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Introduction…most important part of life
The “all-in” type of believing
What you mixed-in
Believe the eyewitness witness
Keep the Gospel Pure
They have changed their religion
There is no other saving Gospel
Gods Exact Expectations
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses
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Introduction …about salvation
Explaining Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses
The most important part of life on earth, bar none, is: be ready to join Jesus in the next. To join Jesus there, the Bible says, we must get there according to the instructions He made for us. We cannot make-up our own.
He made Heaven. He made the Entrance. He is the Keeper of the Gate. He has told us how to get there.
His Way is sure. There is no point in following anyone else! What do they know? Jesus knows it all!
God has made an “If – Then” Promise. The Bible shows us He is unquestionably trustable.
Getting saved is fast and easy: Humbly confess with Him in prayer, repent of your sins, and ask Him to save you. Jesus saves sinners like me and you. He is gracious beyond words.
John the disciple of Jesus, makes an extremely impacting point about salvation:
These things I have written
to you who believe
in the name of the Son of God
[which represents
all that Jesus Christ is and does],
so that you will know
[with settled and absolute knowledge]
that you [already] have eternal life.
– 1 John 5:13 Amplified version
To join Jesus or: to get saved, the Bible asks that we believe in Him. Makes sense.
From this verse, we learn that “believing” is not an “Oh hum, oh yes, that’s good. I know”…response. The Devil did that – and he is damned all to Hell!
* In the post titled What saves you,
read this section for clarity: What saves forever——–
The “all-in” type of believing
Salvation requires a special type of “believing”. No ordinary believing will do. Believing for salvation, in the biblical sense, is accepting Him. Accepting “all that Jesus Christ is and does“…not just bits and pieces of what we expecially like.
Believing in Jeuss means – “being all in with all that you are” Source: Promises God makes about your salvation.
Are you all in for Jesus?
It’s all or nothing
Whew! I sure would hate to be all in for Hell where nothing good exists!
Jesus gave us specific parameters: To be saved we absolutely must give our all to follow all of what Jesus taught. It is not a matter of being perfect, all righteous. It is a matter of the heart. Giving Him all of it.
Accept all of Jesus
with all of what you are
– and you will be saved
What you mixed-in
Following a recipe, what do you get if you leave-out something? Well, you certainly don’t get a Tri-tip roast for dinner… if you put in a pork loin! The recipe was wrong.
The eternal stakes are higher for salvation, but the same principle applies. Many folk seem to be more exacting with their cooking – than with what they have mixed into their faith.
Believe the eyewitness witness
John was an original eyewitness witness and was with Jesus as one of His twelve disciple for all the three years of Jesus’ ministry. And so were the other New Testament writers.
John got it. John got the message of Jesus – straight from Jesus! He was right there! And so were the others.
The apostles and disciples saw Jesus right there in the flesh. We must be on-guard to reject apostate teachings and reject where false teachings come from.
Today’s apostate leaders never saw Jesus – so don’t put their words above the Bible, as they do, as if their words are more important than the early church writers who did see Jesus. 1
Keep the Gospel Pure
It is paramount that Christians keep their Christian beliefs Gospel pure. If we add traditions of man, and supposed new revelations, plus words of angels, or popular beliefs of the world… then we’ve left the fold! Test for what may have been changed, what came from puny mere humans.
1 Thessalonians 2:13…“not as the word of [mere] men“
“And we also thank God continually for this, that when you received the word of God [concerning salvation] which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of [mere] men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is effectually at work in you who believe [exercising its inherent, supernatural power in those of faith]”
Excerpt from: Changing what God started
What are the ramifications of changing something? It’s like:
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- If I start out with 100% cows milk, and then add chocolate to it, I then no longer have 100% milk! Simple, right? I have a totally different drink, which we call by a different name: chocolate milk. It is not milk any more! It is chocolate milk.
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- If I start out with 100% Hydrogen, and then add oxygen and more Hydrogen, then I no longer have 100% Hydrogen – do I? I have a totally different element. I have changed the equation. I have left plain hydrogen, and now have “another element”, which we know as H2O. It is now called “Water”… something totally distinct from plain old Hydrogen.
- If I start out with 100% Hydrogen, and then add oxygen and more Hydrogen, then I no longer have 100% Hydrogen – do I? I have a totally different element. I have changed the equation. I have left plain hydrogen, and now have “another element”, which we know as H2O. It is now called “Water”… something totally distinct from plain old Hydrogen.
Different make-up. Different element.
False teachers, like NAR type leaders, continue to use the name “Christian” even though they have become “a different element”. They do this because they are deceivers.
– Source: Changing what God started
Do you think that you can join Jesus by following someone other than Jesus? Jesus left His words of instruction for us. Why would anyone add to what the Godman Himself said?
Spiritual leaders of His day came to criticize Jesus. In Mark 7 we’re told:
“the Pharisees and scribes asked Jesus, “Why do Your disciples not live their lives according to the tradition of the elders” – Mark 7:5
“3([a]For the Pharisees and all of the Jews… 4…they [c]cleanse themselves [completely according to ritual]; and there are many other things [oral, man-made laws and traditions handed down to them] which they follow diligently…. – Mark 7:3-4
The clear teaching of Jesus in response was
“…so you nullify the [authority of the] word of God [acting as if it did not apply] because of your tradition which you have handed down [through the elders]. And you do many things such as that.”
– Mark 7:13
This CEV version puts it strongly: “And you ignore God’s commands in order to follow your own teaching. You do a lot of other things just as bad.”
They have changed their religion
Many innocent-looking churches in these End Times “do many things such as that” and thus incur the Wrath of God. NAR-type leaders, Mormons, JWs, and other offshoots “nullify the [authority of the] word of God acting as if it did not apply”.
Are you one of those who “ignore God’s commands in order to follow your own teaching”? Sad thing. Salvation comes straight from Jesus, “according to knowledge“. What “knowledge” is your faith based upon? Is it the “saving knowledge” of Jesus?
Romans 10:2
“For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.”
God is against them for that. They are so dull… they don’t even realize that they have changed what God started. Imagine their surprise, shock and horror – arriving in Hell instead of Heaven.
“Are you still so dull
[and unable to
put things together]?”
– Matthew 15:16
Jesus changed the religion of the Jews, so to speak, and they rejected Him as Messiah. What He did was: Jesus fulfilled Judaism.
