CHRISTMAS IS A TIME OF SALVATION!

You can live life at one of three levels. The SURVIVAL level, the SUCCESS level, or the highest level—the SIGNIFICANCE level. Significance comes from knowing God, knowing His purpose for your life, and then doing it. The two greatest days in a person's life are the day he was born and the day he finds out why he was born.

The first step to living a life of Significance is to receive Christ as your Savior. What would it take to convince you that you need to be saved? What would motivate you?

As your substitute, here is what Jesus did for you:

JESUS TOOK ALL OF YOUR SIN—PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE; AND HE MADE YOUR SIN HIS SIN.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV) God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Not only did He take your sin on Himself; He took your punishment, too.

HE WAS PUNISHED AND SUFFERED IN OUR PLACE.
Isaiah 53:5 (NIV) He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed.

So Jesus took our sin, and he took our punishment. He did it once and for all. There is nothing we need to do to add to it, and there is nothing we can do that will ever take it away either.

HIS PAYMENT IS FINAL AND COMPLETE.
Hebrews 9:28 ((NIV) So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him.

Through Christ’s death, the righteous demands of God have been met. He made a legal transaction in which Christ dealt with the sin problem for the human race.

The Bible says in, Ephesians 1:7-8 (NIV) In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

Lavish means to expend or give in great amounts—without limitation. God’s grace is a river of mercy that never runs dry. And there is no sin it will not cover. God’s grace washes your sin away, and it never stops flowing.

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