God's Plan For Mankind
When God created man, God had a plan that's best for humans. As revealed in the Book of the Prophet Jeremia "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “
plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. "
Jeremiah 29.11
plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. "
Jeremiah 29.11
God is the Creator of all mankind, He gave what He wills for the best of all mankind. God never created a race just to mocked. God gave all the best for His glorious creation. God did not intend to create a human being without purpose. God created man for His own glory.
That's the best plan of God for mankind. But by choice, people choose not to obey God, so that people can not experience the best plan of God.
Separator between God and Human
A mother put her baby in the trash just because of his birth is not desirable. While a father watering his own baby, aged 6 months, with boiling water as sacrificial to gain wealth. In a room, a boy hanged himself because of disappointment with the treatment of parents who impose their will on him. Drugs are preventing teenagers and even less adult people trapped and prohibited them. A thief was persecuted to critical, the problem just because he had not eaten for three days, then he stole. Not forgiveness, and mercy, but he received the punishment that is not comparable!
We have no longer describe the glory of God. The Bible says that man has been taken over sin so that God's plan failed to achieve the goal,
As it is written:
“There is no one righteous, not even one;
...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:10, 23
The prophet Isaiah wrote
But your iniquities have separated you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Isaiah 59:2
your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Isaiah 59:2
We even have become slaves to sin, unconsciously and without our understanding, we are ruled by sin and sinning. As said Jesus Christ, our Lord,
Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
John 8:34
John 8:34
And God has provided punishment for all those who do not obey Him,
For the wages of sin is death.
Romans 3.23
Romans 3.23
If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life,
he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:15
he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:15
Lake of fire (Hell) is a punishment provided by God for all men have sinned. That is eternal death.
If we claim to be without sin,
we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:8
we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:8
God, who is Most Holy and Blessed Fair, can not accept the slightest sin. Is there a human being 99% clean but 1% unclean? In God presence, human beings still unclean, because God can not compromise even a small sin. Thus all our good deeds is useless in his presence.
God the Compassionate and Merciful
But God is Glorified and Most Fair is also God the Most Gracious and Most Merciful.God hates sin was a very loving man. God wants people saved from the punishment that has been assigned him. God must punish sin, so that real justice and His holiness, but God also wants to forgive people as evidence of his affection. Is there a proper way? Substitute Sacrifice
God established the sacrificial slaughter of animals as a symbol of God's punishment of sin but also as evidence of his affection. This method is established by God since the time of the prophets of yore. God told Noah to set sacrificial animals are kosher. "The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering,
but the bodies are burned outside the camp.”
Hebrews 13:11
but the bodies are burned outside the camp.”
Hebrews 13:11
To the Prophet Abraham, God gave the animal sacrifice as a substitute sacrifice his son.
Everything is only a symbol. But in the end God himself gave the perfect sacrifice. Jesus Christ, our Lord of glory, been prepared by God to be the Sacrifice for our Substitute.
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly....
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:6, 8
And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate
to make the people holy through his own blood.
Hebrews 13:12
to make the people holy through his own blood.
Hebrews 13:12
But our glorious Lord, Jesus Christ, not just be a sacrifice, He has risen as evidence that the ordinance of God concerning eternal death has been canceled.
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance:
that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day
according to the Scriptures.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day
according to the Scriptures.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
Because Jesus’ birth is unique, our glorious Lord, Jesus Christ is called the last Adam
So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”;
the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:45
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
I Corinthians 15:22
I Corinthians 15:22
And all of us who believe in and acknowledge the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, our Lord, accept the promise of resurrection to eternal life.
This is Good News
This is good news from God. Only two steps to accept it, repent of their sins and trust, “Repent and believe the good news!” Mark 1:15
What will we receive?
Therefore, there is now no condemnation
for those who are in Christ Jesus.
for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1
Jesus Christ, our Lord of glory, said:
I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.
(all scriptures verses in this post is quote from New International Version)