Jesus was on a cross and sacrificed Himself for a life-changing importance, something to not take lightly! Our Father’s Word reveals the message of Jesus on a cross from the first book of the Bible, Genesis, until the last book, Revelation! One of the reasons as to why Jesus was on a cross was the need of a Holy Savior to avert a sinner’s fate of death, hell, and a Lake of Fire!
In the Bible book of Titus, in chapter 1, verse 2, God states that He created us and promised that we would have eternal life with Him. But in Genesis, chapter 3, God reveals that God’s children give allowance to the devil and sin, causing a separation from God. God’s unwavering faithful love, wisdom, and promise – then stated that He would send His Son, Jesus, to defeat sin, death, and the serpent!
Jesus has offered His role for the restoration of an eternal relationship with His children – with His Holy Glory, power, life, grace, mercy, sinless blood, and love! Amazingly, the only thing that someone needs to do for their role to restore the beginning of an eternal relationship with Jesus is to make a decision of the heart: to PRAY and repent their OVERALL sins and make a confession of faith in Jesus as one’s Lord and Savior!
Jesus revealed in John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1st John 1:7-9 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
After the fact of someone repenting their overall sins and making a confession of faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior – in reference to any future sins – God guides to have a conscience for righteousness and, in sincerity, try their best to not sin, and to repent accordingly if needed! If, in fact, someone were to love in the manner of Jesus, they would be void of all sin and within the Word of God. It is a lack of love and love’s respect to God, that is present with every sin.
God’s Word guides His children to regularly pray in self-examination, reflecting the truth of all their words and actions, to the righteous truth of the Spirit, to reveal accountability and basis’ to grow in the manner of the love of Jesus. The enlightenment of God reveals that who someone is, is not who they or others think that they are, but who Jesus knows that they are. Who someone truly is, including to love or to not love in the manner of Jesus, is revealed by the Spirit of truth. This can include through prayers of a good conscience in self-examination for correction and growth with the Spirit.
2nd Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves? How that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? {condemned?}
Jesus revealed in John 16:8 And when he {the Holy Spirit} is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
Jesus revealed exceedingly good news in John 10:28-30 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them to me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and my Father are one.
Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all them who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
It is in the best interest of God’s saved children to thoroughly try their best to not sin – by adhering to God’s Spirit and Word as a guideline! There can be consequences, lessons, and an invitation to the enemy to destroy, as well as a path and blessings short-circuited, ruined, or delayed, upon sin.
Jesus is not mocked as not needed on a cross. God’s Word reveals that with human attempts, it is an impossibility to enter Heaven. God commands to go by His Word, but that is – guidance and direction – to do so, not God expecting or thinking that someone can actually and fully accomplish that! It would defy the entire Bible and the need of Jesus on a cross, to imply that human efforts were needed or could be used to enter Heaven!
There are works of faith and works of the law. The works of faith are evidence of faith and the sincerity to love and do the good that should be done. Jesus would have never had to go on a cross for sins if humans could flawlessly keep the works of the law. A claim of literal flawlessness is a sin.
Job 9:20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Exodus 20:3 Thou shall have no other gods before me.
God redundantly reveals that adherence to His Word is based on good intent and a sincere effort. God repeatedly reveals to follow His commands, including for the benefit of oneself, loved ones, others, and to give God deserving Glory! But God also reveals that it is an impossibility for human effort to completely keep God’s commandments for righteousness unto Heaven!
Mark 10:26-27 26 And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved? 27 And Jesus looking unto them said, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
2nd Corinthians 5:21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Romans 3:22-23,27-28,31 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon them that believe: for there is no difference. 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Romans 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace ye are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
No one has ever completely kept the commandments of God. This includes Moses, Elijah, David, Peter, and Paul! The law is only fulfilled by Holy sinless Jesus! Revealed in Scripture; Moses, Elijah, David, Peter, and Paul received eternal life through God’s mercy and power at the cross that fulfilled both the First and Second Testaments of God! There were no more sacrifices for sin needed.
When someone loves Jesus – they might be pained and take serious objection to anyone stating that they or anyone can make it to Heaven by their own human effort and or by bypassing the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross! Worthy is Jesus’ Holy blood and sacrifice on a cross! Worthy is Jesus, the mediator to our Father in Heaven! Worthy is the Holy Spirit as a needed witness of Jesus to allow God’s children to have faith! Worthy are Jesus and the Holy Spirit, for God’s children to stand tall and take objection to those who suggest that God came up short and they as humans can make up for God’s Glory that is missing in Jesus!
Luke 23:33-34, 41-43 33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary; there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. 34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment {clothing} and cast lots. 41 And we {a sinner on a cross next to Jesus speaking to another sinner on the other side of Jesus} indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds {repentance}: but this man {Jesus} has done nothing. 42 And he {the sinner who repented} said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comes into thy kingdom {faith}. 43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shall thou be with me in paradise.
1st Corinthians 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man {Genesis 1:27 male – female} speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.
At the moment of the true repentance of sin – is a conscience in reflection to the Holy Spirit of righteous truth! No one can understand that they have sinned but by a reflection of themselves and their sins – to God’s Sovereign high authority of righteous truth. Over the ages many people have tried an assortment of methods and ideas pertaining to gaining life past this lifetime. But if someone bypasses repentance and Jesus, they are bypassing what is needed to restore an eternal relationship with Jesus! Jesus is life! Sin, and a conscience choosing to ‘reject’ repentance – also rejects the Spirit of Holy Jesus – for a yield of the presence of the spirit of the serpent and death! But God’s grace and a child of God’s faith – yields forgiven children to have eternal life in Jesus!
