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For more information on evangelism see the chapter: Salvation
WHY
JESUS HAD TO DIE In
fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood,
and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Heb
9:22
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The
Simple Gospel
Which are: 1Jn 3-23,24 6)
Which is to do the works that He has prepared for us
Eph 2-10 ____________________________ 1.
God loves you: Jn
3-16 “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.” His commandments are to be born again: Jn 3-3 “Truly,
truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom
of God” And love one another: Jn 15-12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another,
just as I have loved you” 1Jn 3-23,24
"This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son
Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. The one who
keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this
that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us." 4.
This purifies your heart: Mat
5-8 “Blessed are
the pure in heart, for they will see God.”
6. Which is to do the works that God has prepared for us: Eph 2-10 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”
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The Gospel of James versus the gospel of Paul The
difference between “belief” and "faith James’ gospel: Jm 2,14-26 – Believing requires obedience Belief:
What we believe is our reality. Paul’s gospel: Eph 2-8,9 – Faith requires the hearing ear Faith:
When we do what we hear, we are doing the works of God, and His reality becomes our reality Seeking
balance between James and Paul is a matter of finding our trail of good
works that proves we believe, completing our faith in Jesus Finding our trail of Good works — We must develop a hearing ear! see full list 106a Rom
4,1-8 Jn
10,3-5 Rev 2-7,11,17,29 Rev
3-6,13 We develop a hearing ear by combining the Spirit and the Word in prayer, which defines the power of God. This trail is our calling. (An example of praying the Bible is the book of Psalms.) see full list 109h Mat
16,13-18 1Cor
2,1-16 Gal
1-11,12 Eph
1,15-19 Eph
3,13-21 Eph 6-17 Once
we hear what God is calling us to do, we "Work
the grace of God"
to fulfill it. Many passages in the Old Testament speak of this (read Hebrews chapter 11), and there are many instances in the New
Testament that speak of it. Here are just a few: 2Cor
6-1 2Tim
2-1 1Cor
15-10 Heb
11,8-10,28-31 Jm
1,23-25
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Verses from above topics
James' gospel Jm 2,14-26 – What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder. But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected. So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God. You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith. In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead. ______
Paul's gospel Eph 2-8,9 – for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast. ______
Finding balance between James and Paul Eph 2-10 – For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them. ______
Finding our trail of Good works — Developing a hearing ear Rom
4,1-8
Jn 10,3-5 – The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”
Rev 2-7,11,17,29 – 7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God. 11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death. 17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows but he who receives it. 29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
Rev 3-6,13,22 – 6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. 13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. 22 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. ______
The Spirit and the word Mat 16,13-18 – Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
1Cor 2,1-16 – When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing. But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.” But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit. But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one. “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.
Gal
1-11,12
Eph
1,15-19
Eph 3,13-21 – Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory. For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth, and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. Eph 6-17 – And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God ______
Working (with) the grace of God
2Cor
6-1
2Tim
2-1
1Cor
15-10
Heb
11,8-10,28-31
Jm
1,23-25
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