The Mission

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor (Luke 4:18-19).

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10).

For God did not send his Son in the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him (John 3:17).

The Beginning

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply…” (Genesis 1:27-28a).

The Old Testament 

You shall not lie with man as with a woman; it is an abomination (Leviticus 18:22).

For I the Lord do not change (Malachi 3:6).

The New Testament

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, not adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment (Hebrews 9:27).

I was made this way

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” (Romans 9:20).

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death (James 1:13-15).

The Great Love of God

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind…BUT GOD, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:1-6).

GOOD NEWS!!!!

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29). Jesus Christ, who was perfectly holy, laid down his life as a sacrifice for our sins. 

The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe the Gospel (Mark 1:15). We must repent (turn from our rebellion, and agree with God about our sin), and believe the message of salvation through Jesus Christ.

We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:20b-21). We we put our trust in Jesus, he takes away our sin and gives us his righteousness. 

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). True faith causes the believer to become a new person. 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). This is the good news! God loves you, and will completely forgive all who place their trust in His Son no matter the sins they committed in the past. Turn from sin and turn toward Jesus. God’s guarantee of His love is what Jesus did on the cross for you. Furthermore, the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is your guarantee of eternal life! 

All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day” (John 6:37-40).

For God so loved ___________, that he gave his only Son, that if ___________   believes in him, ___________ shall not perish, but have everlasting life.

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