The Bible is very clear with us that absolutely everyone has sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Sin refers to a breaking of God’s commands. The Bible is also very clear on God’s response to our sin. The Bible tells us that his wrath is revealed against our sin (Romans 1:18), and so we are warned that sin is something that God is angry with. We are promised that all who have sinned deserve to perish, referring to an eternal death reserved for all those who have rejected God through their sin (John 3:16-18).
Therefore, we find ourselves as humans, as soon as we are conceived in our mothers’ wombs, in a dreadful situation (Psalm 51:5). However, the message of the Bible is one of salvation; it is one of redemption; it is one of rescue. That rescue comes from the Lord himself. He arrives as rescuer on the scene way back in the third chapter of the Bible, and this Lord, God the Son, keeps on showing up throughout the Old Testament. Yet, something extraordinary happens about three-quarters of the way through the Bible, which had been promised and previewed throughout the Bible: the Lord becomes a human, dwelling in fallen flesh like us (John 1:14).
He suffers the eternal death that we deserve, and that happens when he dies on the cross (1 Peter 2:24).
We are urged, every single one of us, to make a decision to stop depending on ourselves and to begin depending wholly and completely on this God-man, the Lord, Jesus of Nazareth, and on His death on the cross (Galatians 2:20). We are urged to repent of our sins, to give up our old ways, and to begin following him.
Everyone is invited to become a disciple of Jesus. Anyone can become one; that happens through joining a church. The promise for everyone is that if you believe in him, you will not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).
