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five christian essentials
We pray that the Lord help you comprehend the truths found in Five Christian Essentials and help you grow in the knowledge of Him, as you diligently go through this 9 week course.
Since Creation, God has desired to have fellowship with man. He has always wanted to share His life and love with His children. When man sinned, he caused an immeasurable gap to exist between himself and God. He no longer had fellowship with God. All mankind deserved eternal separation from God's presence. However, because of God's great love for him, He wanted to save man from his sin. This would not be easy because God, being absolutely Holy and Just, could not simply overlook man's sin. He did the only thing that could be done to save man. He put the death penalty for sin upon the only person in the universe who could take man's place. God Himself, in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Throughout history God has been reaching out to man, trying to reconcile him to Himself. God has chosen to progressively reveal His nature, character and will to man, that man might know, love and fellowship with God as he was created to. The wonderful truth is that no all men CAN know God and have fellowship with Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. We love in a truly unique time in human history because the revelation of God is complete in His Son and in His Word, the Bible.
Because of what God has done for us through the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, a man is justified by faith alone and not by works. One result of this is that each believer has access to God directly, apart from any human intermediaries. Because God wants to communicate with man He has given us His Word, the Bible, which is the supreme source of authority for both faith and life.
From these truths we can see five things that are essential for each of us to live a fulfilled Christian life and grow in maturity to become all that God wants us to be.
Since Creation, God has desired to have fellowship with man. He has always wanted to share His life and love with His children. When man sinned, he caused an immeasurable gap to exist between himself and God. He no longer had fellowship with God. All mankind deserved eternal separation from God's presence. However, because of God's great love for him, He wanted to save man from his sin. This would not be easy because God, being absolutely Holy and Just, could not simply overlook man's sin. He did the only thing that could be done to save man. He put the death penalty for sin upon the only person in the universe who could take man's place. God Himself, in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Throughout history God has been reaching out to man, trying to reconcile him to Himself. God has chosen to progressively reveal His nature, character and will to man, that man might know, love and fellowship with God as he was created to. The wonderful truth is that no all men CAN know God and have fellowship with Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. We love in a truly unique time in human history because the revelation of God is complete in His Son and in His Word, the Bible.
Because of what God has done for us through the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, a man is justified by faith alone and not by works. One result of this is that each believer has access to God directly, apart from any human intermediaries. Because God wants to communicate with man He has given us His Word, the Bible, which is the supreme source of authority for both faith and life.
From these truths we can see five things that are essential for each of us to live a fulfilled Christian life and grow in maturity to become all that God wants us to be.