Hostility Of Mankind/The Love of God

                                                                   

 Sometimes something is right in front of you but you can not see it because of the darkness. You turn on a light that illumines and think, gee if it were a snake it would have bit me. It was there right in front of you all the time.  The world, and all the things of the world--cravings of sinful man, lust of the eyes and the pride of life and those who embrace it are lost in a spiritual darkness. Blinded by the so called god of this age, the prince of the power of the air, humanities greatest enemy the devil who prowls around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. He conjoles with disceptive conniving words of gratification convincing the unwary--those dead in trepasses and sins that they are not what they could be.                                                        

                                                                                                                                        

 These are those absolutely persuaded that they are not what they should be and thus a change is necessary for them to be what they have come to believe they are. Those who hate the God of the Bible and want to suppress the natural order of things to comply with the blindness of their own perverse heart and skewed way of thinking. Not only denying the laws of a Holy and Righteous God. But in fervent denial, anger, and open hostility . They see God's created order as a hinderance to their twisted and perverted desires to be something they are not or could ever be.

                                                         

                                                         

It is God who gives us life, breath and all things. The LORD of all creation  does not desire that any should perish into the flaming eternity of endless punishment in what the Lord Jesus Christ described as the furnance of fire; unquenchable fire; weeping and gnashing of teeth;  But that all should come to repentance. For all of us are natural born sinners. "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Yes  are all brought fourth in inquiity and in sin our mothers conceived us. (Ps. 51:5) We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are born that way. Tainted by the disobedience of our first parents in Eden who believed the lie of the serpent, the devil, the evil one,  satan, that if they disobeyed what God had told them, they would be like God.  Knowing good and evil. They were deceived and all the human race inherited that sinful fallen corrupted and tainted nature.    

                                                          

                                                                                                                                                                      Sin can tear one asunder, and convince those in the throes of evil that they are something they are not. Ones hatred of God is manifest in their actions. They act in rebellion to God in a war with the creator who gives us life, breath and all things. Lost souls traversing that wide road that leads to everlasting condemnation. Absent from the presence of God and the glory of His power for eternity  in what Jesus calls "the lake of fire" and "where the fire never goes out."  They are the spiritually blinded of this fallen world, at hatred with God for they see Him as the number one hinderance to what their flesh desires and what they think they should be. Calling evil good and good evil. Deceived into reprobation by the father of lies.

                                                       

                                                                                   

The heart of man is evil from his youth.  (Ps. 51:5; Romans 3:10-2) Born into the world just waiting to commit their first transgression against a Holy and Righteous God. Tainted, soiled, unclean with only one thing on their mind. The satisfying comfort of fleshly desires and passions.

                                             

 Each human individual male or female needs to confess with their mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in their heart God has raised His Son--the Way, the Truth and the Life--from the dead. And Scripture tells us that by grace through faith and not of ourselves, by the gift of God--we will be rescued from the darkness of this present evil age to the light of the world....Jesus Christ....those who follow Him shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life. They will cross over from darkness to light--from death to life. From our own sinful and disobedient way of thinking and unto everlasting life. A citzenship in heaven in the presence of God and the glory of His power.

                                   

Even those thinking they don't sin, by that very statement sin. For ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.  The wages of sin is death.  (John 3:36; Rom. 2:5; Micah 5:15; 1 Thess. 1:10; Eph. 5:6; Rev. 14:10; Acts 17:30-31; Matt. 13:41-42; 2 Peter 2:9;)  But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.  Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.  For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.  Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.  Therefore do not be partners with them. (Eph. 5:3-7) 

But the gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ the Lord. (Romans 6:23)

Therefore if you confess with your mouth Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead. You will be saved. From the wrath of God that is coming. (Romans 10:9)                                                                 

                

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies (the body with which you were conceived and with which you were born) as a living sacrifice, holy  and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.  Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Rom. 12:1-2)   

Jesus the Christ says "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke (his death, buriel and resurrection)  on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy to bear, and my load is not hard to carry.” Matt. 11:28-30

Note: The original word in the New Testament Letter to the Romans in chapter 12 verse 2 for "Transformed"  is the word "Metamorpho" it is derived from the root words "meta (change) and "morphe" (form) from which our english word metamorphosis is derived. The process by which a caterpillar changes into a butterfly.  

