America is a place of change. Many people move to distant places for a change of job or climate. Others make personal changes such as getting married, getting divorced, or going for a new job or vocation. Some people change churches every few years or start attending church services.

Some of our changes are involuntary, including aging and death. Whatever changes occur in our lives, voluntary or involuntary, we have to relate everything to our time of living/being. We must face the questions of who am I and where am I going. I remember asking my freshman psychology teacher about adjusting to college and how better to understand my fears and uncertainties. He advised that I just be myself. I needed to accept myself or face myself.

Jesus told people to love their neighbor as [themselves] {"if you don't love yourself how can you love your neighbor?"}. This is one of two major commandments from God the Father. We must love one another. A change needs to be made about attitudes toward our brother/neighbor when we fail to feel and to show our concerns about his well-being. In my study in I John, here on this site, loving one another is a major emphasis in the Christian life. And, if we don't love our brother/neighbor, our Christian faith comes into question. John questions how can we love God whom we have not seen when we don't love our brother.

The great change which needs to come into a person's life is transformation of the inner person, "the who am I". The Bible shows who we each and all are. There we find we are created by God for a special purpose on earth: to populate the earth, to teach our children the law of God, and to live in peace and comfort together under God's rule in our conscious lives. Because of our fallen condition, sin comes more and more to enslave us. This is because our hearts are being driven by the darkness of evil lusts in our carnal and worldly minds.

The problems are so great that simply changing our looks, our location, our spouse, our church or club, or our physician won't bring true lasting change. Only the transformation brought by the Holy Spirit to our total life can bring real newness and fresh living with solid hope for the future (see II Cor. 5:17).

When I think of this passage in II Cor. I understand the need for a total change of each person. We are body, soul and spirit. Paul spoke about the body in terms of fleshly limitations, what we see and observe with our senses. But when we are reconciled to God through Christ's death for our sins, we are given the Holy Spirit's presence, and then we see things as we have never seen them before. We are given the mind view of Christ our Lord. And the great love of God from God empowers us to live above/beyond fleshly/carnal/sensuous worldliness. "So if anyone [is] in Christ [he is] a new creation, the old things passed away, behold they have become new [kaina] from [kaninos], meaning new or recently made."

Such a change is a transformation from our old former self to our new self in Christ.

GOSPEL

Gospel Message One

The Greek word for Gospel is: "euaggelion" meaning good news. God specializes in the good news business. This is because God loves us. He cares for us.

Whoever you are, wherever you are, He loves you. He knows everything about you. All of your sin, weakness, sickness, trouble, He knows about it and cares.

Do you understand this at all? I tell you, Satan doesn't want you to know or to understand it. There, at your computer, reading this, or maybe someone copied this Gospel message and handed it to you, I tell you, please hear me, God loves you.

God is merciful and gracious. What you need, is to believe in what He has done for you, already in Christ Jesus and wants to do, now and forever, through Christ Jesus in your present and future life.

He wants and can change your life completely. First, He wants to cleanse you from your sin and sins, as he stands to forgive you of all your sin through Christ Jesus. You need to repent and turn from your sin to your new life in Christ Jesus. The Scriptures plainly teach that Jesus has died, not for His sin. No, not at all; He was without any failure or missing the mark of holiness and righteousness. No sin, whatsoever, was in Jesus. He fully, in perfect love "agape" did the will of God the Father. In that love Jesus died to fulfill judgment for sin, the sins of all who will believe upon Him as Savior and living, victorious Lord over Satan, death and Hell. ^And, Father God was well pleased with Him and raised Him, physically, from death, the tomb and the grave.

At this hour, this very moment, God is ready to hear your prayer-confession, before all others, of faith and trust in Jesus Christ, to SAVE YOU AS YOU ASK TO RECEIVE HIS FORGIVENESS in the name of His eternal Son Jesus Christ.

Right now just ask in prayer and simple words from your heart and lips: "LORD, JESUS SAVE ME."

You may review my Bible references called the "Roman Road" found in my website or email me requesting those Bible references.

ETERNAL LIFE

Jesus taught us to pray in the present moment to our heavenly Father ("pater" Gk.) who knows all about us and cares, and will open to us all of His heavenly blessings upon the earth, at this moment and forever (Mt. 6). ^ This is eternal life, abundant and endless. See my study on John and First John.