THIS IS HIS STORY
God's FREE GIFT To You
At Christmas time, when the presents are under the tree, there is a gift there with your name on it waiting to be opened. It was bought for you in love. But, even though it has your name on it, it is not yours until you receive it and open it.
In the same way there is another FREE GIFT with your name on it waiting to be opened. This FREE GIFT is the gift of salvation which Jesus Christ bought for you in love. He paid for your sins by dying in your place because he knew that you couldn't pay for them. Now he offers you this FREE GIFT of salvation.
To receive your FREE GIFT, thank Jesus for dying in your place and ask him to forgive your sins and to be your Lord and Savior. Then you can open your FREE GIFT and here's what you will find inside.
1. Every sin you ever committed will be totally forgiven.
2. Jesus will prepare a place in heaven for you so that when you die you will go to heaven to be with him forever.
3. He will be your best friend, someone you can talk to about anything. And he will always help you and watch over you.
Jesus wants you to have this FREE GIFT! Jesus wants to be your best friend! Do you want to be his? If you do, then take a minute to tell him so right now. Jesus said " I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6)
When I first read this many years ago, I thought that either Jesus was who he said he was, the Son of God, or else he was the biggest liar that ever lived because who else would say something like that. Jesus said that there is only one way to get to God, and that is through him. There are teachings that say that there are many ways to get to God. Jesus said that is not true, there is only one way and He is the only way. The reason for this is because he is the only one that died for our sins. No one else did. And for us to spend eternity with God, our sins have to be forgiven. Hebrews 9:22 tells us that "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness". That is why Jesus was the only one that fulfilled that requirement. We deserved death, but because God loves us so much, he gave his son who was the perfect sinless sacrifice to die for our sins.
Jesus said " I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. You should not be surprised at my saying You must be Born Again" (John 3:3 & 7)
What this means is that you were already born once by entering physical life. You now need to be born spiritually. This goes way back to Adam and Eve. God placed them in a beautiful garden called the Garden of Eden. He said that they could eat from any tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or they would surely die. They disobeyed God and ate from it. That is when they died spiritually. Ever since then man has been dead spiritually, not having a relationship with God. Now Jesus made a way for us to be Born Again and re-connected to God.
Jesus said "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."God made us a promise. If we accept his Son Jesus as our Saviour, he will give us eternal life with him in Heaven. That's a pretty good deal seeing as God did all the hard stuff. All we have to do is believe in Jesus. God must sure love us alot if he went to that extent just to make a way for us to be re-connected to him. The word believe means to acknowledge, to trust in, and to rely upon in the original Greek. And that is what God wants us to do. Acknowledge that Jesus was the Son of God that died for our sins. Trust in him. And once you see what an awesome friend he is, to rely on him for everything. We can't lose. And God always keeps his promises. So if we do our part, we can be sure that God will do his part.
I pray that you would chose to accept Jesus as your Saviour. It's easy to do, just tell him Thank You for dying for your sins and ask him to come into your life and be your Lord and Saviour. Just find a quiet place and pour out your heart to him. He is a great listener and will be more than happy to be your friend forever. You will find that he is the best friend you will ever have.
If you don't want Jesus as your friend right now, that's okay. He will still love you and watch over you. And he will wait for you. When you are ready, he will welcome you with open arms any time you want him as your friend. All you have to do is ask whenever you are ready because he will never impose himself on you or ask you to do something you don't want to do....it's always your choice. He has already chosen you, now he wants you to choose him.
Live Every Day As If It Was Your Last, And One Day You Will Be Right!
-John Stewart
