Following Christ
Welcome and thank you for coming here. I know you have lots of choices on the Internet and I am so glad God brought you here today. You do know you are not here by chance, don’t you? God brought you here to give you a chance to understand His plan for your life. And I am truly blessed that I have this opportunity, given me by God to talk to you. Not my plan, but His. It’s very important that you understand that everything you are about to read comes from the Bible, The Holy Word of God.
In the beginning, God created everything including man and woman. He placed them in a garden paradise and provided everything they needed to be happy and joyful with but one rule: do not eat the fruit of the tree of the knowlege of good and evil.
Everything was wonderful in the garden for a while. Until Satan (the devil, the evil one, Lucifer) tempted Eve who convinced Adam to follow her sin, and the fall of mankind commenced. From that point on mankind lived in a sinful world just as we do today.
Man was not to be outdone by God and made several attempts to validate his existence and be like God. Of course, he was never successful and God, to prove that man could not measure up, created the law. The simple understanding was that any man who could keep the law was worthy of entering back into God’s presence. The penalty for not keeping the law was spiritual death, that is an eternity away from God in hell. But, as history shows us, no one was ever capable of the righteousness required by the law outside of God’s temporary provision until the Messiah should come. No one that is, until Jesus Christ came to this earth some 2000 years ago.
All throughout the Old Testament, which is the Bible before Jesus came, God fortold of the Messiah who would come to save the people from their sins. And sure enough, as recorded in the Bible and other secular writings, Jesus Christ the Messiah, sent by God, came over 2000 years ago with the express purpose of becoming a sacrifice for the sins of any person who would choose to follow Him. His life for my life; His life for your life.
The history of Jesus the Christ is fairly well known throughout the world. The miracles that he did, His death and resurrection; surely you have heard all about it. That he came to this earth, lived and did miracles, then was crucified and three days later God raised him from the dead is what the Bible tells us. The one thing I would ask you to consider if you have trouble believing is simply this: how could 11 men, scared to death after his crucifixion and hiding in a house for fear of losing their very life, get so bold as to stand up just a few days later and challenge the very people who crucified Jesus Christ? That is what happened, again as recorded in history. Unless of course Jesus really did arise from the dead and appear to all of them. And don’t forget, most if not all of the apostles were martyred for this belief!
That Jesus died for anyone in the world who would choose to follow him is clear by reading any number of writings in the Old or the New Testament, from thousands of years before Jesus Christ to the time of Jesus Christ. The Bible tells us that to follow Christ simply means to admit our sinful nature and our inability to measure up to God’s righteousness, to ask for his forgiveness, to accept his sacrifice and to turn from our former ways to live the life that he has prepared for us. Period.
And one more thing: you are the person Jesus is calling today. No matter how bad you think you are, in spite of all the bad things you’ve done; none of that matters to Jesus Christ. On that cross 2000 years ago he died for all of your sins; past, present and future. He knows what you did yesterday and what you will do tomorrow and He accepts you exactly as you are! His love is unconditional excepting one thing; you must choose to follow him. The choice is yours. What will you do?
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