We live in a broken world. God says, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” (Romans 3:23). And the consequences/just earnings of sin is death. Death of relationships, death of friendships, death of the body, and eternal separation from God. Yet that is where the Gospel comes in. The word Gospel means Good News. The Good News is found in that little word “for”. Christ died for my sins.

Christ is the son of the eternal God. He came to this earth, He was born as a human, fully God and fully man, and lived the perfect life we could not live. He never sinned and thus He did not earn the consequences of sin.

Yet He died on the cross in my place. Jesus, the perfect, eternal Son of God sacrificed Himself to pay my debt of sin. He died in my place. Yet He did not stay dead. He rose again the third day as the Scripture said, ascended into Heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father. Jesus offers the free-gift of salvation to any who would believe. He died in my place so that I might live eternally with Him.

Thus, He takes death and replaces it with hope. Hope for today and eternal hope for the next life. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8-9. God offers you this free gift of salvation and hope. No one is too far from Jesus that He cannot save. If you are alive, you can find eternal life in Him. Simply repent and believe. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. John 3:16-18