| Sharing the Gospel INTRO | |||||||||||
| RCCR | Relate, Create, Convict, Reveal | John 4 | |||||||||
| F.I.R.E | |||||||||||
| Family | Where are you from - Where do you live - How many brothers and sisters do you have -Do you all get along?- Parents- Married -Kids - Type of employment of family- vacation | ||||||||||
| Interests | Hobbies, fun things, activities, weekends, trips… | ||||||||||
| Religious Background | |||||||||||
| What is your Religious Background? | |||||||||||
| Do you have a Christian Background? | |||||||||||
| Did you go to Church when you were Growing up? | |||||||||||
| Eternal Life | |||||||||||
| 1 | Certain you have it? | 1. Do yo | … | ||||||||
| 2 | If.. Gates of Heaven (What are you trusting) | 2. If you were to stand before the gates of heaven and God were to say to you "Why should I let you into My
Heaven?", what would you say to Him? |
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| 3 | What the Bible SAYS….about how to get eternal life | 3. Do you know what the bible says about how to get eternal life (salvation, heaven)? (in the event that there is a God and there is a heaven - I'm not trying to dictate what you should believe, but why would you reject something that you that you don't even know about?) (remember that it in not your responsibility to save anyone, but to share the message of the truth with them- if you can cut through their excuses enough to be able to plant the seed (the Word) in their heart, then the Holy Spirit can work in their life to bring them to a saving knowledge of Jesus) | … | ||||||||
| 1. Do you know for certain that you have eternal life (and that you will go to heaven when you die) ? | |||||||||||
| 2. If you were to stand before the gates of heaven and God were to say
to you "Why should I let you into My Heaven?", what would you say to Him? |
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| 3. Do you know what the bible says about how to get eternal life (salvation, heaven)? (in the event that there is a God and there is a heaven - I'm not trying to dictate what you should believe, but why would you reject something that you that you don't even know about?) (remember that it in not your responsibility to save anyone, but to share the message of the truth with them- if you can cut through their excuses enough to be able to plant the seed (the Word) in their heart, then the Holy Spirit can work in their life to bring them to a saving knowledge of Jesus) | |||||||||||
| Pascal's Wager: | "If I live lik | … | |||||||||
| Teleological Argument: | Building / | … | |||||||||
| Atheist to Agnostic Argument: | For an "at | … | |||||||||
| Honest / Dishonest Agnostic: | Ok then y | … | |||||||||
| Pascal's Wager: | |||||||||||
| "If I live like there is a God and
there isn't then according to you I've wasted my life…. BUT….. If someone lives like there Isn't a God (or God doesn't Exist) then they've wasted their eternity |
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| Teleological Argument: | |||||||||||
| Building / Painter argument (Duh
- How to make an atheist backslide)
When you look at a building how do you know there was a builder? When you
look at a painting how do you know there was a painter? When you look at
creation how do you know there was a creator? We are here by design… |
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| Atheist to Agnostic Argument: | |||||||||||
| For an "atheist" to
know that there is no God (for certain) then they would have to possess all
knowledge. Since they are obviously not omniscient, they are (really) a
Skeptic (AKA- Agnostic). (Lie Detector Machine – professing atheist yields a
false reading on polygraph tests) If this Circle Represents All Knowledge -that is- everything there is to know about everything possible to be known. (This includes Science, Biology Medicine, Math, Music, Architecture, History, etc.) How much do you think you know? (a little, a lot?) This is how much I probably know… (show a little) …Ok so if this is all that you know - is it possible that the knowledge of God could be somewhere else in the circle that is outside of your sphere of knowledge? |
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| Honest / Dishonest Agnostic: | |||||||||||
| Ok then you are really not an
atheist - you’re an agnostic. You're
not sure if there is a God (you don't know for certain). So with that established - there are two
kinds of agnostics: Honest Agnostics & Dishonest Agnostics An Honest Agnostics would say that if there really is a God and He revealed Himself to me than I would believe (want to know Him) A Dishonest Agnostic would say that if there really is a God and He revealed Himself to me than I don’t care. Which category do you fall in? |
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| Romans Road | |||||||||||
