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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

"The Anatomy of a Salvation Message" Part 3 by Pastor Steve

Ready For Some Good News?


Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no
pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his
way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die?

Psalm 145:8 The LORD is gracious and full of compassion,
Slow to anger and great in mercy.
9 The LORD is good to all,
And His tender mercies are over all His works.
17 The LORD is righteous in all His ways,
Gracious in all His works.
18 The LORD is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who call upon Him in truth.
19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him;
He also will hear their cry and save them.
20 The LORD preserves all who love Him,
But all the wicked He will destroy.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count
slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish
but that all should come to repentance.

Luke 19:10 for the Son of Man (Jesus Christ) has come to seek and to
save that which was lost.”

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but
that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been
done in God.”

Romans 5:6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ
died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet
perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God
demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord

John 17:2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Who is this Jesus?

Matthew 3:16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’” 16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”

John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

Matthew 20:18 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death, 19 and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He will rise again.”

(Read Psalm 22 & Isaiah 53 for more prophecies about Jesus' crucifixion and the eye witness account in John 18-20 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jn%2018-20&version=NKJV)

Watch the Passion of the Christ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Due3iUlaoX4

Galatians 1:4 who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us
from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgive
ness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

Colossians 1:20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself,
by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace
through the blood of His cross.

Philippians 2:6 NLT Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God
as something to cling to. 7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges;
he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being.
When he appeared in human form, 8 he humbled himself in obedience to God
and died a criminal’s death on a cross.


Jesus was and is God’s own Son and Sacrificial Lamb who was sent down from heaven to live and die as a sinless Man on a cross for all of humanity to be saved. He was punished and died in our place for our sins.
God needed a way to free mankind from the bondage of sin, Satan and sins penalty which is eternal separation from God and an eternity in Hell. He needed a pure and holy sacrifice, a sinless sacrifice, a Lamb without spot or blemish which is according to the Old Testament pattern. He had a plan all along even before the foundation of the earth because He is all knowing, Omniscient and knows the beginning from the end.

1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.

Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest (Jesus Christ) who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Jesus was tempted by Satan himself and in every way imaginable but didn't sin and completely obeyed God and His Law. All Jesus did fulfilled the requirements of the law on our behalf.

Romans 5:17 CEV Death ruled like a king because Adam had sinned. But that cannot compare with what Jesus Christ has done. God has been so kind to us, and he has accepted us because of Jesus. And so we will live and rule like kings.18Everyone was going to be punished because Adam sinned. But because of the good thing that Christ has done, God accepts us and gives us the gift of life. 19Adam disobeyed God and caused many others to be sinners. But Jesus obeyed him and will make many people acceptable to God.

It's because of Jesus' obedience He was the acceptable sacrifice of all of our sins who would receive Him.

Hebrews 9:22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission. 23 Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Jesus died on the cross, shedding His blood, rose from the dead then went into heaven and presented to God His Father, Himself as a blood sacrifice for all of mankind’s sins.

Mankind’s only way back to God the Father is through Jesus Christ because of His sacrificial death.

John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 65 And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”

John 10:9 I (Jesus Christ) am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will
be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through Me.

How Do You Receive This Salvation?

First, “Count the Cost!”

Luke 14:25 Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and
said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and
mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also,
he cannot be My disciple. 27 And whoever does not bear his cross and
come after Me cannot be My disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to
build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has
enough to finish it— 33 So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be
My disciple.

Luke 9:23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me,
let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily,[a] and follow Me. 24 For
whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for
My sake will save it. 25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole
world, and is himself destroyed or lost? 26 For whoever is ashamed of Me
and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in
His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.

