6 Jesus is quoted saying, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me”
When Adam and Eve sinned by disobeying God, sin entered the world through them and was passed down to all their offspring, all the way down to me and you. For this reason the scriptures state that “23 ….all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” Romans 3:23. The scriptures further state that “10 ……There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” Romans 3:10-12. The Old Testament scriptures echo the same message “6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6. The book of Genesis records man being driven from the presence of God because of sin (Genesis 3:23-24), the New Testament heralds the message of the Savior of the world (John 4:14). In the Old Testament, a lamb had to die in order for God to temporarily forgive man’s sin, in the New Testament, Jesus became the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world once and for all if believed (John 1:29). After Adamic sin, man had no way to God. In fact God having driven man out of the Garden of Aden, an angel and a flaming sword that turned every way were placed there to guard the way to the tree of life (Genesis 3:24). Man then, began a long journey, as if blind folded, trying to figure out his way back to God; a matter that accounts for all the religions of the world today. Having been driven away from God’s presence, man found himself naked both physically and spiritually. Man used the leaves from a tree to cover his nakedness (Genesis 3:7), but God deemed the covering of leaves incapable of covering man’s sin because without the shedding of blood, there no remission of sins (Hebrews 9:22). God had to kill a lamb, in order to make a covering for man (Genesis 3:21). The construction of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is another miserably failed man’s attempt to reach God in his own effort, in my view the equivalence of organized religion. Then God Himself gave man the law through Moses but it turned out that no one could fulfill the whole law (James 2:10).
When man was in this disparate state, Jesus stepped on the scene of history and declared “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also…… 6 ….. I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” John 14:1-6. No need to cover ourselves with the leaves of religion, no need to console ourselves with the tower of Babel (human endeavor and achievement), no need to kill a lamb, for Jesus, the perfect Lamb of God, came to take away the sin of the world. He is the only way back to the tree of Life.
Jesus came first and foremost to save sinners. In Mark chapter 2 Jesus said to the palylized man, “Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.” While Jesus would go on to heal the man of the bodily infirmity, he addressed the man’s spiritual condition first. Call on Jesus today, like the paralytic man, sin can paralyze anyone. The Good news is that Jesus is telling you today “Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.”
Model Prayer: Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord. I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead. Dear Jesus, come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. I am sorry for my sins, and I ask you to forgive me, wash me with your blood, and give me your Holy Spirit to teach and guide me. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
If you believed and prayed the above prayer, you are now a born again child of God.
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Authored by: Pastor Godfrey Twahirwa
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