Good News About the Messiah

Our only hope of salvation is Jesus the Messiah.

God loves mankind and wants to bless all. It is not God's intention to be separated from mankind. God is a God of relationships, and He wants nothing more than to exercise this relationship with His creation:

"You will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever."

"How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; and You give them to drink of the river of Your delights. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light. O continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You, and Your righteousness to the upright in heart."

Mankind is separated from God because of sin, which results in spiritual death.

Original sin

"But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die."

Even despite this separation, God desires to have a relationship with man. Being the perfect and just God that He is, we are born into this world separated from Him by our sin. The chasm is insurmountable in our own effort, but God has made a way for us to be restored.

Our sin nature

His word makes clear, our sin has separated us from a relationship with God. His word also explains that the punishment for our sins; that is, our trespasses. A punishment that is the same for all - Jews and Gentiles alike - if they indeed remain separated from God:

"Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who continually does good and who never sins."

"The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it?"

"For all of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; and all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away."

"Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine, the soul who sins will die."

"But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge."

"But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear."

There is nothing we can do by ourselves

The word of God is very clear on this point as well; there is nothing we can do to save ourselves and be reconciled to God. Additionally, there is nothing that a man can do for us to reconcile us to God:

" 'Although you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your iniquity is before Me,' declares the Lord God."

"No man can by any means redeem his brother or give to God a ransom for him."

God has provided us a way to be reconciled as a free gift

Do not be discouraged! God loves us and He did provide a solution to what seems to be an unsolvable problem. God sent Jesus the Messiah to be the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. The Messiah, whom the Scriptures teach is God, died and atoned for our sins.

We should pay particular attention to the Scripture from the prophet Isaiah who predicted the humiliation, suffering, death by crucifixion, resurrection, and exaltation of the Messiah in the book of the prophet Isaiah. The following is a part of that section of the Hebrew Scriptures:

"Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. And they made His grave with the wicked—But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors."

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.

I, even I, am the LORD, and there is no savior besides Me.

Jesus' atoning death for our sins gives us salvation

The barrier between God and us created by sin has been knocked down by the Messiah's selfless sacrifice on our behalf. It is our choice to accept this free gift by faith.

"Then he believed in the LORD; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness."

"Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; but the righteous will live by his faith."

Repentance toward God and trust in Jesus reconciles us to God

The solution is readily available for those who desire an eternal relationship with God. Only by changing our mind about the value of our own efforts to make ourselves righteous before God and instead trusting the atoning death of Jesus the Messiah - only then can we be reconciled to God. Jesus bridged the gap between God and us. Faith is our response to His gift of salvation for those who put their trust in Him:

"Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith."

"[...Abram] believed in the Lord, and [the Lord] accounted it to him for righteousness."

"How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered! How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit!"

"He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion."

Jesus was born of a virgin in Bethlehem of Judea!

Contrary to all man-made religions, our faith in God that is based on the Christian Scriptures is simple: we realize there is nothing we can do to reconcile ourselves to God, except believe by faith in the atoning death of Jesus the Messiah. You have no hope apart from Him. Change your mind and believe. He is waiting! Anyone can trust Jesus by faith, and thus be forgiven of their sins, have Him make His home in their heart of hearts, and start walking in newness of life.

Here are the glorious words of Paul, I hope you love the Messiah forever. God is merciful, and His mercy is poured out upon the lives of those that believe in His Name. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

Faith alone in Jesus the Messiah of Nazareth saves.

Here are the great words of Jesus spoken through a man that is a very great lover of God, His faithful servant John:

Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

The words in red are much better than mine, and that is putting it lightly.

In the past I foolishly sought my own best interests at the expense of others, I used to be a fornicator, and an adulterous person.

If a person breaks one commandment in God’s law then that person is guilty before God of breaking them all.

All sin is like fornication and adultery, to a degree. I genuinely would not encourage or council anyone to seek pleasure in sin for a season.

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

““For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding; He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly; He guards the paths of justice, And preserves the way of His saints.”

I hope you are not a foolish virgin. Or found to be like Esau. God’s love is greater than your sin, if you truly believe in Him.

I hope you believe in him, and rejoice with Him forever. He is gentle, loving, and will not always chide.

While a prayer is not required, you can still say to Him...

Dear God, I agree that I was born into this world as a sinner, and I was born separated from You because of sin.

I desired a relationship with You, but I could not save myself by my own hands. You can save me, and you still save me every day.

I thank you for sending Jesus the Messiah to die for me, and I accept His death as my atonement.

By faith I remember the day Jesus forgave me of my sins and made me a child of God.

I will always lovingly remember His death on the cross where He bled and bought me with His precious blood. Jesus is the Image of the Invisible God, and He is the perfect Passover Lamb without spot or blemish.

Please rejoice with me and declare in your heart and with your mouth that Jesus is Lord.

Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!

Those who love God are loved by Him!

Jesus is the Son of God.

Please entrust your soul to the God of these faithful witnesses spoken of in the hall of faith.

For a more perfect understanding, please enjoy time reading the book of Hebrews given to the Lord's faithful servant.

Here are more glorious words delivered to the Lord's faithful servant John:

And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.  They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.

Then he said to me, “These words are faithful and true.” And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly take place.

“Behold, I am coming quickly! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.

Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.” And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”

Apart from Eternal Salvation in His Name, there is death, and destruction in the lake of fire. Surely, He desires better for you. Unless you repent, repent, repent you will be condemned.

“And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”

Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.”

Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Surely, God is merciful! Always keep yourself in the love of God, and please count me as your friend at the end of the day!

I hope you are blessed forever like Jacob, and you always see good beyond this world that is quickly passing away.