The Freely Given Gift
Chaos everywhere... Financial crisis after crisis... Terrorist attacks and war, everywhere... Just read about a young man who had fought for our freedom in the US military only to be murdered in his own home... Why do these things happen? What's going on? And what can I do about it? Well these are great questions, but in order to answer them, we must first discover the root of these problems, and that is sin... When Eve ate the forbidden fruit, offered it to Adam, and he ate it as well, sin entered the blood stream of mankind; therefore, as descendants of Adam, we are born sinful creatures... Now that we have established that we are born sinful creatures, we must also establish a truth that directly connects sin and death... Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord... The wages of sin are death, that is the reason why there is so much terror, death, destruction, and mayhem... The sin of man has opened the doo...