| Rom 3:10 | As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: | Exodus 20 | |||||||||
| Exodus 20 | 10 Commandments | Mirror | |||||||||
| God 1st | TV- loving the gift more than the giver- 1st in your life | ILL | 1 | ||||||||
| No Idols | Hands or Mind -(describing mate with wrong charact | ILL | 2 | ||||||||
| Name in Vain - Blasphemy | Hammer - Buddha Darn it! (curse false God?'Vain'- for | ILL | 3 | ||||||||
| Time with God | 0/24hrs - Love=TIME(do you give the God who gives y | ILL | 4 | ||||||||
| Honor Parents | Kid in Street (run over - disobediece - parents fault?) | ILL | 5 | ||||||||
| Don't Hate | Hate your brother? You’re a murderer | 6 | |||||||||
| Don't Lust | Lust after a woman? - Committed adultery in his heart | 7 | |||||||||
| Don't Steal | Thieves don't go to heaven' | just (1) | 8 | ||||||||
| Don't Lie | All liars shall have their part in the lake of fire' | just (1) | 9 | ||||||||
| Don't Covet | Desiring something that is not yours - "mother of all sins" sin preceeds the ot | 10 | |||||||||
| Sin starts in the Heart | |||||||||||
| For out of the heart proceed
evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies: These are [the things]
which defile a man -Matthew 15:19-20 |
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| ILL | If your hanging by 10 Links of a Chain and 1 link breaks you go down | 10 Links of a Chain | |||||||||
| Who of us can say we are not guilty of breaking these Commandments? All of us have sinned, and just as with civil law, you don't have to break ten laws to be a lawbreaker, so the Bible warns, "For whoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all." James 2:10 | |||||||||||
| Romans Road | |||||||||||
| Rom 3:23 | For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; | (10 Commandments) | |||||||||
| Rom 6:23 | For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. | Eph 2:8-9 | |||||||||
| Rom 5:8 | But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. | John 3:16 | |||||||||
| Rom 10:9-10 | That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. | ||||||||||
| For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. | |||||||||||
| Rom 10:13 | For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. | ||||||||||
| Righteous | In Right Standing with God (in right relationship with God) - on right terms with God | ||||||||||
| Sin | Going against God's Law (10 Commandments Exodus 20) (in opposition) | ||||||||||
| Glory | Perfection (holiness) | ||||||||||
| Wage | Price. Payment. (Earned) | ||||||||||
| Death | Separation from God (eternal). Spiritual Death. | ||||||||||
| Gift | Free. Received. (without payment - Can't be Earned) | ||||||||||
| Commends | Prove, Demonstraight | ||||||||||
| Believe | Trust, to Rely on | ||||||||||
| Confess | Declare openly, thanksgiving, (with profession) | ||||||||||
| Call | Ask (God) for Help - cry for help to be rescued (like saved from drowning) | ||||||||||
| (Your Responsibility) | |||||||||||
| Saved | Rescue from Danger or Destruction. The word Saved is a Bible term - it means that God will Rescue us - or save us from our sin and the penalty of our sin (which is eternal destruction) and keep us safe by giving us eternal life (the free gift of God). | ||||||||||
| (God's Responsibility) | |||||||||||
| Lord | Master, King, Ruler, Boss. | ||||||||||
| Repent | to change the mind; (some would say - to turn from sin to the savior - repenting and believing would be different sides of the same coin --- in other words they both happen at the same time. | ||||||||||
| Grace | God giving us something we don't deserve (Heaven) | ||||||||||
| Mercy | God not giving us something we do deserve (Hell) | ||||||||||
| 2 Essential Beliefs in order to be Saved (according to Rom 10:9) | |||||||||||
| 1 | Jesus is Lord | ||||||||||
| 2 | Jesus is Risen | ||||||||||
| If Jesus did not rise from the dead then He is a liar (because he claimed he would) and our faith is in vain. | |||||||||||
| The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of the Christian faith. If Jesus did not rise from the dead then He is a liar (because he claimed he would and didn't). But if he did rise from the dead then that means he defeated death (was victorious over death). That means that he has the power to give us everlasting life. This is why the resurrection is so important - it is the crux if Christianity. This is the Hope that a Christian has - Hope beyond death. But if Jesus Christ is not alive then there is no point in asking him to save you from your sin. But he did, in fact, rise from the dead (come back to life) (it can be proven historically). | |||||||||||
| for with the Heart man believeth unto righteousness | |||||||||||
| and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation | |||||||||||
