A Fresh Start, With No Danger Of
Failure
2 Cor. 5:17
Are you in a mess? Have you made a mess of
your life? It may be that you have made such a mess of your life that you have
been thinking about ending it all. I know exactly what you are going through. I
have been there. I am not writing things I learned from a book. I am writing
what I have experienced. I know what it is to have made such a mess of your
life that you live in constant despair, disgust and anger because you have to
live with yourself. And I know the way out of the mess you have made. Are you
interested?
How would you like to start all over
again, to wipe the slate clean and begin anew? What would you give for such an
opportunity? If I could show you, upon the authority of God's own word, that it
is possible for a miserable sinner like yourself to have the past wiped away
and begin anew, would you be interested? Would you like to have all your sins
forgiven by God and forever forgotten? Would you like to have perfect and
unalterable acceptance with God forever? Would you like to be able to live in
the assured hope of eternal life? What would you give to be able to lie down at
night without fear, without a tormenting conscience, with peace before God?
These things are not a dream, but reality for all who are born of God.
This is what God declares in his Word -
"IF ANY MANY BE IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATURE: OLD THINGS ARE PASSED
AWAY; BEHOLD ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW!"
The only way out of the mess you are in is
Christ. And the only way you can get in Christ is by faith. You must trust your
worthless, sinful soul upon Christ. By his death upon the cross, Christ
satisfied the wrath of God and put away all the sins of his people forever. By
his obedience to God, as the Substitute for sinners, Christ brought in a
perfect, everlasting righteousness for God's elect. If you trust him, you are
one of his people, you are one of God's elect. Your faith is the evidence and
proof of it (Heb. 11:1). As soon as you trust the Son of God, you are in him by
a vital, indestructible union of faith. And being in him, you are a new
creature, created by God in Jesus Christ. All your old record of sin is blotted
out, and you have a new record before God of perfect righteousness. This I tell
you, upon the authority of God's Holy Word - Trust Christ and you shall be
saved forever!
Don Fortner