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The Good News from God to You

Jesus Christ died for your sins, He was buried, and three days later He raised Himself up from the grave.

If you will turn from your sins and call upon Him, He will deliver you.

Why Do You Need to Be Delivered?

1) It is not possible for you to please God without Jesus' deliverance.

God created man in His own image.  We are each free moral agents.  The image of God is in every human being.  We share attributes (characteristics) with our Creator.  To be made in God's image means when someone sees us, anything that is good about us is a reflection of our Maker.

Adam and Eve, the first pair that God made in this creation story failed by disobeying God.  This resulted in every human being that came from them sharing God's image as well.  Unfortunately, the image of God that was passed down from them (Adam & Eve) to every other human being was born in a condition of separation from God.

We still retain a human spirit, but it is not quickened by the Spirit of God at physical conception or birth.  Each one of us are born alive physically, but our human spirit that would have been 100% good by default has been corrupted.  In fact, it is NOT born at the same time as we are physically.

That is why Jesus told Nicodemus, you MUST be born again.

We are born as flesh, and we are simply natural people.

We begin our lives naturally disconnected from God.

We are not pleasing to God in this condition.

2) In addition to being born with a nature that is disconnected from God you have committed personal acts of sin as well.

Rom.3:23  states "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"

God is Holy-- which means he is completely separate from sin and in order to be in his presence you must be holy as well (that is completely separate from sin). We can't accomplish this on our own.  Calling on Jesus Christ and asking him for forgiveness of sins and accepting his sacrifice in your behalf accomplishes what God demands.

Rom. 10:9-13

[9] That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
[10] For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
[11] For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
[12] For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
[13] For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

2 Cor. 5:17-21

[17] Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
[18] And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
[19] To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
[20] Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
[21] For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

When Jesus died on the cross, he took all of our sins upon himself and he gave us all of his own righteousness. I call this Divine arithmetic.

Essentially, we traded our sins for the Holiness of Jesus Christ. Because of this transaction, we are welcome to be with God in heaven.

What is the difference between being delivered and being saved?

There is no difference. To be saved means to be delivered. Usually the word is translated in the English Bible as "saved" but it could be translated "delivered" and would mean the same thing.

2 Cor. 1:9-10

[9] But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
[10] Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

We ...

• have been delivered or we have been saved from sin's penalty
• are being delivered or we are being saved from sin's power
• will be delivered or we will be saved from sin's presence.