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| The following is certainly the most important message |
| you will ever hear in your life, "The Gospel of Jesus |
| Christ". It's the reason He died on the cross and rose |
| again. The word "Gospel" means "good news". The bad |
| news is that our race has been condemned to hell for its |
| rebellion against God. The good news is: |
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"THE GOSPEL (GOOD NEWS) OF JESUS CHRIST"
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| THE PROBLEM |
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The Lord God created man to glorify Himself and to have
fellowship with Him forever, but because of the sin of Adam in
Eden, the first man and his posterity became by nature, sinners
against God. The power of sin has rendered us dead in terms of
our ability to fulfill this primary purpose. We are a lawless
people having failed the test of His Ten Commandments. The Lord
did not give us the Ten Commandments as a way back to Him, but as
an opportunity for our sin nature to operate, that we might
conclude along with Him that we are lost and helpless, bound by
the shackles of sin. (see GALATIANS 3:19-25, ROMANS 3:19-31)
ROMANS 3:10 "There is no one righteous, not even one;"
ROMANS 3:23 "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of
God"
ROMANS 5:12 "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one
man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all
men, because all sinned."
ISAIAH 53:6 "We all, like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has
turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity
of us all."
JEREMIAH 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things and
beyond cure. Who can understand it?
1 JOHN 1:8 "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves
and the truth is not in us."
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| THE RESULT |
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The Bible, God's Word to us, teaches us that the result of
sin is spiritual, physical, and finally eternal death in the lake
of fire. A dead person lacks the power to regain life. We could
not prevent our dying, neither can we through our own efforts
resurrect our selves back to life.
ROMANS 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death."
EZEKIEL 18:4b "The soul who sins is the one who will die."
JAMES 1:15 "Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to
sin; and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death."
EPHESIANS 2:1 "As for you, you were dead in your transgressions
and sins."
If we continue on this course, the final result is eternal
death -- conscious torment forever in the lake of fire.
MATTHEW 10:28 "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but
cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can
destroy both soul and body in Hell."
MATTHEW 13:41-42 "The Son of Man will send out His angels, and
they will weed out of His kingdom everything that causes sin and
all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
REVELATION 20:14b "The lake of fire is the second death. If
anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was
thrown into the lake of fire."
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| THE REMEDY |
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In Acts chapter sixteen, the apostle Paul and Silas were
asked of their jailer at Philippi, "What must I do to be saved?"
If you believe the foregoing scriptures concerning your position
before God, then your response must be the same. If we are lost
in sin and headed for eternal death with no hope of saving
ourselves, how then can we be saved?
God loves you so much that He placed your sin upon His Son
Jesus Christ, Who suffered the eternal penalty as he gave His
life being crucified on the Cross. You can appropriate this
"gift" to your life by exercising simple faith, that is, YOU MUST
CLAIM BY PERSONAL CHOICE TO RELY EXCLUSIVELY UPON CHRIST'S
FINISHED WORK ON THE CROSS TO BE SUFFICIENT PAYMENT FOR YOUR
SINS. Paul's answer to the Philippian jailer was, "Believe in
the Lord Jesus and you will be saved -- you and your household"
ACTS 16:31
ROMANS 10:9 "...That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is
Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the
dead, you will be saved."
ROMANS 4:5 "However, to the man who does not work, but trusts
God Who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as
righteousness."
ROMANS 8:1 "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those
who are in Christ Jesus."
JOHN 3:16 "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."
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| NEW LIFE |
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If you have believed these scriptural truths, you have been
born again into a new life. As your first act of obedience to
your new Lord, you must be baptized or immersed. In 1 Peter
3:21, the apostle told us that baptism is not the cleansing away
of sin, but the answer of a good conscience toward God. If you
were baptized as an infant, you did not have this good conscience
which results from the righteous new nature you now possess.
All you got from your infant baptism was -- wet! If you cannot
find a biblical assembly in your area where you can be baptized,
feel free to call us and we'll try to arrange it for you!
At this point there is little sensitivity to this new birth,
in the same way that you have no memory of your physical birth.
You need to grow from spiritual infancy to adulthood. Salvation
is eternal. You did nothing to earn it, you can do nothing to
hold on to it, and as Paul taught in the last half of ROMANS
chapter eight, you can never lose it!
As Christ's death removed the penalty of death, His
resurrection provides you with the power of a new life, the seed
of which has been planted in all those who are born of Him. In
addition, the Lord has come to live within you to energize this
new creation inside of you. (See ROMANS 6:4-11, 1 CORINTHIANS
2:9-16, EPHESIANS 1:13-14, 3:16-21, 2 CORINTHIANS 3:17-18.)
As a spiritual infant, you need food upon which to grow in
the Lord. Your sustenance is to be found in the Word of God, the
Bible.
1 PETER 2:2 "Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so
that by it you may grow up in your salvation."
2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17 "All Scripture is God-breathed, and is useful
for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good
work."
JOHN 12:48 "There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does
not accept my words; that very Word which I spoke will condemn
him at the last day."
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| A PLACE TO GROW |
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