Jesus, the Son of God, “created” the Christian faith, His Gospel His “good news”. If someone changes THAT, His Gospel then they no longer have the real Gospel of Jesus Christ. Makes sense to me. Salvation makes sense.
“All of them” 1 John 2:19 NASB have gone out from Jesus… to another gospel – a different belief. “None of them are of us“:
“None of them are of us“
1 John 2:19 AMP They went out from us [seeming at first to be Christians], but they were not really of us [because they were not truly born again and spiritually transformed]; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out [teaching false doctrine], so that it would be clearly shown that none of them are of us.
God never changes. So, we must not change His Gospel, His “good news”. We must not change the New Covenant of Jesus.
There is no other saving Gospel
The NAR-types have changed God’s Way. But then we must realize their gospel is corrupted… changed into some other element. And they therefore have no salvation. Like most Catholics, most NARer people have put their hope in false teachers – a gospel that does not save.
Excerpt from: The “once for all” faith handed down – COMING SOON
True Christianity
“The sum of Christian belief” Jude 1:3 is what Jesus hand-delivered to His followers. It is not THAT plus what people are adding to it…and calling it Christianity.
Jude 1:3 “Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I was compelled to write to you [urgently] appealing that you fight strenuously for [the defense of] the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints [the faith that is the sum of Christian belief that was given verbally to believers].”
If we add to it, take out, twist it, re-interpret, have an angel tell us differently — then we begin to follow a different gospel. Our altered reality becomes “apostate“.
Acts 13:39
“…and through Him everyone who believes [who acknowledges Jesus as Lord and Savior and follows Him] is justified and declared free of guilt from all things, from which you could not be justified and freed of guilt through the Law of Moses.
Jesus saves sinners 1 Peter 3:18 CEB. There is salvation for all eternity — in no other. Nobody saves but Jesus. Only Jesus. The Bible is quite clear on that.
See in one link AMP or: Acts 4:12 all versions, Romans 6:4-7 AMP, Colossians 3:1-4 NASB
That is why the Bible warns us to follow Jesus only:
Pure Gospel – nothing added, nothing taken out
– 1 Thessalonians 2:13…“not as the word of [mere] men“
Excerpt from Believing eyewitness witnesses
John tells us,
“9 We believe men who witness in our courts, and so surely we can believe whatever God declares. And God declares that Jesus is his Son.” – 1 John 5:9
John goes on to say,
“10 All who believe this know in their hearts that it is true. If anyone doesn’t believe this, he is actually calling God a liar because he doesn’t believe what God has said about his Son.” – 1 John 5:10
The question for all is: Do you believe “what God has said about his Son”?
God’s exact expectations
The Bible is full of “saving knowledge” passages. From them we learn what God specifically wants, what He has told us about salvation. This salvation plan started before the foundation of the world!
Don’t get caught-up in what does not work for salvation. Get yourself out of that – and follow the Bible explicitly.
John 3:11-18 NIV and 1 Corinthians 1:17-25 Living Bible (in one link) share that it is the love of God for us that brings us to salvation.
“Christ is the mighty power of God
to save them;
Christ himself is
the center of God’s wise plan
for their salvation.”
– Verse 24 of 1 Corinthians 1:17-25
We are saved by God or not – by our response: fully believing, or not fully believing. Here are some “saving knowledge” verses that spell it out clearly.
Here are the pure Gospel verses – nothing added, nothing taken out:
Salvation’s
Pure Gospel Verses
– an annotated list –
See all this extensive list in one link plus another link for Galatians 1:6-9, Romans 8: 37-39 or singly: 1 John 5:13, Acts 17:30-31, 1 Corinthians 1:17-25, Ephesians 2:8, Acts 13:39, Romans 3:23, Romans 3:10, Romans 5:12, Romans 6:23, 1 John 1:5-6, James 2:10, John 14:15, Romans 6:16, Genesis 4:7, John 3:16, John 3:17-18, John 14:6, Acts 4:12, John 10:27-30, Luke 9:23, Romans 10:9, Romans 5:8, Romans 10:8-13, John 14:15, 1 John 1:5. Plus: Galatians 1:6-9, Romans 8: 37-39. 2
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
1 John 5:13
“These things I have written
to you who believe
in the name of the Son of God
[which represents
all that Jesus Christ is and does],
so that you will know
[with settled and absolute knowledge]
that you [already] have eternal life.”
These “these things” John writes – are the message all Christians should strickly adhere to, believe, and share with others. We have come to believe — because the message from God was written by faithful eyewitness witnesses like John.
False teachers nowadays are all over the place. They have changed Jesus’ pure message. And many are being fooled by their false gospel.
John here (and others elsewhere in the Bible) is clarifying that to “believe” in Jesus for salvation – is a specific type of believing. To get truly saved, you don’t get to accept the “whatever” of what mere men make-up. We must accept the whatever of “whatever God declares” 1 John 5:9.
This totally encompassing belief “represents all that Jesus Christ is and does“. Nothing less. Nothing more. THAT is what Jesus asks us to accept.
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
Acts 17:30-31 AMP
“…He commands all people everywhere
to repent
[that is, to change their old way of thinking,
to regret their past sins, and
to seek God’s purpose for their lives],
31 because He has set a day
when He will judge the inhabited world
in righteousness
by a Man whom He has appointed
and destined for that task, and
He has provided credible proof
to everyone
by raising Him from the dead.”
Excerpt from: This is salvation in Christ
It’s a very simple message from God, actually – what He expects of us. His message is to all of us — us sinful, willful, rebellious, self-centered creatures.
*Read: 1 Corinthians 1:17-25 “…he stepped in and saved all those who believed his message, which the world calls foolish and silly.”
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
Ephesians 2:8
“8For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God….”
If you were sincere and honest when you approached God in confession – it happened, on the spot. God saved you.
*Notice the past tense in Ephesians 2:8: “you have been saved“.
*Also see this past tense in 1 John 5:13: “…that you [already] have eternal life.”
*And again, the past tense in Philippians 3:12 —
“…for which Christ Jesus took hold of me and made me His own.”
Know it by faith. Read the Bible more! Read this site more!
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all about the Bible
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OhMyGodJesus.com (same site) is about Jesus.
The Bible shows us Jesus is
God in the flesh,
come down to earth
to redeem fallen mankind.
Have you been redeemed?
