Intuitively, every human being senses that something is wrong. We all know that something is missing from our lives. It’s like there is this crazy missing piece to life’s puzzle that we just can’t find.

People try to fill that inner void with many different things. Some abuse drugs and alcohol, trying to fill the empty place in their hearts. Others run from woman to woman, or from man to man, trying to fill that void with human relationships. Some turn to religious ritual, while others try to find peace through excelling in business or by accumulating more possessions.

But all of those things are a dead end because the void we feel is a God-shaped hole in our hearts. It’s a hole that can only be filled through a personal relationship with God Himself.

Our need was too great, our situation too deep and desperate, and our spiritual state of such a nature that we could not rescue ourselves. We were put in this dilemma not only because of Adam’s transgression in the garden of Eden, but because we are all guilty of sin as well.

In the book of Romans, the apostle Paul makes it clear that the whole world stands guilty before God, for all have sinned.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God… for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God….
(Rom. 3:19, 23)

God had to act on our behalf because we were helpless… unable to rescue ourselves from the death sentence of sin.

God’s Remedy
This is where the Good News comes in. When we could not rescue ourselves, God came to rescue us. When we could not reach up to God, He reached down to us. When we could not redeem ourselves, He paid the price to redeem us. And to accomplish that, He did something so amazing the heart can scarcely take it in:

He sent His own Son to take our place and to bear the death penalty for our sins.

In Romans 6:23 we are told the “wages of sin is death,” and there was no way that a pure and holy God could come together with sinful people unless somehow the sin problem was dealt with. God’s righteous nature would not allow Him to overlook our sin… but His love nature would not allow Him to overlook us.

So He sent His Son, Jesus, to die in our place; the innocent for the guilty, the pure for the impure, the holy for the unholy. Jesus willingly died as our substitute. He was arrested, put through a mock trial, beaten without mercy, and nailed to a cross as the sacrifice to pay the penalty for our sins.

Our world is in desperate need of this Good News! With all the uncertainty that surrounds so many, they are anxiously looking for that missing piece to the puzzle. Men and women all over the world know they are in bondage and long to set their spirit free.

You and I have the answer. We have the Good News of the Gospel. And it’s through your prayers and your gifts—that we are able to take this amazing news of our living Savior to a lost and dying world. Thank you for joining me in the greatest of all causes!

Questions and Answers with Bayless
Some people believe that you need to earn your way to heaven and others believe that God will ultimately save everyone (regardless of what they do or do not do) because of His great love. What does the Bible say?
The Bible tells us that there’s nothing you can do to earn your way back into favor with God. He’s paid the price through His Son. The only thing God asks you to do is to believe… to trust that the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ has broken the bonds of death and separation from God. As Paul says in Romans 10:9, “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.” It’s only faith in Jesus that will save you, and when you place your faith in Him, then you are saved!