John 3:16-17 ” For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.”

To paraphrase this Scripture in the simplest of terms, “The Man upstairs came downstairs, so we wouldn’t have to live forever in the basement.” Or to put it another way, “God has what we need…and we desperately need what God has…but unless someone makes a Way for us, it will never happen.” In our fallen & corrupt state, we are separated from God by the abyss called sin. But by coming to earth, Jesus through His crucifixion, became the very keystone of God’s eternal plan to save His people. And so, by accepting this free gift called Salvation, we no longer have to live in the basement.