| Essential Response to the Gospel in order to be saved (According to Romans 10:10,13) | |||||||||||
| Believe | Trust on Jesus ONLY for salvation - not on good works or religious things - We must believe that Jesus is who He said he is - the Lord - the Son of God - believe that he died on the Cross for our sins and that he rose again (defeating death and offering grace to all by giving eternal life to those who repent and trust him) | ||||||||||
| Receive | Confession - and Calling have to do with accepting Jesus as Savior and Lord. We call out to the Lord to rescue us from our sin and confess to God that (by faith) we trust Jesus to give us the righteousness that we lack on our own. Jesus did for us what we could not do for ourselves. We are not GOOD enough, so if we trust what Jesus did FOR us, then we are calling him our Savior- he gives us his goodness- his righteousness that makes us acceptable before God and allows us into heaven. This is why we ask God to forgive our sins and confess (we're thankful) for him pardoning us from all of the sins (transgressions of His Law) in our life, and granting eternal life to us. | John 1:12 | |||||||||
| John 1:12 | But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: | ||||||||||
| (Made into a Child of God) - born into God's Family | |||||||||||
| John 3:16 | For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. | ||||||||||
| He died on the cross for you and the whole world because he loves you | |||||||||||
| Believes - to trust only in Him to avoid the penalty of our sin - and relying soly in Jesus to go to heaven (everlasting life) | |||||||||||
| John 3:36 | He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. | ||||||||||
| Eph 2:8-9 | |||||||||||
| 8 | For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: | ||||||||||
| Grace - unmertited favor | |||||||||||
| 9 | Not of works, lest any man should boast. | ||||||||||
| Gift - can't be earned - can't do something to deserve it. | |||||||||||
| The Way to Mark the Bible for Romans Road (Definitions) | |||||||||||
| Rom 3:10 | As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: | ||||||||||
| Righteous | In Right Standing with God (in right relationship with God) - on right terms with God | ||||||||||
| Rom 3:23 | For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; | Exodus 20 | |||||||||
| Sin | Going against God's Law (10 Commandments Exodus 20) (in opposition) | (10 Commandments) | |||||||||
| Glory | Perfection (holiness) | ||||||||||
| Short | How Short have we come from God's standard of perfection? - we are not Good enough | ||||||||||
| ILL | If you were a good jumper (gymnyst) you still can't jump over this building (able to make tall leaps in a single bound?) You can't jump over the moon. (you're not that good) | ||||||||||
| ILL | If you were a good olympic swimmer, we could go to the shore of the Ocean, and have a race to Europe, or Africa. On your mark, get set (bang!) Go! It doesn't matter how good of a swimmer you are - the fact is you can't make it to the other side because you come short of being THAT GOOD of a swimmer. | ||||||||||
| Go to the 10 Commandments | |||||||||||
| Rom 6:23 | For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. | Eph 2:8-9 | |||||||||
| Wage | Price. Payment. (Earned) | ||||||||||
| Death | Separation from God (eternal). Spiritual Death. | ||||||||||
| Gift | Free. Received. (without payment - Can't be Earned) | ||||||||||
| Eph 2:8-9 | |||||||||||
| 8 | For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: | ||||||||||
| Grace - unmertited favor | |||||||||||
| 9 | Not of works, lest any man should boast. | ||||||||||
| Gift - can't be earned - can't do something to deserve it. | |||||||||||
| Grace | God giving us something we don't deserve (Heaven) | ||||||||||
| Mercy | God not giving us something we do deserve (Hell) | ||||||||||
| Works | Human Effort (trying to earn - kind of like the word WAGE) | ||||||||||
| Rom 5:8 | But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. | John 3:16 | |||||||||
| Commends | Prove, Demonstraight - Show. | ||||||||||
| ILL | Do you love ________ (someone from your family). Well if a an evil person killed your family member--- would you die in their place on the Electric Chair? That would be an example of unconditional undeserved love. Jesus loves us while we were still sinners. He did not wait for us to be good enough to deserve Him giving His life for us. (Jesus said greater love has no man than this - that a man lay down his life for his friends...you are my friends) | ||||||||||
| ILL | in fact - God loves you so much that if you were the only one around, he still would have come to die for you _______. But if you were the only one around, who would have had to nail him on the cross? (you would have) but he still loves you. | ||||||||||