John 14:6 Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man comes unto the Father, but by me.
Romans 6:14,22 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit in Holiness, and the end everlasting life.
The Bible’s order of God doing things is apparent! Jesus on a cross is not mocked! The enemy seduces to confuse minds including by having people skip over repentance and Jesus to do a host of other things – that overlook repentance and a confession of faith in Jesus!
An unsaved person, and or a servant of Jesus, spending too much time before the unsaved person comes to repentance, thinking over the many other things to do ‘thereafter’ the fact of the unsaved coming to repentance and Jesus – can cause so much confusion that servants and unsaved people do nothing! God’s Word is truth and is clear. Faith is not just a noun from intellectual accumulated knowledge, but a verb of an unreserved belief and trust. No one bypasses repentance and a confession of faith in Jesus and has a restored eternal relationship with Jesus!
1st John 4:15 Whosoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God.
John 11:40 Jesus said unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou would believe, thou should see the glory of God?
1st Peter 1:8-9 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Believe thou this?
Mark 10:52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way, thy faith has made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
James 5:15 And the prayer of the faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if ye have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Romans 10:10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 1:17 For therein the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved, and thy house.
1st Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou are also called, and has professed a good profession before many witnesses.
Jesus teaches the immensity of the message of creation and the possibility of two eternal destinies. Jesus is truth and the resurrection, equaling life – and the enemy is a lie portraying himself as God, equaling death. Jesus wants His children to be grateful for their gift of eternal life, and love the same as He loves, including to teach the same information of creation and eternal destinies to other unsaved people!
Gratitude for the immensity of who Holy Jesus is, and gratitude for the gift of eternal life, tries to lead as many unsaved people as possible from eternal death to eternal life through faith and God’s power and grace! Our Father’s Word reveals that the immense situation of eternal destinies is why His Son Jesus was on a cross – and to not take this act of sacrificial love lightly!
Someone might consider that there is no hope for themselves. This includes when someone’s heart devises evil even against itself, and or rambles in thoughts of sin. But Jesus and His blood are greater than any person and their sins!
1st John 3:8,20
8 He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
20 For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
1st John 5:13 These things I have written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. Life is fragile and short for everyone. Many times there are no second chances to educate and testify what is needed to begin a restored eternal relationship with Jesus!
Innocent Holy Jesus was savagely beaten and ripped apart, His flesh hanging open, and bleeding on a cross. But love that passed all understanding stayed the course – to pay the price for His children’s sins against Him!
The love of Jesus for His children who sinned against Him – was greater than the suffering of all the sins of His children!
God commands to love as Jesus loves. This includes to do unto others as they would want done unto them! God’s love reveals for God’s children to consider placing themselves in the position of unsaved people – just as if it were they themselves rejecting Jesus – and living in sin with the enemy’s presence for the destiny of death and hell!
Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.
Complacency for the gift of eternal life can turn into the riches of humility and gratitude quickly if someone takes the time to review the truth of their worst sins, and mental image the love of Jesus suffering on the cross for them!
Contemplating that the destiny of hell is the Lake of Fire – from being in acceptance of the devil’s spirit and sin without repentance – and in the consideration of Jesus suffering His flesh and blood on the cross to pay the price for sins – should reflect to the amount of effort, passion, and love that God’s children give to unsaved parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren, spouses, siblings, cousins, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and others, etc., to say the name, “JESUS” to them, guiding them from death unto repentance for the eternal light and life that is Jesus Christ!
Many people do not understand the message of Jesus and the cross! God reveals that time is short and it is urgent to educate and testify to unsaved people how to escape the bondage of the devil, and begin a restored eternal relationship of liberty, love, light, joy, and peace, with Jesus!
Guiding an unsaved person to conduct a multitude of other things that God’s Word reveals to do, and passing by the message of repentance and Jesus, is passing by the ability to have life past this lifetime!
There is only one thing to think about for a saved servant of Jesus when in consideration of the unsaved who are facing eternal death – and that is guiding them to repentance and a confession of faith for the re-establishment of an eternal relationship with Jesus!
Jesus is not asking for a lot! Jesus just wants faithful friends of faith who love Him, and He will give them eternal life in His Heaven!
God’s saved children of faith have been given the magnitude of the blessing to facilitate eternal life for their loved ones, friends, and others, through guidance of the Holy Spirit and Word unto God’s power! By educating and guiding unsaved people to make a decision of the heart – to say just one prayer – praying the repentance of their overall sins and to make a confession of faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior – is for the restoration of an eternal relationship with Jesus Christ! Amen.
Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Mark 16:6 And he said unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
1st Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them who perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God.
Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Jesus revealed in John 7:38 He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
John 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he has sent.
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
“Father, in the name of Jesus, I come before your Throne as a sinner. I repent my sins. Please forgive me. I accept, embrace, and follow you for the truth of who you are, Jesus, Lord and Savior! You gave me life and gave your life for me. I give my life for you! I praise in joy for you to guide me all the days of my life for your Glory. Amen.”
Written by James Rathman: Deliverance Ministry: Evangelist: BlessedInternational.com PAYPAL: For many worthy causes including to help impoverished children in dire urgent situations: PAYPAL: JamesJohnJr100@yahoo.com
