Salvation - Too Good to be True?

Have you ever heard someone say that if it sounds too good to be true it isn't possible for it to be true? Years ago I joined a group of people who believed hard work by helping people find a dream and then pursue the dream could create wealth. It seemed too good to be true. For most it was because most people cannot move past the experiences of the past in order to believe in themselves enough to actually do that.

This post was stirred in me by a comment made by Mark Warner in his Easter sermon at Vineyard Church in Overland Park, KS. 

Why don't most people believe the Good News message of Christ? I believe there are several reasons.
1. Churches have made the message unappealing by the rules they add to it. For example: "Jesus saves you but you must do this and that to secure your salvation." or "Jesus saves but you must keep the law to maintain your salvation."
2. Churches focus on beating sin out of your life. Quit smoking, quit drinking, quit dancing, quit cussing, and we will talk to you about salvation.
3. Churches do not use the Bible to explain the message of Jesus.

4. It is hard to believe that the Creator God would humble Himself in the form of a human and then die a gruesome death to cover our sins. And to qualify for this cover all we have to do is acknowledge and accept that He did that for us. By doing so He gives us His Holy Spirit so that we can accomplish some of the things that churches say we must do to have salvation. We will never be perfect as long as we are humans so we will always be in need of salvation but that is ok with God.

The first three are human caused the fourth is just too good to be true. It is just so unbelievable that God, the Creator, would do such a thing. Our human minds cannot accept that an all-powerful God would do such a thing. In our minds it just does not make sense. Since it does not make sense we see it as too good to be true.

In Isaiah 55: 8-9 God says this: "My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,' says the Lord. 'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts." 

There is only one way to describe why an all-powerful God would choose to do what He claims to have done through Jesus Christ. John 3: 16-18 "This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. 

It is just too good to be true that the Creator would be so in love with what it created and that all He demands is we accept that He did it in the first place. He only ask that we accept this and repent of our sins and He will help us to move forward away from those sins. It will be a life long process that He joins us in just because we accepted His Grace and Mercy.

It is just simply TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE but IT IS TRUE.