N160214 - Christchurch Baptist on Burwood

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SERVICE TIMES
SUNDAY SERVICES: Morning 11am Evening 5:30pm
SUNDAY SCHOOL & ADULT BIBLE CLASS: 9:45am – 10:30am (SCHOOL TERMS ONLY)
BIBLE STUDY / PRAYER MEETING: Wednesdays 7:00pm
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Matthew 6:21
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Eric
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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be
also.
Where is your treasure?
leads this morning’s worship
Musical Prelude by Pastor ♪ ♫
 Call to worship
Worship Hymn:  -
775 Joy in My Heart
Opening Prayer
Announcements
Worship Hymn: 
- 1
My Faith Has Found a Resting Place
Tithes & Free will Offerings
Worship Hymn:  - 94
The Name of Jesus
 Bible Reading from Romans 13:11-14
Worship Hymn  -
407
All the Way My Saviour Leads Me
Pastoral Prayer
Bible Message
Closing Hymn:  - 291
Higher Ground
Closing Prayer
BENEDICTION – See back page of the Hymn book
If you have been a visitor today, we hope that you will worship with us again
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Announcements
This morning’s service our pastor will continue in Romans chapter 13 which was started last week
the topic being motivation. The Bible is to be used to instruct the Christian in righteousness as
found in 2 Timothy 3:16. If you have trusted and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour
then you are on the narrow way that leads to life (Matthew 7:14) and have received (imputed)
God’s righteousness. And whilst on that journey the Christians needs to learn how to live a Godly
life for his/her Lord and Saviour. Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things
which I say?
This evening at 5:30pm we will continue in our series, “From Now to Eternity”. Tonight we continue
to look at our new state starting with eternal life. Tonight we will look at whether we eat in our
new bodies.
Prayer Meeting with Chris Hustler this Wednesday 17th February.
Please continue to pray for our church family;
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Debbie, Elizabeth, Inez, Phil, and Mikaela for their health
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Kerry, Stewart, Susan for the loss of their mother and making adjustments to his life.
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Emnas Family Bible study and their residency application
Please continue to pray for the Rutta’s Robert and Dianne (senior) and Robert (junior) and Tanya
and for Abigail Charlotte due to be born end of February with a serious heart defect. Check out
their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/abigailcharlottesheart
Sunday School as usual next week 21st February 2016 at 9:45am.
Adult Sunday School – Men (members). Pastor would like to organise the teaching for the year by
Sunday March 6th Pastor would like your teaching intention, topic, (either from the email sent or
one that the Lord has laid on your heart) and when you would like to teach by Sunday 28th
February please. Gavin will be teaching about Mormons, Eric on the Bible. 2 Timothy 2:15 Study to
shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the
word of truth.
Music lessons Thursday 18th February. Please note the new times and groups: Lizzy and Eli 2pm3pm; Abby and Lily 3pm-4pm; Hudson 4pm-4:30pm; Nathaniel and Blake 4:30pm-5:30pm.
Church Library – please ensure you return missing library items as listed so that the church
librarians catalogue these items and once done you can re-borrow them. The books/DVD's that still
need returning are;
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Witnesses of Jehovah - DVD
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The Bible vs The Book of Mormon - DVD
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Jehovah Witnesses - DVD
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Diversity of the Team - CD
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God's Not Dead - DVD
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Evolution's Achilles' Heels - Book
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Refuting Compromise - Book
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Answers to my Mormon Friends - Book
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The Adventures of Danny the Dinosaur - Book 2 - The Big Boat - Book
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Creation Magazine - Vol 37 No.1 - 2015

Creation Magazine - Vol 37 No.2 - 2015
Evangelist Chris Hustler will be preaching next Sunday, both services. Please be in prayer for him
and the Lord’s messages to us.
Annual church Picnic – This coming Saturday 20th February 2016 at Avondale Park on Mervyn Drive
from 11am onwards. Lord willing and weather permitting. Get your water propelling instruments
and water balloons ready!
Coming Up
Young mothers get-together and devotional by Jess. 10am 26th February. Invite your friends.
Lord’s Supper Sunday 28th February 2016.
