Every person needs a savior because every person is
a slave to sin and the law. All are slaves to the
law because all fail to keep the law perfectly. God
says, “There is none righteous, not even one”
(Romans 3:10). That means that no one meets all of
God’s standards or laws. He can say that because
“all have sinned and fall short of the glory of
God” (Romans 3:23). If a person sins, that person
breaks God’s law because “sin is lawlessness” (1
John 3:4) and “all unrighteousness is sin” (1 John
5:17). Even if a person keeps 99.9 percent of the
law, that person is still guilty because “whoever
keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point,
he has become guilty of all” (James 2:10). Every
person needs a savior because every person has
sinned.
People need a savior not only because they have sinned, but because every person is a sinner. Because of Adam’s sin every human has a sin nature and is doomed to die (Romans 5:12-19). Universal death is evidence that every person is a sinner. David says that he was conceived in sin (Psalm 51:5). Jeremiah describes the human heart as “more deceitful than all else and desperately sick” (17:9). Paul asserts that all people are “by nature children of wrath” (Ephesians 2:3). People need a savior, not just because they have sinned, but because their nature is sinful.
People need a savior because their sinfulness repulses God. Sin is a problem because it separates man from God. Sinners will “pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power” (2 Thessalonians 1:9). God is too holy (separate from sin) to even look at evil. He is “of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong” (Habakkuk 1:13). That is why the “cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars [will have] their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death” (Revelations 21:8). In fact, “nothing unclean and no one who practices abomination and lying” will enter into God’s presence (Revelations 21:27). People need a savior because their sinful nature separates them from God.
God’s provision of the Savior is good news because all men are sinners who deserve eternal punishment.
People need a savior not only because they have sinned, but because every person is a sinner. Because of Adam’s sin every human has a sin nature and is doomed to die (Romans 5:12-19). Universal death is evidence that every person is a sinner. David says that he was conceived in sin (Psalm 51:5). Jeremiah describes the human heart as “more deceitful than all else and desperately sick” (17:9). Paul asserts that all people are “by nature children of wrath” (Ephesians 2:3). People need a savior, not just because they have sinned, but because their nature is sinful.
People need a savior because their sinfulness repulses God. Sin is a problem because it separates man from God. Sinners will “pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power” (2 Thessalonians 1:9). God is too holy (separate from sin) to even look at evil. He is “of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong” (Habakkuk 1:13). That is why the “cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars [will have] their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death” (Revelations 21:8). In fact, “nothing unclean and no one who practices abomination and lying” will enter into God’s presence (Revelations 21:27). People need a savior because their sinful nature separates them from God.
God’s provision of the Savior is good news because all men are sinners who deserve eternal punishment.