“How Much God Loves This World”

 “How Much God Loves This World”

 

“For this is how God loved the world:  He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have Eternal Life.   John 3:16

 

When you think of the word “SALVATION”, do you ever consider what the COST was for the CREATOR of this WORLD, and EVERYTHING in it?  Our verse is a VERY WELL-KNOWN VERSE that is memorized by a lot of PEOPLE.  But I wonder how many people realize the CRITICAL IMPORTANCE and the IMPACT that it makes on the DESTINY of the Human Race.

This verse tells us of the MAGNITUDE of God’s UNFAILING, AMAZING LOVE, for mankind.  And to what EXTENT it goes.  He LOVED the world SO MUCH that His LOVE COMPELLED Him to take action for His PLAN of SALVATION.  So, He sent His ONE and ONLY SON, the LORD JESUS CHRIST into the WORLD as a TINY NEWBORN BABE who grew in WISDOM and STATURE and in FAVOR with GOD and ALL the people. (Lk 2:52)

 Jesus was not only a MAN, like other MEN, but He was WITHOUT SIN.  And He became the SUPREME SACRIFICE for ALL of MANKIND, who, by the way was VERY SINFUL, And I hate to say it, but they STILL ARE. 

Jesus, being ALL MAN, was/is ALL GOD, and “He came into the very world He CREATED, but the world did NOT recognize Him. He came to His own people, and they REJECTED HIM.  But to ALL who BELIEVED in Him and ACCEPTED Him, He GAVE the RIGHT to become Children of the LIVING GOD.  They are REBORN—NOT with a PHYSICAL BIRTH, resulting from HUMAN PASSION or PLAN but a BIRTH that comes from GOD.”  (1:10-13)

Our Lord SUFFERED HORRIBLY from TERRIBLE BEATINGS, and other forms of TORTURE. Then He was NAILED to an OLD RUGGED CROSS and SHED His LIFE’S BLOOD to bring SALVATION and ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN, to this LOST and DYING WORLD. 

The LOVE of THE ALMIGHTY GOD does not STOP with the JEWISH PEOPLE, but it EXTENDS to ALL MANKIND of ALL RACES and of ALL the AGES. It is His WISH that ALL, EVERYONE, who BELIEVES in JESUS, and His SALVATION will NOT PERISH, but have ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN, with the FATHER and His SON.   Will you be able to do that? 

You will, IF you will ADMIT that YOU are a SINNER in NEED of the SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, and if you will BELIEVE, with ALL your HEART that JESUS died for YOU, and that He is ALIVE in HEAVEN making intercession for YOU before God.  And if you will CONFESS your SINS to JESUS, asking Him for His FORGIVENESS.  Then you MUST be WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFESTYLE and TURN TO GOD with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  And  yo ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION then you will be able to have ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN with ALL its BLESSINGS, and to be ABLE to ESCAPE HELL, with ALL its HORRORS, and NO WAY to ESCAPE once you are there.  So, if you have NOT done this, PLEASE do it NOW, BEFORE it’s TOO LATE.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!  Don’t Be LEFT BEHIND!!!