| John 3:16 | For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. | ||||||||||
| He died on the cross for you and the whole world because he loves you | |||||||||||
| Believes - to trust only in Him to avoid the penalty of our sin - and relying soly in Jesus to go to heaven (everlasting life) | |||||||||||
| Rom 10:9-10 | That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. | ||||||||||
| Lord- | Master, King, Ruler, Boss. | ||||||||||
| 2 Essential Beliefs in order to be Saved (according to Rom 10:9) | |||||||||||
| 1 | Jesus is Lord | ||||||||||
| 2 | Jesus is Risen | ||||||||||
| If Jesus did not rise from the dead then He is a liar (because he claimed he would) and our faith is in vain. | |||||||||||
| The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of the Christian faith. If Jesus did not rise from the dead then He is a liar (because he claimed he would and didn't). But if he did rise from the dead then that means he defeated death (was victorious over death). That means that he has the power to give us everlasting life. This is why the resurrection is so important - it is the crux if Christianity. This is the Hope that a Christian has - Hope beyond death. But if Jesus Christ is not alive then there is no point in asking him to save you from your sin. But he did, in fact, rise from the dead (come back to life) (it can be proven historically). | |||||||||||
| Do you believe that Jesus is who he said he was (Lord) and that He died for your sins? Do you believe that Jesus is alive? This is important because your eternal destination is determined by what you decide about Jesus. Who he is - and if he is risen. | |||||||||||
| Romans 10:10 | For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. | ||||||||||
| Righteous | In Right Standing with God (in right relationship with God) - on right terms with God | ||||||||||
| Essential Response to the Gospel in order to be saved (According to Roma | Rom 10:10,13 | ||||||||||
| Believe | Trust on Jesus ONLY for salvation - not on good works or religious things - We must believe that Jesus is who He said he is - the Lord - the Son of God - believe that he died on the Cross for our sins and that he rose again (defeating death and offering grace to all by giving eternal life to those who repent and trust him) | ||||||||||
| Rom 10:13 | For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. | ||||||||||
| Receive | Confession - and Calling have to do with accepting Jesus as Savior and Lord. We call out to the Lord to rescue us from our sin and confess to God that (by faith) we trust Jesus to give us the righteousness that we lack on our own. Jesus did for us what we could not do for ourselves. We are not GOOD enough, so if we trust what Jesus did FOR us, then we are calling him our Savior- he gives us his goodness- his righteousness that makes us acceptable before God and allows us into heaven. This is why we ask God to forgive our sins and confess (we're thankful) for him pardoning us from all of the sins (transgressions of His Law) in our life, and granting eternal life to us. | John 1:12 | |||||||||
| Confess | Declare openly, thanksgiving, (with profession) | ||||||||||
| John 1:12 | But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: | ||||||||||
| (Made into a Child of God) - born into God's Family | |||||||||||
| Rom 10:13 | For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. | ||||||||||
| Call | Ask (God) for Help - cry for help to be rescued (like saved from drowning) | ||||||||||
| (Your Responsibility) | |||||||||||
| Saved | Rescue from Danger or Destruction. The word Saved is a Bible term - it means that God will Rescue us - or save us from our sin and the penalty of our sin (which is eternal destruction) and keep us safe by giving us eternal life (the free gift of God). | ||||||||||
| (God's Responsibility) | |||||||||||
| Repent | to change the mind; (some would say - to turn from sin to the savior - repenting and believing would be different sides of the same coin --- in other words they both happen at the same time. | ||||||||||
| "Except you Repent, You shall all likewise Perish" | Luke 13:3 | ||||||||||
| ILL | A little girl was once watching a sheep eat grass and thought how white it looked against the green background. But when it began to snow she thought, "That sheep now looks dirty against the white snow!" It was the same sheep, but with a different background. When we compare ourselves to man's standard we look pretty clean, but when we compare ourselves to the pure snow-white righteousness of God's standard—His Law, we can see ourselves in truth, that we are unclean in His sight. That Law is the holy standard by which humanity will be judged on Judgment Day. | ||||||||||
| (Your life Compared to Adolf Hitler's make you look like snow white) | |||||||||||
