What Jesus Offers You

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What Jesus Offers You
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Remember first that...

• GOD IS CREATOR
• In the beginning,
• God created the heavens and the earth
• Genesis 11

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And also . . .

• He spoke and it was done.
• He commanded and it stood fast
• Psalm 339

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Consider God . . .

• HE MADE US
• So God created humankind in his image,
• in the image of God he created them
• male and female he created them.
• Genesis 127, NRSV

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Therefore, God is . . .

• WORTHY OF PRAISE
• God who gives life to all things . . . who alone
  possesses immortality and dwells in
  unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can
  see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.
  
• 1Timothy 613-16

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Why do we need God . . . . . and the offer of
Jesus?

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Consider Us. . .

• ALL OF US HAVE SINNED
• It is written None is righteous, no, not even
  one... All have sinned and fall short of the
  glory of God.
• Romans 310, 23

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Consider Us . . .

• EVERY PERSON
• All have sinned
• and fall short of the glory of God.
• Romans 310

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Consider Us . . .

• WE EACH HAVE SINNED
• Even though sin came into the world through one
  man and death through sin, . . . death spread to
  all men because all men sinned.
• Romans 512

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Consider Us . . .

• YOU
• All have swerved from the right path
• Every one of them
• Romans 312, MNT

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Consider Us . . .

• AND ME
• If we say, "We have no sin," we are deceiving
  ourselves and the truth is not in us. . .
• If we say, "We have not sinned, we are making
  God a liar.
• 1John 18,10, MNT

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Sin scars us all . . .

• Your sins have come between you and your God,
  and by your evil doings his face has been veiled
  from you.
• Isaiah 592 (BBE)

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So what can we do?

• ANY HOPE IN SIN?
• The wages of sin is death. . . There will be
  wrath and indignation. There will be tribulation
  and distress for every soul of man who does evil,
  of the Jew first and also of the Greek.
• Romans 623a, 28-9

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So what can we do?

• We HAVE NO HOPE AND ARE WITHOUT GOD IN THE
  WORLD.
• Ephesians 212

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We have not lived without sin and we cannot save
ourselves.
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But God . . .

• IS RICH IN MERCY
• But God, being rich in mercy, because of His
  great love with which He loved us, even when we
  were dead in our transgressions. .
• Ephesians 24

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But God . . .

• IS RICH IN LOVE
• He demonstrates His own love toward us, in that
  while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• Romans 58

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God . . .

• IS RIGHTEOUS
• He set forth Christ Jesus to be an atoning
  sacrifice through faith in His blood, for a
  demonstration of Gods righteousness through the
  passing over of prior sins, in His forbearance
  to demonstrate His righteousness at this present
  time that He might Himself be just, and the
  justifier of him who has faith in Jesus
• Romans 325-26

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God . . .

• OUT OF LOVE FOR US . .
• He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
  believes in Him shall not perish, but have
  eternal life.
• John 316

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You See, God . . .

• Had already dreamed how He would save humanity .
  . .
• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
  blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just
  as He chose us in Him before the foundation of
  the world, that we would be holy and blameless
  before Him. . . In love . . . He made known . . .
  His purpose in Him with a view to . . . summing
  up of all things in Christ
• Ephesians 13-10

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You See, God . . .

• Had already predetermined how He would accomplish
  it
• Jesus the Nazarene was delivered over by the
  predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you
  nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and
  put Him to death. But God raised Him up again,
  putting an end to the agony of death. God has
  made Him both Lord and Christ--
  this Jesus whom you crucified."
• Acts 214-40

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God Makes Us Alive

• Only through Christ can we come to the Father
• Jesus said, "I am the way, and the truth, and
  the life no one comes to the Father but through
  Me.
• John 146

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God Makes Us Alive

• Only through Christ is salvation found
• "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.
• Acts 412

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By GraceYou Can Be Saved . . .

• We cannot stand on our own merits.
• We have all become like one who is unclean, and
  all our righteous deeds are like a polluted
  garment.
• Isaiah 646 NRSV

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By Grace You Can Be Saved . . .

• We cannot earn salvation.
• No one will be justified by the works of the
  law.
• Galatians 216, NRSV

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By Grace You Can Be Saved . . .

• But God offers by His Grace the only means by
  which you and I can be saved - Jesus Christ.

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Through Faith . . .

• We must accept God at His word.
• And without faith it is impossible to please
  Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He
  is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek
  Him.
• Hebrews 116

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Through Faith . . .

• We must believe.
• These Scriptures have been written so that you
  may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
  God and that believing you may have life in His
  name.
• John 2031

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Through Faith . . .

• We must act.
• "He who believes in the Son has eternal life but
  he who does not obey the Son will not see life,
  but the wrath of God abides on him."
• John 336

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Peter Said . . .

• To the People on Pentecost . . .
• "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name
  of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins
  and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  For the promise is for you and your children and
  for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our
  God will call to Himself." He...kept on exhorting
  them, saying, "Be saved from this perverse
  generation!"
• Acts 238

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Peter Said . . .

• To the People in the Temple . . .
• "Therefore repent and return, so that your sins
  may be wiped away, in order that times of
  refreshing may come from the presence of the
  Lord for 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.
• Acts 319 412

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Peter Said . . .

