 | This is God's world. He made
it and is in charge of it. God has declared his Son, Jesus, to be Ruler over
his world and we know this because Jesus rose again from the dead. Jesus has
the right to run our lives.
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| Everyone is rebellious to the
fact that Jesus should run their lives. They may express this in open
hostility, or by passive indifference. In either case, the rebellion is
real.
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| God calls on us to stop
rebelling and to turn back and submit to Jesus as our rightful Ruler.
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| If a person will not submit to
Jesus but continues to rebel, in the end God will send that person to
eternal punishment,
because he or she has rejected God's appointed Ruler. |
| If a person does stop
rebelling and turns back to submit to Jesus as his or her Ruler, God
forgives that person and treats them as if they had never rebelled. He does
this because Jesus has already taken the punishment for their rebellion when
he himself died on the cross.
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| The Lord Jesus Christ will
return to this world as Ruler. He will raise the dead and judge the world in
righteousness. Those who have submitted to Jesus will be welcomed into a
life of eternal joy in fellowship with God. |