| This may sound strange, but the worst thing you could do at this point of time is to try and clean up your lifestyle—you realize that you have sinned, so from now on you will keep the Ten Commandments, do good deeds, say the right things and think only pure thoughts. But should a judge let a murderer go because he says he will now live a good life? No, he's in debt to justice and therefore must be punished | |||||||||||
| Links of Chain | |||||||||||
| ILL | If your hanging by 10 Links of a Chain and 1 link breaks you go down | ||||||||||
| Who of us can say we are not guilty of breaking these Commandments? All of us have sinned, and just as with civil law, you don't have to break ten laws to be a lawbreaker, so the Bible warns, "For whoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all." James 2:10 | James 2:10 | ||||||||||
| Mirror | |||||||||||
| ILL | The Law of God is merely like a mirror--- | ||||||||||
| —all a mirror does is show you the truth. If you see egg on your face, you don't try and wash yourself with the mirror, it's purpose should be to send you to water for cleansing. Neither should you try and wash yourself with the mirror of God's Law...that's not its purpose. | |||||||||||
| The sight in the mirror is not a pretty one, but if you don't face it and acknowledge that you are unclean, then all that "dirt" will be presented on Judgment Day as evidence of your guilt, and then it will be too late to be cleansed. | |||||||||||
| Good Judge | |||||||||||
| Perhaps you think that God is good and will therefore overlook your sins. But if you were guilty of terrible crimes in a civil court and said to the judge, "Judge, I am guilty but I believe that you are a good man and will therefore overlook my crimes," the judge would probably respond by saying, "You are right about one thing; I am a good man, and it's because of my goodness that I am going to see that justice is done, that you are punished for your crimes." The very thing that many are hoping will save them on Judgment Day, God's "goodness," will be the very thing that will condemn them. If God is good, He should punish murderers. liars, thieves, etc., and Hell will be their dreadful fate. | |||||||||||
| Carefully read the following in preparation for your
litigation. TH |
… | ||||||||||
| Carefully read the following in preparation for your litigation. | |||||||||||
| THE JUDGE: I want to teach you some important principles of the law, so please answer the following questions thoughtfully. | |||||||||||
| DEFENDANT: Yes your honor. | |||||||||||
| THE JUDGE: Do you consider yourself to be a good person? | |||||||||||
| DEFENDANT: Yes, I am a good person. | |||||||||||
| THE JUDGE: Have you ever lied . . . even once; including 'white' lies? | |||||||||||
| DEFENDANT: Yes your honor. | |||||||||||
| THE JUDGE: What does that make you? | |||||||||||
| DEFENDANT: Human your honor. | |||||||||||
| THE JUDGE: So you are saying that you make "mistakes." You have human weaknesses. That may be true. Nevertheless, in the eyes of the law, you are a liar. If you kill one person, you are a murderer; if you tell one lie, you are a liar. | |||||||||||
| DEFENDANT: But your honor, there are many people worse than me. | |||||||||||
| THE JUDGE: That is irrelevant. You have lied, so what does that make you? | |||||||||||
| DEFENDANT: A "liar" your honor. | |||||||||||
| THE JUDGE: Have you ever stolen anything? | |||||||||||
| DEFENDANT: Yes, your honor, I have. But that was in the past. | |||||||||||
| THE JUDGE: Everything that we have done is "in the past." You have stolen, so what does that make you? | |||||||||||
| DEFENDANT: A "thief" your honor. | |||||||||||
| THE JUDGE: So, by your own admission, you are a lying thief. | |||||||||||
| DEFENDANT: But your honor, I am sorry for stealing, and I won't do it again. | |||||||||||
| THE JUDGE: You should be sorry for stealing- you know right from wrong . . . and yet you broke the law. And of course you shouldn’t do it again! You have admitted to me that you are a thief, and therefore you must be punished for transgression of the law. | |||||||||||
| DEFENDANT: But I have given money to charities . . . | |||||||||||
| THE JUDGE: That is commendable, but what has that to do with your crime? You are guilty, and you must be punished. The law demands that. | |||||||||||
