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Act Now – Today is the Day of Salvation

Scripture

  • 2 Corinthians 6:1-2 – “Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, ‘In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.’ Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”

Statements

  • Just as you are – go to Christ!
  • Don’t wait! Don’t delay!

Quotes

  • Steve Lawson said, “The devil owns tomorrow. The devil owns the fence.”
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Salvation For All Who Believe

Questions

  • What did God do for guilty sinners? Do you have any idea?
  • Has God done such a work in your life that the sin you once loved, you now hate and love the righteousness you once ignored?

Scripture

  • Romans 1:16-17 – “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
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Rejecting Christ

Statements

  • If you reject Christ, you reject the Father. If you mock Jesus, you have the not only him to deal with on judgment day but the father also.
  • If you make light of Christ and reject him or mock him, you do this to the only one who can save you from hell!
  • If you reject Jesus, one day He will reject you.
  • For Christians, this life, with all its exposure to sin and unrighteousness, is the closest thing to hell that we will ever experience. For non-Christians this is the closest thing to heaven that they will experience. It will not be a party in hell. All goodness and grace and mercy will be gone.

Quotes

  • Matthew Henry said, “To the wicked man, death is the end of all joys; to a godly man, it is the end of all griefs.”
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Sin

Statements

  • Sir/ma’am do you know that you’ve sinned against God?
  • We are sinners living in a sin-cursed world – but a new day is coming!
  • Come to God – this coming implies a leaving of something else – sin and self righteousness and idols; but come the right way – through Jesus Christ alone – and no other way
  • Mankind is separated from God because of sin
  • One sin cast the devil out of heaven. One sin cast Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. One sin will cast you from the presence of God, too.

Quotes

  • Jonty Rhodes – “Men (and women too) are pulled away to sin through three main areas: ‘Guns, Gold and Girls.'” – playing off of the 1 John 2:16 (see scripture below).

Scripture

  • 1 John 2:16 – “For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.”
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God Knows Your Heart

Scripture

Matthew 5:8 – “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 – “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.“

Proverbs 21:2 – “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.”

John 2:25 – “And needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.”

Hebrews 4:12 – “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”

Jeremiah 17:9-10 – “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

1 Samuel 16:7 – “But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.'”

Revelation 2:23b – “And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.”

Psalm 51:10 – “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.”

Acts 15:8 – “And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,”

Proverbs 3:5 – “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.”

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Final Judgement

Scripture

  • Hebrews 9:27-28 – “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.”
  • 2 Peter 2:4-10 – “For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.”

Quotes

  • Paul Washer says, “God does not throw sin into hell. He throws sinners into hell. And hell is not hell because God is not there. Hell is hell because God is there in the fullness of His wrath. This is the God of the scripture.”
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Evil Words

  • Matthew 12:34 – “You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”
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Evil

  • The time is ___(announce time)___. If God got rid of all evil in the world at __(one minute later)____, where would you be?
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Righteousness

Scripture

  • Romans 3:9-12 – “What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”

Quotes

  • Alien Righteousness
    Martin Luther wrote, “There are two kinds of Christian righteousness, just as man’s sin is of two kinds.  The first is alien righteousness, that is the righteousness of another, instilled from without.  This is the righteousness of Christ by which he justifies though faith, as it is written in 1 Corinthians 1:30:  “whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.”