Basic Doctrine

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Basic Doctrine

• The Gospel
• Adapted from Will Metzgers Tell the Truth

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1. WHO IS GOD?

• God made everyone
• He is our OWNER
• We are responsible to Him
• God is a love-giver
• He desires to be a Father and bring many into His
  family as His adopted spiritual children
• God is law-maker
• He is the perfect judge
• His commands are to be obeyed

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Acts 1722-34

• Paul then stood up in the meeting of the
  Areopagus and said "Men of Athens! I see that in
  every way you are very religious. 23 For as I
  walked around and looked carefully at your
  objects of worship, I even found an altar with
  this inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you
  worship as something unknown I am going to
  proclaim to you.
• "The God who made the world and everything in it
  is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live
  in temples built by hands. 25 And he is not
  served by human hands, as if he needed anything,
  because he himself gives all men life and breath
  and everything else. 26 From one man he made
  every nation of men, that they should inhabit the
  whole earth and he determined the times set for
  them and the exact places where they should live.
  27 God did this so that men would seek him and
  perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he
  is not far from each one of us. 28 For in him we
  live and move and have our being.' As some of
  your own poets have said, We are his offspring.'
• "Therefore since we are God's offspring, we
  should not think that the divine being is like
  gold or silver or stone--an image made by man's
  design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked
  such ignorance, but now he commands all people
  everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day
  when he will judge the world with justice by the
  man he has appointed. He has given proof of this
  to all men by raising him from the dead."

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Colossians 116

• For by him all things were created things in
  heaven and on earth, visible and invisible,
  whether thrones or powers or rulers or
  authorities all things were created by him and
  for him.

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2. LIFE GOD-CENTERED LIVING

• God designed a one way road
• All people are commanded to follow this road to
  His eternal home
• God has two rules
• For our safety
• For our pleasure
• Rule 1 Love God perfectly
• With everything that is in me
• Rule 2 Love others completely
• As I love myself

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Mark 1229-31

• "The most important one (commandment)," answered
  Jesus, "is this Hear, O Israel, the Lord our
  God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God
  with all your heart and with all your soul and
  with all your mind and with all your strength.'
  31 The second is this Love your neighbor as
  yourself.' There is no commandment greater than
  these."

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3. SIN SELF-CENTERED LIVING

• Failure to obey and love God is sin
• Sin separates us from God
• Relationship with God is broken
• All attempts to restore the relationship fail
• Sin is punished by a God of justice
• Now self-centered, we are on a road to a hopeless
  eternity in hell

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Romans 118-23

• The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven
  against all the godlessness and wickedness of men
  who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19
  since what may be known about God is plain to
  them, because God has made it plain to them. 20
  For since the creation of the world God's
  invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine
  nature--have been clearly seen, being understood
  from what has been made, so that men are without
  excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they
  neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to
  him, but their thinking became futile and their
  foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they
  claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and
  exchanged the glory of the immortal God for
  images made to look like mortal man and birds and
  animals and reptiles.

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• Romans 323 for all have sinned and fall short
  of the glory of God
• Romans 621,23 What benefit did you reap at
  that time from the things you are now ashamed of?
  Those things result in death! 23 For the wages
  of sin is death

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4. JESUS CHRIST THE WAY BACK TO LIFE

• GOD PROVIDES A WAY BACK TO HIMSELF
• Jesus Christ the God-man
• 1 John 414 And we have seen and testify that
  the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of
  the world.
• 1 Timothy 115 Here is a trustworthy saying that
  deserves full acceptance Christ Jesus came into
  the world to save sinners

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• JESUS KEEPS THE RULES FOR LIFE PERFECTLY
• He lived as our substitute
• 2 Cor. 521 God made him who had no sin to be
  sin for us, so that in him we might become the
  righteousness of God.
• Heb. 726-27 Such a high priest meets our
  need--one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart
  from sinners, exalted above the heavens. 27
  Unlike the other high priests, he does not need
  to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his
  own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He
  sacrificed for their sins once for all when he
  offered himself.

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• JESUS TAKES THE FULL PUNISHMENT
• He died as our substitute, taking the penalty we
  deserve
• 1 John 49-10 This is how God showed his love
  among us He sent his one and only Son into the
  world that we might live through him. 10 This is
  love not that we loved God, but that he loved us
  and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our
  sins.
• Rom. 56 You see, at just the right time, when
  we were still powerless, Christ died for the
  ungodly.
• 1 Cor. 153 Christ died for our sins according
  to the Scriptures

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• JESUS IS RAISED FROM THE DEAD
• His death satisfied Gods wrath
• Acts 224 But God raised him from the dead,
  freeing him from the agony of death, because it
  was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.
• Acts 1010 but God raised him from the dead on
  the third day and caused him to be seen.
• 1 Cor. 614 By his power God raised the Lord
  from the dead, and he will raise us also.

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5. OUR RESPONSE COMING BACK TO GOD

• Turn (repent) LORDSHIP
• From our sinful lifestyle and efforts at
  self-justification
• Ezek. 1830 "Therefore, O house of Israel, I will
  judge you, each one according to his ways,
  declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent! Turn away
  from all your offenses then sin will not be your
  downfall.
• Acts 532 I have not come to call the
  righteous, but sinners to repentance.
• Acts 1730 In the past God overlooked such
  ignorance, but now he commands all people
  everywhere to repent.
• 2 Cor. 79 Godly sorrow brings repentance that
  leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but
  worldly sorrow brings death.

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Our Response

• Trust (faith) SAVIOR
• In Christ alone as your forgiver who perfectly
  obeyed enabling you to follow Gods rules.
• Romans 109-10 That if you confess with your
  mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart
  that God raised him from the dead, you will be
  saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you
  believe and are justified, and it is with your
  mouth that you confess and are saved.
• Acts 2021 I have declared to both Jews and
  Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance
  and have faith in our Lord Jesus.

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