| The previous scenario highlights the most common mistakes people make about God and His Law (the Ten Commandments). Almost all of us think that we are good people. We also mistakenly think that our good works, and our sorrow for sin and the fact that we won't do it again (repentance), will save us when we face God. However, the Day will come when each of us will stand before Him who the Bible calls "the Judge of all the earth." It is then that we will see His anger revealed against murderers, rapists, thieves, liars, adulterers, fornicators (those who have had sex before marriage), etc. God's justice will be so thorough, He will even judge hatred as murder, and "every idle word that men speak." Jesus said, "Whoever looks upon a woman and lusts after her has committed adultery already with her in his heart." Have you ever done that? Will you be innocent or guilty on that Day of breaking God's Law? Remember that the Law doesn't see the fact that you have "weaknesses" or that "everybody else does it," as a legitimate excuse. God is "good," and He will make sure absolute justice is done. | |||||||||||
| Being sorry or not sinning again won't save you because you should be sorry (you have a conscience), and of course you shouldn't sin again. Your good works may be commendable, but they will have nothing to do with your case. If you are found to be guilty (and we all are guilty), according to the Bible you will end up in Hell. All you can do is fling yourself on the mercy of the Judge . . . and the Bible tells us that He is also rich in mercy. It is not His will that you go to Hell. He provided a way for you to be forgiven. He so loves you that He sent His Son to take your punishment: "God demonstrated His love toward us, in that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Then Jesus rose from the dead and defeated death. If you will repent (turn away from sin) and trust in Him, God will forgive you and grant you everlasting life. It's as simple as this— we broke God's Law, and Jesus paid our fine. If we repent and trust Him, we are free to leave the Courtroom - our case can be dismissed! | |||||||||||
| Pray something like this now: "Dear God, I want to turn away from all of my sins (name them). This day I put my trust in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Please forgive me, change my heart, and grant me your gift of everlasting life. Amen." Then read the Bible daily and obey what you read (see John 14:21). God loves you and will never leave you. | |||||||||||
| Selling Your Eyes | |||||||||||
| Hold both cards curving toward the right. Which is bigger, the pink or the blue? Both are the same size. Our eyes are often fooled by optical illusions. Speaking of eyes -- imagine if you were offered $1,000,000 for an eye for the purpose of eye transplants. It could be taken out painlessly, and you be give you a new glass eye which will look as good as your other eye, but it just won't look as good as your other eye. Would you sell an eye for $1,000,000? How about both for $20,000,000? No one in his right mind would. Your eyes are priceless, yet they are merely the windows of your soul. Jesus said that your eyes are worth nothing, when compared to the value of your soul -- "If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you, for it is better to enter Heaven without an eye than to go to Hell with both eyes" (Matt 18:9). | |||||||||||
| He asked, "What shall man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matt. 16:26) There is nothing as important as your salvation. Here's what to do: Judge yourself by the Ten Commandments -- Have you lied (even once), stolen (value is irrelevant), committed adultery (Jesus said, "Whosoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart" Matt. 5:28), killed (hatred is considered murder by God -- 1 John 3:15), have you loved God above all else? Be honest. On Judgment Day you know you will be guilty, and therefore end up in Hell. Today, repent (confess and turn from your sin) and trust in Jesus Christ. He died on the cross to take our punishment, and then He rose from the dead. He showed how much God loves us. Then read the Bible daily, obey what you read -- God will never fail you. | |||||||||||
| Parachute | |||||||||||
| Two men were offered a parachute while seated in a plane. The first man was told it would improve his flight, but the second man was informed he had to make a 25,000 foot jump. when the flight struck severe turbulence the first man took his parachute off because as far as he was concerned it didn't improve the flight. but during the same violent turbulence, the second man clung tighter to his parachute. Each man's motive for putting the parachute on determined whether or not they would keep it on.* In the same way, the reason you should "put on the Lord Jesus Christ" shouldn't be to find peace, joy, true happiness, to have your marriage healed or your problems fixed, etc. (to have your flight improved), but it should be to escape the jump to come—because of the fact that you have to pass through the door of death. Then, when the flight gets bumpy (when problems come) you won't fall away from the faith. | |||||||||||
| Exodus 20 | 10 Commandments | Mirror | |||||||||
| God 1st | TV- You can put anything 1st in yourlife and it will re | ILL | 1 | Psalm 14:2-3 | "You shall | 1. Ever broken the first commandment? | |||||
