What is the solution to the Fall?
God’s Story, from Genesis 3:15 on, speaks of our gracious God passionately pursuing His people.
At the center
of God’s Story stands the unique
figure Who identified Himself as The Way, The Truth and The Life. The
person was Jesus the Christ, the perfect God-man. Our sin against
God that separates us from Him and each other was so serious that God,
because of His love for us and His world, sent His Son to this world to
live a sinless life on our behalf. Jesus lived the life that we could
not live. Jesus also came to die on the cross to pay the penalty
for our sin. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians that the geatest act
of grace ever known took place through the Person and Work of Jesus the
Christ. This act was Jesus’ death and resurrection where He
took on our sin and gave us His righteousness if we would entrust ourselves
to the truthfulness of His Story and embrace His reign. You see,
God wanted to redeem us in order that we would honor Him through living
rightly in relationship with Him as He intended in the goodness of His
creation. In Jesus, God was renewing all things for His honor and
desires for us to represent His reign in this world right now by living
lives and making decisions that reflect God’s good intention or His
creation. We cannot earn God’s salvation. We cannot earn
the gift of His reign. The Bible says that we may receive this salvation
as a gift received by God’s grace alone through faith in Who Jesus
is and What He has done. In receiving the gift of God’s reign,
we also commit to submit to His reign and continue to learn how He wishes
for us to live in His world.