Want Good News?

Want Good News?

Want good news? I hope you are still with me. I want you to understand that you have sinned. The law helps you see that. You deserve death and hell (we all do!). That is the penalty God has set for those who break His law. Having established this, I pray that you are ready for the good news!

God Grants What He Commands

Augustine said, "Grant what you command and command what you will." God's standard is perfection. His standard is perfect goodness, and we are not good. But He is good. Read on!

Jesus Is God and Did All That We Could Never Do

God took on a human body. John 1:14 says, "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us..." We broke God's law. Jesus kept it. We have sinned. He is sinless. We are not good. He is good. We are unholy. He is holy. We deserve hell. He deserves heaven.

Where Does His Goodness and My Badness Meet?

God has done for us, in Christ, what was impossible for us. The Lord Jesus has fully carried out all God's commands and is perfectly righteous. We have broken God's commands and are completely unrighteous. The two meet in God's plan to save His people from their sins. All of the awful penalty for our sin was credited to Christ's account. He bore the full wrath of God against our sin. All Christ's righteousness is credited to our account. Read the following and worship God! "He [God, the Father]made Him who knew no sin [God the Son] to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Corinthians 5:21, NASB95)[brackets included by me]

How Can I Have This Salvation?

Read the next page! Let's start by saying that it cannot be earned and is only given as God's gracious gift.