You don’t make a decision that will effect you the rest of your life hear on earth and for eternity, flippantly. You need to know what God will ask of you. Salvation is a free gift received by faith (Ephesians 2:8) but you have to give up all of your life to receive all of His life. With God there are no gray areas and no half ways. It’s either His way all the way or no way for our own good. Many people want a Savior to deliver them from Hell but few really want a Lord and Master who will rule the rest of their life here on earth even though it’s done all out of love and for our own good. He’s the Creator, Master, Father and God and we are not. Our will has no place in His kingdom accept to do His will. (Matthew 7:21) “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

I've heard that the name Savior is used under 40 times and the name Lord is used over four hundred times in the New Testament. Do you think God is trying to get a point across to us? He’s Lord of all or not at all. It’s just the way it is. He’s God and we’re not.
Remember again what Lord means.
Lord - Greek Lexicon Results for kyrios (Strong's G2962) Putting this in my own very simple words is this is what the Greek meaning of the name Lord means when it is spoken of for those of you who might not know yet what a Lexicon is. That’s fine because you know now.
1) he to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding; master, lord
a) the possessor and disposer of a thing
1) the owner; one who has control of the person, the master
2) in the state: the sovereign, prince, chief, the Roman emperor
b) is a title of honour expressive of respect and reverence, with which servants greet their master
c) this title is given to: God, the Messiah

Another words you must be willing to make Jesus your Lord, Master and the posers and controller of all your life for the rest for your life. If not you will not be saved. He wants and needs total surrender of all your life and will over to Him for your own good so He can do the work in you needed to make you the man or woman of God He desires you to be. He loves us more than we can ever imagine and wants the very best for us and this can only happen with complete and total surrender of all our life and will for the remainder of our life.

Second, You Must Repent and Follow Jesus!

Matthew 4:17 AMP From that time Jesus began to preach, crying out, Repent
(change your mind for the better, heartily amend your ways, with abhorrence
of your past sins), for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
19 And He said to them, Come after Me [as disciples--letting Me be your
Guide], follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men!

Hebrews 6:1 AMP...the foundation of repentance and abandonment
of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which
you turned] to God,

By faith which is believing what God has said in His Word you have to turn from your old life and sinful ways to Jesus Christ for the Divine exchange to take place; His life for your life. You give up your life and receive His life. You make a commitment to Him to follow Him and His Word all the days of your life left on earth at any cost and to never look back.

Matthew 10:39 CEV If you try to save your life, you will lose it. But if you give it up for me, you will surely find it.

Luke 9:57 Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.” 58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” 59 Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.” 61 And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.” 62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Let me speak for a moment to both the Believer and nonbeliever.
Here Jesus promises the possibility of homelessness, broken relationships, separation and loneliness to follow Him. In the Western World most of us have no clue about such things let alone the persecution, torture and martyrdom happening in other countries to the Church. You couldn't preach a lot of the messages to those people we preach here in the US. They suffer for their faith, go hungry, get kicked out of their homes, are hunted, they run and hid, meet in secret with the looming possibility it might be their last time to gather together and worship God. Go to this web site and see the truth of what happens around the world to Christians; The Voice of the Martyrs http://www.persecution.com/ and order the DVD “Underground Reality, Vietnam” and some of the other DVD's and books and see and read about the truth that few of us know about.
The conclusion and Part 4 
http://ewpministry.blogspot.com/2010/12/anatomy-of-salvation-message-part-4-by.html

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

"The Anatomy of a Salvation Message" Part 2 by Pastor Steve

Isn't God a Good and Loving God?

Exodus 34:6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, God is merciful, gracious, longsuffering and abounding in goodness and truth. 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
1 John 4:8 …for God is love.

God is love and He is good all the time. But there is much more to God than only these two characteristics and there's a lot more to Him in the fullness of all He is. This is where people make a grave mistake by not telling of all that God is but only one side of Him, the side that make everyone feel good.

God is holy and jealous, Joshua 24:19

God is a righteous judge, 2 Samuel 14:8

God’s ways are just and true, Revelation 15:3

God is a consuming fire, Hebrews 12:29

God is a God of wrath, Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Now you have a fuller view and knowledge about what God is really like in all. He’s all of these all the time and more. His love, goodness and mercy do not preclude His anger, wrath and judgment. He’s all the good stuff we like and all the scary stuff we don’t want to hear about and especially experience. He’s the Lion and the Lamb both at the same time. It all depends on what we do with Him as to which of these characteristics and ways of God we experience first hand.

