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Count the Cost

Scripture

  • Luke 14:25-33 – “Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.”
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Believe the Gospel

Scripture

  • John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
  • John 20:31 – “but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” 
  • Acts 16:31 – “And they said, ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.'”
  • Romans 10:9-10 – “because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.”
  • Hebrews 11:6 – “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”
  • John 6:35 – “Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”
  • John 20:29 – “Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
  • Genesis 15:6 – “And he (Abraham) believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.”
  • Romans 4:2-3 – “For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.'”
  • John 8:24 – “I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
  • John 11:25-26 – “Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?'”
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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?