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because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9, ESV
It takes knowing and believing that Christ has taken our sin and is Lord over life and death to be saved, and it should drive us to share the news with all people!
“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight” yourselves in rich food.
Isaiah 55:1-2, ESV
We drink of the Holy Spirit, the milk of the Gospel, and wine of the blood of Christ; and we eat the bread of the body of Christ. For full meat, we dig into theology and deep things of Scripture while serving God.
These are things money cannot buy.
whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
1 John 2:6, ESV
Jesus showed us how to live: seek God, share God’s truth with others, and sacrificially love others that they may hear the Gospel and put their faith in Him.
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Zephaniah 3:17, ESV
It is God who saves, who quiets the confusion and hurts we have with His amazing love.
And He celebrates our salvation with all the angels of heaven!
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:9, ESV
We should be growing more in Christ, to be more like Christ.
We should be showing others how to grow in Christ. (Matthew 28:18-20)
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:5, ESV
Our Lord is indefatigable and undefeatable. Evil tried to take Him down, but He proved greater than evil and death.
We can trust our God.
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
Psalm 103:13, ESV
A loving father helps their kids as they learn and grow.
We never could have learned or grown enough to earn salvation, but our heavenly Father made a way for us through His Son, Jesus Christ.
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:37-39, ESV
Love God.
Love people.
The best way to do both is to fulfill the Great Commission: make disciples who love God.
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5, ESV
Jesus bore our sins and shame once for all time. Nothing can change that. And putting your faith in Hos death and resurrection forever seals you for eternal life.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9, ESV
Both as Christians and not, we continue to sin. It is in our nature until Christ returns.
But, by Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection, all our sins – past, present, and future – are forgiven if we trust Him, confess, and repent.