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
Acts 13:39
“…and through Him everyone who believes [who acknowledges Jesus as Lord and Savior and follows Him] is justified and declared free of guilt from all things”
Note the verb tense: “is” justified and declared free of guilt. Present tense. In that moment, you are declared free by God the Foregiver. In the slang: “You is, I is, we all is!” Take Him at His Word. It happened.
Salvation is immediate – not delayed until after enduring to the end. God knows your heart in that moment. Actually, He is omniscient all knowing. There is nothing hidden from Him.
He rejects those who are dubious, and accepts those who come to Him with a sincere and honest heart. Don’t be a dubious dub MerWeb: dub.
Have you always assumed Jesus accepted your confession? Your confession of faith can be effective, or you can make it ineffective.
From the womb we are all in the same boat. And the boat is sinking:
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
Romans 3:23 NKJ – for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:10 NKJ – As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one.
Romans 5:12 NKJ – Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned….
Romans 6:23 NKJV – For the wages of sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The Boat is going down
Except through salvation in Christ – there is no escaping the condemnation of Omnipotent God. Are you still captive under God’s condemnation or freed from it – forever?
Warning: The Word of this Judge is final. You are either Legally Damned -or- Legally Forgiven.
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
1 John 1:5-6
“5 This is the message [of God’s promised revelation] which we have heard from Him and now announce to you, that God is Light [He is holy, His message is truthful, He is perfect in righteousness], and in Him there is no darkness at all [no sin, no wickedness, no imperfection].
6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness [of sin], we lie and do not practice the truth”
Do you “practice the truth” and “have fellowship with Him”? Or do you say one thing and practice another, “say [you ]have fellowship with Him” yet “walk in the darkness [of sin]” and “lie and do not practice the truth”?
Is your light actually darkness? According to Scripture, Hell is where darkness belongs. Hell is called “the outer darkness”.
We reap what we sow Galatians 6:7. There is not a chance in Hell to change your final destination. There you stay.
Upon arrival there, you have that sudden flash of realization saying “Oh Damn!” So don’t go there. Escape before you arrive! Get saved now. No second chances.
There is no joy being God Damned… only the ultra extreme unresolvable horror upon arrival for God’s condemnation.
“forever damned
forever without God
without joy
without happiness
devoid of God’s goodness….”
– Source: Being God Damned
Allow God to remove your darkness forever. Darkness is the evil that lurks inside the heart of the unRedeemed. Understand God’s definition of that deep, dank, darkness. You think you can take that with you into Heaven? Think again.
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
James 2:10
“10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.”
Like the rich young ruler – many stumble “in one point”. Jesus told this man, “One thing you lack.”
Excerpt from: One thing you lack
Are you en route, already declared “set free”!? Freed from a righteous “God Damn”? Are you looking for that day when He takes you home?
Or not? What else, for you, is so important? Why would you neglect so great a salvation in Christ and refuse the offer of such a great and gracious, awesome God?
What siren on earth has captured your heart and enslaved you?
– Source: One thing you lack
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
John 14:15 and Romans 6:16. See these two in one link.
John 14:15 15 “If you [really] love Me, you will keep and obey My commandments.”
Romans 6:16 16 “Do you not know that when you continually offer yourselves to someone to do his will, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, either [slaves] of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness (right standing with God)?”
To follow Christ is to…obey God.
The Way to Salvation always involves obedience to Jesus
Obedience, being a righteous person, being pleasing to God — do not save anyone. But it is the natural result of actual salvation.
Through His Holy Spirit in us, we can be pleasing to God, be a righteous person – obey what He had written down for us in the Bible.
Little by little I have been matching-up the desires of my heart — to be the desires of what God desires. My worldview is more and more matching-up to God’s view. See: 2 Corinthians 5:6-10. Does your worldview reflect this verse?
Pushed to conform
With so much evil growing, it is getting more and more difficult to think like God thinks. In these End Days, or, as Jesus put it in Matthew 24:14 “…and then the end 3“…We are being pushed to conform our thinking to the way of the world.
– Source: Think like God Almighty
Excerpt from: Being pleasing
I aim for straight-out righteous!
*(Link to this quote, A Swift proverb, at end of that article)
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
Genesis 4:7 and Philippians 3:12
In Genesis 4:7 we learn how sin lurks in the heart:
“And the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you so angry? And why do you look annoyed?
7 If you do well [believing Me and doing what is acceptable and pleasing to Me], will you not be accepted?
And if you do not do well [but ignore My instruction], sin crouches at your door; its desire is for you [to overpower you], but you must master it.”
…Cain [d]attacked Abel his brother and killed him. – Genesis 4:8
I have failed miserably in the past. I have not killed my brother (yet!), but sin is persistent in this Temp Body and temporary existence.
Sin is always “lurking at the door”.
But I “actively press on” to be more Christlike. I make it a point daily to have a moment with the Lord to… confess, repent, reject sin – and press on. As Paul famously said in Philippians 3:12 –
“Not that I have already obtained it [this goal of being Christlike] or have already been made perfect, but I actively press on [a]so that I may take hold of that [perfection] for which Christ Jesus took hold of me and made me His own.”
– Philippians 3:12
Dealing with sin…
Confess – Repent – Reject – Press on
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
John 3:16 and John 3:17-18
John 3:16 16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”
John 3:17-18 The Message (MSG) “16-18 “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life.”
“God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.”
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
John 14:6 and Acts 4:12
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”
Acts 4:12 “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”
Jesus claimed to be God. He Himself said, “I am the Way….” John 14:6 There is no other way to get into Heaven. We must follow what Jesus said John 14:6 and Matthew 4:10.
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
John 10:27-30 “27 The sheep that are My own hear My voice and listen to Me; I know them, and they follow Me.
“28 And I give them eternal life, and they will never, ever [by any means] perish; and no one will ever snatch them out of My hand. 29 [a]My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater and mightier than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are One [in essence and nature].”
And.. they follow Me. The sheep of His pasture…follow. The sheep of another fold…do not hear nor listen nor follow Jesus.
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
Luke 9:23 and Romans 10:9
Luke 9:23
“And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to follow Me [as My disciple], he must deny himself [set aside selfish interests], and take up his cross daily [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me].”
Romans 10:9
“…if you confess
with your mouth
Jesus as Lord,
and believe in your heart
that God raised Him from the dead,
you will be saved….”