God is love and has wrath against all sin.

He’s merciful, gracious, longsuffering and good while at the same time a holy, righteous and jealous God who rewards us for all we do on earth in life and with Him.

Psalm 145:8 The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy.

Exodus 34:14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

Deuteronomy 4:24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Joshua 24:19 But Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve the LORD, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. 20 If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done you good.”

Isaiah 26:21 CEV The LORD will come out to punish everyone on earth for their sins.

Isaiah 59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, Fury to His adversaries, Recompense to His enemies;

Isaiah 63:3 “ I have trodden the winepress alone, And from the peoples no one was with Me. For I have trodden them in My anger, And trampled them in My fury; Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, And I have stained all My robes

Revelation 19:15 Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

Revelation 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:8 But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

2 Thessalonians 2:9 CEV When the wicked one appears, Satan will pretend to work all kinds of miracles, wonders, and signs. 10 Lost people will be fooled by his evil deeds. They could be saved, but they will refuse to love the truth and accept it. 11 So God will make sure that they are fooled into believing a lie. 12 All of them will be punished, because they would rather do evil than believe the truth.

Romans 1:18 NIV The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,

You have only seen or heard of just a few Scriptures from the Bible of what God will do to those who have sinned against Him and would not receive the truth but lived their own way. God isn’t schizophrenic or on an emotional roller coaster. He is God and He is Love. He is Good and He is perfect. All He does whether we like it or not is done out of pure, holly, righteous and jealous love. We make the choices, He doesn’t. He only gives use what we ask for even if it’s not spoken by us verbally then it’s through or actions that speak louder than words He hears and sees.

Jeremiah 21:14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, said the LORD

He is who He is and will not change nor conform into our image which so many are doing in the world of the lost and the church of today. We don’t make Him to fit in our world and our form but we submit to His Word and will, are to be conformed into His image and fit into His world and His kingdom which lives forever and ever. He doesn’t do this because He’s a mean, angry, party pooping, buzz killing tyrant. He does it because of His love for us and it’s the only way to keep us from destroying ourselves, others and the world we live in and on. If you don’t believe this then look at the Godless world today and ask this question, “How is it all working out for humanity on this planet with out GOD right now? Any famine? Any murder? Any rape? Any natural disasters? Any wars? ANY TERRORISM KEEPING ANYONE IN FEAR? Watch the news; read the paper; surf the web. What do you see? What’s your answer? Is God running this world or are we with help of some obvious dark demonic forces.

1 John 5:19 and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.

2 Corinthians 4:3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

Ephesians 2:2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

Buy the way if you don’t know the Bible very well yet or at all because your not at the place in life where that has been possible because of your up bringing or you’ve never been to church; I’m speaking about the Devil, Satan who is the spiritual creature behind all of this mess on earth. He works through submitted ungodly mankind to do all his dirty work in an attempt to destroy God’s creation, themselves, man!

Have you broken any of God’s Commandments?

Is there any hope for you, a SINNER?

What will you do? HIDE?

Job 34:21 “For His eyes are on the ways of man,
And He sees all his steps. 22 There is no darkness nor shadow of death
Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
23 For He need not further consider a man,
That he should go before God in judgment.

Psalm 139:8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;

If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

Hebrews 4:13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Hebrews 2:3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation,
which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed
to us by those who heard Him,

Are you trembling at His word or at least concerned?

If not, then there's no reason to read on. Your not yet at the place to where your ready to give up all your life, to escape God's wrath and come into a wonderful relationship with Him through Jesus Christ. You are dangerously gambling with your eternal life. Let me tell you what the Bible says about you who are rejecting God.

