3. God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. God’s Love – John 3 :16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have ever lasting life.
4. God's Plan – John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy : I am come that they might have and that they LIFE might have it abundantly.
6. Man is sinful and separated from God. Therefore, he can not know and experience God’s love and plan for his life. 1.Man is sinful – Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
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8. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitfulabove all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it ?
9. Mark 7:21-23 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, courteousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness : All those evil things come from within. And defile the man.
11. 2. Man is separated from God. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord
12. Destination After Death 1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
13. Sinners - Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving and the abominable, and murderers and idolaters and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone : which is the second death.
14. Christians – JOHN 14:2-3 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
16. Jesus Christ is God’s only provisionfor man’s sin. Through him you can know and experience God’s love and plan for your life.
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18. He died in our place Romans 5:8 He rose from the dead 1 Corinthians 15:3-6 He is the only way to God John 14:6
19. FORMULA OF SALVATION Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith: And that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Good Works = Salvation Grace + Faith + Good Works = Salvation Grace + Faith = Salvation
21. We must receive Jesus Christ as savior and Lord ; then we can know and experience God’s love and plan for our lives. We must receive Christ John 1:12 We receive Christ through faith Ephesians 2:8-9 We receive Christ by personal invitation Revelation 3:20
22. Receiving Christ involves turning to God from self (repentance) and trusting Christ to come into our lives to forgive our sins and to make us the kind of people. He wants us to be . Just to agree intellectually that Jesus is the Son of God and that he died on the cross for our sins is not enough. Nor is it enough to have an emotional experiences. We receive Christ by faith, as an act of the will.
26. You can receive Christ right now by Faith through prayer : “ Lord Jesus, I need you. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive you as my Savior and Lord. Thank you for giving my sins and the eternal life. Take control the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person you want me to be.