(or read in context: Romans 10:9-13)
For more about this verse, see:
Site Search Results for: “Luke 9:23“
Excerpt from: What saves you (See this in section “My take on Luke 9:23“)
My take on Luke 9:23 — Salvation by Jesus requires this… “and follow Me“
My take on Luke 9:23 is that it plainly speaks of the requirements of salvation. Basically Jesus was saying …If anyone wants to come with Me to my Holy Kingdom Heaven, then their salvation “must” entail the following. According to the verse, this is not optional. You “must” :
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- Deny yourself [set aside selfish interests], and
- Take up his cross daily [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and
- Follow Me [believing in Me,
- Conform to My example in living and,
- If need be, suffer or perhaps die because of faith in Me]. Or as the WE puts it: “Every day he must take up his cross [be ready to die]”.
Scripture does not teach we can merely give mental assent to “a belief” in Jesus… in order to be saved, like say, “Yes that’s true”. Lucifer the Devil “believes” that way!
See these two sections inside the original article What saves you:
* Believing in Jesus like Lucifer the Devil “believes”.
* My take on Luke 9:23,
“He did not say – come however, any way, all faiths, just have faith, just grace alone, just words alone.”
“Satan “believes” in Jesus with a mental assent type believing. But Jesus requires we “believe” in the New Testament sense.”
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
Romans 5:8
“But God clearly shows and proves His own love for us, by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Long before we heard of Him, Jesus the Godman loved us and had a plan to save us by His death and resurrection. He predicted it!
Scripture makes known to us the Truth that saves:
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
Romans 10:8-13 NASB
“8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
9 [a]that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
10 for with the heart a person believes, [b]resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, [c]resulting in salvation. 11 For the Scripture says,
“Whoever believes in Him will not be [d]put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him;
13 for “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Conclusion
Those are the major salvation passages God purposely had written for us – to know His Way of Salvation – and be saved. They are all over both the Old and the New Testaments.
Salvation is awesomely simple: Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. Confess your sins to God. Repent. Reject your sins. Ask God to save you. And follow Him.
Get saved! Salvation is forever Romans 8: 37-39. God secures it for us.
FOR MORE:
Believing, in the biblical sense, is accepting “all that Jesus Christ is and does“. If we want Jesus, then we want a pure way to go to Him. Here are the pure Gospel verses – nothing added, nothing taken out. These show us the Way of Salvation. Jesus urges us to follow Him and no other.
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See more clearly: The Roman Road
Roman Road passages and others – about Salvation:
Romans 3:10 NKJV – As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one;
Romans 5:12 NKJV – Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned
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Remain in the Vine
At salvation you are grafted into the Vine: John 15:1-5, 2 Corinthians 5:17.
| References about Salvation |
| Accepting all that Jesus Christ is and does |
| What if? | The Gospel of Jesus Christ |
| Believe in the Name of Jesus | All or nothing |
| Know your terms. Truth – Apostate – Antithetical – Heritical |
| Confirm & Affirm why Jesus will accept me |
| Know that you know you know |
You’ve chosen NOT to accept Him. Why?…Go for it! Prove it.
The Problem with different brands of “Christian faith”
About being apostate – following another gospel
Why you are an apostate, not saved, still lost
“21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’
will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but only he who does
the will of My Father
who is in heaven.”
– Source: Jesus, in Matthew 7: verse 21
24 “So everyone who hears
these words of Mine
and acts on them,
will be like a wise man….
26 And everyone who hears
these words of Mine
and does not do them,
will be like
a foolish (stupid) man….”
– Matthew 7:24-27
Why believe such stupididiotic things?!
Why you are an idiot …IF you say there is no God
The Fool Says Excerpt: So, what kind of fool are you…? Getting right with God will seal your entrance into God’s Kingdom …forever. Accept Him now, before it’s too late.
Believing in Jesus like Lucifer the Devil “believes”…a section in the article: What saves you Excerpt: Satan “believes” in Jesus with a mental assent type believing. But Jesus requires we “believe” in the New Testament sense.
What a Crock – Having No Religious Affiliation Excerpt: To say “I have no religious affiliation” is to say:
- I will focus all my energies on my 70+ earthly years, and leave to chance my million-infinite-years.
- I am so egocentric that God will just have to get in line. Forget God.
- I am all there is, all I care about. What does “god” have to do with anything?
- I have, and am, everything I need. God has never helped me with anything. What god?
- Life is tough enough as it is! Why add some “god” to my mess!?
- If God exists – why hasn’t he shown himself to me? He hasn’t said a word to me!
Being a Temp in our temporary tent – 2 Corinthians 5: verse 1. We have this Temp Body and temporary existence. Sin is persistent.
The final deliverance on the day of redemption…ending our temporary existence on earth
Are You Seeking God? Excerpt: Satan blinds the eyes of seekers, those who want to know more about the Creator, those who wonder, “Could it be God who made all this?” But God is greater than Satan. Ask God to reveal Himself to you. “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” (James 4:8) Now is the acceptable time
God is “faithful and absolutely trustworthy” to you in your salvation…He is unquestionably trustable
God hears us and wants us to approach Him with sincere and honest prayer…Ask God to reveal Himself to you
Go to God for Salvation and for His strength for living Excerpt: Let’s examine Isaiah 30:15-18.
Go to God …like a child Matthew 19:14…for Salvation and strength
Receive The Kingdom like a child
You’ve got mail! A message from God the Father Don’t accept counterfeit messages. Excerpt: Do you know the message from God, delivered by Jesus? Better than email – He came down from Heaven to give it to us.
Divine Mysteries Revealed by the Godman Jesus – Himself! Why follow what others say? Excerpt:
Be a Pretty Bird! [Tico the parrot sings: Hotel California; Should I Stay Or Should I Go; about Tico; Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (feat. Lisa Rott)]
Be smart about life. Don’t be wrong-headed. Believe Jesus! Don’t believe others. We’ve got to be discerning in this life – especially in these last days of great deception all around us.
Believe this: Jesus is The Only One that came down from His Glory to humbly die to save us from God’s very just God Damn. And everything He said… is truth.
Jesus saves and Jesus condemns…We are saved or not by our response to Jesus
Long before His birth prophets spoke of Jesus the Messiah
The Wonder of the Birth of God
Jesus predicted His death and resurrection…Before He died – He predicted it!
Luke 23:34
34 But Jesus was saying, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” And they cast lots, dividing up His garments among themselves.
Jesus Was The Christ, The Messiah Sent From God
Jesus only always for all times…Only Jesus saves sinners
About Evidences for faith in Jesus
Where have you put your trust forever?
