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Show 23:7; II Cor. 10:5; Rom. 3:9, 10; I John 5: 19; Matt. 18: 11.) We can plainly see by these scrip tures that man of himseU is a lost crea ture. There is no hope of man changing himself from a sinner to a child of God. Not one of us can escape death or corne from the grave by our own efforts. Our mortality witnesses of our sin against God. "For the waqes of sin is deeth," Neither can we change the leopard's spots. We cannot of ourselves change our sinful nature. God has provided the way for man's nature to be changed and saved from sin. The plan of salva tion was and is that God would corne into the world to dwell in flesh as the saviour of man. Because he dwelt in flesh, He, God himself, was called the Son of God. There is Only One God. God is a Spirit. He is the Father, Son arid Holy Ghost. God foreknew that for him to corne down and dwell in flesh and proclaim to man his sinful ways would cost Him the Cross of Crucifixion. The Lord willingly and gladly offered this sacrifice that He might offer mercy and pardon to mankind, if they would behold His love and goodness and re pent. We gave Him a crown of thorns, and He offers us a crown of life if we love and serve Him. 6 "For unto us a child is born, unto us son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Coun sellor The miqhty God, The everlasting and The Prince of Peace.'" thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save His people from their sins." "F or God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that who soever believeth in Him should not per ish but have everlasting life-that the world throuqh Him miqht be saved." "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal lifer and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." Jesus said, "1 am the way, the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Fafor wihout me ye ther, but by me." if one died for can do nothing." all, then were all dead." (Iso. 9:6; Matt. 1:21; John 3:16, 17;1 John 5:11, 1"2; John 8:36; John 14:6; 15:5; II Cor. 5:14.) a Fother, " ... " " Thus we see by the above scriptures that all mankind became sinful bY-'na ture, through the trarisgression of A dam. God laid the one and only way that man can be redeemed from sin. 7 |
