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Do you know God?
The second
statement is:
Should not perish but have eternal life.
However because
Adam and Eve sinned against God there was a rift in this
relationship. God cannot have relationship with sinful people
because He is a holy. He also must punish disobedience just as
any Father because He is just. Therefore there is a wall of
separation between us and God because of our own sin.
We can see it diagramed like this:
If you think
you have never been disobedient, let’s look at some of the 10
commandments:
Have you ever
lied? That makes you a liar
Have you ever
stolen anything even if it was something small? That makes you a
thief
Have you ever
looked at anyone with lust? Jesus said if you do then you have
committed adultery.
Have you ever
used the Lord’s name in vain? That makes us a blasphemer.
All these sins
have offended the holiness of God and we cannot have a
relationship with Him because of this. Furthermore His wrath is
also separating us because of the necessity of our disobedience
having to be paid for. Even if we sinned once we have still
offended the holiness of God and have to pay the penalty much in
the same way a criminal has to serve their sentence if caught
once…even if they only did one thing wrong and were really great
people. They still are sentenced to jail.
We see as a
result of our disobedience that we are separated from God and
our eventual destination is hell. There are many statements in
the Bible about hell being a real place. For a few pictures of
what hell is like click here or
here.
But He is a loving and kind God and wants to be in a
relationship with Him and to know Him and to enter heaven
eventually. John 17:3 says that eternal life is knowing the True
God and Jesus Christ.
To
know how God provided a way for us to know Him click
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