Are you willing to receive (invite) Jesus into your heart to be your Lord (master) and Savior? Salvation is a GIFT that must be received [Isaiah 64:6; Romans 4:1-8; Titus 3:5]. Like any gift, it can either be accepted or rejected. John 1:12 promises, “Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.” There is nothing you can do to earn it. God offers you total forgiveness as a “gift.” Ephesians 2:8,9 says, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the GIFT of God — not by works , so that no one can boast.” [Emphasis mine.] This is what separates Christianity from virtually every major religion in the world. In almost all other religions, people are trying to work, or earn, their way to Heaven. In Christianity, God is reaching down to man in love, offering forgiveness through the death,
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