Is There a God...arguments for the existence of God...

Is There a God?

Intro:

1.      Why are you here today? I think that you are here today because you believe there is a God. In this lesson I will be speaking to the existence of God. I know that most, if not everyone here believe that God is real and he exists.

2.      I am however preparing you to present the arguments for God and his existence. In today’s society there is a real problem, people due to their freedoms here are making themselves God. By denying that there is a Creator, people are the highest level of existence.

3.      Since so many atheists exist in the world, and are trying to present cases to courts that deny our rights to freely exercise our religion, I thought it worth your time and mine to prepare a sermon that will help all of us to present the idea of a Creator.

4.      There are a few arguments that I will use. The Cosmological Argument, The Teleological Argument, and the Moral Argument.

I.                    The Cosmological Argument

A.    Cause and effect

1.      This argument would state that everything has a cause and effect.

a.       Because the world is in a state of regression or decay then there must be a cause

b.      Have you ever heard of the idea of perpetual motion?

1.      Perpetual motion is defined as eternal motion

2.      For years scientist have been trying to figure out a way to have perpetual motion

3.      The problem with this ideal is in science you have to put more energy into something to get an output. The ratio of energy in and energy out is call efficiency.

4.      The higher the efficiency the better the output

5.      Could you imagine an engine that never quits, we all know things like friction and heat keep it from running without end.

6.      Because of these types of things we all have to put oil in our cars and trucks

c.       The law of entropy, or the law of chaos

1.      The law of entropy is a law of physics that has just been generated in the last century. It states that the unbalanced forces in the universe will work, through this law, to balance all other forces. That since there is always an unbalance, then this constant balancing of forces is the reason for creation and not God. Like temperature heat and cold mix until they are the same potential.

2.      If this were true, the universe would still have to have an original beginning of forces that balance themselves out and makes the universe eternal.

3.      Every bit of matter we know does decay and is not eternal: plants, animals, and humans

4.      We know that all matter is finite or has a beginning and an end.

d.      Logic says that nothing can create nothing. That something does not come from nothing

1.      These scientist have created this idea so it will agree with the evolution theory.

2.      For it to be true the forces have to be eternal in order to be in the beginning. In other words there was no starting point or ending point for these forces that balance themselves out. Since nothing can create nothing this view is out of reasoning with common sense.

e.       Since the world is here there must be something that created it.

B.     Alternatives to this view

1.      It is an Illusion

a.       Some philosophers state that we really are some where else and this is what we dream or experience as a result of being elsewhere.

b.      It is similar to the ideas portrayed by the movie Matrix

2.      It sporadically arose out of nothing

a.       As I spoke of earlier this defies any form of logic

b.      It basically says that out of nothing came something.

c.       This is what some people of the big bang theory suggest that out of nothing came this big explosion in which everything was put into motion.

3.      It had no existence but has existed for eternity

a.       This is the idea of perpetual motion

b.      Since we can not even come close to creating perpetual motion it must not be true

4.      A Creator created the world.

C.     Assessment of these ideas

1.      The ideas that the world is an illusion is not within reason

2.      The idea that nothing created something also defies reason.

3.      The idea that the world is decaying is fact. However the idea that the world has forever and will forever continue to decay is not within reason. The stars that die out, the earth and its wealth of life, are evidences that everything started at a fixed time and place.

a.       The law of entropy says if everything was hot and cold then in time due to mixtures there would be a perfect balance called warm. The idea is that there is an eternal amount of hot and cold. So the forces behind creation is the mixing of cold and hot to get warm. However the world has always and will continue to decay, until the Lord comes back.

4.      The only other assessment left is that there is a creator that created everything.

a.       He was the one who gave us the starting point of time and place

b.      God is the Creator. Someone may say well who created God?

1.      There is something we must understand about God.  Jesus said “God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship him in spirit and truth” John 4:24

2.      God is a spirit; he is what we call self-existing. He needs nothing other than Himself to exist. He relies only on Himself for His existence, He is eternal.

