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09.20.07: Light4TheDay
"One Verse Evangelism"
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(Home) (VN) (C1) (C2) (K) (S) (F) (It) (De) (Ru) (Ar) ("Pray To Receive Christ") -- Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 
You are free to choose between two masters: sin or Christ Jesus. The wages of sin is eternal death. That is all you can expect or hope for in life without God. By choosing Christ as your master, you receive His gift of eternal life -- new life with God that begins on earth and continues forever with God. What choice have you made? This result of sin is not just physical death -- everyone dies physically, believers and nonbelievers alike. This refers to eternal separation from God in hell. But instead of wages, those who believe receive a free gift from God -- eternal life. Eternal life does not mean endless life on earth, but resurrection from death to eternal glory with God. Because eternal life is a gift, we cannot earn or purchase it. It would be foolish for someone to offer to pay for a gift given out of love. To be a gift, it must be given and received freely. A more appropriate response to a loved one who offers a gift is grateful acceptance. Our salvation is a gift of God, not something of our own doing (Ep 2:8-9). He saved us because of His mercy, not because of any righteous acts on our part (Tit 3:5). How much more we should accept with thanksgiving the gift that God has freely given to us. It is impossible to be neutral. Every person has a master -- either God or sin. A Christian is not someone who cannot sin but someone who is no longer a slave to sin. He or she belongs to God. [Romans 6:19-23] -- Life Application Bible
-- Epheisans 2:8-9 [8] For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith -- and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God -- [9] not by works, so that no one can boast. -- Titus 3:5-7 [5] He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, [6] whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, [7] so that, having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. -- Galatians 6:7-8 [7] Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. [8] The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. -- John 3:14-17 [14] Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert (Numbers 21:7-9), so the Son of Man must be lifted up, [15] that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life. [16] For God so loved the world that He gave His One and Only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. [17] For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. -- John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath (judgment) remains on him. -- John 5:24 I tell you the truth, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. -- Romans 5:21 So that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. -- 1 John 5:11-12 [11] And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. [12] He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. -- Acts 2:21 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. (Joel 2:32) -- Acts 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. -- Romans 10:9-13 [9] 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. [11] As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in Him will never be put to shame." (Isaiah 28:16). [12] For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile -- the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on Him, [13] for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Joel 2:32) -- Matthew 28:19-20 [19] Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, [20] and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. -- Hebrews 4:16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
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