|| the Gospel ||
Sharing the Gospel earlier this year at a school in India God loves you , He loves the whole world (John 3:16) and He created us to be His friend. We are separated from God because we SIN - we do bad things - we lie, we envy, we are greedy, we rebel and steal and gossip. Sin cannot be removed by doing good things (Ephesians 2:8). Imagine if you stole something and the police caught you in your act. You would have to go before a judge to face a penalty. In the same way, because of our sin, we are guilty before God, our Judge and our penalty is death (Romans 6:23) and eternal separation. The Bible describes it as a "fiery furnace with weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 13:42). God loves us and wants us to be His close friend so He sent His Son, Jesus, to pay our penalty of death. Jesus is fully God and fully man (Hebrews 2:5-18). He lived a perfect life and never sinned (2 Corinthians 5:21). He took our penalty of death by dying on a cross. He pai...