Ladies Retreat March 17th through to Saturday 19th March. See Nancy Grove’s letter for details
(pg 6)
Children’s and Adult Choir practise resumes again Sunday 6th March
Resurrection Sunday – Lord’s Supper during the service on 27th March 2016
Prophecy Conference with Peter Jackson from Herald of Hope, 8th-10th April 2016. Please be in
prayer for this event. Meetings will be:
 Friday 8th April 7pm
 Saturday 9th April 7pm
 Sunday 10th April 11am and 6pm
The Deacons would like to have a Garage Sale, Car wash, Sausage Sizzle on Saturday 2 nd April at the
church. Proceeds will be given to missions and will be mission and outreach focused. Please look
through unwanted or disused items that you think you could donate towards this.
Other events coming up this year – Men’s Breakfast Saturday 23rd April, Mission’s Sunday 26th
June 2016, Men’s Sunday 28th August 2016.
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Notice Board
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Chris Hustler
February Memory verse
Proverbs 12:28 In the way of righteousness [is] life;
and [in] the pathway [thereof there is] no death.
Tithes and Offerings
Tithes &
Offerings
Missions:
$1143.50
Re build:
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Pledge to
Mortgage:
$30.00
$60.00
Song Leading
Door
Morning Tea &
Dishes
Crèche
Cleaning
Today:
Next week:
Eric AM/GavinPM
Josh
Gavin AM/Eric PM
Jason
Jan & Eva
Kim & Krystal
Anna & Kim
Beardsley’s - Feb
Jessie & Anita
Ah Kuoi’s - March
Abby on the 27th of
February
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News Articles
Ladies Retreat
March 17th – 19th 2016
Dear Ladies,
The motels are all getting full Friday night of the
retreat. Call right away to try to reserve a room for
your group. We may end up sleeping Friday night
at the hall. Maybe reserve a place for Thursday
night so you can shower but bring an air
mattress/sleeping bag for Friday.
I am excited about the ladies retreat coming up
Mar. 17-19. It will be here before we know it. I Thank you for your part in making the retreat a
wanted to give you a bit of information about it for success for our ladies.
organising purposes on your end.
In His Service,
You will be responsible to book rooms for your
group as it's been in the past. If someone can't Nancy Grove
afford a room there are a couple of us here in
Abigail Rutta Update
Ashburton that could house one or two ladies. If
you need motel information let me know.
We had great visits with the OB and cardiologist at
The retreat will start with a 6:00-6:45 pm check in Vanderbilt today. The OB was concerned because
on Thursday night and we will conclude at 11:00 my amniotic fluid has gone up again, and now it's
am Sat. morning. We are taking some time off officially at polyhydramnios. The concern there is
Friday afternoon for ladies to visit in town as was that the extra pressure could cause my water to
mentioned by several last year.
break, so they're going to watch it closely. The
doctors talked about draining my water, but were
We welcome ladies 18 and older. We aren't set up afraid that doing so would send me into labor. I'm
to accommodate babies/ toddlers or small children. still getting strong contractions. They're not regular,
This is a great time for dad to have some bonding but I do need to rest and be careful. Abby is also
time with the children. My goal is to give mums a breech. The doctor told me that because of all
break so they can go back home feeling refreshed. those factors, I'm not allowed to go back to
If you have any questions about this please ask.
Knoxville any more. She went over reasons for me
to call the on call the doctor (regular contractions)
Our theme this year is Oceans of Opportunity. I am or to call 911 (my water breaking).
still in the process of lining up the speakers for the
sessions. I will send a list of possible topics related Robert drove back tonight to finish packing while
to our theme to those involved.
I'm here at our friend's house. He'll get the kids in
the morning and come back then. I'm having a nice
I need to know how many will be coming from your night of peace and quiet while he does all the work.
church by March 1st. At that time please advise as :)
to special diets needs that we should be aware
of. The cost will be $30 again this year.
The cardiologist appointment was really long
because Abby wouldn't cooperate and get in a
good position. They tried for about an hour and a
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half, but she didn't want to move. Silly girl :) They whose adult offspring have abandoned the faith in
saw most of what they needed though. which they were raised. Yet many churches do
have vibrant youth programs, so what could have
The cardiologist also told us that she's decided to gone wrong? Plenty! If the programs concentrate
have the ECMO team at Abby's birth. (ECMO is a on entertainment, then kids might find they can be
machine that does the job of the heart and lungs.) entertained better by the world. Or else they
If Abby's blood pressure is low at birth, they'll put concentrate on emotional commitment, but
her on ECMO for the catheter procedure. The emotions are fickle. But what about training kids in
cardiac catheter doctor told the cardiologist that the what Jesus called “the great and first
catheter procedure will be difficult, so the machine commandment”: to “love the Lord your God with all
will help stabilize her if she needs extra help. your … mind” (Matthew 22:36–38). This must
include helping them think through questions they
I'm amazed at how much work has gone into often raise.
