The Total Solution
What is the Total Solution?
Our name says more than what we do on a jobsite. We believe every person's deepest problem has one complete answer, and it isn't a company. It's Jesus Christ. The gospel isn't advice about what you should do. It's good news about what God has done, and here it is in four chapters.
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Chapter 1
The Ruler
Who God is, and what he made us for.
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God
Before anything else, there was God.
The Bible begins with God. Before there was anything else, there was him. He has no beginning and no end, and he needs nothing. He made everything, he holds everything together, and he rules over all of it.
He is the King over all things, perfectly holy and perfectly just. And he is love: one God in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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Creation
He made us, and he made us for himself.
God made the heavens and the earth and everything in them. He made people in his own image, by him and for him: to know him, to love him, and to find our deepest joy in him above everything else.
That is the life we were made for. But if we’re honest, it isn’t the life we live.
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Chapter 2
The Revolt
What went wrong, and why it matters.
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Sin
We turned against the God who made us.
The first people, Adam and Eve, rejected God’s rule and chose their own way, and their rebellion fractured everything. Every one of us has followed them.
Sin is more than breaking rules. It’s a betrayal of God himself: loving his gifts more than the Giver. Our sin hurts other people, but first and most deeply it is against God. David, “a man after [God’s] own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14), knew it. After his adultery and murder he prayed, “Against you, you only, have I sinned” (Psalm 51:3–4; see also Genesis 39:9; Luke 15:21). We don’t become sinners by sinning; we sin because we are sinners.
Our sin separates us from a holy God, and after death comes judgment (Hebrews 9:27). Scripture asks, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31). Our problem is the reverse: in our sin, God is against us. Left to ourselves, we are dead in our sins and by nature under his wrath (Ephesians 2:1–3), and no amount of good work can make us right with him.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:23 ESV But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Isaiah 59:2 ESV
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Chapter 3
The Rescue
What God has done about it.
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Hope of Redemption
But God didn’t leave us there.
That is where the story would end, except for two words: “But God.” God is rich in mercy, and he set out to rescue the very people who had turned against him.
From the first pages of Scripture he promised a rescuer, and across the Old Testament the promise grew clearer: a King from David’s line, a final sacrifice for sin, and a Servant who would carry the sins of his people.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
Ephesians 2:4–5 ESV -
Jesus
God came to us himself.
Jesus, the eternal Son of God, became a man: fully God and fully human. He shared our flesh and blood so that through his death he could destroy the devil and free those who were slaves all their lives to the fear of death (Hebrews 2:14–15).
He lived the life of perfect obedience that we have not lived. He never had a sin to confess. And he obeyed his Father all the way to the cross.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
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The Cross
He took our place.
Jesus went to the cross willingly. There the one who kept God’s law perfectly died for those who broke it, and God poured out on his perfect Son the punishment our sin deserves.
And he did more than cancel our debt. Our sin was laid on him, and his perfect righteousness is counted to everyone who believes in him (Romans 4:23–25).
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 ESV For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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Resurrection
Death could not hold him.
Jesus was buried in a tomb that was sealed and guarded (Matthew 27:65–66). On the third day, God raised him from the dead (Acts 3:15). If the cross paid for our sin, the empty tomb is God’s declaration that the payment was accepted: he was “raised for our justification” (Romans 4:25).
Jesus is alive, and he is coming back to judge the world and restore it. Our hope isn’t escaping to the clouds. It’s new heavens and a new earth, where God dwells with his people and wipes away every tear (Isaiah 65:17; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1–4).
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
Acts 2:24 ESV
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Chapter 4
The Response
What God asks of you.
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Turn from your sin, and trust Jesus.
Being made right with God isn’t a transaction. It’s a personal union with Jesus himself, more like a marriage than a business deal. Salvation is a gift: “by grace you have been saved” (Ephesians 2:5). No one is saved by being baptized, going to church, or saying the right words.
Jesus is the only way to the Father. God calls every one of us to turn from our sin and to trust Jesus alone, who died for our sins and rose again.
I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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Turn
Repent: turn from your sin and from living for yourself, and turn to God.
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Trust
Believe that Jesus died for your sins and rose again, and rely on him alone, not your own goodness, to make you right with God.
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Treasure
Receive Jesus as your Lord, your Savior, and your greatest treasure, not just a way out of judgment. Eternal life is knowing him (John 17:3).
Those who trust Jesus follow him: they're baptized, join a church that teaches the Bible, read God's word, and pray. None of that earns salvation. It's what new life in Christ looks like.
Words don't save you; Jesus does. But if you're ready to turn to him, you can tell him so in your own words, or like this:
God, I know I have sinned against you, and I can’t make it right on my own. I believe Jesus died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sin and put my trust in him alone. Forgive me, make me new, and help me follow Jesus as my Lord and love him above all. Amen.
Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
2 Corinthians 6:2 ESV If you've put your trust in Christ, or you have questions, we'd be glad to talk with you and help you find a good church. A good place to start reading is the Gospel of John.
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Our foundation
Every building rests on what lies underneath it.
We build for a living, so we know: what’s underneath decides whether a building stands. Jesus is the one foundation that never fails. He is the Total Solution.
Back to About usThis page follows the four chapters of “The Gospel Explained” by Matt Smethurst, at The Gospel Coalition. Read the article
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