3.      We are humans we are finite, meaning we have a beginning and an end, We depend on our environment to sustain our lives. In essence we depend on God to live.

II.                 The Teleological Argument

A.    The design and purpose

1.      Have you ever just thought about the chances of us being here?

2.      Odds for this happening by chance

a.       What are the odds of the earth being the exact distance from the sun that we neither burn up nor freeze to death?

b.      That everything is beneficial to everything else?

B.     Evolution idea

1.      The odds of a chemical soup existing in which some amino acids come together to form the first 1 cell organism of life happening by chance.

2.      The odds of this 1 cell organism evolving into a 2 celled organism

a.       Invertebrates

b.      Fish or vertebrates

c.       Reptiles

d.      Birds

e.       Mammals

3.      The very odds of this happening says that we did not evolve

4.      They have never found the missing links, which bridge the gap between the species.

5.      There are other proofs as well. They have found trees that are upright and pass through several layers of the geological strata. Thus proving the strata did not happen over billions of year because for that to happen; the tree would have to be billions of years old. In fact it actually suggest that there was a great flood.

C.     The ecosystem

1.      The human waste product of carbon dioxide is actually one of the substances needed for the plants to survive.

2.      The idea that the plants support the animals, and the animals and plants sustain us.

3.      The idea that the earth is 2/3rds water, and evaporates in such a way that produces clouds that carry this water to the land so that crops or vegetation can grow for the benefit of the animals, and humans.

a.       The water collects and then is distributed to the land or earth

b.      The extra is then collected into rivers, streams, and lakes then returned to the seas

D.    It is no accident

1.      These things did not happen by accident

2.      Each item has a purpose and a plan in the environment.

3.      The watchmaker

a.       Someone has given me an illustration of a watch

b.      The idea is that for all of this world to happen by accident or mere chance is like me taking the parts of a pocket watch, putting them into a bag, shaking the bag and its contents up, then reaching my hand into the bag and pulling out a put together, complete and working pocket watch.

c.       You and I both know you can not put the right parts in a bag shake it up and have a complete product. You see each part of a pocket watch has a design and a purpose.

d.      Each gear, piece, bearings, and shafts all depend on the others for it proper working order.

e.       The watch would never work unless an intelligent being put each piece in its proper place so that it would run correctly.

4.      God the watchmaker

a.       God is the one who put each part of this universe together

b.      He is the source of all things.

c.       He is the intelligent being that put everything in its place.

III.              Moral Code

A.    If men are only smart animals then what?

1.      Supposing we are here just by accident, then why do we consider some things to be wrong?

a.       If we are upright animals, then what is wrong with me eating a baby for lunch?

b.      You and I both know that eating humans and especially babies is wrong

c.       If we are just animals, then only the strong survive

d.      So on animal instincts, anything that could be food is considered food.

2.      All people have an inherent sense of right and wrong called a conscience

a.       Everybody has there idea of right and wrong

3.      Some say we legislate morality for the preservation of humans

a.       Then why are we do we consider it wrong when people like Geoffrey Dahlmer eat humans

b.      We get so mad at people for killing other people we make their punishment so severe that others will never do or else they also will be punished severely as well.

4.      For us to be smart animals means we had to evolve

a.       Why are the apes still not evolving?

b.      Why are the apes not speaking in a human language?

c.       What will we evolve into in the future?

B.     Men are moral because God is moral

1.      You and I have a sense of good and evil because we are not just animals

a.       We are not just physical beings we are spiritual beings

b.      We have a conscience and an ability to reason unlike the animals

c.       We are able to reason right and wrong

2.      God because he is our creator wants us to know how to behave

a.       He gives us the Bible so that we see what his standard of morality is

b.      By reading His standard our standard is changed to be like His.

3.      For there to be a moral law there most be a moral law giver

Conclusion:

1.      So with the idea of a God being established by anyone of these arguments we know there is something greater than ourselves out there. In every single society since the dawn of man has worshipped something. Man is hard wired to believe in something greater than himself.