John 3: 18 AMP He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation--he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ's name.] 19 The [basis of the] judgment (indictment, the test by which men are judged, the ground for the sentence) lies in this: the Light has come into the world, and people have loved the darkness rather than and more than the Light, for their works (deeds) were evil. 20 For every wrongdoer hates (loathes, detests) the Light, and will not come out into the Light but shrinks from it, lest his works (his deeds, his activities, his conduct) be exposed and reproved.

Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The LORD will judge His people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Simply put, the Bible says that you are evil and don't want to come to Jesus because you want to keep doing the evil that you love and you hate God and will be judged for it. Not a good place to be.

Please read on if you want to find out how to escape all this.

Part 3 http://ewpministry.blogspot.com/2010/12/anatomy-of-salvation-message-part-3-by.html

“The Anatomy of a Salvation Message” Part 1 by Pastor Steve

The most important message a Christian will ever speak to someone and the most important message a sinful unbeliever will ever hear is the salvation message of  Jesus Christ. So everyone please read all of this which has taken me 20 years to compile this wisdom and knowledge of the word of God
The message used by much of Christendom has been whittled down to about 3 minutes, maybe a couple Scriptures and say this prayer and you will be saved. This is very unbiblical and is creating deception and a false since of security based on partial truths at the most.

This message I am giving you is very long and is as in depth as I can give but not all inclusive of course. All my messages on salvation when I preach here in the US and overseas will contain at one time or another all that is spoken of below and even more as I grow in God and a greater knowledge of His word.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

These three Scriptures are three of the most used when preaching about salvation and they are the word of God and good ones but there is so much more. Many people that don't know God have seen or heard these before but really don't have a full understanding of them. They have been used so many times that they have become possibly cliche like the WWJD has over the years.

Why are sinners going to perish and what did they do to deserve such a thing? Why do they need to be born again and what do they need saved from?

1 Timothy 1:15...that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners

The first question we must answer even before we can really explain what a sinner and sin is,

"Who is God?"

Since there are a mutlitude of Scriptures on this subject I will direct you to a few sites listing many of these to save room on this blog.

Genesis 1 is the first book of the Bible with the stroty of God beginning His creation.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen%201&version=NKJV

The Book of Job chapters 38 & 39 are two of the best chapters in the bible describing the Creator God.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=job%2038-39&version=NKJV

Jesus, Creator & God
http://acharlie.tripod.com/bible_study/jesus_creator.html

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9 That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’” 16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

Simply put, "Jesus is only true God."

What is a Sinner?

I hope to answer these and other questions through the remainder of this long message. So please be patient and you might learn something new or even have your life eternally changed.

We can no longer make the salvation message, “God has a wonderful plan for your life, confess you're a sinner and ask Jesus into your heart.” If you will read the Ray Comfort messages "Hell's Best Kept Secret & True and False Conversion you will see the travesty this can bring. http://www.raycomfort.com/

1John 1:4 CEV Everyone who sins breaks God's law, because sin is the same as breaking God's law.

Sin is when we break God’s law or commandments.

Romans 3:19 CEV We know that everything in the Law was written for those who are under its power. The Law says these things to stop anyone from making excuses and to let God show that the whole world is guilty. 20 God doesn't accept people simply because they obey the Law. No, indeed! All the Law does is to point out our sin.

The law, God’s commandments are to keep us from making excuses about our sins and to show us we are guilty because the law points to our sins.

Romans 3:23 All of us have sinned and fallen short of God's glory.

All! Means, ALL! Everybody! Everyone! You! Me! The neighbors! ALL HAVE SINNED! ALL ARE GUILTY AND WITHOUT EXCUSE BEFORE GOD BECAUSE THE LAW BUSTED US OUT & EXPOSED US FOR WHO AND WHAT WE REALLY ARE.

But you say, I'm a good person."

