Rev. 4:8
And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full
of eyes all around and inside. Day and night without ceasing they
sing, "Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God the Almighty, who was and is
and is to come." Isaiah 6:1-5 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord
sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled
the temple. Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings:
with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their
feet, and with two they flew. And one called to another and said:
"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of
his glory." The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those
who called, and the house filled with smoke. And I said: "Woe is me!
I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people
of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!"
God is the creator
Genesis
1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
God is loving.
1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent
his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:16 So we have known and believe the love that God
has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God,
and God abides in them.
Humanity
Humanity is created by
God.
Genesis
1:27 So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God
he created them; male and female he created them.
Humanity is sinful.
Romans 3:23
...since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all
turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of
us all.
Humanity is headed for
death.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Humanity is separated
from God.
Isaiah 59:2
Rather, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. Col. 1:21 And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind,
doing evil deeds...
Jesus Christ
Jesus is God in the flesh.
Luke 22:70
All of them asked, "Are you, then, the Son of God?" He said to them,
"You say that I am." John 1:1-51 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
Jesus lived a sinless
life on earth.
2 Cor. 5:21
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him
we might become the righteousness of God. 1 Peter 2:22 "He committed no sin, and no deceit was found
in his mouth."
Jesus reconciles us to
God.
2 Cor. 5:18-19
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ,
and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ
God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses
against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.
Jesus died in our place.
Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ
died for us.
Jesus rose from the dead.
Acts 17:31
because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged
in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has
given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."
Jesus is the way to eternal
life.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone
who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. John 5:24 Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word
and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under
judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Response
Repent
- To repent is to have an Understanding of what the "wrong" is, a regret
over what our selfishness results in and a resolve to become what we
were meant to be by God's grace. Repentance indicates willingness to
change, but if it stops here, only a good resolution has been made.
Acts 2:38
Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the
name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven; and you will
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Acts 17:30 While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance,
now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
Believe - Belief
involves intellectual acceptance, but in the true Biblical sense, true
belief or faith must lead to an action. Formal belief becomes real at
the point that we act upon it.
John 3:18
Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe
are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name
of the only Son of God. John 5:24 Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word
and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under
judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Receive
John 1:12
But to all who have received him--those who believe in his name--he
has given the right to become God's children...
Follow - Following
Christ begins with some kind of conversion. Every individual is either
following or not following Christ.
Romans 10:9-10
...because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe
in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses
with the mouth and so is saved. John 1:43 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found
Philip and said to him, "Follow me."
Scripture
verses taken from the New Revised Standard Version
"Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
14
but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
John 4:13-14
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