The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make: A Complete and Thorough Understanding of What It Means to Be Born Again by Joyce Meyer

Author:Joyce Meyer [Meyer, Joyce]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Bible, Christ, Christian Life, Religion, General, Evangelism, Jesus, Christian Theology, Inspirational, Soteriology, Future Life, Christian Education, Regeneration (Theology), The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make
ISBN: 9780446691536
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 1996-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

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What Should You Believe?

Believe that Jesus did what the Bible says.

Believe He is indeed the Son of God, born of a virgin. He took man's sin on Himself. He became our sacrifice and died on the cross. He did not stay dead. He was in the grave three days. During that time, He entered hell and defeated Satan.

All this He did willingly because He loved His Father (God) and because God and Jesus loved you and me so much that no plan was too extreme.

Whatever it took to get God's people back, free again, is what They would do. Jesus paid for our sins on the cross and went to hell in our place.

Then, as God had promised, on the third day Jesus rose from the dead.

What Happened on the Cross

When Jesus hung on the cross, He took our sin upon Himself. God cannot stay in the presence of sin. As Jesus took our sin, He was separated from the presence of the Father. The same thing happened to Adam in the garden. As he sinned, the presence of God left him. God cannot dwell in the midst of sin. Sin puts a wall between man and God.

Jesus was taking your sins and those of everyone else upon Him as He felt this absence of His Father's presence. He said, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (See Matt. 27:46, author's paraphrase). Jesus knew it would happen, but the horror of separation from the bright presence of the Father was worse than He could have imagined, and it caused Him to cry out. He committed His Spirit to the Father and died. So they put Him—that is, His body—in a grave, and His spirit went to hell because that is where we deserved to go.

Remember in the very beginning of this book, I said that when you die, only your body dies. The rest of you, your soul and spirit, goes either to heaven or hell.

There is no hope of anyone going to heaven unless they believe this truth. You cannot go to heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place. He became your substitute and took all the punishment you deserve. He bore all your sins. He paid the debt you owe.

He did it for you because He loves you. John 3:16 says:

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Jesus went to hell for you. He died for you. He paid for your sins. God was faithful to Jesus. God did what He told Jesus He would do. He raised Him from the dead.

But until that happened, He was alone for three days satisfying the courts of justice and conquering the hosts of hell. He took the keys of hell and death. He preached to the prisoners held captive there in paradise. He led them out victorious.

On the third day, He rose from the dead.

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