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Tell the Story of Jesus in 2 Minutes

Third Circle: The Good News—God's Plan to Save Us

The Third Circle explains how we can return to God and His original plan for our lives. Our sins have separated us from God, but He loves us and wants us to be reconciled to Him.

At the same time, however, He is also holy and righteous, and He cannot allow sin and evil in heaven. However, He made a plan because of His love for us. He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to die in our place so He wouldn't have to punish us. Jesus died on the Cross and paid the penalty for our sins with His blood.

How can this relationship between God and us be restored? We are to come to Jesus, repent of our rebellious and sinful ways, confess our sins, and ask Him to cleanse us with His blood. We must believe that Jesus is Lord and Saviour. We were supposed to die for our sins and rebellion, but Jesus paid the ransom by dying in our place.

Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12, BSB).

To all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God (John 1:12, BSB).

When we repent of our sins and believe that Jesus died for us, accept His sacrifice, and ask Him to be our Lord and Saviour, He reconciles us to the Father. Receiving forgiveness of sins is a gift. It is something that happens on a personal level — between me and God. We don't have to work for it because Jesus has already paid the price.

But the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23b, BSB).

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17, ESV).