One Offer You Can Believe

ONE OFFER YOU CAN BELIEVE

1 Peter 1:3-4

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fade—kept in heaven for you.”

“I don’t believe it,” ten year old Cassie said to Missy at the swimming pool.

“Believe what?” Missy asked.

“I was checking my emails on my phone, and one came entitled, ‘You just won ten million dollars! Open here’....I think I know better than to open an email when I don’t recognize the sender. Do people who send out spam and junk emails think I was born yesterday?” Cassie said, shaking her head.

Would you be surprised to learn that people still open junk emails from senders they don’t recognize—when they promise riches? Every person alive, especially ones who have access to various electronic gadgets, is bombarded with fantastic offers too good to be true. Those who have seen—and discarded—their share of junk mail, know better than to believe one word of fantastic offers.

We’re all vulnerable to scams that bring nothing but trouble. How can we pick out rip-off cons that offer false hope, and end up dishing out heartache and dashed dreams?

There is one offer that is genuine—the real deal. It’s the offer God makes to us: Salvation is offered to whomever believes in Jesus, accepting eternal life offer He extends through His finished work on the cross. This offer cost Jesus His life. But whoever believes in Him reaps fantastic blessings. This is one offer you can believe because God never lies.

Romans 4:25 says, “He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.” Justification means that the Father sees whoever believes in His Son as “not guilty” of sin. This grace, or God’s riches at Christ’s expense, flows freely to those who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord. Check out the lesson, linked below, to see more of God’s fantastic offers you can believe.

Take Home Nugget

Since Cassie worships God in a Bible-believing church, she learned that every fantastic offer from God is something she can believe is true. She, like her mom and grandparents before, pursue a personal relationship with their Savior Jesus Christ.

The unbelieving world doesn’t recognize the need for a Savior. So God’s fantastic offer of forgiveness of sins doesn’t register as something it even wants.

Father in heaven, thank You for sending us Your Son Jesus, as our Savior and Lord. We accept His fantastic offer of eternal life we can believe! AMEN

J.D. Griffith

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