Do you need some happy, joyful, good news today? Well, if you care to take less than three minutes of thinking time, read on.
Through one man, Adam (who is called the son of God in Luke 3:38 because he had neither father nor mother), came man’s subjection to mortality, sicknesses, physical death, and eternal death and misery in another world because he sinned. We are born in Adam. So also, it pleased God that through one man, Jesus, who became flesh of our flesh, who though he was the eternal and the only begotten Son of God, came the FREE gift of physical resurrection from death for those who believe in him and his power over death. (Hebrews 2:14) Anyone can become born again in Jesus.
As in Adam all, that were and are in him, became subject both to temporal death, and all the afflictions and miseries of this life, which are so many little deaths (Romans 8:36) and forerunners of natural death, or attendants upon it; and also to eternal death, which is the consequent of the guilt of sin (Romans 6:23). So in Jesus, that is, through the merits of his death, and through his resurrection, all that are in him, being chosen in him, given to him, and by faith implanted into him, are not only spiritually made alive, being passed from death unto life (1 John 3:14), but will also be raised from physical death unto eternal life.
The happy, joyful, good news is that you can live happily ever after eternally in paradise with someone who loves you and will continue to love you forever, Jesus.
