Holy Spirit Led

This is how I would share The Gospel

As you know, this world is full of pain and suffering. With war, natural disasters, disease, human trafficking and an infinite amount of ways we can experience trauma, It’s understandable that many question if God even exists.

Many wrestle with thoughts like, “if there was a God, why doesn’t He do something about all this suffering? Why does He just let people starve or children die in war, or corrupt governments poison us through food, water and air?"

It can be easy to come into agreement with these kinds of thoughts and tempting to believe that they are true. But they are nothing but lies. Because you see, God did in fact do something about all the pain and suffering in this world.

He sent His one and only Son to die for us.

“For this is how God loved the world; He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes on Him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent His Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through Him.” - John 3:16-17 NLT

It’s not God’s fault that the world is the way it is.

The pain and suffering in this world exists because of the consequences of sin.

My sin, your sin, the sin of all of mankind. All the way back to the first man and woman.

To put it simply, sin is when we live outside of God’s ways or will. When we sin, the consequences are severe.

Death, pain & suffering.

It separates us from God.

People then are tempted to believe lies such as “well if God really loved us, why would His Son need to die? It doesn’t seem like love that anyone would need to die.” And to this, I would want to share that God is just and His creation reveals His glory. Everything in existence was created through His Word. And using His Word, He let humanity know that if we sinned, we would surely die.

And as you know, everyone dies. Everyone sins and everyone dies.

“For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in His grace, freely makes us right in His sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when He freed us from the penalty for our sins.” - Romans 3:23-24 NLT

This brings us back to the Son of God. Jesus Christ. The Messiah. Savior of the world.

He lived a perfect life, completely free of sin. The only way this was possible was because He was God incarnate. When He walked on this earth, He was fully man, born of a virgin, and fully God, concieved through The Holy Spirit. He chose to lay down His life for us. For you & for me. For all of us. He died for us so that we could be reconciled back to God. Able to not only be pardoned & forgiven of our sins, but to be adopted into His family. To be with Him forever.

Alive, healthy & whole.

Free of suffering.

But to be adopted into His family, you must be born again. For this to happen, you must choose to believe that Jesus Christ died for you too. That through His crucifixion, death and resurrection, you can be forgiven and saved from the consequences of your sin.

You need to understand that you could never, ever be good enough to earn salvation or reconciliation with God by yourself. You could never do enough good to enter the gates of heaven. Only by faith on Jesus Christ and His perfect and complete work, can you be saved.

“God saved you by His grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.” - Ephesians 2:8-9 NLT