God So Loved The world/ Do Not Love The World

 In John 3:16 "God says He loved the world and gave His Son yet scripture tells us  not to love the world......1 John 2:15-16

                                               

                                               

The verse "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" (John 3:16) is often misunderstood. It is often cited to support the belief that God loves every individual on Earth equally and unconditionally, regardless of nation, ethnicity, or covenant. However, when rightly divided with the rest of Scripture, we begin to see a very different picture. The Bible is a book of covenants, written to and about a specific people. It is not a general, abstract letter to the entire world. The "world" that God so loved must be interpreted according to how the Bible itself defines the world. 

Deuteronomy 7:7-8: "The Lord did not set His affection on you (the Hebrews-the Jews-Nation of Israel) and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath He swore to your ancestors that He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt."  

                                               

 God's oath to His chosen people: "Then Abraham with his son they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.  And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!  “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me. I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,  I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,  and through your offspring all nations on earth (not just the jews but also God's chosen gentiles)  will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.” (Gen. 22: 9-18) 

Abraham was a type of what God the Father would do. God would offer up His One and Only begotten Son to save his people from their sins. (Matt. 1:21) 

                                                        

God has a remnant chosen from all the nations of the world. God makes his choice. According to scripture not everyone is chosen. But we do not know who they are. It is by God's sovereign choice. So Christians are commanded  to go and make disciples of all nations. Preach the Word to everyone, as Charles Spurgeon said.  Though we do not know who God is going to call from darkness to light and from death to life. Therefore go into all the world and preach the gospel. His chosen people will respond and be rescued from darkness to light and from death to life.  Jesus Himself said, "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me Draws them." (John 6:44;65) Example: Israel was chosen by God to inhabit the land, not the Cannities. 

In Deuteronomy 20:16–17, God commanded the Israelites, “In the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you.” A similar command is given concerning the Amalekites in 1 Samuel 15:2–3. Why would God have the Israelites exterminate entire groups of people, women and children included? (Why would God command such a thing? God knew if they did not they would be corrupted by the people in this land. which eventaully did happen; Judges 3:7-8; 21:25; Ps. 106:37-38 Numbers 33:55)

                                                             

God sent Israel to the land of Canaan to judge the Canaanites for their abominations. The Canaanites were a brutal and wicked culture that frequently engaged in incredibly decadent behavior. Leviticus 18 provides a list of sins that Israel was to avoid at all costs: incest, child sacrifice, homosexuality, and bestiality. All these sins were practiced by the people of Canaan: “This is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. . . . All these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled” (Leviticus 18:24–27). 

In ordering the destruction of the Canaanites, God enacted a form of corporate capital punishment on a people that had been deserving of God’s judgment for some time. God had given the Canaanite people over 400 years to repent (Genesis 15:13–16). Then came judgment day. God could have used any means to destroy the Canaanites, but He chose to use the Israelites as the instrument of judgment. This method not only rid the world of an evil and deeply depraved society, but it also provided a ready-made home for God’s chosen people, the Hebrews.

                                                           

The Canaanites knew what was coming and had heard of God’s awesome power (Joshua 2:10–11; 9:9). Such awareness should have prompted their repentance, but they remained resistant to God. The Canaanite Rahab was saved, and so was her family, and they are proof that the Canaanites could have avoided destruction if they had repented (Joshua 2). No person had to die. God’s desire is that the wicked turn from their sin rather than perish (Ezekiel 18:31–32; 33:11). 

God instructed Israel to destroy the Canaanites to eradicate their evil influences, as seen in Deuteronomy 7:23, where it states that they should be completely destroyed. The command to conquer and destroy the Canaanites was part of God's plan to deliver the nations over to Israel, as detailed in Deuteronomy 7:23-24. But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.  He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them.

These commandments reflect God's desire to cleanse the land of evil and establish His people as its inhabitants.

