What is the most detrimental thing that threatens man?
It is sin!
Sin is Satan's plan but man is all to willing!!
Sin effects your eternal destination.
Non-repentance of sin by a rebellious heart leads to Hell.
However, a contrite willing heart will receive mercy from God through the blood of Jesus which is the only way to Heaven.
Definition of contrite:
Feeling of remorse
Willing to repent
Knowing you are guilty
So you see, salvation is not dependent on you being good but on you knowing that there is nothing you can do for salvation. It has already been done by Christ! God sent Christ to set us free!! Man was born in sin, it came form the beginning through the sin of Adam and Eve. That is where we were cursed by our disobedience to God. But you say, I wasn't even there. Why am I cursed? Man's nature is rebellious toward God, that means you and me. The first step to salvation is to acknowledge you are a sinner! The second step is to know that God alone has made a way for us through Christ. Your good deeds will not save you. Your false religion will not save you! You must repent and trust Christ! What does trusting Christ mean? It means you believe Christ alone is responsible for saving you! It means you believe Christ lived a life free from sin, died for you on the cross, did arise from the grave after 3 days, and is now seated at the right hand of God to intercede on your behalf when you sin and repent. But most of all, you believe and await His return to take us to be with Him for eternity!! There is freedom in Christ!!! But you say this is too simple! That is right! You must come as a child! Trusting in someone you can't see, someone you don't know! But there is a way to know Christ, we have God's inspired word, handed down from long ago. You will be convicted by His heart piercing word!
Outcome of your faith:
8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,
9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. - 1 Peter 1:8-9
Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it." - Mark 10:15
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned-
13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. - Romans 5:12-13
For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous. - Romans 5:19
We are justified through Christ:
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. - Romans 5:18
20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. - Romans 5:20-21
21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
22 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.
23 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
25 For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. - 1 Peter 2:21-25
The new covenant:
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. - Hebrews 9:15
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. - Hebrews 9:22
24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
25 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,
26 for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. - Hebrews 9:24-28
