16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.”
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
God has placed the evidence of Himself not only all around us in His creation, but inside of us as well. Everyone of us has known the longing for that "thing" that is missing in life, but only the Gospel has the answer. The missing piece is a relationship with God, the Creator of the universe.
Sin, which we have from the beginning of our lives, separates us from God. He cannot have anything, other than perfection, in his presence, including us... But God desired us to have relationship with Him so much, that He made a plan to remove the problem of sin from us. He send Jesus to live a perfect life, be unjustly murdered on the cross, in our place...He took on the punishment of our sin...and gave us in exchange His record of a perfect life. All that was accomplished as a gift, something free to take, with nothing in exchange but our sin. All we need to do is stop trusting in ourselves to fix the sin problem and rely solely on Jesus as our ticket into relationship with God.
That is the Gospel, the Good News! Jesus paid it all...and God created us and the world around us to remind us that we need HIM!
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