1. GOD LOVES YOU! . . . .

HE MADE YOU!... He knows how you feel. He understands all your problems. He knows your background. He knows your name... and God loves you and wants you to have the best for your life.

EVERYTHING GOD DOES... He does out of love. His love is not just a good feeling about His universe, but an unselfish choice to will our highest good.

"HEREIN IS LOVE, NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT HE LOVED US, AND SENT HIS SON TO BE THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SIN (The way through which we could be forgiven... and come back to Him)" (1John 4:10).

2. SIN HAS COME BETWEEN YOU AND GOD! . . . .

SIN IS REALLY SELFISHNESS, a "me first" attitude of heart and life. It is denying God's right to be God in your life. It is breaking His laws and scorning His guidelines for happiness. It is putting yourself first above everyone else, living first of all to serve and please yourself instead of God, and refusing to treat all others according to their rightful place and value in the universe.

"AND THIS IS THE CONDEMNATION, THAT LIGHT IS COME INTO THE WORLD, AND MEN LOVED THE DARKNESS RATHER THAN THE LIGHT, BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL" (John 3:19).

"ALL HAVE SINNED, AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD" (Romans 3:23).

3. GOD HATES SIN BECAUSE IT COSTS SO MUCH . . . .

SIN IS THE CAUSE of all the heartache in the world. God didn't plan sin. He never plans unhappiness. He wants man to be happy and free. Sin is the reason there is pain, misery, and death in our land. Sin enslaves us to our feelings instead of allowing us to do what is right and reasonable. Sin makes us feel guilty and afraid and alone.

4. SIN IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE THING IN THE UNIVERSE! . .

IT COST GOD HIS ONLY SON... it cost JESUS CHIRST His life. God, who must be just, never can allow sin to go unpunished, or the universe would begin to collapse in evil. When God's infinitely important law of love for happiness is broken, the law-breaker must pay the penalty. A law without a penalty is only advice. The penalty must be as important as the law it is designed to protect. For such a terribly important law as God's law, made to direct and protect His intelligent, moral creatures, God set a penalty as high as possible... endless death, or separation forever from His universe and from all rights and privileges of living and growing in it through eternity. The soul that sins shall die, for the wages of sin is death.

THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH" (Romans 6:23).

5. YOU AS A SINNER DESERVE TO BE PUNISHED! . . . .

YOU KNOW THAT DEEP INSIDE. By rights, you should pay the penalty of your sin. You knew what was right, but you did not do it. You have made a mess of your life. If you are really honest, you know you have no excuses to make. Nothing you could say to God could possibly justify the choices you have made to please yourself.

"KNOWING THAT A MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW... FOR BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW SHALL NO MAN BE JUSTIFIED" (Galatians 2:16).

"IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT SINNED, WE MAKE HIM A LIAR, AND HIS WORD IS NOT IN US" (1 John 1:10).

HOWEVER . . . .

IN HIS GREAT LOVE AND WISDOM, GOD FOUND A WAY TO FORGIVE YOU... AND STILL BE JUST...
IF YOU ARE WILLING TO MEET...