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I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:11, ESV
Because He loves us, Jesus gave up His life to save us from our sins (and then arose again!)
We, too, should make sacrifices to share that news with the world.
Because He loves us.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:17, ESV
Christ was not sent to condemn. The Law and our own conscience already do that. Christ came to reach out to and save those who stand condemned. (All of us.)
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
John 20:21, ESV
Jesus was sent to save the world. He sends us to tell the world of His saving work on the cross.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Proverbs 18:21, ESV
Are you better at encouraging or discouraging, building up or tearing down with your words?
Do you share biblical, spiritual truths or focus on worldly and even sinful talk?
Do you spread love or hate?
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Romans 8:35, ESV
Parents often say each of their children is their favorite and that each is always loved no matter what.
How much more is this true of the One who died to take away our sins?
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
John 14:27, ESV
The world promises lack of conflict (and rarely delivers even that.)
Christ gives us inner peace by His Holy Spirit, peace between each other (as we seek Him), and peace between us and God by His blood.
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Hebrews 13:16, ESV
When we consider others as extensions of ourselves (we share the same Spirit and were all made in God’simage), God smiles to see us share everything with each other, so that no one is truly in need for anything (except the Gospel.)
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6, ESV
In general, children remember things they have been taught, and wise and practical things tend to stick.
How much more then should we show and tell the truths of God?
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
Proverbs 18:10, ESV
We trust in the only name that can save us from our sins and shame, that will finally one day destroy evil and pain: Jesus.
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 10:13, ESV
In Jesus’ name alone are we saved from our sin and offered eternal life.
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