![]() ![]() Jesus was buried, and three days later, He was resurrected from the grave, overcoming the power of death and resolving the penalty of our sin. Jesus willingly sacrificed his life, spilling his blood through a brutal and gruesome death on a cross to pay for our sins and buy back our redemption to God. ![]() Through His death, there was hope for mankind. He was the ultimate and perfect sacrifice. He lived a perfect and sinless human life. His plan was to give us the gift of a holy, righteous, and perfect sacrifice that would once and for all pay for our sins – making our hearts once again clean. Because of His love for us, He created a way for restoration that would be absolute and that would free us from the weight of unsuccessfully trying to live a perfect life in our own power. Mankind worked hard and tried to keep all the religious rules required for living a perfect life, making sacrifices along the way to pay for continued sin, but it was not enough. The only hope for a sin-filled human race to be restored to a perfect God was to pay a price – to buy back our purity. Because of the darkness in our hearts, our relationship with a perfect God was severed, and the penalty was death and eternal separation from God. So, we sinned – we disobeyed the one and only command He gave us, and that disobedience made us impure. However, mankind was not satisfied – we wanted more. He wanted us to choose to reciprocate His love through obedience. He also loved us so much that He gave us a free will. ![]() God loved us so much that He gave us a perfect world to enjoy. Then, He created man and woman – not because He needed us, but because He wanted us. The world began when a loving, holy God spoke it into creation. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. That journey begins with an understanding of who God is and what He did for us.Īs for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. Our goal at Venture is for every person to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ that is real and growing. ![]()
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