August 6 Bible more

Today is the day for salvation! How to have a personal relationship with the true God of the universe: We must first realize who God is. God is the Almighty creator of the universe. He originally made a man and a woman in his own image, being good, but they made a wrong choice to disobey him (Genesis 2:7, 15-18, 21-25; 3:1-24). Because God is holy (totally perfect and good), the penalty for disobeying God is death. We are sinners by nature and by choice (i.e., we do wrong things and fail to do the right things), we are totally dead spiritually (Romans 3:10-18), and we cannot please him (Ephesians 2:1-3). Because of this we are bound for hell (a place of eternal punishment in a lake of fire, Revelation 20:14-15). That is the bad news. The good news is that though God is holy and just, he is also gracious and compassionate to sinners (Exodus 34:6,7). By God’s grace and mercy we can be saved from punishment and hell (Ephesians 2:4-5; Romans 6:23). Jesus, God’s Son, came from heaven to be a perfect sinless sacrifice (Philippians 2:5-8; Hebrews 9:26-28). He died in our place so that we might be saved (1Peter 3:18). We need to truly believe in our hearts that Jesus Christ died in our place, that he was buried, and that he arose from the dead three days later to be our Savior (1Corinthians 15:3-4; John 3:3, 16-18, 36; Romans 10:9-10,13). When we do that God gives us new spiritual life as the Holy Spirit comes to indwell us, we have peace with God, and we can now please him (Romans 5:1; Romans 8:1-16). Jesus is now in heaven preparing a future home for us to live joyfully forever (John 14:1-3) How a believer can restore his fellowship with God. We must recognize and agree with God that the actions and attitudes we have toward God or his creation are wrong. Or the things we should have done but did not do are wrong (1John 1:5-10; James 4:17) We must genuinely be sorry (contrite, Joel 2:13-14) and repent (have a change of mind that will lead to a change of behavior: “By God’s grace, I will not do that again”) We must ask forgiveness of God and anyone we have harmed and make restitution if necessary (Ezekiel 33:11-16 (by principle); Luke 19:8; 2Corinthians 7:9,11) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1John 1:9, NIV)

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