2.      The Aztecs, Indians, the Aborigines, Greeks, man has always since the need for a divine aid. In some societies they went about to create their own God. That is why there is so much idolatry in the world today. We do not see it very much today here in America but there are many gods of the Hindu’s, Buddha, etc

3.      The problem with all of these other gods is most are presumed to be mean or evil and have to be appeased by sacrifices. Most people who are idolatrous believe they must give to the god or else harm will come unto them.

4.      The God that we see in the Bible is a loving, caring, forgiving, just, fair God, who only punishes those that directly disobey Him. God knows that man is not perfect and can not measure up to his standard of living. If man could be as good as God then God would not be God. Because of our predicament we need help in obtaining this moral perfection in the eyes of the life giver.

5.      God made a way for us to be saved. He gave us a way to be saved or forgiven in His eyes. That way is Jesus Christ. Jesus said “ I am the way the truth and the life no man comes to the father but through me. John 14:6

6.      There is only one way to Heaven and that my friend is through Jesus Christ.

7.      The five finger Gospel:

8.      Hear

1. (Rom 10:17) So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

9.      Believe

1.  (Heb 11:6) And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

2. (Joh 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.(Joh 3:17) For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

10.   Repent

1. (Act 17:30)The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:(Act 17:31)inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

2. (Luk 13:3) I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish.

11.    Confess

1. (Rom 10:9)because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:(Rom 10:10)for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

2. (Mat 10:32)Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven.(Mat 10:33)But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

12.   Baptism

1. (Act 2:38)And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.(Act 2:39)For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.

2. (1Pe 3:21)which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

3. (Mar 16:16)He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.

Predestination Fact or Fiction?

Predestination Fact or Fiction?                       Ephesians 1:3-14

Introduction:

1.      How many of you think you have a destiny? Or have a certain predetermined fate? Have you ever said it must be fate? Well if you have then I want you to pay special attention to this lesson. This lesson is about predestination. Some may say that doctrines like predestination in the churches of Christ are taboo or should not be spoke about, but how can we reveal any truth on the matter unless we study about those issues?

2.      Why is predestination a big topic? Well there is a guy that wrote a book called a “Purposed Driven Life”, his name is Rick Warren. He had followed that book up with a “Purposed Driven Church”. The theme of these is that man has a destiny in God. Truly the idea of having a plan for our lives makes us realize there is a higher purpose in ourselves. That there is reason for the bad that happens or for the good that happens. I believe that is why the topic of predestination is largely believed.

3.      Some of our religious neighbors believe that everyone is predestined. In fact it is part of their basic doctrine or teaching. They believe that unless God picks you and enlightens you to believe in Jesus you will never become a Christian. A fair warning, most people in the pew do not realize this or believe this to be true but their pastors do believe it and are taught it in their seminary schools.

4.      So today I want to examine the truth on the matter. Are you predestined? Is your life planned right down to this very second? Or Is God so knowledgeable He allows us to chose whatever we want but knows what we will chose? I am here to tell you beyond the shadow of a doubt that we are predestined. Before you cast stones at me and say we do not believe that; here me out. I will show you from scripture we are predestined and not only that but that we still have free choice.

I.                    Why Is There a Heaven or a Hell for Everyone?

A.    How Sin Entered Into The World (Gen 3:1-7)

1.      God gave mankind a command (Gen 2:16-17)

a.       God told them they could eat anything they wanted, except for the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He said that if you eat from this tree you will surely die.

b.      When God gives a direct command all other things are excluded. Means it was clear they could not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It also means they could eat from every other tree out there. Please notice the command though, he specified tree of the garden.

c.       If it was not a tree or if it was not in the garden they could not eat of it.

2.      The devil came along and became the tempter

a.       The devil decided to tempt Eve by adding to what God said. Notice the devil did not change God’s word but added a three-letter word, NOT.

b.      We do not know why the devil had it in for us humans; the Bible is silent on the exact reason. However some say it was because he was jealous of us because God made us in His own image. Some say it was because of his pride that he got kicked out and because he was kicked out he thought he would mess up everything else he could that was God’s. Heaven only knows the truth on that matter.

