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Christ saves from sin and death

Beloved of God, Jesus did not come to tell bad people to "stop sinning and be good, or else...." He came to raise the dead (in sins) to life in Himself. He knows that sin is man's default mode and that all of us would be sinning copiously but for God's mercy by which we are not consumed by horrid sins and Job-type calamities, even though many boast in their strength to stand, like Peter before his denials expressed to him man's true nature. Those same sins and addictions that you struggle with which antichrist church leaders hang over your head as why you cannot dine with Christ on God's freely-given health, provision, protection and in general, eternal life in Christ Jesus, God so loved you and I that He gave His own Son to die that we might live His kind of life: eternal life which begins here on earth. Christ gave His life to free us from every kind of sin and much more-- "He gave His life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make ...

"Come, see a Man..."

At the well of Jacob, where man would have seen a promiscuous woman who was just hopping from one man to another in a fit of greed for money or supply of her wants, Christ saw a woman who was thirsty for love and contentment but was looking in all the wrong places. Only He can give love and contentment. Christ did not whack her with more laws telling her that what she was doing was wrong and how she would perish for her sins, which she already knew. We know that this Samaritan woman who had had five husbands and was currently living in adultery with a sixth went to the well at noon. How? John 4 tells us what time our Saviour went there specifically for her-- 3 "He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria. 5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth ...