The Prophetic Warnings Part Two

By Bill Goetz CRF Team

SECOND: BELIEVE

Then, believe that God does not want you to perish eternally in the torment of hell because of your sin. Believe that God loves you so much that He provided a way whereby He cold still be a just, holy and righteous God and yet pardon you – a sinner.

Believe that God did not just overlook sin, but that He sent His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to provide salvation by personally paying the penalty for sin.

Believe that Jesus Christ, whose life, death, burial and resurrection is the best-attested fact of antiquity, did come to earth to live, die, rise again and ascend to heaven in order to provide justification and salvation for all who trust Him.

Believe that He, and He alone, can save you because He has fully satisfied the just demands of God. Believe that you can’t become righteous in God’s sight by your own effort.

Believe that He wants to save you and that He will save you.

The Bible provides a solid basis for such belief:
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise … He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9

For God so love the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

But God presented him (Jesus Christ) as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished – he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies the man who has faith in Jesus. Romans 3:25, 26

I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you … that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures