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“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” —Mark 1:15 (ESV)
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God… —Romans 1:1 (ESV)
None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive. The venom of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes. —Romans 3:10-18 (ESV)
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God —Romans 3:23 (ESV)
For the wages of sin is death, —Romans 6:23a (ESV)
Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ —Ephesians 2:5 (ESV)
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. —Matthew 10:28 (ESV)
“Consider, first, that hell is a place far more frightful than we could ever imagine. The Bible uses many very graphic pictures to describe hell. Each image is terrifying. But the combination is even more horrifying than you can imagine.” —R. Fowler White
• Hell, God tells us, is a place of “black darkness” (2 Peter 2.17).
• It is a place of “outer darkness” where “weeping and gnashing of teeth” is all that will be heard (Matt. 25.30).
• It is “a lake that burns with fire and sulfur” (Rev. 21.8).
• Hell is a prison of everlasting chains from which there is no hope of release (Jude 6).
• It is a furnace of conscious torment where the fire never goes out (Matt. 13.49-50).
• It is a place of excruciating misery where the worm does not die (Mark 9.47-48).
• Hell is a place of agonizing thirst that can never be quenched (Luke 16.22-24).
The suffering in hell is beyond all comparison to the suffering found in this world. And the variety of images for hell in the Bible tells us that the reality of hell is much more frightful than any one of the Bible’s images considered by itself. Hell, you see, is far worse than we can ever imagine.” —J Fowler White
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. —Romans 6:23 (ESV)
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. —Romans 5:8 (ESV)
• Jesus said he existed before Abraham (John 8:58)
•Jesus claimed that He and His Father are one (John 10:30)
• He said He is equal to the Father (John 5:17-18)
•Jesus also claimed to have the power and authority that only God has: He said he has the authority to judge the nations (Matthew 25:31-46)
• He claimed the authority to raise people from the dead (John 5:25-29)
• Jesus said he could forgive sins (Mark 2:5-7)
• Jesus told his followers that he could answer their prayers (John 14:13-14)
• He promised to be with his followers always (Matthew 28:20)
All that belongs to the Father is mine. —John 16:15 (NIV)
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. —John 14:6 (NIV)
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this? —John 11:25-26 (NIV)
“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.” —John 11:27 (NIV)
Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” —Matthew 16:16 (ESV)
Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?” “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.” The high priest tore his clothes. “Why do we need any more witnesses?” he asked. “You have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?” They all condemned him as worthy of death. —Mark 14:61-64 (NIV)
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher, He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” —– C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
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. —Romans 10:9 (ESV)
“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” —Mark 1:15 (ESV)
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. —Romans 5:1 (ESV)
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. —Romans 8:1 (ESV)
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. —Romans 8:38 – 39 (ESV)
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