• To the Household of Cornelius
• "God is not one to show partiality, but in every
  nation the man who fears Him and does what is
  right is welcome to Him And then, "Surely no
  one can refuse the water for these to be baptized
  . . ., can he? And he ordered them to be
  baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
• Acts 1034-48

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Philip must have said...

• To the People of Samaria
• Since when they believed Philip preaching the
  good news about the kingdom of God and the name
  of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men
  and women alike.
• Acts 812

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Philip the evangelist...

• To the Ethiopian. . .
• preached Jesus to him. As they . . . came to
  some water, the eunuch said, "Look! Water! What
  prevents me from being baptized?" Philip said,
  "If you believe with all your heart, you may."
  And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus
  Christ is the Son of God." . . . they both went
  down into the water, and he baptized him.
• Acts 826-40

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Annanias said . . .

• To Saul of Tarsus . . .
• "The God of our fathers has appointed you to know
  His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear
  an utterance from His mouth. 'For you will be
  a witness for Him to all men of what you have
  seen and heard. Now why do you delay? Get up
  and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling
  on His name.
• Acts 2214-16

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Paul the Apostle . . .

• Said to The Antioch Synagogue . . .
• "Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that
  through Jesus Christ forgiveness of sins is
  proclaimed to you, and through Him everyone who
  believes is freed from all things.
• Acts 1338-39

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Paul the Apostle . . .

• Spoke to The Household of Lydia. . .
• The Lord opened her heart to respond to the
  things spoken by Paul. And . . . she and her
  household were (sic.) baptized.
• Acts 1614-15

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Paul the Apostle . . .

• Spoke to The Household of the Jailer. .
• "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be
  saved, you and your household. They spoke the
  word of the Lord to him together with all who
  were in his house. And he took them that very
  hour of the night and washed their wounds, and
  immediately he was baptized, he and all his
  household.
• Acts 1631-33

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Paul the Apostle . . .

• Spoke to The Corinthians and . . .
• Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed
  in the Lord with all his household, and many of
  the Corinthians when they heard were believing
  and being baptized.
• Acts 188

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Paul the Apostle . . .

• spoke to The Ephesians and . . .
• When they heard this, they were baptized in the
  name of the Lord Jesus.
• Acts 195

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Today then . . .

• Faith comes from hearing
• So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the
  word of Christ.
• Romans 1017

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Today then . . .

• Faith begins with belief
• If you . . . believe in your heart that God
  raised Him from the dead, you will be saved
• Roman 109

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Today then . . .

• Faith produces repentance
• "Therefore having overlooked the times of
  ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all
  people everywhere should repent.
• Acts 1730

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Today then . . .

• Faith confesses belief
• If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord . .
  . you will be saved for with the heart a person
  believes, resulting in righteousness, and with
  the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
• Romans 109-10

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Today then . . .

• Faith puts on Christ in baptism
• For you are all sons of God through faith in
  Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized
  into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
  
• Galatians 326-27

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Today then . . .

• Faith works
• For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor
  uncircumcision means anything, but faith working
  through love.
• Galatians 56

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Today then . . .

• You can be saved by Grace through Faith when
  you...

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Believe in Jesus

• as the Christ
• You must believe that Jesus is the Christ, the
  Son of God and that believing you may have life
  in His name
• John 2031.

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Believe in Jesus

• As the Son of God
• Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart,
  you may." And he answered and said, "I believe
  that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."
• Acts 837

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Believe in Jesus

• As Lord
• They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you
  will be saved, you and your household
• Acts 1631.

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Repent

• of your sins
• Therefore repent and return, so that your sins
  may be wiped away, in order that times of
  refreshing may come from the presence of the
  Lord.
• Acts 319

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Repent

• And change your life . . .
• And Paul kept declaring . . . to . . . all that
  they should repent and turn to God, performing
  deeds appropriate to repentance.
• Acts 2620

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Confess

• Your faith in Jesus Christ
• 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.
• Romans 109

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Be Baptized

• As a believer
• And many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed
  and were baptized.
• Acts 188

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Be Baptized

• For the forgiveness of your sins
• Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every
  one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus
  Christ for the forgiveness of sins and you shall
  receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. . .
• Acts 238

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Be Baptized

• In Water as you are buried in His death
• The eunuch said, "Look! Water! What prevents me
  from being baptized?"
• Therefore we have been buried with Him through
  baptism into death
• Romans 64

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Live for Christ

• Be faithful to Him
• Be faithful until death, and I will give you the
  crown of life
• Revelation 210

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Live for Christ

• Serve others
• Through love serve one another
• Galatians 513.

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Live for Christ

• Worship with His People
• And let us consider how to stimulate one another
  to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own
  assembling together, as is the habit of some, but
  encouraging one another and all the more as you
  see the day drawing near
• Hebrews 1025.

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Wont you accept Jesus Christs Offer?

• Believe on Him, Repent of your sins, Confess your
  faith and Be Baptized into Him for forgiveness of
  your sins.
• Email Us - webmaster_at_simplychristians.net
• Or Call Us at 1-866-BIBLEWAY.

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