Abby's birth already! They told us we're like
celebrities at the hospital, because the doctors are Some parents and pastors think that this abandonment
always taking about us. We're so grateful for all the starts with their children asking questions about the
preparation they're putting into this. The Lord has faith. However, without thinking how can they develop
“themind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16)?
given us such wonderful doctors to help our little
girl! I'm so glad for all the medical technology
available
to
help
her. Questioning is a good thing
Thank
you
for
praying!
-Tanya
Emotional highs are not enough!
by Jonathan Sarfati
Published: 28 January 2016 (GMT+10)
Some parents and pastors think that this
abandonment starts with their children asking
questions about the faith. However, without
thinking how can they develop “the mind of Christ”
(1 Corinthians 2:16)? Rather, we should be more
worried if they are not asking questions. As we
have discussed previously,2this is a likely sign that
the children are just borrowing their parents’ or
church’s faith. But a borrowed faith will not last long
after leaving home.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewal of your mind … Unanswered questions are a bad thing
According to one of the leading Christian apologists
outside CMI, Nancy Pearcey:
(Romans 12:2)
Studies find that the main reason people abandon their
Christian upbringing is unanswered intellectual
questions. The researchers were surprised; they
expected to hear stories of relationship issues—people
saying they’d been hurt or emotionally wounded. But the
reason given most often by those who de-convert is that
they could not get answers to their doubts and
questions.3
CMI speakers often minister to churches with few
young people.1 We often meet anguished parents
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We know this from countless letters. E.g. a while
We have answers—but they must get out
ago, a teenage girl wrote to CMI:
there!
I would ask questions about absolutely everything
around me, and that naturally spread to asking
questions about the Bible. My family couldn’t answer me
when I asked where ‘Mrs Cain’ came from, or how all
the animals fit on the ark. … They discouraged me from
asking questions about the Bible, telling me to ‘just
believe’. … So I learned that the Bible was a nice
storybook … over time, I became more of an agnostic,
though I called myself a Christian to keep my family
happy. Faith was fine for less intelligent people who
needed that crutch, but I considered myself above that.4
Answered questions really make a
difference
Emotional intensity is not enough to block out questions.
If anything, it leads teens to redefine Christianity in
purely emotional terms—which leaves them vulnerable
when they finally do face their questions.—Nancy
Pearcey
However, she continues
[I] found the URL for CMI in a book I was researching,
and browsing your Q&A page, I was surprised to find
the answers to the questions I had been asking for over
ten years in literally the first day I was at your site. … I
found myself with no excuse to disbelieve. A few
months later, I became a Christian. God has used your
ministry to affect so many lives, mine among them.4
Now we have more creationist answers than
probably at any time in history. But what use are
they if people are not exposed to them? The same
goes for defenses of Christianity in general, as
Pearcey says:
The good news is that in recent years, apologetics
resources have become far more available. The bad
news is that many churches continue to ignore those
resources, treating Christianity as though it were
primarily emotional.2
Creationist and general Christian apologetics are
connected, since creation is foundational for
Christianity, as shown in the new commentary on
Genesis 1–11,The Genesis Account. This also
shows that Christianity is a system of Total
Truth,6 making objective claims about history, the
future, and morality, as well as providing the basis
for science. So Christianity is not limited just to a
privatized belief with no effect on the real world. But
likely thanks to our ministry in churches, which is
possible thanks to your support, our material is
getting to unexpected places. One example is a
recent debate between Christian apologist Frank
Turek and atheist Michael Shermer, Is Morality
Better Explained by God or Science? Although
Turek opposes biblical (‘young earth’) creation, he
used a clip from our DVD Evolution’s Achilles’
Heels on the Darwinian basis for the Nazi
Holocaust.7
And over a decade later, she is still going strong,
working as CMI’s New Testament specialist.5 But
many teens in her position are not so fortunate. As
Once again, thank you for standing with us.
Nancy Pearcey says, many church youth groups
still ignore intellectual development:
Lord, Lord, have we not done many
wonderful works?
Youth groups rarely encourage young people to grapple
By Pastor Ron Boersma
with tough questions. Instead the goal seems to be to
This is important for everyone to read!
engineer events that ratchet up emotional commitment.