3.      Eve was beguiled or tricked

a.       1 John 2:16, says “for all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride in possessions is not from the Father but from the world”

b.      She was tempted with all three elements: (1) The lust of the flesh- “saw it was good for food” (2) The lust of the eyes- “She saw it was” She seen the fruit as the devil held it up and was eating it. (3) The pride in possessions- She thought if she possessed the knowledge the fruit would give her she would be like God himself.

c.       She also gave unto her husband. Notice he was not caught up in the deception, he just said okay I’ll eat it because you gave it to me Eve.

d.      Sin entered into the world through trickery by the devil and free choice.

B.     The Problem and Advantages of Free Choice

1.      What is free choice?

a.       Freedom to chose whatever we want even if it is harmful or helpful to ourselves.

b.      Have you ever been with a child and see free choice work? I am sure you have you tell the children please do not do this and what do they do? You have to correct them after that.

c.       Maybe you have seen free choice in a cat or dog, they do not have the ability to reason, but none the less you tell your cat here kitty-kitty and they don’t move. Or you tell you dog after you throw the stick go fetch and they just look at you and lick you your hand as you point to the stick you just threw.

2.      Why do we have free choice?

a.       It boils down to love. Can you make your spouse love you? You can do nice things to try to win them over but can you make them love you?

b.      Since God created man to have someone to love then he can not make us like robots can he?

c.       You and I have remote control cars and let us say we actually built a robot from scratch. We made it talk and tell us it loves us, we made it do back flips, drive a car, clean house, you made this robot do everything we wanted to, could you love it like you do your wife or husband? Of course not. It does those things, not because it wants to but because we made it to be our puppet on a string.

d.      God wants us to love Him above all other things (Mark 12:29-31). If we are to love Him we must do it out of our free choice. We must freely choose to lay down my personal desires to do what I want to do and obey what God wants me to do.

e.       You can not have love unless you have free choice.

3.      Advantages of free choice

a.       Love rejoices in free choice. We show our love by freely choosing to obey God and not our own desires that we would rather do. I could be fishing right now out there on the Tennessee River catching some fish, but I freely chose to come here and worship God.

b.      Our actions show us what we love. If all we ever do in life is fish and hunt then it shows us that we truly love to fish and hunt more than anything else in the world.

c.       If our actions show that we love God first and foremost everyday then we will surely gain the Lord’s favor in our life. By gaining God as a friend we have help that surpasses any that we could get from humans.

4.      The disadvantages of free choice are sin and death.

a.       God and his promise to Adam and Eve, in the day you eat of it you shall surely die

b.      It was not a physical immediate death, the tree was not full of poison that would kill their physical bodies but their disobedience would inflame God and cause separation with His love and fellowship.

c.       We can chose to love by obeying or we can chose to not obey and show dis-contempt or hate.

II.                 The Solution To The Problem of Sin and Death

A.    Debt Requires Payment

1.      Sin requires payment of wrong doing

a.       Little Johnny went out and was hitting the baseball around and he knocked it through his neighbor’s window. Little Johnny’s dad paid to fix the window but made Johnny save up his own money to pay him back.

b.      It would not be right for little Johnny not to fix the things he broke. The same is true for sin.

c.       When you and I sin there is a punishment to be had, in Johnny’s case it was the price of the window, in our case it is the cost of our souls.

2.      We have more debt than we can pay

a.       Our most valuable possession is our soul. It is worth more than any amount of money or thing. When we sin against God the cost of that window is our soul.

b.      None of us has more than one soul; so obviously we cannot give our soul to pay the debt and still have a soul left over can we?

B.     The One Who Can Pay Off Our Debts

1.      There is One who is rich enough

a.       Jesus was made in the likeness of humans and he was sinless. He never ever sinned. He took our punishment as a sinner.

b.      Because Jesus never broke a window in His entire life, and he gave his soul in place of ours. God allows him to pay for our broken window. Jesus offers to pay off anyone’s soul debt most people call sin debt.

