Joh 3:16 For Elohim so loved the world that He gave His only brought-forth Son, so that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.
I am sure that nobody who is in a culture that has been evangelised has not heard this verse. So much so that it might even sound like a cliché. But really, it is the bottom line!
It is not the fact that our Messiah died, and was raised again, that moves us to accept Him...it is the fact that He did this out of love for us. The bottom line is, Jesus loves us. YHVH loves us.
I came to accept His love and submitted my life to Him while I was still single. During the years thereafter, I learned about His unconditional love (Agapé in the Greek), but it was really only once I became a dad myself that I really, for the first time, understood unconditional love. I look at my kids and feel, and know, that there is nothing they can do that will make me love them less...or more. That is unconditional love.
For the first time I really understood the love that YHVH has for us, His creation...His children. We are to Him what my kids are to me. He is a loving Heavenly Father!
What has your god done for you? Let me tell you what mine has done for me (and you).
Sin had brought a separation between Father and child. Father's righteousness and intolerance of sin made that there could no longer be any fellowship between Father and child. Child yearned for Father's affection, and tried to live by many rules (some laid down by Father, but most self-made) in order to gain Father's affection and attention. Father yearned even more for child's fellowship, and saw that none of child's attempts would bridge this gap. The penalty of sin was just too great.
But Father had a plan...He would pay the penalty Himself! But He could not do it as God...He had to do it in human form...so He became flesh...in the form of Jesus Christ - Yeshua Hamashiach. Yeshua lived a sinless life, which is important, because if He had even one single sin of His own to account for, He would not have been able to pay the penalty for our sin.
And that brings us full circle...to the core message spoken of in my previous post...that Jesus Christ was crucified, and in dying, paid the penalty for the sin of all mankind. And then He was raised from the dead, and in so doing, won a fantastic victory over the kingdom of Satan, and passed that victory on to us (but that is a topic for another post).
And so, with the penalty of sin paid, the gate to fellowship between Father and child is open again, and all that child has to do to enter it is to believe that Yeshua, as `the only brought-forth Son of Elohim`, paid the price, and to accept Father's love.
That is the WHY...
Truly accepting this, and experiencing Father's fellowship and `Agapé`, then guides one along a path of repentance and submission to Him.
I am sure that nobody who is in a culture that has been evangelised has not heard this verse. So much so that it might even sound like a cliché. But really, it is the bottom line!
It is not the fact that our Messiah died, and was raised again, that moves us to accept Him...it is the fact that He did this out of love for us. The bottom line is, Jesus loves us. YHVH loves us.
I came to accept His love and submitted my life to Him while I was still single. During the years thereafter, I learned about His unconditional love (Agapé in the Greek), but it was really only once I became a dad myself that I really, for the first time, understood unconditional love. I look at my kids and feel, and know, that there is nothing they can do that will make me love them less...or more. That is unconditional love.
For the first time I really understood the love that YHVH has for us, His creation...His children. We are to Him what my kids are to me. He is a loving Heavenly Father!
What has your god done for you? Let me tell you what mine has done for me (and you).
Sin had brought a separation between Father and child. Father's righteousness and intolerance of sin made that there could no longer be any fellowship between Father and child. Child yearned for Father's affection, and tried to live by many rules (some laid down by Father, but most self-made) in order to gain Father's affection and attention. Father yearned even more for child's fellowship, and saw that none of child's attempts would bridge this gap. The penalty of sin was just too great.
But Father had a plan...He would pay the penalty Himself! But He could not do it as God...He had to do it in human form...so He became flesh...in the form of Jesus Christ - Yeshua Hamashiach. Yeshua lived a sinless life, which is important, because if He had even one single sin of His own to account for, He would not have been able to pay the penalty for our sin.
And that brings us full circle...to the core message spoken of in my previous post...that Jesus Christ was crucified, and in dying, paid the penalty for the sin of all mankind. And then He was raised from the dead, and in so doing, won a fantastic victory over the kingdom of Satan, and passed that victory on to us (but that is a topic for another post).
And so, with the penalty of sin paid, the gate to fellowship between Father and child is open again, and all that child has to do to enter it is to believe that Yeshua, as `the only brought-forth Son of Elohim`, paid the price, and to accept Father's love.
That is the WHY...
Truly accepting this, and experiencing Father's fellowship and `Agapé`, then guides one along a path of repentance and submission to Him.
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