So, human being, you think you’re not evil? You don’t understand why Christ had to die for your sins? Have you watched the news lately? Would you send your eight year old son across town on a bicycle, or let your 10 year old daughter walk three blocks away to a friend’s house? You live in fear of your child being kidnapped, tortured, raped or murdered? How many of you are divorced because of adultery? How many of you committed adultery? How many families are broken with no father to support them? How many children are born out of immoral affairs and have no father or mother to love them and make them secure? How many children are alone on the streets who have mothers and fathers that don’t give a damn? How many children are using drugs to escape from their pain, or turning tricks to survive, or joining murderous gangs for love and acceptance? How many children are abused? Have you watched a movie lately or listened to the words of the songs on the radio, or, right in your living room, watched TV shows that preached evil with sex, drugs and bloodshed? Do you like those shows? Do let your children watch them? Do you even see that they are evil or is your heart so hard and your eyes so blind that you do not see that Satan has you in his grasp. Would you rather listen to the opinion of some sexy movie star than the opinion of a scholar? Oh good moral human being, are you righteous? How many political leaders cheat and lie and steal? Does this make you cringe? Do you shut your eyes and cover your ears while babies are being murdered for the sake of “women’s rights”? Don’t you see the apostasy? Oh foolish human being, you are so blind? Yes there is an element of evil and it exists in your evil human heart? Human being, you have turned your back on the great creator, you doubt the existence of a Holy God, because of the evil in the world, and do not see that you are part of it?
In the beginning, our creator made everything good because he is a holy God and perfect in every way and in Him there is no evil. In his goodness he gave you paradise and let you make your own decisions. He only asked one thing of you and that is to not forsake him, by turning your back on his love. You, human being, followed Satan and rejected God. You did what displeased him, by separating yourself from his holiness. He warned you, evil man, over and over again, that to turn your back on him was the existence of evil and you choose every time, something else over him.
God’s character is holy, perfectly pure, regulated by his own divine precepts, immaculate, God is God, and his nature will not tolerate evil. Justice had to be served. His wrath fell upon you and by your own disobedience evil was released to ravish this world and every man condemned himself to an eternity of damnation and suffering in Hell. Every man! It’s that simple and easy to understand.
What is hard to understand is how this holy God, after his own creation rejected and abandoned him in an adulterous affair with sin and degradation had pity on you, human being, and because he is also merciful and loving he had a plan to save your unworthy soul. God came into this world as a man, a perfect God man and lived a life free of sin to be crucified on a cross, sacrificed as a lamb without blemish as atonement for your sins. In his holiness only perfection could pay the penalty of your sinful deeds, and He is the only perfect entity. Genesis announced 6000 years before his birth that the seed of a woman would crush Satan. And the prophesy in His holy word continues, 700 years before the actual event by the prophet Isaiah, that He would bear the iniquities and make many righteous.
His name is Jesus and he was God. He was born in a barn and lived on the earth for 33 years. Many saw and testified about him. His closest followers wrote it down and those texts are in the Holy Bible, God’s word. You can believe it because its history and the writings are first hand testimonies of what transpired.
Actually there are hundreds of verses in the Old Testament of the Bible that prophetize about the birth life and death of Jesus Christ, Savior. In the New Testament Jesus fulfilled those prophecies.
So what is all this to you human being? Be convinced that you really are a guilty sinner; believe you need a savior; read the Word of God; search and you will find, ask and the door will open; pray that the God of all the universe and beyond will open your eyes and soften your hard heart so that you can see and know, believe and proclaim a Savior lives, and his name is Jesus and he sits at the right hand of God. He stands between you and a wrathful God on the Day of Judgment and that day is coming when you will be judged but Jesus has already paid the penalty, has already justified you and made you righteous and you will spend eternity with Him in joyous peace.
Applied verses:
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. Genesis 6:5-6
"The LORD will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. Deuteronomy 28:20
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. Romans 1:21-32
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." Genesis 3:15
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--everyone--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:5-6
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. John 1:1-2
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Luke 11:10
As it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." Hebrews 3:15
Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind." John 9:39
Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you." Matthew 28:7
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him. 1 Peter 3:21-22
but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 1 Peter 4:5
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. Romans 3:23-25
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
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. 2 Peter 3:18