“By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error”…Test for truth
The Mystery of the Gospel has been revealed
Back in the day…Salvation was a Mystery Excerpt: The mystery of salvation was resolved in Jesus the Messiah. With Him, no longer were many sacrifices necessary. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice. All peoples could receive the forgiveness of God for their sins “once for all” (Hebrews 10:10).
Have you been “washed in the blood of the Lamb” – through the death and resurrection of Jesus?
“Whosoever will may come”
Salvation is easy because Jesus took our pain. He took away the wrath of God on sin. He took away our condemnation. Jesus came down to earth as a man in order to pay the price of sin in God’s system of justice.
God asks us to repent and turn from sinning. Where are you at with this?
“You loved Me before the foundation of the world.”…In one link: John 17:24, Ephesians 1:4-5, 1 Peter 1:20
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Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given to Me [as Your gift to Me], may be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
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just as [in His love] He chose us in Christ [actually selected us for Himself as His own] before the foundation of the world, so that we would be holy [that is, consecrated, set apart for Him, purpose-driven] and blameless in His sight. In love 5 He predestined and lovingly planned for us to be adopted to Himself as [His own] children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the kind intention and good pleasure of His will—
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For He was foreordained (foreknown) before the foundation of the world, but has appeared [publicly] in these last times for your sake
Why God rejects anyone…He rejects those who are dubious
Don’t be a dubious dub MerWeb: dub
Sincerity and truth…God accepts those who come to Him with a sincere and honest heart – on the spot.
Have you always assumed Jesus accepted your confession?
What was it like – your confession to Jesus?…Your confession of faith can be effective
Was your confession accepted by God?…You can make your confession of faith ineffective.
This does not save you…these types of belief are what does not work for salvation
Accepting Jesus – plus some other…following someone other than Jesus
Following the Jesus who was not God
Puny humans Silly puny humans. Excerpt: from The Damning God“What God thinks. God has spoken to man – through the Bible. And He is the One that made it all happen. Doesn’t that sort of trump us all? Shouldn’t the Truths of God take precedence over whatever it is that we play around with in our minds?
All or nothing…give Him all we are – our all
Serve Him only…or remain in your darkness
Acting with your heart, soul, strength, and with your mind – Luke 10:27…”love the Lord your God with all…”
Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus said to him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written and forever remains written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’”
If you follow Me… See in one link: John 3:3, Matthew 10:38, Matthew 16:24, Matthew 19:21.
Excerpt: When you stand before God on That Day, He will see clearly what you have done with your life, whether or not you actually followed Him. Don’t be a fraud – be a true follower of Christ!
John 8:12 Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”
My simple, frequent practice of repentance
The ABCs of Salvation – Source: JD Farag: The Great Reset – Controlled Demolition for a New World on HarbingersDaily.com
Saving Knowledge Excerpt: There is a saving knowledge of Christ, and there is a false knowledge about Christ. One connects you to God and saves you. The other does not lead to Creator God. Do you know the difference?
Which type of knowledge do you have? Do you know the difference between the two? Can you discern between what the Bible teaches is the “saving” type, and the “not-so-saving” type of knowledge of Christ?
What God Wants
God wants to save us from His condemnation of sin. So God sent His only Son into this world – as the man Christ Jesus. Christ was sacrificed on our behalf as a perfect sacrifice to legally take away the sin judgement of everyone who accepts that salvation.
Are you all in with that? From the throne of your life — have you made Christ your Lord and Savior?
God’s Way brings us into His Kingdom – in an instant (immediately!). Are you there yet?
The Bible is “able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation” Excerpt: Do you want to know how to get right with God? The Bible was given to us by God – so we could know Him and follow Him.
What happens when you do not know what the Bible says on a matter?
How do I get to Heaven?…Want it. – James 4:8
Want it – to know it… God’s message to us
There is no other saving Gospel…a study of Galatians 1:6-9 Excerpt: What “gospel” are you into? The Bible says there is no other gospel that saves us for all eternity – except the original Gospel of the early church apostles. None. “Ninguna”.
Are you in an apostate church? Do you really want to go there? They have changed the Gospel into their own distorted gospel. Theirs is very different from the Bible’s. And only the Bible Gospel saves. Do you really want a not-saving faith?
Apostate means following a gospel that is different (v6) from what the apostles taught (Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) – what is so very clearly taught in the New Testament. They take you to a different Jesus. They “distort the gospel of Christ” (v7).
The apostate gospel does not save you from hell. What on earth are you doing there?!
Jesus Saves Us From Our Sin – Isaiah 53:4-6 ERV
Jesus Brings Us To Creator God
Believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Anointed One…Jesus the Messiah saves sinners forever
What Jesus gives to sinners like me and you Excerpt:
The sinner must repent and say “Yes” — to actually become “a sinner saved by grace“. Jesus is able. He can save any repentant sinner. The hold-up is …He does not save the one who does not bow to receive it (“repent”), nor follow Him. Don’t resist and reject. Don’t be a rejector. Be receptive.
“I give them eternal life”…Only Jesus gives eternal life. Who else?
Born Again. Reborn from above….I have been born again! Have you?
*references in the Bible about being “born again” (in the Amplified Bible (AMP) version)
Sin is not the issue in salvation
Being 100% given-over to Jesus…only to Jesus
God is easy, light-handed, gentle
God hears us and wants us to approach Him with sincere and honest prayer
Being saved means forever never again condemned…changed completely – forever
Simple view of life Excerpt: Somehow, in God’s legal system:
without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. So Jesus purposely came here, died a sinner’s death on the cross – and then resurrected to life, conquering death for us.
Every single human ever born throughout history and in the present – is born under condemnation by God. That is the way it is. In a holy universe, Holy God condemns all sinners. The only way God can forgive any human, is if they confess they are sinners and ask Jesus to forgive them.
Legally Damned – Legally Forgiven…according to God’s legal system
God’s System of Justice…His legal system
Confirm & Affirm why Jesus will accept me
What God secures you cannot lose…Salvation is forever. God secures Heaven for us. Romans 8:37-39
Never again…God’s promises – the true security of the true believer
You Can Never Lose Your Salvation, and Here’s Why! | by Andrew Farley | crosswalk.com; | Author of The Grace Message, and The Perfect You: God’s Invitation to Live from the Heart | Excerpt: How can we be certain that Paul was not speaking to believers who had lost their salvation? Notice the contrast between “you” and “we” in the passage:
The Security of the true believer. Excerpt: When we, anyone, comes to God with sincerity and truth, giving Him all that we are, bowing our heart to Him in confession and repentance of sin – we are saved, redeemed, and given eternal life in that very moment. He saves us – not we ourselves.
