I was reading the story of the couple and their children who were lost in the Oregon wilderness and how the dad left the family to go for help. They found the dad James Kim dead in the canyons four days after he had left to go for help. They say your best chance of survival is to stay with your vehicle. Unfortunately for this family the dad left the vehicle searching for help, and while he was running around in the wilderness, help came for them. This is a sad story of a family who was lost and now is found, only without their dad. The dad had given his life for his family searching for help.
We were lost in our sins without any hope until our heavenly Father sent His Son Jesus to save the lost. He left His home in heaven and came down to earth to save His family. We are of God's family if we have been born again. If we haven't been born again into God's family we are still lost and without hope of eternal life. What a loving Father we have who would give up His Son to save us. Jesus came to earth to save us from our sins by dying in our place.
[JESUS CAME TO SAVE THE LOST]
Matthew;1:21
(And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.)
Matthew;1:10
(For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.)
God tell us that if a shepherd loses one sheep, that he will leave the rest where they are and search for the one who is lost. We are those sheep, and Jesus came to search for us and bring us to salvation in Him. God doesn't want any of us to have spiritual separation from Him. He knows our fate if we don't accept the free gift of life which is in His Son Jesus.
Matthew;1:14
(Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.)
If we are a child of God's family, then we will never perish.
[GOD'S FAMILY]
How do we become a part of God's family?. When we are saved , we become children of God.
1John;3:1-2
(Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us , that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.)
How do we know the children of God?
1John;3:7
(Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.)
1John;3:8
(He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of Man was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.)
This phrase means the person who habitually practices sin. We are all sinners and we have the sin nature in us and we will always have to fight to not sin. With God's help we will continue to sin less as we mature as Christians. It would be great if when we were saved we never sinned again, but that isn't the way it is. That is why God tells us to put on the whole armor of God so that we can be able to resist. The good thing is that our sins have been forgiven and we need to do our best not to sin.
So we see that we have a loving Father who is God, and He has given us hope, and this hope is in His Son Jesus. All we have to do is call out to Him to save us and He will. You may not think that you are lost, but if you haven't accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior and given your life to Him, then you are lost and in danger of spending eternity in hell. Anyone who is lost wants to be saved. We were all lost at one point in our life. If you want to be saved, then ask Jesus to save you.
Romans;10:13
(For "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.")
It's very simple, we can't save ourselves, so Jesus paid the price by giving His life to save our life. What a loving and caring Savior we have in Jesus Christ our Lord.
God Bless You!
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