Lessons from John 3: New Life Through Jesus Christ

So let me ask you, Have you received new life through Jesus Christ? Have you been born from above?

Romans 10:9 says, “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

If you have already received this new life for yourself, who in your family or community or workplace needs to hear about how to have new life in Jesus Christ?

Once we are given new life in Christ, we are also given a new destiny.

Which leads us to the most quoted verse in the Bible. You read it at many sporting events, and most children in Sunday school have put it to memory.

It is this, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).

Eternal life is a gift from God. Because He loves people, God made away to save them from eternal death.

That way is through Jesus Christ, God’s one and only Son. God sent His beloved and unique (meaning there is no one like Him) Son to save the world.

God gave the best He had, His beloved Son, to pay the price for the sin of all who believe in Him.

And whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. This is God’s great gift to us! A Savior for our sins and security for an eternal destiny that we did nothing to deserve or earn. It is His free gift to all who will place their faith in Jesus Christ’s atoning work on the cross.

Yet those who choose to refuse His love gift will remain in their sin, condemned to die and be eternally separated from Him.

God’s purpose in sending Jesus to live on earth as a human being and to die at the hands of sinful men was to provide salvation. Whoever believes in Jesus as Savior is not condemned. That person is free from the penalty of sin and therefore will never have to suffer God’s wrath on sin.

Jesus paid the penalty of that sin on the cross. He suffered so that we could be reunited with the Father.

Jesus broke through the barrier of separation. He became the light of hope for any who will choose by faith to believe and receive His forgiveness.

Verse 19 says, “This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.” Everyone who hates the light will not come into the light (of God’s truth) for fear their deeds will be exposed.

Then verse 21 tells us, “But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may been seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

Belief in Jesus Christ not only provides new life but a new eternal destiny.

Terri Hamman

Faith & Fitness Coach