Australia is a country that has turned its back on God.  We like the beach, our leisure, our TV's and being our own people.  We swear and curse, drink beer and are proud of it, but the happiness we know is actually a smoke-shield hiding the truth about eternity...a place we must all eventually face.  The Bible is very clear that sin separates us from God and the end result is our eternal punishment.  The wages of sin are death in eternity, but we Aussies don't even really know what sin is anymore.  Simply put, sin is living to please ourselves with no regard for God. 

Despite all the fun we have we don't really have peace within deep down.  If we stopped to really think about it all...what is the purpose of our lives anyway?  That is definitely a hard question to answer truthfully.  If we don't consider God's ways we doom ourselves even if we are nice people.  The bible tells us that many nice people go to hell, and some horrible sinners who turned to God are in Heaven.

Now let me share the good news about the forgiveness of sins and the hope of eternal life offered to us all through Jesus.  The bible tells us that Jesus was God Himself who became a real person so that He could redeem us from our sins.  He lived a perfect life (which we couldn't possibly do) and died a death that we deserved to die.  Then He went to Hell in our place but miraculously raised Himself back to life again 3 days later.  Because He never sinned, but died in our place and took Hell in our place and lived a perfect life in our place.....Jesus offers His life and sacrifice as a stand in for us to pay for our short-fallings.  We can have forgiveness of sins, eternal life, peace with God all by only asking...because Jesus offers it to us as a free gift.  Let me lead in a prayer to receive this free gift from God.

Dear Heavenly Father, I realise my life is full of shortcomings and I cannot measure up, but I come and ask that because of Jesus I would be make clean.  Please forgive me, give me peace with God, give me eternal life and make me into a new person by your power.  Do this work in me now I pray.  Amen

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