It is by God's choice that anyone is in His kingdom. God reaches down from out of heaven and regenerates a cold, corrupt, rebellious, dead heart to believe God's truth. (Eph. 2:1-5) One is born again, that is born from above. God regenerates a heart to believe.  It is not because God saw sometime good in us. For only ONE is good. And that is God alone. (Mark 10:18)  He does the choosing. He saves His people because of his mercy, not because of the righteous things we have done. For there is no one righteous, no not one. No one who understands. No one seeks after God. All have turned away. They have together become worthless. No one does good. No not one. (Romans 3:10-12)

He (Jesus) was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.  But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:  who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:10-13)

How does one receive Christ Jesus? By grace through faith and not of themselves. It is a gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (Eph. 2:8-10)   

The verse emphasizes God's unconditional love and the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. It is important to understand that this love is not a license to sin but a call to live a life of faith and obedience to God. The verse is often used to encourage believers to love the world and others, but it also serves as a reminder of the importance of maintaining one's faith and not allowing worldly influences to overshadow one's spiritual journey. We love the world and those who are lost in it for we who are saved understand the eternal fate of those who reject the God of Scripture. We don't know who God will call so we proclaim the gospel to all. And God's chosen will respond to His truth.    

Many in the modern day evangelical world  believe when it comes to foreknowedge God looks down the corridor of time and sees you in your own strenght and by your own making a so called decision for Christ. Honestly the only thing you as a human being can  make a decision about is to sin.  I had a well know teacher/preacher say to me, "we sin because we like it." Very true and very damning.  Jesus said you are either a slave to sin, or a slave to God. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND! And the apostle Paul said that before God's regeneration of His chosen people, before they are born again, born from above,  you are slaves to sin, following the course of this fallen world, the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that works in the sons of disobedience, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were BY NATURE children of God's wrath. (Eph. 2:1-5)

                                       

                       

Our natural hearts are at enmity (hatred) of God, we want to have it our way.  We are in rebellion to a Holy and Righteous God. And any one who tries to tell us otherwise are deemed a bitter enemy to the sinful  life one wants to live. By their own choosing. Unhindered by the God who wants to have us as His own.  In simple terms we want to have it our way.  Not God's way. God is an enemy we want Hushed. Erased. Forgotten. And it is no way for a lost person, with a cold, dead spiritual heart to want God. Let along be a slave of God.  People want a god of their own choosing. That they may continue in their sinful lifestyle. Unless God is working in a  persons heart, drawing them to Himself, to his Son Jesus,  a person is still dead in trespasses and sins. A child of God becomes such by grace through faith---AND NOT OF OURSELVES....It is  a GIFT OF GOD not of works...lest anyone should boast. God reaches down out of heaven to call his own, known before the foundation of the world. (Eph. 1:4)                                                 

As for God's foreknowledge:  God does not know future events and human actions because He forsees them; He knows them because He wills them to happen. (Job. 14:5; Ps. 139:15-16) Thus God's foreknowledge is an act of His will. (Is. 41:4; /Rev. 1:8, 17;21:6) In  Romans 8:29 and 11:2 the apostle Paul's use of the word "Foreknew" means "chose" or "to set special attention on."  The electing love of God,  not forsight of human action, is the basis of His predestination and salvation. (Rom. 8:29-30; 33) This same idea is used to express the nation of Israel's special relationship with God. (Acts 2:23;Rom. 11:2; 1 Peter 1:2;20)  In other words he foreknew you because God chose you. 

Hence you are either a slave to sin or a slave to God. Not my words but the very words of God's One and Only Son. The only name under heaven by which anyone is saved. From God's everlasting wrath, His punishment for sin, and unto everlasting life in the presence of God and the glory of His power. 

