God's Valentine to You

God” (Romans 6:23, John 1:12).

If you want to ask Christ to forgive you for your sins, you can tell him in words like these: God, I know I have sinned against you in many ways.

Thank you for sending your Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the penalty for my sins by dying on the cross for me.

I now ask him to be my Savior and to forgive me for all my sins. Amen.

—Jonathan McLeod

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name, he gave the right to become children of

God’s

Valentine TO YOU

Every Valentine’s Day millions of men and women give special gifts—flowers,

candy, even jewelry—to a spouse or sweetheart to

us. “When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten….He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:23-24).

us: he sent his Son to earth to die for us! “In this is

Christ died in our place, though we have all sinned against him.

love, not that we have loved God but that he loved

“He was crushed for our iniquities [sins]….All we

us and sent his Son to be the propitiation [payment]

like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every

for our sins” (1 John 4:10). Jesus is God’s “valentine”

one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him

to us. Has anyone else ever died for you? Has any-

the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:5-6).

one else’s death ever brought you what the death of

Christ died for us because he loves us.

express their love.

But God gave the supreme gift to prove his love for

Jesus gained for you?

Christ died willingly, though it meant enduring great humiliation and agony.

“God shows his love for us in that while we were

“Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a

that whoever believes in him should not perish but

sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened

have eternal life” (John 3:16).

not his mouth” (Isaiah 53:7).

still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).

“God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son,

He cares about you so much that he was willing to

For us death is an unavoidable destiny. But for Jesus

give his own Son so you could live with him forever

it was a choice. He became “obedient [to God] to the

in Heaven. “The wages of sin is death, but the free

point of death, even death on a cross” (Philippians

gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord….

2:8). Why did Jesus undergo such torment? It was for

To all who did receive him, who believed in his

name, he gave the right to become children of God” (Romans 6:23, John 1:12).

If you want to ask Christ to forgive you for your sins, you can tell him in words like these: God, I know I have sinned against you in many ways.

Thank you for sending your Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the penalty for my sins by dying on the cross for me. I now ask him to be my Savior and to forgive me for all my sins. Amen.

—Jonathan McLeod

God’s Valentine to You

Good News Tracts

Jesus, God’s “valentine” to the world, died for us because He loves us.

A clear salvation message.

Bible references: ESV. Package contains 25 tracts.

VALENTINE’S DAY