Your unworthy servant is simple-minded, neither theologian nor scholar, just a missionary to likewise simple minded people everywhere. To him the gospel must be clear and simple:
* The loving Creator is our personal heavenly Father (Matt. 6:9).
* He made us to be happy in sinlessness (Eccl. 7:29).
* But our first father Adam plunged us into sin (1 Cor. 15:22).
* “In the day” that we should sin, “thou shalt die,” the Father said (Gen. 2:17). The condemnation of Adam now passed on the whole human race because we are all children of Adam. (Adam brought it on us, not God!)
* But not one sinner in 6000+ years of “our history” has suffered that actual, real “condemnation.” It has only been a legal verdict hanging over us; this should be clear to all—otherwise we would all be dead forever! (Our first death is only a sleep, 1 Thess. 4:16.)
* But there has been One Exception: Christ, the Son of God, took upon Himself our humanity, became one of us, mortal as we; took on His sinless nature our sinful nature, specifically so He might bear that “condemnation” in Himself and set us free from it (Rom. 8:3, 4).
* It was on His cross that He endured its full brunt. The death He died was the real thing, the 100% outworking of that “condemnation” that now only legally hangs over us (Gal. 3:13; Deut. 21:22).
* Therefore, really and truly, up to this moment, He has saved us all from the second death that is our “condemnation.” “Every man” who breathes, believer or not, can shout, praise the Lord! (Gal. 5:1; Eph. 1:3-6).
* Other than Christ, not one human has suffered the “condemnation” thus far, no matter how bad he has been. No one will, until at the end of the 1000 years of Revelation 20:11-15.
* No matter who you are, or how sinful you have been, Christ has indeed saved you from that “second death,” so far! The fact you breathe is proof.
* Another name for all that is “grace” that abounds more than all our sin (Rom. 5:21).
*You cannot ever suffer eternal death unless you choose to resist and reject the gift that Christ has given you “in Himself” (vss. 15-18).
Leap for joy forever after!
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