Why Everyone Needs Jesus

 I like hearing testimonies about how new believers come to Christ and how Christ is transforming them from the inside out.  However, I believe extreme cases testimonies from people who were previously addicted to drugs, criminals in prison may not encourage non-believers to come to Christ.

What do I mean by this?

Most people are law abiding citizens who consider themselves good. Some  give money to charity and volunteer their time to charity, and there are lots who follow various religions. If you think you are not perfect, but you strive to be a good person by doing the right thing, why would you need a Saviour?  It's the real sinners like criminals, abusers and drug addicts who need to be saved.  

That's why it took me ages to accept Jesus as my Saviour because I believed in God and considered myself very spiritual and was striving to be a better person and volunteered for various charities. I even studied the Bible and lived by Biblical principles.  

However, the Bible teaches "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3: 23)  In other words, if you have ever broken the Ten Commandments, you have sinned because God demands absolute perfection. I believe the only One who lived without breaking any of the commandments was Jesus Christ.  His purpose was to redeem all of humanity from their sins and reconcile us back with God.

Therefore, whether someone is a criminal (by society's standard); a good law abiding citizen; or whatever lifestyle, beliefs, philosophy or religion they are practising, they are still sinners and need to be saved.

Everyone needs a saviour.  

Everyone needs Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus, for saving me. ❤️

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Relevant Bible verses:

"You are indeed angry, for we have sinned— In these ways we continue; And we need to be saved. But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away."  Isaiah 64:5-6

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3: 16 

"Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." " John 14: 6

"As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.” Romans 3: 10-12

"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5: 8