All of us have sinned (missed the mark of doing good with God.) so none
of us is righteous. Isaiah tells us of the Messiah (the Greek word
for Messiah is "Christ"), who pays the price for our sins, so we can be saved:
Isa 53
Who has believed our report?And to whom has the arm of the LORD been
revealed? 2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,And as a root
out of dry ground.He has no form or comeliness;And when we see Him,There
is no beauty that we should desire Him. 3 He is despised and rejected by
men,A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.And we hid, as it were, our
faces from Him;He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows;Yet we esteemed
Him stricken,Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our
transgressions,He was bruised for our iniquities;The chastisement for our
peace was upon Him,And by His stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep
have gone astray;We have turned, every one, to his own way;And the LORD has
laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,Yet He opened not His mouth;He
was led as a lamb to the slaughter,And as a sheep before its shearers is
silent,So He opened not His mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment,And
who will declare His generation?For He was cut off from the land of the
living;For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. 9 And they made
His grave with the wicked--But with the rich at His death,Because He had
done no violence,Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him;He has put Him to grief.When
You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall
prolong His days,And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.By His knowledge
My righteous Servant shall justify many,For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,And He shall divide
the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death,And
He was numbered with the transgressors,And He bore the sin of many,And
made intercession for the transgressors.
NKJV
The Messiah (Christ) is the Son of God:
Ps 2
1 Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel
together, Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying,
3 "Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from
us."
4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The LORD shall hold them in
derision.
5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His
deep displeasure:
6 "Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion."
7 "I will declare the decree: The LORD has said to Me, 'You are My
Son, Today I have begotten You.
8 Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And
the ends of the earth for Your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces
like a potter's vessel.' "
10 Now therefore, be wise, O kings; Be instructed, you judges of the
earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way, When His
wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust
in Him.
NKJV
Since Jesus is the sinless Son of God, he is able to save us by His sacrifice:
Heb 9:11-28
11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the
greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of
this creation. 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own
blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal
redemption. 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer,
sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, 14 how
much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to
serve the living God? 15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new
covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under
the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of
the eternal inheritance.
16 For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the
death of the testator. 17 For a testament is in force after men are dead,
since it has no power at all while the testator lives. 18 Therefore not
even the first covenant was dedicated without blood. 19 For when Moses had
spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood
of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both
the book itself and all the people, 20 saying, "This is the blood of the
covenant which God has commanded you." 21 Then likewise he sprinkled
with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. 22 And
according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without
shedding of blood there is no remission.
23 Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens
should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better
sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made
with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to
appear in the presence of God for us; 25 not that He should offer Himself
often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood
of another-- 26 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation
of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put
away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And as it is appointed for men
to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once
to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear
a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
NKJV
To be saved and go to Heaven, we must agree with God that we have sinned,
believe that Jesus died for our sins and turn away from our sins (repent),
and ask God to forgive us:
Rom 10:9-17
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in
your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes
on Him will not be put to shame." 12 For there is no distinction between
Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.
13 For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved."
14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And
how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall
they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are
sent? As it is written:
"How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,
Who bring glad tidings of good things!"
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord,
who has believed our report?" 17 So then faith comes by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God.
NKJV
2. Short Version
- Who is a sinner? Rom 3:10 As it is written:
"There is none righteous, no, not one; NKJV
- Why am I not righteous? Rom 3:23 for
all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God NKJV
- So what does this mean to me? Rom 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord. NKJV
- How do I know God loves me?
Rom 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us NKJV
- How can I be saved from death and hell?
Rom 10:9-10 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will
be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with
the mouth confession is made unto salvation. NKJV
- Are you sure about this? Rom 10:13 for
"whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved." NKJV
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