CONTINUING THE LESSON BEGUN ON DECEMBER 14. TODAY’S LESSON RESUMES AT POINT # 4.
1. We are all sinners in need of the Saviour (James 2:10)
- If we break one of God’s laws, we are guilty of all of them (James 2:10)
- Any sin is the breaking of God’s law, and we are all guilty before God (I John 3:4)
- All sin begins in our heart, and we are guilty for it before God (I John 3:15)
- We all have sinned in our heart before God and are guilty of sin (Matt. 5:28)
2. We are all unable to remove our sins before God on our own (John 8:34)
- We are controlled by sin, and we cannot change it ourselves
- We are separated from God, and we cannot change it ourselves (Exodus 32:33)
- We are condemned in our sin, and we cannot change it ourselves
3. Whosoever benefits from His eternal life only by believing on Him (John 3:15-16)
- We will never perish
- We are forgiven of our sins (Acts 10:43)
- We possess eternal, everlasting life
- We shall be saved from God’s wrath on sin (Acts 2:21)
4. We must hear His Word to believe it; we must believe it to receive it (John 12:46-48)
- Jesus & the truth of His Word gives light for us in the darkness of sin (v. 46)
- Jesus’s life and forgiveness brings us out of the domain of sinfulness (v. 46b)
- Jesus came as Saviour the first time, but will come as judge the second (v. 47)
- Jesus must be received by faith as Saviour instead of Judge (v. 48) John 3:17-18, 36, Matthew 18:4
5. Whosoever agrees with God about His Son is part of His family (I John 4:15, 5:1)
- If we agree with God in faith, we enter into relationship with Him
- If we are born into God’s family, we have His love to show to others
6. Whosoever calls on Jesus as their Saviour benefits from Salvation (Romans 10:11-13)
- Whosoever believes on Jesus as Saviour will not be ashamed (v. 11)
- Whosoever calls on the Lord as Saviour receives the same Salvation (v. 12)
- Whosoever calls upon the Lord as Saviour will be saved the same (v. 13)
7. God’s gift of Salvation is forever for whosoever (John 11:26)
- God promises they shall never die
- God promises Satan cannot have those who trust in Jesus (I John 5:18; II John 1:9)
- God promises that whosoever’s name is in the book of life enters Heaven (Rev. 20:15; 21:27)
- Whosoever’s name is not in the book of life will not go to Heaven
- Whosoever is still lost in sin cannot go to Heaven with their sins
- Whosoever’s name is in the book of life will go to Heaven