HELLO READERS!
This column is bible study on-line. If you are already a believer in God, this will only strengthen you . If you are seeking or have questions about particular things in Christ, this will be enlightening to you as well. Please note, the no one else is more responsible for your spiritual walk above you, yourself! So, search the scriptures and seek God for yourself! Don't just settle for someone else SPOON-FEEDING you!
I also recommend that if you are not already, that you seek solace in a "BIBLE- BASED CHURCH and seek a BIBLE STUDY GROUP, to help you grow in spiritual knowledge. AND NO! All church organizations do not teach directly from the 'HOLY BIBLE, King James version. AND NO! ALL Church organizations DO NOT teach the same thing!
So, BE CAREFUL! Here is a clue that you may be in the wrong place.
(If the Pastor or leaders of the church are preaching and they NEVER or RARELYOPEN THE BIBLE to show you where they are teaching from, that is a hint that they may be teaching something else that what they proclaim. That means that you may not be in a bible-based church. And that could mean that yo are being taught another doctrine without your knowledge. It is unfortunate, but some proclaimed "teachers of the word" have THEIR OWN AGENDA.
Is a very, VERY, pertinent subject, considering the lives we live, considering the purpose of mankind. YES! We all have a purpose for being the ones that got to be born AND LIVE a life.
Think about how many babies didn't get to be born, babies whose lives started and were cut short EVEN WHILE IN THE WOMB! Whether through the killing of the fetus through abortion, death of the mother through some un-timely death or perhaps the fetus (baby) was stillborn. Either way, think about how FORTUNATE that YOU ARE to have been born and that you are ALIVE!
I told you Dear Reader, (if you've been following this column for the last few weeks), that Salvation is needed in your spiritual walk with God! Salvation is needed to show a true, higher faith in God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Salvation is needed to solidify your relationship to Christ. It is needed to protect your soul from chaos in the after-life. By the way, as I've mentioned faith in Christ. For all of you who may believe in God but not his son, the bible tells us that "you can't believe in the one and not in the other'. "That you CANNOT GET TO GOD, BUT BY JESUS. God sent his son, (God's self in the flesh) to understand man more deeply, to walk with man, in his shoes, to bring man closer to himself. God sent Jesus as the Saviour to the world. Saviour, one who saves.
We ALL NEED SAVING FROM SOMETHING!
Jesus came to save our souls from a damning hell. He came, that we may have life and life more abundantly even while we yet live!
SALVATION....
IS IMPORTANT TO GOD. SO, SHOULDN'T IT BE IMPORTANT TO YOU?
I mean, if you proclaim to believe and LOVE God!
In today's discussion, we will explore these thoughts more deeply.
We are going to continue to explore salvation in the book of JOHN chapter 3.
*Oh! Reader, I always tell you what Bible version I use so you'll know where I'm coming from.
I also use a King James version as well, but there are many translations of the bible.
For these verses, I am using a...
Life Application Study Bible, N.I.V
(New International Version)
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.-Wheaton, Ilinois
& Zondervan Publishing House-Grand Rapids, Michigan
Let's being our verse study!
JOHN 3; 16-21
*Please Note that when it comes to Bible verses, if it is written in red, that supposedly meant that Jesus was noted as saying this.
"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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world, through him. Whoever believes in him
is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
I will follow up with footnotes later in Part 2.
Get Knowledge people!
But in all your getting, get an understanding.
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