If God is moving you to believe this truth, His truth, His Son, His Word who was in the beginning with God and was God...."We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.  For He says:“In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.”Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation."(2 Cor 6:1-2)

                                                        

(Information on  why God destroyed cannan taken from Got questions; verses compiled taken from various scripture) 

Note: as for us not loving the world. It means we are not to participate in the sinful lifestyles that the world condones, encourages, and practices without any thought of retribution from a holy and righteous God. (Romans 6) We are to be Holy because God is Holy. God's people are called out; to be a light shining in a dark and sinful world. As Jesus said let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. (Matthew 5:16) 

Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. (2 Cor 13:5)

But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue (moral purity), to virtue knowledge, (of Gods Truth)  to knowledge self-control (avoiding sinful practices) ,  to self-control perseverance (in our Christian walk), to perseverance godliness, (God the Son as our example)  to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.(agape=the kind of love God exhibited for the world of sinful mankind--sending forth His Son to die in our place to save us from our sins and to everlasting life--loving the lost in spite of mankinds rejection of God)   For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent (work hard at it)  to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;  for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1:5-11)

Sticks and Stones

                           Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

                      

You have probably heard this saying before. Maybe you nah nah, nah nah nahed it to someone that harassed you as a child. But truth be told words can hurt and that hurt can plough deep into someone's soul  even causing them to act out on negative words slung  directly to them. The world's view of words in that saying contradicts what God's word, the Bible emphasizes about the power of words. Highlighting their ability to build or tear down. 

Proverbs 18:21 tells us "Death and life are in the power of the tongue...."                                                                                               

James 3:5  "the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!"                                       

Proverbs 12:18 "There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise promotes health."  Here we see that the tongue can be like a weapon the pierces through every fiber of one's  being causing great damage to a person. Then again words from one who is wise can help promote relationships and be uplifting to one who recieves those encouraging words.                                         

Proverbs 15:4 tells us  "The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse ( corrupt, perverted)  tongue crushes the spirit." Words that encourage and build up, that compliment and inspire are soothing to ones soul and spirit. They are remembered by those who appreciate the kindness showed them. 

                                                      

In fact Jesus explains to us with His words in Matthew 12:36-37 "But I tell you, on the day of judgment people will have to give an accounting for every careless or useless word they speak.  For by your words [reflecting your spiritual condition] you will be justified and acquitted of the guilt of sin; and by your words [rejecting Me] you will be condemned and sentenced.”                                                                         

And in Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.                                                                                                                 

It matters how we communicate with each other. Today's political climate is rout with inflammatory, insulting, vile language and words that may cause one to travel down into a deep dark abyss where one is finally influenced by those words to commit the most heinous and contemptible, unthinkable actions. Including  violence, mayhem, and/or murder. 

                                                           

                                                                                 

The Bible tells us as a person thinks so they are. What we put into our minds matters. Junk in - junk out. Paul tells us,"do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." (Romans 12:2) The word here for transformed in the orginal language is the word metamorphoo from which we get the english word metamorphosis where the  caterpillar makes a change to a beautiful  butterfly.                                                                       

For God's people the will of God is our sanctification, our being set apart to do what God has called us to to be. "A chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;" A people God has called from the darkness of this present evil age to the glorious praise of God's glory.                                                                                                                            

James tells us "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,  because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you."   (James 1:21)                                                             

Christians are to plant the word of God  into their hearts. That we may not sin against God. (Ps. 119:11)  The Word of God must be our desire, to be more like the One who came and died on a cross for the sins of His chosen people. The One who shed His blood, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures. Jesus Christ is our example of what our lives of obedience should be. Not that anyone can attain to His perfection. But we should walk worthy of the call we have received. (Col. 2:6-7)                                                                

                                                            

Always remember "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account."  The word of God is our pathway to living a Holy life. How can one do what God asks if one doesn't know what God says? And what God says is in the pages of His word. That great reformer John Calvin called it "God's baby talk."  God reaches down from His heavenly home in the person of his Son and in Jesus Christ's apostles to help us see who we are and what we should be. How we are to live and be a light in a dark, corrupt, perverse and seemingly  hopeless world drowning in its own inequity and sin.                                                                                               

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.” – 2 Timothy 3:16 ;       

"for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." (2 Peter 1:21)    

