by Pastor Todd R. Cook
This message is to inform us how we may be
able to have a personal relationship with God, eternal life in heaven, our sins
forgiven, and our guilt taken away.
The first thing we must realize is that no
one measures up to God's perfect standard of holiness. Rom. 3:23 says,
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." None of us
deserves to go to heaven. Rom. 6:23 says, "For the wages of sin is
death." This death includes an eternal death in the lake of fire. All hope
is not gone. The punishment that we deserved Christ took upon Himself. Rom. 5:8 says, "But God commendeth
his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for
us." Since our transgression was against Him, He has the right to forgive
us. Because of His holiness, there can be no forgiveness of sin without the
shedding of blood. So Christ shed His blood in our place, the just for the
unjust.
Since Christ paid the price for our sin, how
is this forgiveness applied to our lives?
If through reading this you have trusted
Christ, let Pastor Cook know. Write him at