¿Do you have a personal relationship whit Jesus Chris
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God
loves us and wants us to have a personal relationship with Him.

- God loves us even if we haven't
loved Him.
- "In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He
loved us." —1 John 4:10
- God wants us to know Him.
- The Bible says God is at work in everyone's life. "So
that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him
and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us." —Acts 17:27
Our
relationship with God has been broken by sin.

- We have all made choices showing
we are inclined to be:
- Passively indifferent to God
"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." —Isaiah 53:6
- Or actively opposed to God
"And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and
men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For
everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light,
lest his deeds should be exposed." —John 3:19-20
- The result of our choices to
resist or ignore God results in spiritual death (separation from God).
- "We are dead in trespasses and sins." —Ephesians 2:1
- "And thus death spread to all men, because all
sinned." —Romans 5:12
God
has provided a solution for our lost relationship.

- Jesus Christ came into the world
to do for us what we could not do for ourselves.
- "For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have
everlasting life." —John 3:16
- He came into the world to bring
us to His Father.
- "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.' " —John 14:6
- He died in our place to pay the
penalty for our sin.
- "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for
the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh
but made alive by the Spirit." —1 Peter 3:18
- He rose from the dead to show
that His claims were true.
- "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." —1 Corinthians
15:3-6
We
must each personally trust Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

- We must realize that our own
efforts to earn God's acceptance are inadequate.
- "Not by works of righteousness which we have done,
but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration
and renewing of the Holy Spirit." —Titus 3:5
- We must admit our need for
forgiveness.
- "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of
God." —Romans 3:23
- "And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not
so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be
merciful to me a sinner!' " —Luke 18:13
- We must receive Christ and His
offer of salvation as a gift.
- "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the
right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name." —John
1:12
- "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and
that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone
should boast." —Ephesians 2:8-9
Where would
you place yourself in the following illustration?

Where would you
like to be?
You can begin your personal relationship with God by putting your faith in
Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord. You may find it helpful to express your
new faith in words similar to these:
Dear God, I know that my sin has separated me from
You. Thank You for sending Your Son to die in my place. I now trust Jesus to
forgive my sins. I invite Him into my life as my Savior and Lord. Thank You
for receiving me into Your eternal family. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Your trust
in Jesus Christ begins an everlasting personal relationship with God.
GOD'S COMMITMENT TO YOU:
- God assures you that if you
have trusted Jesus as your Savior, He has given you eternal life.
- "These things I have written to you who believe in
the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life,
and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God." —1
John 5:13
- God promises to never leave
you.
- "I will never leave you nor forsake you." —Hebrews
13:5
- God has forgiven all of your
sins, past, present, and future.
- "And you, being dead in your trespasses and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having
forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of
requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has
taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross." —Colossians
2:13-14
- God has given you His Spirit
to enable you to live in a way that is pleasing to Him.
- "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the
Spirit." —Galatians 5:25
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