May I offer you a ticket to Heaven? You don?t have to pay for it, and that?s a good thing, because you could never afford to buy it! It?s free, but only because someone has already paid the ultimate price for it.God loves you and not only wants you to have a fulfilling life on earth, He also wants you to live with Him in Heaven forever. He?s the one who offers you a paid-in-full ticket. No one wants to go to hell where there will be no joy and no pleasures whatsoever, and God doesn?t want anyone to go there either. The Bible says that God is ?not willing that any should perish? (2 Peter 3:9).But there is a problem with getting that free ticket. We have all done wrong?we have all sinned, haven?t we? God?s Word says, ?If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves? (1 John 1:8). Sin pollutes?it makes us unclean, unfit for God?s presence in that wonderful, perfect place called Heaven. Sin penalizes?it separates us from a sinless God, ?for the wages of sin is death? (Romans 6:23).In short, our sinfulness blocks the delivery of the ticket that we need to get into Heaven!Who paid for it?Wait! There?s good news! Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth to be born and to live His life without sin. He ?once suffered for [our] sins, the just [One] for the unjust [all of us!], that He might bring us to God? (1 Peter 3:18). When God ?laid on Him the iniquity [sins] of us all? (Isaiah 53:6), Jesus cried out
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