Friday, January 15, 2010

Salvation

God made you.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.(Psalm 139:13-14, Isaiah 44:2, Jeremiah 1:5)

God sustains you.
Colossians 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.(Nehemiah 9:6, Psalm 36:6, Hebrews 1:3, II Peter 3:7)

God owns you.
Psalms 24:1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.(I Chronicles 29:11, Romans 14:8, Ezekiel 18:4, Deuteronomy 32:6, Exodus 19:5)

God judges you.
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:(Hebrews 10:30, Psalms 96:13, John 5:28-29, Matthew 10:26, Romans 14:10-12, Psalms 22:29)

Sin allows no good.
Romans 3:10-12 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.(Ecclesiastes 7:20, Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 7:18-24, Romans 3:23, James 2:10, Matthew 5:28, I John 3:15, I John 1:8-10, Proverbs 20:9, I Kings 8:46, Psalm 24:3-4, James 4:17, I John 5:17, Psalm 5:3-5)

Sin makes even your "righteous" acts filthy.
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.(Psalms 14:3, Psalms 53:2-3, Ezra 9:11, I John 3:4, Exodus 34:7, Job 10:14)

Sin has separated you from God.
Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.(John 9:31, Genesis 2:22-24, Proverbs 15:29, Micah 3:4, Proverbs 28:9, Psalms 66:18, Zechariah 7:12-13, Habakkuk 1:13)

Sin will send you to the lake of fire.
[Revelation 20:10-15] And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.(Revelation 21:8, Revelation 19:20, II Peter 2:4-6, II Thessalonians 1:8-9, Matthew 25:41, Matthew 13:40-42, Psalms 9:16-17, Psalms 11:6, II Peter 3:7, Mark 9:42-48)


God will judge you according to the Bible.
John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.(Romans 2:16, Hebrews 12:25)

BUT...
God loves you.
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.(I John 3:16, I John 3:1, John 16:27, Ephesians 2:4)

Jesus shed his blood for your sin.
Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.(Ephesians 1:7, Colossians 1:14,20, Romans 5:9, Isaiah 53:4-10, Revelation 1:5)

Jesus shed his blood to meet God's requirement.
Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.(Hebrews 9:7, Leviticus 17:11, Genesis 3:21, Exodus 12:13)

Jesus made a perfect sacrifice to redeem you.
Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.(Hebrews 10:10, Romans 5:10, II Corinthians 5:18, I Peter 2:25, Hebrews 9:24-28, II Corinthians 5:14-15, I Peter 3:18, Romans 6:10, I John 4:9-10, I John 2:2, I John 3:5, Romans 3:25, Galatians 3:13, Titus 2:4)

Jesus will make you perfect forever.
Hebrews 10:12, 14 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.(Colossians 1:20-22, II Corinthians 5:21, Romans 4:5-8, Romans 6:6-8, Romans 8:1-2, John 5:24, John 11:25-26, II Corinthians 5:19, Colossians 3:3, Hebrews 10:17-18, Psalms 32:1-2, Psalms 103:12, Jeremiah 31:34, I Peter 2:24)

Jesus is your only way to heaven.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.(Acts 4:12, John 10:1,7-9, Galatians 1:8-9, Mark 8:36-37, Romans 3:19-20, Titus 3:5, II Timothy 1:9, Acts 8:20, Hebrews 2:3, John 3:17, Acts 16:30-31, Ephesians 2:8-9)

Jesus is God's gift.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.(II Corinthians 9:15, John 4:10, I John 5:11, Romans 8:32, Romans 5:15, Romans 3:24)

You must receive Jesus.
John 1:12, 13 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.(Galatians 4:6, Matthew 7:7-8, Luke 11:9-10, Revelation 3:20, John 14:16,17,20)

You must be born again.
[John 3:1-7] Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.(I Peter 1:23, Matthew 18:3, I Corinthians 2:14, Romans 8:8, John 6:63, I Corinthians 1:29, Hebrews 2:9, Ephesians 2:5, I John 5:4-5, I John 3:9, I John 2:29)

You must believe the gospel.
[1 Corinthians 15:1-4] ...I declare unto you the gospel...By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain...Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:(Hebrews 11:6, John 3:18, John 3:36, Romans 3:27-28, Romans 9:30-33, John 3:16, John 20:31, Acts 10:43)


You must believe Jesus is God.
John 8:24, 58 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.(Exodus 3:14, John 5:23, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 43:11, Acts 13:23, I John 4:14, I Timothy 4:10, Luke 2:11, I Timothy 1:1, I Timothy 2:3, John 10:30-33, John 14:7-9, Isaiah 7:14, Micah 5:2, Matthew 1:23, Matthew 4:8-10, Matthew 9:18-19, Revelation 22:8-9, Psalms 50:6, Psalms 9:7-8, John 5:22, Romans 14:10-12, I John 5:7, Colossians 2:9, Colossians 1:16, John 1:1-3, Isaiah 44:24, I John 3:16, Acts 20:28, I Timothy 3:16, John 1:14, John 1:10)

You must repent.
Luke 13:3, 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.(Acts 17:30, Acts 3:19, Mark 1:15, Luke 24:47, Luke 15:7, II Corinthians 7:9-10, Job 33:27-28, II Peter 3:9)

You must confess.
Romans 10:9-10 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.(Matthew 10:32-33, Luke 12:8-9, Philippians 2:11-13, I John 4:2-3, I John 4:15, II John 7, John 12:42-43)

You must call on the Lord to be saved.
Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.(Acts 2:21, I Corinthinas 1:2, Psalms 55:16)

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