The Best Gift of All

Sure! If you believe with all your heart (having faith) that Jesus died for you, and if you trust him to take care of your sin payment forever, he will forgive your sins and help you live in a way that pleases God right now. To ask Jesus to forgive your sins and come into your life, you can tell him in words like these (called a prayer):

“Dear God, I am sorry for all of the bad things that I have done. I do believe that Jesus died for me, and I want you to forgive my sins and help me to live the way that you want me to. I want to learn to please you with my life now and live with you in Heaven forever someday.”

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Can You Have This Gift?

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Best Gift of All

What is the best gift of all?

Is it getting the newest video game on Christmas

But the Bible also says that “everyone who believes in [Jesus] receives forgiveness of sins”

morning? Or getting the one toy that you’ve been

(Acts 10:43) and “whoever believes in him should

wanting all year? These things are great, but there’s

not perish but have eternal life” ( John 3:16). Since

an even better gift—and it’s one that none of us

you could never do enough good things to pay

could ever be able to pay for! Do you know what

the penalty for your sins, Jesus—God’s Son who

this gift is? I do, and I want to tell you about it.

never sinned—came to earth to pay the penalty for

The Best Gift Ever!

God sent his only Son, Jesus, to earth a long time

you! He was God’s perfect substitute who took the punishment of your sins. That way you don’t have to be punished for your sins—Jesus has already

ago to do something for us that no one else could

paid the penalty for you when he died on the cross.

do. God’s book, the Bible, says that “God shows

Three days later, he rose from the grave. Now he

his love for us in that while we were still sinners,

is alive in Heaven with God and you can join him

[Jesus] died for us” (Romans 5:8).

there someday.

Why would Jesus do that? Because it was the only way for you to become a member of God’s family.

All the bad things you have ever done separate you from God. The Bible

The Bible says that salvation—Jesus saving you from the punishment for your sins—is “not your own doing; it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8). This means that you can’t pay for it,

calls those things sins and says

and you can’t earn it. God is offering

that “the wages of sin is death”

it to you as a gift. It’s a costly gift,

(Romans 6:23)—that means

because it cost God his only Son. But

separation from God forever.

God offers it to you and me freely!

Can You Have This Gift?

Sure! If you believe with all your heart (having faith) that Jesus died for you, and if you trust him to take care of your sin payment forever, he will forgive your sins and help you live in a way that pleases God right now. To ask Jesus to forgive your sins and come into your life, you can tell him in words like these (called a prayer):

“Dear God, I am sorry for all of the bad things that I have done. I do believe that Jesus died for me, and I want you to forgive my sins and help me to live the way that you want me to. I want to learn to please you with my life now and live with you in Heaven forever someday.”

Good News Tracts The Best Gift of All Helps kids see that God’s gift of salvation through Jesus is far better than video games, toys, or any other gifts at Christmas.

Bible references: ESV. Package contains 25 tracts.

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