The Hand of God - Jesus Loves you And me

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

Exodus 20:1-17 GNT

God spoke, and these were his words:"I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, where you were slaves."Worship no god but me."Do not make for yourselves images of anything in heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth. Do not bow down to any idol or worship it, because I am the Lord your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation. But I show my love to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my laws."Do not use my name for evil purposes, for I, the Lord your God, will punish anyone who misuses my name."Observe the Sabbath and keep it holy. You have six days in which to do your work, but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to me. On that day no one is to work — neither you, your children, your slaves, your animals, nor the foreigners who live in your country. In six days I, the Lord, made the earth, the sky, the seas, and everything in them, but on the seventh day I rested. That is why I, the Lord, blessed the Sabbath and made it holy."Respect your father and your mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that I am giving you. "Do not commit murder."Do not commit adultery."Do not steal."Do not accuse anyone falsely. "Do not desire another man's house; do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns."

Jesus LOVES you. He wants to SAVE you. However, you have to turn from your sinful ways. Jesus is the bridge between us and the Father in Heaven............. He does NOT want you to burn in Hell.

You may think "How can Jesus save ME?" Well, He DIED for you! He allowed Himself to be nailed to a cross to SAVE you! He NEVER sinned, yet was put to death in one of the most cruel methods known to mankind--crucifixion! He suffered so that you may have eternal life in Heaven. However, you must accept Him and his love. Remember, He loves you SO MUCH!

As Jesus works in you and your life, He will remove the "bad branches" from you, so that the remaining "branches" can be used to bear more and/or better fruit. John 15:5 "I am the vine, and you are the branches. Whoever remains in Me and I in him will bear much fruit, for you can do nothing without Me."

Stand on Gods promises. They never change.
There are three things to practice daily for spiritual growth:
**Pray -- you talk to God. **
**Read your Bible -- God talks to you.**
**Witness -- you talk for God.**

Jesus is God's Son. God sent Jesus into the world to save people, to save you and me from sin. He would not have sent His Son to die for us if He did not love us. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, will not perish but have everlasting life."

God loves you. Jesus loves you. In Ephesians 3:16-19 the Apostle Paul prays this prayer: "I ask God from the wealth of His glory to give you power through His Spirit to be strong in your inner selves, and I pray that Christ will make His home in your hearts through faith. I pray that you may have your roots and foundation in love, so that you, together with all God's people, may have the power to understand how broad and long, how high and deep, is Christ's love. Yes, may you come to know His love — although it can never be fully known — and so be completely filled with the very nature of God."

Romans 5:8-10 "But God has shown us how much He loves us — it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us! By His blood we are now put right with God; how much more, then, will we be saved by Him from God's anger! We were God's enemies, but He made us his friends through the death of His Son. Now that we are God's friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ's life."

1 John 4:9-10 "And God showed His love for us by sending His only Son into the world, so that we might have life through Him. This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven".

He came and took the punishment for your sins and mine. Whilst we were still sinners Christ died for us. While we were in the mire, at our worst, He died for us because He loves us.

John 15:13-15 "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command."

God loves you and me so much. He loves us beyond comprehension. He offers us the most precious gift: The gift of salvation. He offers us the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ, His Only Begotten Son. Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." We have all sinned and therefore we all have earned death We have all broken God's commandments and for that reason, mankind is lost spiritually. The Bible says that the "wages of sin is death” Think about this; A wage is something you earn, what if our wage was paid by God when we earned it ( when we sinned)?

Man has broken God's commandments. Sin separates man from God. The Bible says in Ezekiel 18:20, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." God is holy and cannot have sin in His presence. The Bible tells us that even if a person breaks just one commandment, it is like breaking them all. James 2:10 tells us: "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." This means that even if you break one commandment, it is as if you broke them all therefore you stand guilty before God.

None of us have kept every commandment. We have all broken God's Law at some time or another, therefore we are all sinners, and God’s justice requires that sin receive its full penalty. But the suffering and sacrificial death of Jesus upon the cross satisfied the requirements of God’s justice. Jesus died for all our sins. He suffered the penalty of the Law the we all had broken. Jesus suffered the punishment for us. He took our place. 1John 4:14 "And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. "

God loves us so much and He desires to have a close relationship with us but sin separates us from God. The Bible tells us that ALL on this earth have sinned and have fallen short of God's glory. When Adam and Eve first sinned in the Garden of Eden, they brought sin upon all mankind and the close fellowship that they had with God was no longer possible because of their sin.

God sent His only Begotten Son to become a man, walk with us and to shed His blood and to die for our sins. Jesus never sinned and therefore willingly died for us. He was the perfect sacrifice for our sins, He was the Spotless Lamb. Our sins were laid upon Him as He died for us. Isaiah 53:12 And so I will give him a place of honour, a place among the great and powerful. He willingly gave his life and shared the fate of evil men. He took the place of many sinners and prayed that they might be forgiven."

Jesus was the sinner's substitute on the cross. So therefore, because He died for all sinners, those who receive Him as their Saviour, do NOT have to pay the penalty for their sin. The wages of sin is death; but He died for our sin; and paid our penalty. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Jesus paid it all! He has made the way for fellowship back to God. In order to be saved, one must have complete faith in the Saviour. Faith in Christ is necessary for we are justified by faith: Romans 5:1"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ”.

Jesus said in John 3:3: "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”. Because we are all descendents of Adam and we are all sinners, we must be born again of God's Spirit-a spiritual birth, in order to be saved. And this new birth is only possible through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Man has been granted a free will by God and because of this, God will not force Himself on anyone. But He wants His creation to come to Him and be saved.. God's plan of salvation is so wonderful but it is only wonderful to those who receive the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour. Those who do not believe in Him will not have everlasting life. He told us in John 3:36: “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him”.

Because Jesus never sinned, His sacrifice of His own life paid the price for our sins. That is why He is called the Lamb of God. John the Baptist, called Jesus the Lamb of God: John 1:29 “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world”.

Jesus said in John 3:17-18 “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son”.
There is no other way to Heaven and the Father, except through Jesus. We all have sinned but He, being sinless, paid the price for our sins. He died in our place. Hebrews 9:26 says, "He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself."
He took upon Himself all the sins of the world and He shed His own blood that we might be saved. He died willingly for us: John 10:17-18 “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”