TURN TO HIM AND LIVE
THE GOSPEL STORY
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
- C.S. Lewis
Did you ever take a moment and honestly consider three of life’s most important questions?
01
Where did I come from?
02
Why am I here?
03
Where am I going?
These are good questions to ask aren’t they? If you were ever to meet someone wandering in the woods mumbling these questions you would be right to assume this person is indeed and truly very lost.
​
And yet so many today, neither know the answers to these questions, or even care whether they do.
What about you? Do you know? Or are you lost? Be honest with yourself, for that is the first step to for anyone who is lost to begin to find and to be found.
Where did you come from?
Looking around you from the galaxies to the atom we see living art in all we can see. Spiraling solar systems hung on nothing, majestic mountains, breathtaking seas, sunrises, sunsets, birds, butterflies, fishes and trees… and then there is you. Unique, individual, special, made in the image of your Creator, with dreams and desires, and a longing to be a part of something bigger. You have a sense of right and wrong, of love and of joy, and of sorrow and of guilt. Is it unreasonable to say that Someone greater than all this, Someone greater than you, put that there? Does it ring true in your heart. You were made. You were made for a purpose.
THAT'S THE
Why you are here.
You need not have met the builder of a building to know that there was a builder. Logic demands that the building is enough to prove there was one. When we see design and information, it is of sound mind to conclude that one with more information must have put it there.
Your soul looks out the windows of your eyes at the wonders of creation around you and you know in your heart of hearts, there is a God, One who made you.
God had spoken and separated light and darkness. Out of nothing He created everything you and I see, land and seas, grasses, flowers and trees, creatures that swim, that fly, and that walk upon the earth all by His command. He spoke the moon and burning sun and starry heavens, into being with but a word breathed from His mouth, and He hangs them to this day on nothing.
Then from the dust of the earth He made man after His own image in a perfect sinless world that God had made. No pain, no death, no suffering because there was no sin.
​
He gave man the freedom to choose whether he would love his Creator back or not. God loved mankind and walked with him in the cool of the day and for a moment all was happy and all was well.
Mankind chose, they wanted to “be the like god’s” in charge of their own lives so they went their own way. All of Creation had said, “Yes sir, I’ll be whatever you want me to be.” But mankind had said, “No. I’ll do what I want, I will be my own god.” He took and ate, his eyes were opened, he was ashamed, and he hid.
God’s questions echo through eternity, “Adam where are you?” and to Eve, “What have you done?”
You see the Giver of all life is Holy. And Holy, by definition, means separate. Separate from impurity, separate from imperfection, separate from the common or profane, separate from sin. So that day mankind was thrown out of the presence of God.
With sin came the curse of death, sorrow, suffering, pain, and heartache. This is the world that we live in. Yet somehow, we have the audacity to think we can still be the god of our own lives and have the right to do so. When asked if we are a good person you reply sincerely, “Yes, I think I am”, and to your own standards I suppose that you are.
But when we compare your life to the standard of God’s Holiness how does it look? How many lies have you told? “All liars will have their place in the lake of fire.”
Ever murdered before? “He who hates his brother is a murderer and you know that a murderer has no eternal life abiding in him.”
Ever looked on someone with lust? It is the same as being an adulterer or adulteress in your heart.
​
These are just a few of God’s perfect standard. When we examine our lives and hearts honestly by the light of God’s Law we are undone.
An Almighty God demands absolute perfection, anything less than perfection brings just judgement and eternal death in hell.
The Scripture says, it is appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgment. That we will stand before a white-hot Holy God and He will judge us not according to what others think of you or what you think of you, but He will judge you according to His perfect standard by whom none can stand.
The Bible says that the wages, or the paycheck, or the penalty for sin is death, but, thanks be to God, the verse goes on to say, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So, the Word of God that made us, Jesus Christ, became flesh and dwelt among us. He lived a perfect life, He never lied, cheated, stole, he never sinned and was the only one since the fall of Adam and Eve who did not deserve to die.
In the garden He sweat drops of blood and said, “Father if there is any other way, let this cup pass from me?” What was in the cup? The cup was a picture of the wrath of God that would be poured out on the nations and on you and I, and the answer back, though not in text, was “there is no other way”.
​
​
He said, “No man takes my life from me, I lay it down.”
And He laid down His life for us.
So, He went to the cross to take upon Himself the wrath of God for you and for me. When you see the story of calvary, its brutality and passion, you see both how much God hates sin and how much He loves you. Because the Love of God, swallowed up the wrath of God on your and my behalf. And Jesus cries out, “Eloi Eloi lamach sabachtani!” “My God, My God, why have your forsaken me!”
You see what a lot of people don’t realize is that Christ not only died for you, He died as you. Taking our sins upon Him, He was forsaken that we might be reconciled to God. “He who knew no sin, became sin that we might in Him become the righteousness of God.”
​
And hanging on that cross some of the last words Jesus said were these, “It is finished.” What did He mean by that? The debt is paid. God stepped into the Holy courtroom of heaven and said, “I have paid the ransom for their souls.” My own justice has been satisfied by my own self.
His work is perfect and complete, nothing can be added or taken away from it. So that all you must do to make it available to yourself is what Jesus said in Mark chapter 1, “Repent and believe the Gospel.” Repent means turn, it’s the change of one’s allegiance, to turn from your way and turn toward God and believe the Gospel or Good News. That is Good News isn’t it.
​
So, I write to you, now and I beseech you as a dying man to dying men knowing full well that a million years from now there will likely be those who have read this message who will have only just begun their torment in hell. Some who have had nothing to do with God or the Bible all their life some may have lived a very religious life on the outside but have never been truly born again and though one day they say, “Lord Lord” and recount all their good works before Him, He will say those dreadful words, “I never knew you, depart from me you worker of iniquity.” And will they both look back at this day, this opportunity with an eternal, “If only!”?
MY DEAR FRIEND, THE
Where you are going
is now left to you.
So I invite you,
Come flee from the wrath of God, a Way has been made for you. The invitation to Great Marriage Supper of the Lamb is before you.
Revelation 22:17, “The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come. Let the one who desires take the water of life without price.”
If God is dealing with your heart, do not let the night go by, you do not know that you have another.
Confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is your Lord, believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, and call upon His Name and be saved!
