Exceeding Great and Precious Promises

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Exceeding Great and Precious Promises
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• What are these worth to you?

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Gods Promises Are Always Sure

• Gen 913
• 13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be
  for the sign of the covenant between Me and the
  earth.
• NKJV

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Gods Promises Are Always Sure

• 2 Peter 39
• 9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise ,
  as some count slackness, but is longsuffering
  toward us, not willing that any should perish but
  that all should come to repentance.

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Gods Promises Are Always Sure
James 112 Blessed is the man who endures
temptation for when he has been approved, he
will receive the crown of life which the Lord has
promised to those who love Him.
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Last Lesson

• The exceeding great and precious promise of
  forgiveness of sins
• What this was worth to the prophets of old
• What this was worth to the early Christians

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Todays Lesson

• The exceeding great and precious promise of
• Eternal Life

2 Peter 14 4 by which have been given to us
exceedingly great and precious promises, that
through these you may be partakers of the divine
nature , having escaped the corruption that is in
the world through lust. NKJV
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The Promise

• Matt 1929-30
• 29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers
  or sisters or father or mother or wife or
  children or lands, for My name's sake, shall
  receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life .
  
• What is this worth to you?
• How much would you pay for this?

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The Promise

• Matt 2546
• 46 And these will go away into everlasting
  punishment, but the righteous into eternal life
  ."
• John 315
• 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish
  but have eternal life .

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The Promise

• John 654-58
• 54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has
  eternal life , and I will raise him up at the
  last day. 55 For My flesh is food indeed, and My
  blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats My flesh
  and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
  57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live
  because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will
  live because of Me. 58 This is the bread which
  came down from heaven not as your fathers ate
  the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread
  will live forever."
• NKJV

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The Promise

• Rom 27-11
• 7 eternal life to those who by patient
  continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor,
  and immortality 8 but to those who are
  self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey
  unrighteousness indignation and wrath, 9
  tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who
  does evil, of the Jew first and also of the
  Greek 10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone
  who works what is good, to the Jew first and also
  to the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with
  God.
• NKJV

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The Promise

• Rom 623
• 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of
  God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 1 Tim 612-13
• 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on
  eternal life , to which you were also called and
  have confessed the good confession in the
  presence of many witnesses.

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The Promise

Titus 13 2 in hope of eternal life which God,
who cannot lie, promised before time began,
NKJV Titus 37 7 that having been justified by
His grace we should become heirs according to the
hope of eternal life . NKJV
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How Great?

• 1 John 225
• 25 And this is the promise that He has promised
  us eternal life .
• This is highest QUALITY Life Rom.818
• This is happy, glorious Life
• This is perfect, incorruptible Life 1 Peter
  13,4
• This is enduring, timeless, untiring Life
• What would you pay if you could buy it?
• Would you install faith and obedience today?