The joy and comfort of every believer comes through the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Our first parents, Adam and Eve, disobeyed God, and all the generations of their children have inherited this sinful nature. We are born in sin, in other words, and are subject to God’s righteous indignation and eternal condemnation. There is nothing we can do to change that. As a matter of fact, even the best of what we do has sin in it, and, as a result, the more we try to do good things to impress God and to win His favour the more we incite His anger against us.

What God Himself has done, however, was to send into the world His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to do two things that we could not do for ourselves: (1) He came as the last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45) to accomplish successfully what the first Adam failed to achieve, namely, a perfect, unblemished righteousness (though He was tempted in all points even as we are, yet He was without sin, Hebrews 4:15); and (2) having fulfilled this righteousness, He then laid down His own life to pay the penalty for the sins of all who would come to believe in Him so that they might be forgiven and granted eternal life (God made Him who had no sin to bear the sins of His people, and did so that they might be declared righteous in Him, 2 Corinthians 5:21).

This Son of God was Jesus of Nazareth, fully God and fully man, and no one has peace with God the Father apart from having faith in His Son Jesus (John 14:6). Nevertheless, the Lord Jesus is able to save to the uttermost all who come unto the Father through Him (Hebrews 7:25), and He has promised to do so (John 6:37-40). If you are an unbeliever, someone without such faith, you must repent of your sins, call upon the Lord, and commit all that you are and have to Him. He will pardon you, as He has promised, and will by no means cast you out.