C.     How He Paid Off Our Debts

1.      Jesus was so righteous by never sinning he is able to pay off everyone’s debt.

a.       Everyone here is like little Johnny we all have broken a window that we can not fix, but Jesus has enough money to pay for all of our broken windows.

2.      In terms of a checking account

a.       Each act of disobedience adds to our total debt that must be paid one day.

b.      When we steal from the store, or when we lie at work, or when we cheat on our spouse we acquire a certain amount of debt called sin.

c.       You and I are not and will never be rich enough to pay off this debt called sin. Because the price to pay it off is your soul and you only have one soul not two.

d.      Jesus is like the richest man in the world. He offers to pay all of your debt if you will do what He teaches or says. So Jesus takes our account balance in our checking account and pays of the debt.

III.              The Truth About Predestination

A.    Problems Associated With Predestination

1.      Jesus will pay anyone’s debt or Jesus will fix anyone’s broken window.

a.       2 Pet 3:9, “the Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness but is long suffering towards us-ward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

b.      1 Tim 2:3-4, “this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, who will have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth”

c.       Jesus does not care how many people you have killed, how many lies you have told, each of these debts called sin He can pay off.

2.      Those that believe in predestination have to wonder why there is a hell

a.       If God chose specific individuals to become Christians, then why is there a hell?

b.      Those that hold this view have to believe that God chose some to burn in eternity and others He chose to live in peace with Him in Heaven.

c.       Some that hold this view will say that God chose a path for each one us when we were born and if we live long enough we would become Christians. The problem with this view is that makes God unable to perform His own plan!

B.     We Are Predestined Without a Doubt

1.      We are absolutely predestined without a doubt.

a.       Earlier I mentioned I would show that we are predestined and still have free choice, this is the time I want you to pay close attention because here is the heart of the matter.

b.      Eph 1:3-15…Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ: even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love: having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved: in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, I say, in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will; to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ: in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,--in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, unto the praise of his glory. For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which ye show toward all the saints...Ephesians 1:3-15.

c.       Notice the words in this text; according as He has chosen us- God chose us we did not chose Him right? That is what some of our religious friends say is predestination or predetermined.

d.      Notice also in him before the foundation of the world: Paul told the Ephesians that they were chosen to be adopted in Christ before the world was formed!

e.       It absolutely clear that we are beyond a doubt predestined to be Christians. Don’t cast stones yet, let me make a few more points then I will wrap it up where it makes good sense.

2.      Clearly the text in 1 Pet say Christ was planned before the world began

a.       1 Pet 1:19-20, “but with the precious blood of Christ, as a lamb without a blemish and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was made manifest in these last times for you”

b.      Notice 1 Pet 1:19-20, Jesus was foreordained before the world, - as in before God decided to make dry land and before he made man Jesus and his death, burial, and resurrection had been planned to redeem man before he ever created man.

c.       This answers some people’s question of why did God make a mistake when Eve and Adam sinned. God knew when He gave us the ability to freely choose we would sin. So He made a way for us to be reconciled. Jesus was not a backup plan to sin and mankind. He was the plan.

C.     Freedom To Chose Our Predetermined Destination

1.      We all have been chosen before the world began

a.       Ephesians chapter 1 says that clearly.

2.      Jesus was predetermined to die, be buried, and be resurrected in order to save from sin

a.       1 Peter chapter 1 clearly says that Jesus was not an after thought but that had been planned before God ever created even dry land.

b.      Jesus was the Saviour of mankind the day God formed man out of the earth and blew in life.

3.      What does it mean to be predestined in Christ according to the scriptures?

a.       Think about the time period. With the book of Ephesians Paul was writing about AD 60. This is about 27 years after Jesus had ascended to Heaven. This was not before Jesus came to earth but after the cross of Jesus.

b.      Paul was simply saying that because the sacrifice of Jesus causes us to be reconciled to God,  if we are going to become right in God’s sight we have to come through Christ.

c.       Paul was not teaching individual election, but that all of mankind has been predetermined to be Christians if they want to go to Heaven.

d.      It is not a matter of God choosing the individuals at Ephesus, but that because of the time period in which they lived, i.e. after the death of Christ and establishment of the church, they were predestined to be Christians. God did not predestine individuals but mankind to become Christians if they are to be saved or reconciled with God.