God used the prophets of Israel to inform them what God wanted them to do. How He wanted them to live. What was right in God's economy and what was seen as evil. He protected them and he watched out over them, provided for them and delivered them from their enemies. And God disciplined them when they disobeyed Him, were tempted to idolary, sexual immorality and the sinful ways of the pagan peoples round them.                                                            

Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly, as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom…” – Colossians 3:16                              

“Those who guard their mouths and their tongues keep themselves from calamity.” – Proverbs 21:23                                                                 

“My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.” – James 1:19                                                                                                                              

“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” – Proverbs 15:                                

                                           

                                                                                                                              

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.  (James 1:21-22)                                                                                            

Straight to the point. Do what God's word says. Hide God's word in your heart. Know it....practice it....proclaim it to Christians and the lost alike. Be not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. For it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes....God's Word has the supernatural power to deliver a lost, tainted, rebellious person to being a forgiven obedient saint of God who is willing to trust and obey.  For all God's people have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, “All people are like grass,  and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.”And this is the word that was preached to you. (1 Peter 1:23-25) 

                                                           

Dear people, we have been given a blessed hope by which we can be set free from the bondage of sin, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. And all need redemption, to be rescued from their body of death. From the  bondage to the things of this world, the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. To the truth of the only name under heaven by which we can be saved.  From the wrath of God for eternity separated from His glory in the hell of fire. To a redeemed soul, born from above. Brought from death to life and from darkness to the light of the world Jesus Christ. He who believes in Him will by no means be put to shame. But will spend eternity being in the presence of God and the glory of His power.   

                                         

                                                                                       

But to those who do not believe and are not born from above by the grace of God they will hear, "Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. They will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”  (Matthew 25) 

Since each one of us is sinful from birth: "Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity (wickedness), And in sin my mother conceived me."(Ps. 51:5) Everyone needs a heart change....to be brought from darkness to light, from death to life. To be born again, by grace through faith. To be born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:13-14) Each of us must be redeemed from being sinners and at enmity (hatred) of  God, following the course of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that works in the sons of disobedience. And we are by nature children of God's wrath. (Eph. 2:1-5)                                                                                                                             

  Come to Jesus Christ all you who labor and are heavy laden (with the cares of this fallen world) and rest in Jesus Christ. He is your sabbath....the only rest. Jesus Christ is the Lord of the sabbath. WithHis death and resurretion He became the fulfillmentof our "sabbath rest."  The salvation we have in Christ has made the old law of the nsabbath no longer needed or binding.  When Jesus said, "the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath (Mark 2:27). Jesus was attesting to the fact that, just as the Sabbath day was originally instituted to give man rest from his labors, so did He come to provide us rest from laboring to achieve our own salvation by our works.  Because of His sacrifice on the cross, we can now forever cease laboring to attain God's favor and rest in His mercy and grace. It is by His grace through faith and not of ourselves, it is a gift of God. This gift can not be earned by anyones good works. By attemtping to keep the law of God. For nobody can. No one can boast because they did or didn't do something, thinking they  earned heaven. The kingdom of God isn't earned. It's a gift from God not of works lest anyone should boast.

For God made him (Jesus) who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. In Jesus Christ we rest knowing his sacrifice secured our place in the Kingdom of God. And no one is able to snatch you out of His hand. Jesus Christ's perfect obedience to God the Father, His willingness to obey the Father's will, live a perfect life--something no oridinary human being could live-- His death on that cross, and His rising again from the dead the third day according to the scriptures. Jesus conquered death for are his people drawn by God the Father to His Son. When you believe, Jesus Christ's righteousness is imputed to your account. It is as if you never sinned. The kingdom of God awaits all those who hear the word of God and keep it.  

                                                         

 But anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror  and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.  But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. (James 1:21-25)  For we are saved not by good works, but by grace through through faith. Yet scripture tells us that after one is born again, born from above,  know that  God has prepared good works in advance for you to do. 

As the Lord and Savior Messiah Jesus said, "“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”   (John 8:12)                                                                                       

Go out into the world and be that light--preach the gospel with your life....."Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven." (Matt. 5:16)