I used my Brother Scan'n'cut to cut out the lettering for this easy Christmas card but you could print out the letters on the computer, draw them by hand or buy some pre-cut letters from the craft store. I fixed them to the card with double sided tape. The blank cards were from K-Mart.
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Salvation is God's plan to save us from the consequence of sin which is death and separation from him. Hebrews 9:27-28 says, Everyone must die once. Then they are judged. So Christ was offered as a sacrifice one time to take away the sins of many people. And he will come a second time, but not to offer himself for sin. He will come the second time to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Romans 6:23 explains that when we are judged we deserve death because we have all sinned, For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. God's gift of eternal life in Christ is salvation. This plan was put into effect when Jesus came to earth as a baby and died and rose again. It will come to completion when he comes again. Imagine someone gave you a game (computer or board game - you choose). It's great fun but then you get the expansion pack and it's so much better. When we decide to follow Jesus we get adopted as God's children and he gives us his Holy Spirit - the basic game. When he comes again we get all the expansion packs. It will be so amazing it will blow your mind! We celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas but this is just part one. Your sins have been forgiven, God calls you his child and gives you his Holy Spirit to guide and comfort you. But when he comes again you will live with him. There will be no more sin, sickness or sadness. That's the hope that drives us, that we cling on to when life gets hard, that makes us smile when we get up in the morning. 1 Thessalonians 5:8 says, the hope of salvation should be our helmet. This hope that we have protects our minds from being disheartened, in despair and discouragement. So hold your head up cause better days are coming. Jesus has been getting squeezed out of Christmas by an elderly, overweight man in a red suit, reindeer, candy canes, turkeys, puddings, presents and parties. We have to make a deliberate effort to put Christ back in Christmas. Here are just five examples - there are plenty more.
Righteous means something that is perfect and good. Righteousness means the quality of being perfect and good. Of course, there is only one person who is truly righteous and that's Jesus. In Acts Paul refers to him as the Righteous One. Being righteous or right with God is impossible in our own strength because we're all sinners. Romans 3:10 says, There is no one who is righteous, not even one. Thankfully, we can be made righteous through the blood of Jesus. Because he died and rose again in our place we have been made righteous or right with God. Romans 3:22 says, This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
Imagine eternal life in heaven is like a festival but the tickets are really expensive. Jesus wants all of you to go so much that he buys tickets everyone. It costs him a lot! All you have to do to go to the festival is to trust him that he has bought you a ticket. All you have to do to spend eternity with God is to believe that Jesus has paid the price for you and made you right with God. Many of us struggle with the belief that we're not good enough. Guess what? We're right - we're not good enough. But praise the Lord we don't have to be good enough. We just have to believe that Jesus is God's son, that he came to earth as a baby, lived a sinless life and died and rose again. It is faith in Jesus that makes us righteous, not anything that we can do. Here are some cute scripture gifts that you could make for Christmas. The classes are online ($16US) or you could just use this introduction video as inspiration and design your own. |
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