1 Samuel 18; 1 Chronicles 6; Psalm 11; Matthew 3
Helping Someone Get Into Heaven
Can You Share The Gospel
Start With These Few Verses
Scripture
2 “Repent of your sins and turn to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.”
Observation
When you talk to most people about whether they will go to Heaven when they die, almost all of them believe that they are going! When you ask them to tell you why they think they will go to Heaven when they die they almost always give you “works” answers like:
I am trying to do the best I can. I am a pretty good person. I do more good things in my life than bad things, etc. I am better than most of the folks that go down to your church!
So our task is to explain to people the true Gospel message and help folks understand that without a personal relationship with Jesus Christ they are lost and they are going to Hell. They have to understand that they are lost and bound for Hell. So how do you and I get them to see their predicament? They can’t get saved until they understand and see that they are lost!
John the Baptist used a very good word to describe what people need to do. He used the word “Repent”. People need to realize first that they are sinners and that their sin has separated them God. Most people you talk in the USA will readily agree with you that they are sinners, but they don’t believe that their sins separate them from God.
So lets go over just a few verses that every person needs to hear.
First: God loves you and me. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16
Second: There is something that has separated us from God’s love. “Sin” Romans 3:23; “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” All of us are sinners. You may sin less than me or maybe you have sinned more than me but we are all sinners. And that sin has separated us from God.
Third: What we earn by sinning is death – Physical death and Spiritual death – Romans 6:23 says, ‘For the wages of sin is death…”
Fourth: After we die there is judgment for our sins. Hebrews 9:27 says, “And it is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment.”
Fifth: Because we are sinners we all deserve to go to a place called Hell. Luke 12:5 says, “But I’ll tell you whom to fear. Fear God, who has the power to kill you and then throw you into hell. Yes, he’s the one to fear. 2 Thessalonians 1:8 “in flaming fire, bringing judgment on those who don’t know God and on those who refuse to obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus.”
Sixth: We can don’t have to experience Hell and Judgment! Here is the Good News!
Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
John 5:24 says, “I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.
Romans 5:8 says, “But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
John 1:12 says, “But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.
Romans 10:9-10; 13 “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Application
Prayer
Heavenly Father, thank You for Jesus! Thank You for providing a way for my sins to be forgiven. Help people understand the Gospel message as we share it with them. Take the spiritual blinders off of their eyes so that they can be saved.
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