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When I was in Junior High School we usually bought one copy of the local newspaper each day. Until the day that I won the County Spelling Bee! Aren't you impressed? Well, that day we got about twenty copies of the local newspaper. What was the difference? My name was in it this time.
Well, I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A WORD WITH YOU about MY NAME IN IT.
Actually that wasn't a unique phenomenon, getting all those newspapers, we're all like that. When our name is in something we're suddenly a whole lot more interested. It's that way with what may be the most important statement in all the Bible. Certainly one of the most quoted. Maybe you've seen that man at the national football league games in the end zone with that big sign that says John 3:16, may be the most important statement in the Bible. Here's what it says, "For God so loved the world so much that He gave His one only Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but will have Eternal Life." Those words are probably the most dramatic answer in all the world to any questions we have about how God feels about us. God loved the world so much that he gave, He proved it, He acted on it. His one and only Son, the most valuable thing you could give. Why? So we who deserve to die can live forever instead.
You say, "deserve to die?" Yeah, because Romans 6:23 in God's Book says "The wages of sin is death," that's what we get paid for running our own lives. We all build a wall between us and our Creator by taking our lives into our own hands - it's called sin. We wonder why there is never enough love . . . it's because of the sin wall, we can't get to the one who's got it. There never seems to be any meaningful reason to live. Why? Because the One who knows why we're here is on the other side of the wall and if we die with that wall there we're there forever, and that's Hell.
Eternal death, conscious separation and loneliness, away from God forever with no earth sedatives to still the pain. But God, the one we have wronged acted to get our death penalty paid with the life of His Son.
Now, about putting your name in it - John 3:16. When I leave a blank, put your name in it, "God loved so much that He gave His one and only Son so that if would believe in Him then will never die but will have Eternal Life." It says you have to believe in Him to have that happen. That's total trust. The kind that someone in a fire has in a fireman who comes to rescue him. This is awesome love, this gift of God's Son, was all for you but you have to reach out and take the gift.
Something happens dramatically when you walk up to the cross of Jesus and say two words, "For me. This is for me isn't it Jesus. Some of those sins you're dying for are mine." God's waiting right now to erase every sin you've ever done, from His Book, . . . to add your name to His Book of Life. The one He will check when your heart finally stops and you stand before Him. But, it all begins when you put your name in what Jesus did on the cross for you and you make The Savior your Savior. If you've never done that and today you sense Jesus knocking on the door of your heart, would you please let me know that. We'll give you an address and phone number at the end. I want to send you a booklet called "Steps To Peace With God," that will help you begin a relationship with Him.
When your name is in something it makes all the difference. Well, today may be your day to realize that what Jesus did was not just generic. It was specifically for you.
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© 1997 Ron Hutchcraft Ministries, Inc.
Last Update: 03/23/1997