The first step in your journey is to fully understand the bad news. 
THE BAD NEWS:
The bad news comes in three parts:

​1. We are all the same to God.....SINNERS
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Everyone is On the same level when it comes to sin. For “ALL” of us have come short of gaining Heaven and everyone needs a savior.  More details Romans 3: 10-18

2. The Wages Of Sin......is Death
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 
The punishment that we have earned for being born into sin is a spiritual death. It is a total separated from God into eternal punishment in hell after you die. 
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​3. No one is good enough:
Romans 3:10 as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.
No one is “good enough on their own” to get to Heaven. It is impossible for a mere human to satisfy the demands of a perfect God. To gain entrance into heaven you must appease the wrath of God, make a payment for the wages of sin, and be righteous in the sight of God by the removal of all sin. Which is only accomplished through Jesus. 
Even our good works or “righteousness” is as filthy rags to God. Isaiah 64:6

​THE GOOD NEWS:
The good news comes in three parts, countering the bad news:
Keep in mind what God says in His word and God cannot lie, he has to keep and fulfill what He says!

1. Accepting the Free Gift of Eternal Life:
Ephesians 2:8–9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. Romans 6:23 but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
2. By Confessing Our Sins We are Forgiven:
Romans 10:9–10 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
3. Believe in your heart by faith that Jesus died for your sins:
Romans 10:13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
John 3:36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life, and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

The Good News is only Jesus can appease the wrath of God, live a perfect life in payment for the wages of your sins, and only Jesus can take away your sins and replace it with His righteousness.
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​I must ask you four questions to see if you understood the BAD/GOOD NEWS
* Do you believe you are a sinner?
* Do you believe your sin is bad enough to send you to Hell? (This is why you need a Savior)
* Do you believe Christ is God and that He came to this earth 2000 years ago to die for your sins, be buried, and rise again?
​* Now that you understand the Gospel, if you meant it in your heart and you asked Christ to save you, do you think that He would? He said He would!!! Now go to Sinners Prayer down below to be saved and have your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life !!!

The Holy Bible, New King James Version
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The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982).

PRAY THE SINNER'S PRAYER:

“Dear Jesus, I know that I am a sinner and deserve to be condemned to Hell. I ask you to forgive me, for every one of my sins. Lord Jesus, I ask you to give me a new heart, a new spirit, and cause me to walk in your truth. I turn my life over to you! Lead and guide me from this day forward. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen.”

There will be a definite change in your life! Ezekiel 36:26–27 "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.”
1. You will have a desire to read, pray, and follow after Jesus.
2. You will feel convicted or regret for sins committed.
3. Spiritual warfare from the evil one will attack your mind and will try to pull you back into your old habits of sin.
Congratulations you are now a child of God, a son or daughter of The King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Welcome into the family of God, all of heaven is rejoicing at your decision to give your heart to him!

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SALVATION IS A GIFT FROM GOD

To simplify the Gospel or good news is found in Ephesians 2:8–9 "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.”
 
A person trying to connect to God must first be made aware of how bad sin is to God, to be sorry for sins committed, and to repent by faith in alone, in grace alone, through Christ alone so you can be spiritually born again.

To bring conviction, remorse, and repentance into your life you must first understand the bad news of rejecting Christ as Lord and Savior.

From "THE STRAND STUDY BIBLE" used with permission 2017