See: John 6:37, John 6:35-40, Romans 8:28-39, Philippians 1:6
Practicing sin – NOT following Christ
The Practice of Sin
See all references all in one link or singly:
Galatians 5:16-21, 1 John 3:4, 1 John 3:8, 1 John 3:9, 2 Corinthians 12:21, Colossians 3:9, Ephesians 4:17-22, Ephesians 5:3-5, 1 Peter 4:1-6.
19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: sexual immorality, impurity, indecent behavior, 20 idolatry, witchcraft, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, 21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
– Galatians 5:16-21
Me, When I Die, still in my sin…still in sin and still not forgiven by Christ
The sins you can practice to go to Hell. Just so you know.
Hating is life changing – eternal life changing. Scary thought.
Taking hate to Holy Heaven? Your ways, your views?
If you allow a grudge, hate, slander, gossip, racism, anti-any-race
Earn your wages of death -or- Freely receive God’s gift of eternal life
Why you are an apostate, not saved, still lost
Basic Bible Truths about us humans…The Bible explains it all
About sin…what separates us from His Holiness
Heavenly decree against us…God condemned mankind
God wants us all to be saved…He wants all of us saved
1 Timothy 2:3-4
3 …God our Savior…
4 …desires all men
to be saved
and
to come to
the [a recognition] knowledge of the truth.
There is no other saving Gospel…we need God’s saving grace – none other Galatians 1:6-9
Specific salvation parameters Jesus absolutely requires…Get saved! and follow Jesus 100%
God forgives sins by His Holy Holy Justice…we acquire His holiness for entry into His Holy Kingdom
Passing on through to the other side
It really is Eternity at stake here
Earn your wages of death -or- Freely receive God’s gift of eternal life
Oh haunting fear of death – be gone
Oh immeasureable joy of arrival
That sudden flash of realization saying “Oh damn!”
The ultra extreme unresolvable horror upon arrival for God’s condemnation
Where have you put your trust forever?
Are you still captive under God’s condemnation or freed from it – forever?
Go to God for salvation and for His strength for living
As if your mindset is protected by God Excerpt: Are you living as if your mindset is protected by God? Convinced of it? Is your thinking following God’s Think? Think again – might save you an eternity of regret.
A worldview that conflicts with His
You may have played in church since a toddler, but that does not translate into God accepting your grown-up way of life – anymore than living in a garage makes you a car. You can’t be “a tare”. You must be truly born again for God to accept you.
Have you considered the possibility that Jesus knows you as a tare?
How a tare thinks Excerpt:
Don’t be a tare
running with the wheaties
thinking you are wheat
then hearing Jesus say
depart from Me…
Matthew 7:23; Luke 13:27
then forever wanting…
forever without good…
[then] forever with no second chance…
[then] forever lost.
Oh scary thought.
Genuine or False Excerpt: Are you genuine? “The real thing?” When you say you are “a Christian”, is there anything there (in your life) that God accepts as genuine? As they say,
*Does your walk – back your talk?
*If Jesus put you on trial, would there be enough evidence to prove you guilty of being a born again Christian?!
God knows. Do you deceive others by your claim, whereas in reality – your actions say otherwise? Are you following Christ in word and deed, or just trying to look Christian, you know… going to a Christian church, saying “yes I am” if asked. Know your real self.
Is Jesus’ Worldview your worldview?
Know your thinking – Save your future
Holy Father Lord of All…He is most holy
Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty…His Holiness; His holy nature cannot accept sinfulness – without repentance. Excerpt in verse style:
…Oh it’s clear you just don’t know My Word
I had it written, oh so clearly for you all to get the news:
that the only way to heaven is through Jesus’ sacrifice.
You maybe peaked, you may have glanced a bit – but you don’t know My Word.
What was it – so absorbed your mind, that you never sought Me out? James 4:8
You never loved me. All your heart, all your mind, all your strength, all — was yours and yours alone….
Extreme to the nth degree…Our extreme God
FAQ: What must I do to be saved?
Accepting all that Jesus Christ is and does
Being receptive Excerpt: Your mind can either be hardened, or it can be receptive. Which is it going to remain? Hard or receptive? Are you able to be receptive to God’s truths?
Believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Anointed One…the Gift is for all who will believe Excerpt: 4
“Everyone who believes [with a deep, abiding trust in the fact] that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) is born of God….”
– 1 John 5:1-13
Got a Cracked Heart?…Repent of your “cracked heart” thinking, and truly follow Jesus.
Acting with your heart, soul, strength, and with your mind – Matthew 7:23 Excerpt: We are His creation, so He knows our thoughts. And He said, basically (my interpretation):
If you go against Me, what I, God, want, what Jesus stands for, in anything… then you ARE against Me, (“saith the Lord”). Who you stand with shows. It shows with how you live your life, with how you habitually act, with “the thoughts and intentions of your heart…”
If Jesus discerns you have stood against Him, the consequence comes to you on That Day when you kneel in anguish and fear before God. He will say, basically: You have come before Me, before the seat of My Eternal Court, and I am against you.
– Extrapolated from: Matthew 7:23
The Way to Salvation always involves obedience to Jesus
Being 100% given-over to Jesus
Fake faith gets you nowhere you want to be…Got a worthless fake faith?
Staying Alive
…If the core of your being
rejects parts and pieces of
what Christ Himself taught,
then His Spirit is not in you
and you have no salvation at all.
What clearly saves and what obviously does not save
The Godman Jesus Said “Follow Me”
This is salvation in Christ Excerpt: It’s a very simple message from God, actually – what He expects of us. His message is to all of us — us sinful, willful, rebellious, self-centered creatures:
…He commands all people everywhere
to repent
[that is, to change their old way of thinking,
to regret their past sins, and
to seek God’s purpose for their lives],
31 because He has set a day
when He will judge the inhabited world
in righteousness
by a Man whom He has appointed
and destined for that task, and
He has provided credible proof
to everyone
by raising Him from the dead.”