4.      These scriptures do not teach individual election, but teach individual choice.

a.       We still can chose to follow God or not to follow God. We still can choose to believe the saving message or not to believe it. It is our free choice.

b.      If we choose to give ourselves over to God to be saved then we are predestined to be followers of His son Jesus, because Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the truth the way and the life no man comes to the Father but through me”

c.       There is only one way to be saved and that my friend is through the precious blood of Jesus.

Conclusion:

1.      We all have the same choice that Adam and Eve had in the Garden of Eden. We can chose to obey what God has said, or we can chose to do what we want to do. It is our choice. If we hear the message of how to be saved and do nothing we will be lost if we die or if Jesus comes back before we repent..

2.      However, we can exercise our free choice and become a Christian. If we chose to do so then Jesus will pay for all of our debts that have been made. Jesus is the only One who has enough money to pay for your sin. The cost of sin is our soul and we don’t have two souls, so Jesus is the only way. By becoming a Christian today you will make the same choice the Ephesians did when they chose to follow Jesus and not to follow sin. Will you as everyone else in heaven has; choose to be predestined to be a Christian? Yes or no?

3.      In order to become a Christian you must:

1. Hear the message of salvation (Rom 10:17)

2. Believe the message (Heb 11:6, John 3:16-17)

3. Repent of sin (Luke 13:3,5, Act 17:30-31)

4. Confess Jesus as Lord (Mat 10:32-33; Rom 10:9-10)

5. Be Baptized (Acts 2:38-39; 1 Pet 3:21; Gal 3:27)

Have you heard the good news about Jesus...

Have you heard the good news about Jesus…short message of good news…

Have you heard the good news of Jesus Christ, becoming born of a virgin living under the law the good and evil…The Ten Commandments...taught to us by the Jewish people…the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?

Jesus Christ, being born into the tribe of Judah had only never break one of the 10 Commandments to remain sinless and Holy. Jesus, being the only Fathered human of our Creator was made perfect and never chose to do the wrong thing. He never broke one of the 10 Commandments and he offered his own life as a sacrifice to be punished as if he had broken the commandments so he could forgive you and me for having done the wrong thing…having broken one of the commandments.

Jesus will teach us the truth and all we have to do is what is right by our Creator. This sound like good news? That a man named Jesus died and was raised from the dead for you so that you could choose to right over a wrong thing…yes or no? Jesus already paid the penalty for your sin, but you have to trust Him to reveal the truth to you so that you can do what is right by your Creator. Is this sound like good news?

Jesus said, unless you’re born on the water in the spirit, you cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven. Jesus said he believes in his baptized will be saved... He who doesn’t believe he died so you never have to choose wrong again will be damned. Have you been baptized in Christ yes or no? Will you be baptized in the Christ yes or no?

Jesus died and was raised from the dead on the first day of the week as proof He can save you from your sins…He’ll teach you the truth show you right and all you have to do is right by God and creation Sound like good news…then please render obedience to the Author of salvation…

Joh 3:16-17 ASV  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten (Fathered) Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.  17  For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him…though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered; and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation; Heb 5:8-9 ASV Jesus said…He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieves shall be condemned...Mark 16:16.

Will you obey Jesus and be saved by surrendering all to Jesus in baptism…yes or no?

Prayer

Father please remove anything hindering us from obeying the truth so we can be right with fellow man and You our Creator in Jesus of Nazareth’s name (Acts 22:8) Amen.

Try…A…Pause for Prayer and Devotional a Wellsaid Christian Devotional about the teachings of Jesus… https://www.anopenbiblestudy.com/blog-by-ben-the-friend

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