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Good News from God to People
“God set eternity in our heart” to make truth “evident within us.”
God created everyone and everything for a good and loving purpose. That’s why we dream of what life and love should be like. God is the creator and starter of everything, material and spiritual. He has always existed independently from all he created. He acts in love for the good of all he has created.
People are made to glorify God in loving and purposeful relationship. That’s why we have unfulfilled longings for meaning in life. We are made to be in relationship with God forever and to work together with him and other people for his glory and our joy. God gives us direction on how to experience a life of fulfilling purpose.
Sin is choosing our way in life rather than following God’s direction. That’s why we sense something is broken in us and our world. All people start with the desire to be their own boss and replace God’s plans and glory with their own. Rebelling against God’s rule over our life results in spiritual and physical decay and death for us and our world.
Jesus Christ is God’s Son, sent to earth by God the Father to rescue us from sin and reorder our lives in relationship to God. That’s why we have a longing for security and a fear of death. Jesus took up life as a man but continued to be God. By God’s plan he took our judgment and satisfied God’s justice by dying on the cross in our place. Jesus broke the power of sin and death in his resurrection back to life.
Salvation is God rescuing us from sin and spiritual death when we receive Jesus by faith as a gift of grace. That’s why we long for something or someone to reorder all life. God invites us to receive his Spirit and new life free from the judgment and rule of sin. Nothing we can do ourselves can take away our sin and its consequences. We must believe what God says and receive life as a gift by trusting Jesus. This is spiritual birth into a whole new life.

Bible Passages Explaining God’s Plan of Salvation
God created everyone and everything for a good and loving purpose.
God created man in his own image… and made everything.
God breathed the breath of life into the man and he became a living being.
Genesis 1:27-28 and 2:7
People are made to glorify God in loving and purposeful relationship.
God blessed them saying, “Be fruitful and multiply…fill…govern…reign… and it was very good!”
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone…”
Genesis 1:31 and 2:18
Sin is choosing our way in life rather than following God’s direction.
All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way…
All have turned aside…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…
Isaiah 53:6 and Romans 3:10-23
Jesus Christ is God’s Son, sent to earth by God the Father to rescue us from sin and reorder our lives in relationship to God.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the satisfying sacrifice for our sins.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me.”
1 John 4:10 and John 14:6
Salvation is God rescuing us from sin and spiritual death when we receive Jesus by faith as a gift of grace.
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in his name.
You were dead in your trespasses and sins…. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
John 1:12 and Ephesians 2:1-10