GENESIS THREE VERSES 20-24
After Adam and Eve had listened to the lies on the enemy in (Gen 3:1-7) and ate the fruit from the tree of good and evil that God had forbidden them to do, their eyes were opened to the fact that they were naked, and they felt shame for the first time and tried to hide their nakedness with fig leaves. They also tried to hide from God because of their guilt, which of course is an impossible thing to do. It always amazes me to see what people think they can do that God does not see, when of course He knows not only everything we do, but every thought we have before we think it, the amazing thing to my mind is that He loves us with His Agape love in spite of every sin we are guilty of when we confess and repent, that is truly "amazing love" (1 John 1:8-9). The important thing on our part is to acknowledge our sin and confess it and repent, and not try to hide it. Paul tells very clearly in (Rom 3: 9-31) NLT that everyone is not only born as a sinner because we all inherit the effects of the original sin of our first parents, but as soon as we are responsible for our actions, we sin because we are a sinner. So no matter how much we may try to deny it, we are all sinners who deserve to spend eternity in hell, (Rom 6:23). This is especially hard for religious people to accept because they are taught that if they do enough "good works" they can earn their way to spend eternity in heaven with Jesus, but this is just another lie of our enemy Satan.
The "Good News" of the "Gospel of The Kingdom of God" is that the sacrificial death of Jesus, the Lamb of God on that "Old Rugged Cross" on Mount Calvary some 2000 years ago, settled our account of sin. It has been wiped from the record by this act of Jesus, and the record was stamped "Paid in Full", so to speak, and no longer exists. This is the message the world needs to hear, once they confess to being a sinner, and repent of their sinful life style, and put their faith and trust in the finished work of Jesus on the cross, at that moment Father "adopts" them into His family and gives them the gift of the Holy Spirit to abide them forever. That is the simple fact based on the scriptures, and any other so-called gospel that tells that you can get to heaven in any other way is a "false gospel" that Paul warns us about in his second letter to the church in Corinth, (2 Cor 11:1-4) that some false teacher had told them soon after Paul had explained the true gospel to them a few years before, see (1 Cor 15:1-6) for the details. And we have many of them appear in the last few decades, as Jesus and Paul warned us about!!
Sincerely submitted.
Dave Jamer 07/11/13
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