What is Salvation?
Marvin Patterson
John 3:17-36
Poor Pastor
This pastor joke reminds us to know whose listening when we talk.
After the church service a little boy told the pastor, ''When I grow up, I'm going to give you some money.''
''Well, thank you,'' the pastor replied, ''but why?''
''Because my daddy says you're one of the poorest preachers we've ever had.''
Introduction:
Jesus is moving around the area of Jerusalem, and he had run the thieves out of the temple because they had turned God's house of prayer into a den of thieves! He has turned water into wine, and predicted His death burial, and resurrection, And then a mysterious character shows up at night named Nicodemus! Jesus told him he must be born again in order to go to heaven. This is part two of that discourse that Jesus gives Nicodemus on how to go to heaven, and be born again!
Body:
1-The Key to Eternal Life
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
God loved this world so much that instead of condemning the world, he saved the world that believed in his Son's death, burial, and resurrection. God could have lost His patience with all of us, and decided that he would wipe us out, but we were worth it to God, and instead of condemning us into everlasting fire and brimstone, God made a way that we could go to heaven!
That word for condemn means,
kree'-no
Properly to distinguish, that is, decide (mentally or judicially); by implication to try, condemn, punish: - avenge, conclude, condemn, damn, decree, determine, esteem, judge, go to (sue at the) law, ordain, call in question, sentence to, think.
We could say that God decided not to try us, and to condemn and punish us. We have broken the laws of God, and He could have sentenced us to death, but praise be unto God He chose to send His Son instead!
The word for "saved" means,
sode'-zo
From a primary word s??? soØsØ (contraction ...
Marvin Patterson
John 3:17-36
Poor Pastor
This pastor joke reminds us to know whose listening when we talk.
After the church service a little boy told the pastor, ''When I grow up, I'm going to give you some money.''
''Well, thank you,'' the pastor replied, ''but why?''
''Because my daddy says you're one of the poorest preachers we've ever had.''
Introduction:
Jesus is moving around the area of Jerusalem, and he had run the thieves out of the temple because they had turned God's house of prayer into a den of thieves! He has turned water into wine, and predicted His death burial, and resurrection, And then a mysterious character shows up at night named Nicodemus! Jesus told him he must be born again in order to go to heaven. This is part two of that discourse that Jesus gives Nicodemus on how to go to heaven, and be born again!
Body:
1-The Key to Eternal Life
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
God loved this world so much that instead of condemning the world, he saved the world that believed in his Son's death, burial, and resurrection. God could have lost His patience with all of us, and decided that he would wipe us out, but we were worth it to God, and instead of condemning us into everlasting fire and brimstone, God made a way that we could go to heaven!
That word for condemn means,
kree'-no
Properly to distinguish, that is, decide (mentally or judicially); by implication to try, condemn, punish: - avenge, conclude, condemn, damn, decree, determine, esteem, judge, go to (sue at the) law, ordain, call in question, sentence to, think.
We could say that God decided not to try us, and to condemn and punish us. We have broken the laws of God, and He could have sentenced us to death, but praise be unto God He chose to send His Son instead!
The word for "saved" means,
sode'-zo
From a primary word s??? soØsØ (contraction ...
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