Good News
for Children & Ph.D.'s
Profound enough for any Ph.D.
Simple enough for any Child

God's Son, Jesus, became a man to do three special things you and I cannot do:

# 1 - Jesus lived a perfect human life, that we can't live.

# 2 - Jesus paid the punishment for human rebellion against God's Law.

# 3 - Jesus defeated sin & death to be the Savior, of all who submit in faith to His authority.

# 1
We can't be good enough

Have you ever done a bad thing?
Lied? Thrown a fit? Said hurtful words to another person?

Jesus said, "You must be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect."
(Matthew 5:48)

James said, "If you keep the whole Law and yet stumble in one point, you are guilty of all of it."
(James 3:2)

Romans says, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
(Romans 3:23)

So the Bible, God's Word, says that none of us can live good enough to earn the right to enter God's perfect Kingdom. Jesus, however, came and lived it for us.

"Jesus the Son of God, . . . . was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin."
(Hebrews 4:15)

# 2
Our rebellion must be punished

What do you think is the punishment for rebellion against God ?

Romans 6:23 says, "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Hell is Separation from God's Kingdom of goodness forever.

Jesus loved us so much that He took the punishment for us. God's Son was separated from God the Father for the first time in eternity, to pay for our sin.

Romans 5:8 says, "For God demonstrates His own love for us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

Isaiah 53:5-6 says, "He was wounded for our transgressions . . . .
All we like sheep have gone astray, everyone to his own way,
And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all."

# 3
We can't be our own boss

That's why Adam and Eve got into trouble in the Garden of Eden.

Genesis 3:4-5 "Then the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

Lucifer's lie is that we can be our own authority, and choose for ourselves what we think is right and wrong.

But God alone is KING, and the only way to enter His KINGDOM is to submit in faith to Him and His way of salvation.

Proverbs 14:12 says, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but it's end is the way of death."

Jesus said, "I AM the Way and the Truth, and the Life.
No man comes to the Father, except through Me."
(John 14:6)

James 2:19 says, "even the demons believe . . . and shudder."

The demons believe a lot about Him, but won't submit to Him in love.

1 John 5:13 says, "These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life."

The "NAME" of Jesus refers to His authority. His name, "Yeshua",
in Hebrew means God-Savior.

So believing in His name means to submit to His Lordship, trusting His perfect human life, His finished payment on the cross, and His promise to save all who call on Him.

Do you want Jesus to really save you from your sinful selfish nature? Do you want Him to take over your life and begin the work of changing you, even disciplining you when you sin
(Philip 1:6; Heb 12)?