But emotional intensity is not enough to block out
Jeremiah 6:16
questions. If anything, it leads teens to redefine
Christianity in purely emotional terms—which leaves
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and
them vulnerable when they finally do face their
see, and ask for the old paths, where [is] the good
questions.3
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way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your knew each other because they said, “We believe
souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].
these things.”
The following transcript from a message by Paris
Reidbead (1919 – 1992). I believe this sheds a
different light on salvation and on the following
verses spoken by Christ;
Matthew 7:20-24
They were men for the most parts, that had met
God. But you see it wasn’t long until having said,
“These are the things that establish us as
fundamentalists,” the second generation said,
“This is how we become a fundamentalist. Believe
in the inspiration of the Bible. Believe in the deity of
Christ. Believe in His death, burial, and
resurrection,
and
thereby
become
a
fundamentalist.” And so it wasn’t long until it got to
our generation where the whole plan of salvation
was to give intellectual assent to a few statements
of doctrine. A person was considered a Christian
because he could say, “uh huh” in four or five
places that he was asked to. And if he knew where
to say, “uh huh”, someone would pat him on the
back, shake his hand, smile broadly and say,
“Brother, you’re saved.”
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21 Not
every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the
will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will
say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not
prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast
out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful
works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never
knew you: depart from me, ye that work
iniquity. 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these
sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him
unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: So it had gotten down to the place where salvation
was nothing more than an assent to a scheme or
Would I be out of line and order if I were to talk to formula, at the end of this salvation was happiness
you for a little while about Utilitarian religion and of man because humanism had penetrated. And so
expedient Christianity? And the question that if you were to analyse the fundamentalism in
you’re going to ask yourself is, “Is God and end or contrast to liberalism of a hundred years ago, as
is He a means?” And you have to decide very early this developed, it would be like this:
in your Christian life – whether you’re viewing God
as an end or a means. The philosophy of the day The liberal says, “The end of religion is to make
became humanism. And you can define humanism man happy while he’s alive.” And the
fundamentalists says, “The end of religion is to
this way –
make man happy when he dies.”
Humanism is a philosophical statement that
declares, “The end of all being is the happiness of Until we find something like this: “Accept Jesus and
man – the reason for existence is man’s you can go to Heaven, you don’t want to go to that
ole, filthy, nasty, burning Hell when there’s a
happiness.”
beautiful Heaven up there; now come to Jesus so
Now according to humanism, salvation is simply that you can go to Heaven. And the appeal could
getting all the happiness you can out of life. The be as much to selfishness as a couple of men
fundamentalists say, “We believe in the inspiration sitting in a coffee shop deciding they’re gonna to
of the Bible. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ. rob a bank to get something for nothing. It becomes
We believe in Hell. We believe in Heaven. We so subtle it just goes everywhere. What is it? In
believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of essence it’s this: That this philosophical postulous
Christ. But remember that the atmosphere is at the end of all being is the happiness of man, has
humanism. And humanism says, “The chief end of been sort of covered over with evangelical terms
being is the happiness of man.” And so it wasn’t and biblical doctrine …. Until, “God reigns in
long until we had this, that the fundamentalists Heaven for the happiness of man. Jesus Christ was
incarnate for the happiness of man. All the angels
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exist in the Heavens for the happiness of man.
Everything is for the happiness of man.” And I
submit to you that this is unchristian. Christianity
says, “The end of all being is the glory of God.”
Humanism says, “The end of all being is the
happiness of man.” This is the betrayal of the ages!
And it’s the betrayal in which we live, and I don’t
see how God can revive it until we come back to
Christianity. Isn’t man happy? Didn’t God intend to
make man happy? Yeah, as a by-product and not
a prime product.
seen pictures of native funerals, and I dint want my
fellow human beings to suffer in Hell eternally after
such a miserable existence on earth. But it was
there in Africa that God began to tear through the
overlay of this humanism. And it was that day in my
bedroom with the door locked that I wrestled with
God. For there I was coming to grips with the fact
that the people that I thought were ignorant and
wanted to know how to go to Heaven, and were
saying, “Someone come and teach us” actually
didn’t want to take time to talk with me or anybody
else. They had no interest in the Bible, and no
Now I ask you, “What is the philosophy of mission? interest in Christ, and they loved their sin and
wanted to continue in it. And I was to the place at
that time, where I felt the whole thing was a sham
What is the philosophy of evangelism?
and a mockery, and I’d been sold a bill of goods.
And I wanted to come home.
What is the philosophy of a Christian?
