Very Good News:  The Need For Salvation

We have an important question for you: Do you ever wonder why the Bible seems like gobbledygook to you; why its claims seem ludicrous and its message obscured to you?

This is because God says the natural man (the one not born again)

- does NOT ACCEPT the things of the Spirit of God

- for they are FOOLISHNESS TO HIM

- and he CANNOT UNDERSTAND them

-  because they must be spiritually understood (1 Cor 2:14 ).

Does this sound like you?

Even if you 'tried Christianity' before (and promptly decided it 'didn't work'), if you were never truly born again, please understand you have not actually experienced true Christianity - because being born again is an essential for it.

So what does 'born again' mean, you might ask?

We are all born once when we enter into this world as babies… we're born of the flesh. But we're born without being spiritually alive (to the things of God) because of the sin condition we inherited from Adam (the first man to sin) which was passed down to us through our parents.

Being born sinners, we do what comes naturally to us - we sin; this also separates us from a right relationship with God because He is absolutely holy. Sometimes people refuse to believe or accept they've sinned or acknowledge Who that sin is against - God! Just the same, He says our spirits are dead because of sin. They need to be made alive.

God Himself must make us alive spiritually, giving us a new birth, and this happens in connection with our becoming His children by grace through faith that He gives us to trust in Jesus' finished work on Calvary 's cross. God's Holy Spirit comes to live in us and He makes our once dead spirits ALIVE!!! It is HIS LIFE in us that makes us born again or born from above.

Just to reiterate... If a person is not born again...

God says that person CANNOT even SEE His kingdom (Jn 3:3).

He further says those who are according to the flesh (the Holy Spirit isn't dwelling in them since they are not born again)…

- set their minds on the things of the flesh…

- and the MIND SET ON THE FLESH IS DEATH

- because the MIND SET ON THE FLESH IS HOSTILE TOWARD GOD

- for it does NOT SUBJECT ITSELF TO THE LAW of God

- for it is NOT EVEN ABLE TO DO SO

- and THOSE WHO ARE IN THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD (Rm 8:6-9).

Yikes!!!

Without faith (which includes a trust and reliance upon God and what He has done for us at Calvary 's cross) He says it's IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE Him (Heb 11:6).

So what do you need to do? (click here to find out)

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