Why Do I Need Jesus Christ?

1. Man being created by God is evident by the world we live in, as the world is a testimony of God’s existence and His power.

   • Rom 1:18  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them. 20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25  Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

2. This is NOT the Lord God’s world, this the world of Satan and his angels (demons). We are trapped here because we fell for Satan’s lie.

   • Mat 4:8  Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9  And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. 

   • 1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 

   • Eph 2:2  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 

3. If you are in this world, you have fallen. This is your last chance for reconciliation to the Lord God.

   • Psa 82:5  They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 6 I have said, Ye [are] gods; and all of you [are] children of the most High. 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations. 

   • Joh 10:30  I and [my] Father are one. 31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. 34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? 35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? 

4. How can you be reconciled to someone you never knew? You can’t!

   • Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 

   • Eph 2:13  But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh (brought near) by the blood of Christ. 14  For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us;] 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. 18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 

   • Col 1:19  For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell; 20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, [I say], whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven. 21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, [and] which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; 

5. Even if this is Satan's world, the Lord God is still ultimately in control:

   •  Think of the Lord God as looking down on a contained system that is being run by a group of rebels, these rebels tricked their brethren into turning from the Lord God and trapped them in this contained system of their making. Although the system is created by these rebels, all the rebels are created by the Lord God and come from Him, and they used the Lord God’s power to construct the system. The Lord God allows this to happen, but He still loves those tricked brethren. Since the Lord God is perfect, if part of His creation turns and becomes imperfect, He has the power to remove this part without corrupting the whole. The problem with this is the Lord God has to remove the tricked group also, because they are no longer perfect, either. This world is a quarantined battlefield, with the Lord God trying to save those that fell, and the rebels trying to guarantee the demise of the tricked brethren.

6.  Where does Jesus Christ fit into this?

   • Jesus Christ was the plan to rescue and reconcile those brethren that were tricked and trapped by the rebels and lost to the Lord God, but the only way to do this was to come into the system and live by the standards of the system (God’s Law) perfectly, and be sacrificed as a once-for-all, perfect, blood sacrifice to pay our death penalty for rebellion. The only caveat is, we need to admit that we were wrong and that we deserve our punishment and we need to accept that Jesus paid the punishment for us in order to get us out from under the law and into this new covenant, the covenant of Grace.

     • Rom 5:6  For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7  For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9  Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 

   • Since everyone born here is under the Law, when one breaks the law, he is an offender and he will be judged by the Lord God (and just by coming here to this world, you broke the law). If Jesus Christ paid for you with His perfect life, you are now dead to the system, because according to the law, the punishment is death, but Jesus died this death for you. So now you are covered by Jesus, and when the Lord God looks at you, He sees Jesus and his perfect life. Now you are spiritually born to the new system, the system of grace which is kept by faith (not the keeping of the Law). Thus, all of the ceremonial laws in the Old Testament no longer apply, because each of them were to show an aspect of Jesus Christ, the one that was coming to redeem us. But Jesus came, so now we look to Him directly (instead of the ceremonial laws) as our redeemer has come.

7. The Comforter is the evidence of us being reconciled with the Lord God:

   • To show how serious the Lord God is toward the promise of our coming redemption, He sent us The Comforter (The Holy Spirit) to abide within us as an earnest (down payment) on our lives. Satan owns our flesh until it is bought back, and the only thing that can buy you back is the blood of Jesus. The new Spirit is sent to abide in us the second we accept salvation, and it gives us power to resist the flesh and to fight back with prayer, but we will not have total victory over the flesh until we go home to the Lord God and get renewed bodies. This is why the Holy Spirit is the down payment. The evidence of this is the resurrection of Jesus and His Ascension. The Lord God brought Jesus back from the grave, and He ascended Him to Heaven. He will do this for us, too. Because of this new Spirit within us, it is possible for us to fulfil the Law, but only through the Spirit. The Law is here to condemn the flesh, it is perfect, but it is unable to save, its purpose lies in the fact that it reveals to all men that they are guilty of not living up to the standards of the Lord God, and if He did not intervene, we all would be worthy of judgement. Due to all of these reasons, we can now call on the Lord God as Abba, or Father, because we have been adopted back to Him by the blood of Christ, His Son.

     • Eph 1:9-14  Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him: 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 13 In whom ye also [trusted,] after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

8. Salvation will bring redemption, but your current deployment is a labor of love:

   • We are saved by Jesus, but our redemption is not fully realized until we go to Heaven (Eph 1:14), or He comes in the clouds (read the book of Revelation). Jesus keeps us here to put us to work; pulling out our fallen brethren from the condemnation of the Law by preaching the Gospel! We aren’t saved by our works; but we are saved for the Lord God’s work. The Lord God wants us to follow Jesus’ commandments and examples, and our main duty is the spreading of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and establishing his law.  

     • Mat 22:35 Then one of them, [which] was a lawyer, asked [him a question], tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

     • Rom 3:31  Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. 

     • 1Co 9:16  For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! 17  For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed unto me. 18  What is my reward then? [Verily] that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 19  For though I be free from all [men], yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 

9. Repentance is not works --Salvation can not be earned:

   • We are saved by grace (the Lord God’s part) through faith (our part), not us turning from evil to good, as this is not possible in our current fallen state. Jesus *CONVERTS you once you accept what He has already done for you (paid your death penalty). After -and only after- this happens, you are now going a different direction. You were once walking with the world, but now, Jesus has entered into you and flipped you around (think 180 degrees), so now you are walking with Jesus toward Heaven instead of with the world toward the Judgement (the lake of fire). Due to this reason, a change will happen to you and the way you conduct yourself, but this is not by the works you do, but Christ working in you. You grow holier every day through faith (our part) by the new Spirit within you. God the Father is perfecting you into the image of Christ by the Holy Spirit that is put into you. This Spirit supplants (overthrows) the old spirit of the world (the spirit of antichrist) that is within you.

     • *CONVERT, v.t. [L., to turn; coinciding in elements and signification with barter.]

       • To change or turn into another substance or form; as, to convert gases into water, or water into ice.

       • To change from one state to another; as, to convert a barren waste into a fruitful field; to convert a wilderness into a garden; to convert rude savages into civilized men.

10. Religion Is Not Repentance:

    • The Bible warns us of faking Christianity, and it gives us ways to spot a fake Christian. The Bible also warns that God the Father chastises those He loves, but a bastard (one without a Father) goes without chastisement. So, you must ask yourself, O, Religious Man, “Why is it so easy for me to get away with doing evil as a Christian?”

      • Heb 12:3  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 4  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5  And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10  For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness. 11  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. 

      • 1Jn 4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2  Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3  And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.