– Acts 17:30-31 AMP
What Jesus taught…what He the Messiah Himself taught
Excerpt: Jesus taught an extreme faith: (See: James 2:14-26)
Flesh and Blood absolutely cannot inherit the Kingdom of God
Earn your wages of death -or- Freely receive God’s gift of eternal life
Read through site articles related to “Salvation“
It is time to give it up for Jesus
Earn your wages of death –or- Freely receive God’s gift of eternal life
The blessing of God on His Chosen People – the Jews Excerpt: The blessing of God on His Chosen People is a promise He will keep. Think He changed His mind? Think again. Think you can freely hate Jews AND keep your salvation? Think again – again.
God never changes. Never has. Never will…Think He changed His mind? | by
Salvation. True version – False version…only one way is the true Gospel of Jesus Excerpt: Jesus taught the true version of salvation. I got my version from God Himself – in the Bible! Where on earth are you getting yours?
Here’s a list of OMGj articles to consider reading about “Salvation”. Is yours the true version, or one of the many false versions? Actually, the odds are: you have a false version and are on a lost, wrong road. Scary thought.
I want poppy fields forever! How about you? There will be no poppyfields in Hell, damned by God. Don’t get damned. Get right!
The True Version…the true, real Gospel
The Work of Salvation Excerpt:
God’s work of salvation was done by Jesus when He came down to earth: when He became the Godman, when He died on the cross, when He was buried, when He arose from the tomb, when He ascended back up into Heaven.
From the beginning of time, He wants all of us to be saved. And now HE is saving people from Hell — in that very moment when they first believe.
The Gift by His precious undeserved grace…bestowed on those who accept His free gift
The message of salvation spoken by Jesus to Paul…It’s found all over the New Testament!
Salvation in Christ is beyond HUGE!…the true version of salvation
It really is Eternity at stake here
Choose to change Eternity…God has divided Eternity
What being saved means…you can get saved – if you Turn from sin – Turn to Jesus
Being saved means forever never again condemned – John 10:27-30
Getting saved is fast. Be saved in one minute. It’s fast and easy: Humbly confess with Him in prayer, and repent of your sins. And ask Him to save you. Done! Now you start following Him.
What knowing the Bible does for you
The responsibility of church Bible teachers
When it comes to God, who wants mere opinions? – Church time is not a chance to opine, after all.
Discernment when interpreting | Source: Is “Heaven Is for Real” for Real?: An Exercise In Discernment, by T. A. McMahon
So does God ever say “What do you think, Joe? Jane, What should I do?”…like before Creation! Or, like when you tell Him “God – I think you should do things this way!”; or “God – I think it’s unfair to expect people to follow you in order to get into Heaven!”
Counterfeit spirit of God Excerpt: Counterfeit Christianity is growing. Do you know the Bible well enough to spot a counterfeit church? Are you into one – yourself?
The Bible warns of “seducing spirits” within the church “in later times“. It warns about those church leaders who teach and delve into non-biblical practices.
*Quote from the main article: “Jesus, the Son of God, “created” the Christian faith, His Gospel His “good news”. If someone changes THAT, then they no longer have the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
God never changes. Never has. Never will…So, we must not change what He started… “even if an angel…”
The Gospel of Christ is Unchanging…His “good news”, His Way, not our ways
The New Covenant…of Jesus must not be changed
The New Covenant did not abolish any previous covenants of God…as NARers have done
NAR-types are changing God’s Way, denying the Old Testament…They have some other gospel – a different belief. But then… therefore they have no salvation. NARers have received a counterfeit.
I biblically tut these apostate imposters
What false prophets are like…they are deceivers
False Prophets | by Diane S. Dew, © copyright 1976, 1998. | For more by Dew, see: http://dianedew.com/index.shtml
Needing something more than Jesus
Why you are an apostate, not saved, still lost. | *For this post we are assuming you are apostate. So: Scripture considers you to be a counterfeit Christian.
Know your terms. Truth – Apostate – Antithetical – Heritical…or you will have an altered reality
Accepting Jesus Plus some other…people are adding to it…and calling it Christianity. Is yours “the sum of Christian belief” + more?
Jude 1:3 “Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I was compelled to write to you [urgently] appealing that you fight strenuously for [the defense of] the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints [the faith that is the sum of Christian belief that was given verbally to believers].”
What is sound doctrine and what is a different doctrine…you follow a different gospel if you add to Jesus’ Gospel — take out, twist it, re-interpret, have an angel tell your leaders differently. Then your gospel cannot save you.
What Is a Cult? The 6 Telltale Signs to Look For. | by Dr. Roger Barrier | crosswalk.com | from Casas Church in Tucson, Arizona | Read about the many tell-tale signs here: 5
The New Covenant did not abolish any previous covenants of God
About rejecting prophecying and special words of knowledge
Bible Warnings against false teachings and their false teachers Excerpt: We are warned to carefully teach that which God has communicated to us, and to keep watch against those who will come out and present false teachings and unbiblical practices. We must always get down to what God actually means.
Reject unbiblical personal opinions, and especially reject what’s worse: reject those who seek to mislead Christians into their brand of false teachings. Those cultic folks twist and misinterpret God’s Words crosswalk.com. Why follow twisted misinterpretations of the Truth?
See: Getting down to God’s meaning
God’s biggest warnings to us today
Warnings by Paul to Timothy about falling away
Why you are an apostate, not saved, still lost…for this article we will assume you are apostate
Major salvation posts
| The Roman Road| How to accept Jesus | Accepting all that Jesus Christ is and does | What if? | The Gospel of Jesus Christ | Believe in the Name of Jesus | Promises God makes about your salvation | What is necessary to be saved
“God made some huge promises. Absolutely beyond huge. Eternally huge promises. Salvation is His biggest. Do you have that one secured?”
– Source: Promises God makes about your salvation
Folks! You can NOT fake it with God. He knows your heart. Faking = Still lost. You can
talk like/smell like/pray like/look like/act like/dress like/preach like/give money like/claim church membership like/go to church like…
but if your heart is not genuinely His, “with all your heart…”, then you are not saved. You are a God damned “believer”. ‘You must be born again.’
– Sources: What is necessary to be saved
Why was The Message version of the Bible written? Excerpt: In his The Message version of the Bible, Eugene Peterson strives “for the spirit of the original manuscripts” – “to help readers hear the living Word of God—the Bible—in a way that engages and intrigues us right where we are.”
It is what it is: The Bible Is God’s Word To Us
Enlightened Folks – Hebrews 6:4-5. They only keep favorite bits and pieces Excerpt: Are you one of those? The many “enlightened” folks who have tasted what God does in Christians… but you haven’t really yielded to God, you haven’t truly choosen to follow Him? Have you fallen away?
