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“God has come to You!” The promise of eternal life is a result of God coming to us rather than mankind trying to seek out and find God in some distant place. Since the beginning of time, God has loved each of us with an unconditional and everlasting love. His original intention was to have a strong and vibrant relationship with each of us. However, when Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden, their sin created a barrier between us and God. We became eternally separated from Him. Rather than allowing us to remain separated from Him, God set in motion a perfect plan for restoration-one driven by His unending love and mercy for us. The goal of His plan is to fully restore even the most intimate aspects of His relationship with mankind as it existed before Adam and Eve sinned. Over 2,000 years ago, God sent His Son to earth to remove the barrier caused by sin, and make salvation available to all. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." John 3:16-17 Through his death and resurrection, Jesus made full payment on our behalf for the penalty of sin, and removed the barrier between us and God. This forgiveness is available to all who simply receive Him as their Savior. But this was only the beginning. Before Jesus completed his time on earth to join His Father in Heaven, He described to His disciples another important element of God's broader plan to fully restore mankind to Himself: "In my Father's house (Heaven) are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." John 14:2-3 Not only did God send Jesus to remove the barrier of sin, but one day in the future Jesus will return to bring all believers "home" to be with Him forever.