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via IFTTT The gospel in a nutshell. Christ died for our sins Was buried And rose from the grave on the third day. That's what matters! The foundation. All else is built on these three facts. Christ died for our sins Man fell under judgement, convicted and sentences to death for disobedience to God, our creator. Jesus stepped in and volunteered to suffer our sentence, to die instead of us, instead of you, so that you could live. The debt, the sentence was paid and by accepting this, we, you, carry no sin. Our entire past is erased and we are clean as the day we were born, having been "born again". "There is now therefore no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus." Crist was buried It was real. His body suffered and died a horrible death. It was over. No tricks, He died and was placed in a tomb and sealed. Not hours, but days. Three days and three nights. The body had already decayed and begun to decompose. Christ Rose from the dead! He had the power to lay down His life and to take it back up again, proving that He was indeed victorious over death itself. And the best part? He never died again! He lives today, now. He is just as alive and real today as when He walked on this Earth. He is Alive, real, and available to us. He speaks to us, intervenes in our lives, watches over us just as He did then. We do not have to fear anything in this life, not even death, as Jesus has proven Himself master over all! As long as we stay with Him, in Him, we are safe from everything thrown at us by anyone, we are victorious over everything because we are in Jesus and He in us. That's the gospel! You can be clean, washed free from all of your past AND you can live victorious as a servant of Jesus with no fear, no anxiety, no risk. We tend to add a bunch of stuff to it, but the foundation is simple. Be clean, be free, be victorious by giving yourself, your life, your everything to Jesus. There is no other way, no other path to God. No other plans to find peace and prosperity in life. All other attempts are futile and will fail. It is this simple. Give it all to Jesus and live, hold on to it to keep trying and fail. If you have not yet surrendered all to Jesus, do it now. Give your life, your troubles, your worries to Him and live for Him freely. Live for Him, not you. Find peace and freedom by and through Him. If you have surrendered to Jesus, ask what else you can surrender! Seek to give more, ask what is left that you still hold on to. Ask where you still try to run things. Ask what part of your life has not died yet. And then surrender that too. Seek 100% submitted to Jesus. It's actually pretty easy to see what you have not given to Jesus... It's those things you still worry over! Those things that cause anxiety. How can you be worried when it's His responsibility? What do you have to be anxious over but the things you hang onto and try to control yourself. Find peace, peace that "passes all understanding" by giving it all to Jesus. Because you see, it's all Christ. All. What He did, who He is, what He does. We are nothing, He is everything. The gospel. It's all Jesus.