If you’ll ask me why I went to Africa, I’ll tell you, “I
went primarily to improve on the justice of God.” I
didn’t think it was right for anybody to go to hell
without a chance to be saved. And so I went to give
poor sinners a chance to go to Heaven. Now I
hadn’t put it in so many words, but if you’ll analyse
what I’ve told you, do you know what it is? It’s
humanism. That I was simply using the provisions
of Jesus Christ as a means to improve upon human
conditions of suffering and misery. And when I got
to Africa, I discovered that they weren’t poor,
ignorant, little heathen running around in the woods
looking for someone to tell them how to go to
Heaven. That they were monsters of iniquity. They
were living in honour and total defiance of far more
knowledge of God than I ever dreamed they had.
They deserved Hell, because they utterly refused
to walk in the light of their conscience, and the light
of the law written upon their heart, and the
testimony of nature and the truth they knew. And
when I found that out, I assure you I was so angry
with God that one occasion in prayer I told Him it
was a mighty, little thing He’d done…sending me
out there to reach these people that were waiting
to be told how to go to heaven. When I got there I
found out they knew about heaven and didn’t want
to go there. And they loved their sin and wanted to
stay in it.
And there alone in my bedroom, as I faced God
honestly with what my heart felt, it seemed to me I
heard Him say, “Yes, will not the judge of all the
earth do right?” “The heathen are lost, and they’re
going to Hell, not because they haven't heard the
gospel. They’re going to Hell because they are
sinners who love their sin, and because they
deserve Hell.” “But… I didn’t send you out there for
them; I didn’t send you out there for their sakes.”
And I heard as clearly as I’ve ever heard, though it
wasn’t with physical voice, but it was the echo of
truth of the ages finding its way into an open heart.
I heard God say to my heart that day something like
this, “I didn’t send you to Africa for the sake of the
heathen. I sent you to Africa for My sake. They
deserved Hell, but I love them. And I endured the
agonies of Hell for them. I didn’t send you out there
for them. I sent you out there for Me.” “Do I not
deserve the reward of My suffering? Don’t I
deserve those for whom I died?”
And it’s reversed it all; it’s changed it all and righted
it all. And I wasn’t any longer working for Micah and
ten shekels and a shirt, but I was serving the living
God!
Micah 6:7 Will the LORD be pleased with
thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers
of oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my
I went out there motivated by humanism. I’d seen transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of
pictures of lepers. I’d seen pictures of ulcers. I’d my soul?
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Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which
is] your reasonable service.
Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God,
before he cause darkness, and before your feet
stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye
look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death,
[and] make [it] gross darkness.
Romans 1:23 And changed the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted
beasts, and creeping things.
Jude 25 To the only wise God our Saviour, [be]
glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now
and ever. Amen.
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Contact Details
Pastor:
021 237 5566
Church address
9 Burwood Rd
Christchurch
Postal Address:
PO Box 19971
Christchurch
New Zealand
Email:
[email protected]
Web Address:
www.chchindbaptist.co.nz
Service Times
SUNDAY SERVICES: Morning 11am Evening 5:30pm
SUNDAY SCHOOL & ADULT BIBLE CLASS: 9:45am – 10:30am (SCHOOL TERMS
ONLY)
BIBLE STUDY / PRAYER MEETING: Wednesdays 7:00pm
CHURCH-WIDE FELLOWSHIP LUCHEON & OUTREACH last Sunday of every month.
YOUNG MOTHERS MORNING Friday mornings 10am Last Friday of every month.
MENS EVENINGS Friday Evenings once a month
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1. RECOGNISE YOUR CONDITION
“For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans
3:23) God’s Word says that we are ALL sinners. No one is good enough
to get into Heaven.
2. REALIZE THE PENALTY FOR SIN
“For the wages of sin is death...” (Romans 6:23) Just as there are
wages for good, there is punishment for wrong. The penalty for our sin
is eternal death in a place called Hell.
3. BELIEVE CHRIST DIED FOR YOU
“But God commended his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8) Christ showed his love when
he died on the cross to pay our debt.
4. TRUST CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOUR
“But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
(Romans 6:23) “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved.” (Romans 10:3) Everlasting life is a gift purchased by
the blood of Jesus and offered freely to those who can call on him by
faith.
Dear Lord Jesus, I realise that you died on the cross to take my punishment I
deserve, please forgive me of my sins. I believe that you rose from the dead. I ask
you now, Lord Jesus Christ, to save me from my sins and to be in my life. Thank
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life, in Jesus Name, Amen