| No Idols | Hands or Mind -(describing mate with wrong charact | ILL | 2 | 1 Corinthians 6:9-1 | Idolitry of t | 2. Do you have your own views on God? | |||||
| Name in Vain - Blasphemy | Hammer - Buddha Darn it! (curse false God?'Vain'- for | ILL | 3 | Lev 24:16 / Matt 1 | (Example | 3. Ever used God's name as a cuss word? | |||||
| Time with God | 0/24hrs - Love=TIME(do you give the God who gives y | ILL | 4 | Ex. 35:2 Num. 15: | God said t | 4. Ever done work on the Sabbath? | |||||
| Honor Parents | Kid in Street (run over - disobediece - parents fault?) | ILL | 5 | Ex. 21:17 / 1 Sam | God says, | 5. Ever dishonored your parents? | |||||
| Don't Hate | Hate your brother? You’re a murderer | 6 | 1 John 3:15 / Revel | Hatred is t | 6. Ever hated anyone? | ||||||
| Don't Lust | Lust after a woman? - Committed adultery in his heart | 7 | Matthew 5:28 / 1 C | Jesus said | 7. Ever looked with lust? | ||||||
| Don't Steal | Thieves don't go to heaven' | just (1) | 8 | 1 Corinthians 6:10 | God says, | 8. Ever stolen something? | |||||
| Don't Lie | All liars shall have their part in the lake of fire' | just (1) | 9 | Revelation 21:8 | God says | 9. Ever told a lie? | |||||
| Don't Covet | Desiring something that is not yours - "mother of all sins" sin preceeds the ot | 10 | Psalm 10:3 / Rom | God says | 10. Ever been greedy? | ||||||
| Sin starts in the Heart | |||||||||||
| For out of the heart proceed
evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies: These are [the things]
which defile a man -Matthew 15:19-20 |
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| ILL | If your hanging by 10 Links of a Chain and 1 link breaks you go down | 10 Links of a Chain | |||||||||
| Who of us can say we are not guilty of breaking these Commandments? All of us have sinned, and just as with civil law, you don't have to break ten laws to be a lawbreaker, so the Bible warns, "For whoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all." James 2:10 | |||||||||||
| 1. Ever broken the first commandment? | |||||||||||
| "You shall have no other gods before me." That means that we should love God with all of our heart, mind, soul and strength. The Bible tells us that no one has kept this commandment (Psalm 14:2-3). | Psalm 14:2-3 | ||||||||||
| 2. Do you have your own views on God? | 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 | ||||||||||
| Idolitry of the imagination is the oldest sin in the Book, "these men have set up their idols in their heart..." Ezek. 14:3. God says that no idolitors "...shall inherit the kingdom of God." 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 | Ezek. 14:3 | ||||||||||
| 3. Ever used God's name as a cuss word? | Lev 24:16 | ||||||||||
| (Example " Oh my
G-d!") God says, "he that blasphemes the name of the LORD, shall surely be put to death..." Leviticus 24:16 and "every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment." Matt. 12:36 |
Matt 12:36 | ||||||||||
| 4. Ever done work on the Sabbath? | Ex. 35:2 | ||||||||||
| God said that anyone who did work on the Sabbath, "shall be put to death" - Ex. 35:2 Num. 15:32-36 tells of a man who merely picked up some sticks on the Sabbath, God said that he must be stoned to death. | Num. 15:32-36 | ||||||||||
| 5. Ever dishonored your parents? | Ex. 21:17 | ||||||||||
| God says, "he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death..." Ex. 21:17 and "rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft" - 1 Samuel 15:23 | 1Samuel 15:23 | ||||||||||
| 6. Ever hated anyone? | 1 John 3:15 | ||||||||||
| Hatred is the same as murder in God's eyes (1 John 3:15) - God says, "...murderers...shall have their part in the lake of fire..." Revelation 21:8 | Revelation 21:8 | ||||||||||
| 7. Ever looked with lust? | Matthew 5:28 | ||||||||||
| Jesus said that lust is "adultery of the heart" (Matthew 5:28) - God says that no adulterers "...shall inherit the kingdom of God." 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 | 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 | ||||||||||
| 8. Ever stolen something? | |||||||||||
| God says, "No thieves... ...shall inherit the kingdom of God." 1 Corinthians 6:10 | 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 | ||||||||||
| 9. Ever told a lie? | |||||||||||
| God says "...all liars,
shall have their part in the lake of fire..." Revelation 21:8 |
Revelation 21:8 | ||||||||||
| 10. Ever been greedy? | Psalm 10:3 | ||||||||||
| God says that he actually hates (abhors) "the covetous," Psalm 10:3, and of those who are covetous (greedy) he says, "they which commit such things are worthy of death," Rom 1:29-32. Also see 1 Tim. 6:10. | Rom 1:29-32 | ||||||||||
| 1 Tim. 6:10 | |||||||||||
| Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find | Proverbs 20:6- 6 | ||||||||||