Born to Be Wild?
Colin Melbourne
© 01-08 Born-Again-Christian.info
It's not only 'Hell's Angels' who are rebels from birth. All of us were born wild. Almighty God says so. And only He can fix the problem.
Man is born to trouble, as surely as sparks fly upward Holy Bible, Job 5:7 NIV
The first word you uttered was probably, 'No!' as you refused solid food and cried for milk. When your parents asked you to do something, you got a kick inside by doing the opposite. Toys were left strewn around, school uniform worn deliberately untidily, and when older you experimented with those dangerous and exciting things grown-ups had forbidden. Because you were born to be wild.
It's human nature to break rules, and ignore our consciences. Sinning comes naturally, we find it easy to do wrong, and difficult to do right.
The reason is simple; You were born with sin as your 'default-setting'.
All of us are born with a sinful nature; under condemnation, wicked to the core, unrighteous, and separated from God, our Creator. Some people get angry at God, "Why did you make me like this?"
But He didn't make you like that, Adam and Eve are the ones to blame, not God. You inherited your nature from them after they had sinned by disobeying God's Word.
God made the first couple righteous, holy, and in fellowship with Him. But they chose to blow it big-time.
Just as through the disobedience of the one man (Adam) the many were made sinners. Rom. 5:19
God said, The soul who sins must die... The wages of sin is death. Eze. 18, Ro. 6:23
That is where death comes from; sin.
Just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned. Ro. 5:12
That is why you were born to be wild, rebellious to God's authority, and doomed to die.
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Here's Life, Real Life.
Our Creator is not a quitter, He didn't quit on us and wipe us out even though we were rebels and helplessly lost. And He's not given up on you. Parents, partners, and pals may ditch you, but Almighty God still wants to lift you up and give you a clean fresh new beginning.
It's what you need. Do you want that?
The Lord is a Redeemer, so He has made a way to redeem you from all the mess that sinful human nature has caused. It's called the New Covenant, or the New Deal.
Here it is in a nutshell.
Almighty God came Himself, dwelt on earth in a human body, lived a perfect sinless life keeping God's Law and Word flawlessly. His name is the Lord Jesus Christ. He went around showing us God's will by forgiving, healing and delivering everyone who came to Him in faith.
Finally, He took upon Himself the sin, sickness, infirmity and guilt of mankind, past, present and future, and died for us.
God's Son, God in the Flesh, died a sinner's death in your place, bearing your punishment.
Why?
So that whosoever believes in Him will have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Jn 3:16
Until you truly repent and believe in Christ, you are still condemned to perish in Hell for your sins. But the instant you genuinely repent and receive Christ Jesus as your God and Saviour, you receive a new nature, a righteous nature, the life of God, you become God's child.
You are no longer born to be wild, but Born Again as God's child.
Forgiven, washed of all sin to live under God's blessing with no condemnation.
What a deal!
Do you want it?
Are you ready to turn away from sin, and follow the Lord Jesus Christ?
If so you can be Born Again right where you sit.
Pray this Sinners Prayer to be Born Again
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