You must be born again. No turning back. No turning back. Be His with all of you. He does not take pieces and parts. Creator God asks for all of you. Are you in or are you on the sidelines. Are you in… all the way in? Be very sure. Very sure. Be very sure.
Wandering Stars. The Paganism of Bethel, Hillsong, and the NAR pt 1
Deviating from Scripture. How they do it, these Bethel Prophets and Pastors
Are you being warned by the Holy Spirit about being “out“?
Hell is real Excerpt: The Bible teaches that hell exists. Read all about it here:
Hell is real
See in one link: Matthew 5:22, 29, 30; 18:9; 23:33; 25:41,46; Luke 16:23; 2 Peter 2:4; Revelation 20:13-15.
Being God Damned Excerpt: Being God damned in hell is to be forever damned forever without God without joy without happiness devoid of God’s goodness….
Hell is my last choice, last on my list, not what I really want Excerpt: What is last on your list for places you want to go to? Well, Hell is my last choice. How about you?
There is a place…Don’t go there!
“the day of sickness and incurable pain”
Isaiah 17:11…describing life on earth rejecting God – and the day of reckoning
“In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; Yet [promising as it is] the harvest will be a heap [of ruins that passes away] In the day of sickness and incurable pain.” See: You plant your life so carefully and put a fence around it
Not afraid of Hell Excerpt: Not afraid of hell…
but I’m afraid of snakes
but I’m afraid of dying
but I’m afraid of getting hurt
but I’m afraid of being stupid
but I’m afraid of getting into a car accident
but I’m afraid of gangs
but I’m afraid of getting beat to hell
but I’m afraid of cancer
but I’m afraid of my ex…
What in Hell are we to do? Excerpt: It will be so evil. Everywhere. Everyone. Evil. Suffering. Nothing good.
A God Damn Excerpt: The Santa Claus god
However, many today want a belly laughing “ho ho ho”, roly-poly MerWeb Santa Claus god.
This modern day god: has no predilections, no predispositions, and never gets upset with anything we do or ask for. This god goes with the flow. This god of ours accepts it all, whatever we want. He has no bias, no prejudice against anything. He has no fixed, predetermined intolerances. What you are, whatever – he’s down with that! This “Claus God” has been created for our convenience.
There is a broad road that says Heaven but goes to Hell
Hell in the Bible Excerpt: “Hell is a hot damn.” Why hell? It comes from a judicial sentence of condemnation by God for those who reject Him: Satan, demons, non-believers – the unsaved humans.
Note: Hell is not just where we (those there) sit in a lake of fire burning up forever. It is described with all these words (not just fire): the second death…the nether world, Sheol, Gehenna, Hades….
Hell Is Home Excerpt:
Hell is home for the walking dead.
You ain’t leavin’ this home.
You don’t want to go there. You don’t want to be one.
But, there is hope in Christ.
Be sure to break new ground,
get out of your living grave –
if you don’t know Him personally.
He saves sinners.
I know, because Jesus saved me.
Prepare your eternity with great fear and trepidation
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Footnotes
- Preachers should always preach from what the Bible says. The responsibility of church Bible teachers – teachers and pastors, is clear.
Church time is not a chance to opine, after all. We want what Jesus and His disciples taught!
If all they do is spout… then – might be they’re camouflaging so you don’t know it’s not biblically based. Be Berean.
- This is the format used below: red verse first then indented notes.
Salvation’s Pure Gospel Verses________
Salvation Verses… - Matthew 24:14 14 This good news of the kingdom the gospel will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end of the age will come.”
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Believing “in the name…” means you believe in “all that Jesus Christ is and does“.
See BibleGateway list of references to: “the name of Jesus“.
When you (if you did), or I, said, “I accept Christ as my Lord and Savior”, a whole lot of “accepting” is going on there in that moment in time. Are you aware of what-all it actually requires to truly “accept Christ”?
We did not just say,
“Yes, He was a great guy”, nor:
“I like Jesus. He was a great teacher”, nor:
“I accept that Jesus was a great philosopher”, nor:
“He and I are on great terms. He is my friend.”
Or did you [is that what you did?]. Scary thought.
Accepting Jesus – Plus Some Other is a type of fake faith, and both have folks of such “faith” – Going to Hell. Outward religion does not save. Those types are on a road that seems to be taking them to Heaven, but they are actually on their way to Hell. Another scary thought.
– Source: Believe in the Name of Jesus.
- Summary: (Copied from the crosswalk.com site)
First, the most dastardly, insidious mark of a cult is that it ignores or distorts the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Second, most cults are led by a dynamic, charismatic leader who eventually controls and manipulates his or her followers.
Third, surprisingly, most cult leaders grew up in a Christian environment.
Fourth, cult leaders tend to ignore, confuse, add to, and/or demean the Bible’s teachings.
Fifth, cults use devious methods to trap, deceive, and control their followers.
Sixth, people join cults for a number of reasons: 2 Timothy 4:3-4, Ephesians 4:14.
How to Avoid being Seduced by Cult Leaders and Teachings
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(Copied from Crosswalk.com site) Best Resources for this article may be found at: PreachItTeachIt.org; Bible Gateway.com; Got Questions.com; Wikipedia.com; the helpful teaching of Robert L. (Bob) Deffinbaugh pastor/teacher and elder at Community Bible Chapel in Richardson, Texas; and Steve Dowdle, retired counselor from Casas Church, Tucson Arizona.
Dr. Roger Barrier retired as senior teaching pastor from Casas Church in Tucson, Arizona. In addition to being an author and sought-after conference speaker, Roger has mentored or taught thousands of pastors, missionaries, and Christian leaders worldwide. Casas Church, where Roger served throughout his thirty-five-year career, is a megachurch known for a well-integrated, multi-generational ministry. The value of including new generations is deeply ingrained throughout Casas to help the church move strongly right through the twenty-first century and beyond.
Dr. Barrier holds degrees from Baylor University, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Golden Gate Seminary in Greek, religion, theology, and pastoral care.
His popular book, Listening to the Voice of God, published by Bethany House, is in its second printing and is available in Thai and Portuguese. His latest work is, Got Guts? Get Godly! Pray the Prayer God Guarantees to Answer, from Xulon Press. Roger can be found blogging at Preach It, Teach It, the pastoral teaching site founded with his wife, Dr. Julie Barrier.
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