Romans 3:9  What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

10 As it is written: “ There is none righteous, no, not one;
11 There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
12 They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”
13 “ Their throat is an open tomb;
With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;
“ The poison of asps is under their lips”;
14 “ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 “ Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;
17 And the way of peace they have not known.”
18 “ There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Romans 5:12 CEV Adam sinned, and that sin brought death into the world. Now everyone has sinned, and so everyone must die.
18 Everyone was going to be punished because Adam sinned. But because of the good thing that Christ has done, God accepts us and gives us the gift of life. 19 Adam disobeyed God and caused many others to be sinners. But Jesus obeyed him and will make many people acceptable to God. 20 The Law came, so that the full power of sin could be seen. Yet where sin was powerful, God's kindness was even more powerful. 21 Sin ruled by means of death. But God's kindness now rules, and God has accepted us because of Jesus Christ our Lord. This means that we will have eternal life.

We all have sinned but it is Adam that made us sinners. We have just followed what was in us when born, the sinful nature of Adam.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death.

Sin has a wage we all will earn. It’s not the death of when we die and are buried. In (Revelation 2:11) the Bible talks about a second death which is a death that damns us and eternally separates us from God with out hope of ever escaping from Hell.

Luke 16:24 “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’

This is the story called, "The Rich Man and Lazuras". The man who had been rich while on earth was in a place after his death where he was dying of thirst, tormented and with a great gulf separating him so there was no way of escape. The rich man had received all his good and wealth while on earth. Lazarus even though very poor and sick went to heaven where he receive his reward.

Mark 9:43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched— 44 where ‘ Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’ 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched—

This doesn't mean to literally cut something off but to show you hell is so bad that you need to remove from your life whatever is causing the sin. Hell is where the fire is never quenched and the worm never dies.

Go to this web site to hear a message called 23 Minutes in Hell by Bill Wiese.

To see this video and others look on this blog and the blog posted on Friday November 26, 2010 titled, The TRUTH! "People Without Jesus Will Go to Hell"

The Word of God says we are all sinners because of Adam and we all have sinned by breaking Gods commandments.

You might say you have never broken His commandments.

Exodus 20 lists God’s Ten Commandments which are His Laws He judges us by.

1. You shall have no other gods before Me. (Have you always loved God above all else?)

2. You shall not make yourself an idol. (Have you made a god in your mind that you're more comfortable with, a god to suit yourself?)

3. You shall not take God's name in vain. (Have you ever used God's holy Name as a cuss word?)

4. Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy.

5. Honor your father and mother.

6. You shall not murder. (God considers hatred to be as murder).

7. You shall not commit adultery. ("Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart" (Matthew 5:27-28); this is for a man looking at a woman, a woman looking at man and the same sex that might be looking at another with lust and also includes sex before marriage with anyone).

8. You shall not steal. (Have you ever stolen anything? the value of the item is irrelevant).

9. You shall not lie. (Have you lied even once? Including answering these questions).

10. You shall not covet. (Have you ever jealously desired what belongs to others?)

The Bible says that God will punish all murderers, rapists, thieves, liars, adulterers, etc. He will even judge our words and thoughts. On Judgment Day, will you be found to be guilty or innocent of breaking His commandments?

Perhaps you think that God is good, and will therefore overlook your sins. But it is His goodness that will make sure that murderers, rapists, thieves, liars, etc. receive justice. He would be a corrupt Judge if He turned a blind eye to injustice. Have you kept the Commandments?

The Bible says that the Law is perfect. It commands you to be perfect (Matthew 5:48). Are you perfect (in thought, word, and deed)? Will you make it to Heaven? You may say that you are still good, but God says you're not (see Psalm 14:2-3). So one of you is lying, and the Scriptures tell us that it is impossible for God to lie. Remember that all liars will be cast into the Lake of Fire (Revelation 21:8) . God's Law demands justice, and the penalty for sinning against Him is death and Hell. Continue to listen and read on carefully if you want to live.

* These last few writings on the 10 Commandments from Exodus 20 down to the last sentence are from a tract from http://www.raycomfort.com/

James 2:10 CEV If you obey every law except one, you are still guilty of breaking them all.

Part 2 http://ewpministry.blogspot.com/2010/11/anatomy-of-salvation-message-part-2-by.html