Salvation

    Before we get into a bible study about our walk with the Lord I would like to take a moment and write about one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. The decision to accept Christ.
  After all what good is a bible study about staying close to God if you don't know Him in the first place?

   The salvation message has been told many different ways, but the simplest way that I have found to put it is this:

       When God first created us, we were made in His image. We loved like He did. We were created to love and be loved. And only when we have this will we live happy, healthy lives. Because God loves us the way He does, He wants us to have a choice. He wants us to choose to love Him just as He chose to love us.
    That's why He left the temptation of sin in the Garden of Eden. Before Adam and Eve sinned the world was perfect. There was no sickness, no pain, no hardship or suffering of any kind. God came down every day in the cool of the day to walk with His children. All was as it should be.
    But when Adam and Eve chose to sin against God a wedge was driven between God and man. Causing mankind from then on to be separated from walking with God the way it was intended. And because of their sin, they were forced to take the best of their flocks and sacrifice them in order to be washed clean.

  Romans 6 :23 says  "For the wages of sin is death..."

  Death is the punishment for sin, and now Adam and Eve had to sacrifice an unblemished animal on a regular basis to pay for their sins. But, they could no longer walk with God the way they had before, they were separated from Him.
   This saddened Adam and Eve as well as God. And so, years later, He sent His Son to earth in order to make a way for us to walk with Him during our time on earth as well as spend eternity with Him in Heaven.

   Romans 6:23  "....but the gift of God, is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

  "The gift of God.." He loved us so much that He chose to pay the price once and for all. When Jesus came to earth and died on the cross, He was paying off the debt we owed because of our sin. And thus making a way for us to once again be at peace with God.
   But He still didn't want to force it upon us, we still have a choice.

    Acts 16:31 says  " Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved."

   Romans 10:9   "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."

   It's simple, all you have to do is confess to God that you are a sinner, ask for His forgiveness and accept His gift of eternal life. 

   If you have never done this, I urge you to do so now. It is of the utmost importance. And I promise it will change your life for the better. c :
 If you have any questions, message me or leave a comment and I'll be happy to help. c ;
  
    Below are two songs that I have found tell the salvation message very well, I was going to just post one but they are slightly different. They have both brought me to tears.