(Matthew 14: 29-30 NLT) So Peter went over the side of the boat and walked on the water toward Jesus. But when he saw the strong wind and the waves, he was terrified and began to sink. “Save me, Lord!” he shouted.
(Isaiah 53:3-6 NLT) He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the sins of us all.
Jesus isn’t just
He
(John 10:9-10 NIV) I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
(John 14:6 NLT) I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
(Luke 23:39-43 NLT) One of the criminals hanging beside him scoffed, “So you’re the Messiah, are you? Prove it by saving yourself—and us, too, while you’re at it!” But the other criminal protested, “Don’t you fear God even when you have been sentenced to die? We deserve to die for our crimes, but this man hasn’t done anything wrong.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.” And Jesus replied, “I assure you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
My eternity is not determined by…
It’s determined by
(Matthew 27:50-51 NLT) Then Jesus shouted out again, and he released his spirit. At that moment the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, rocks split apart…
(Philippians 3:10 NLT) I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead.
1).
(1 John 4:19) We love because he first loved us.
2).
(Jeremiah 29:13) You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
3).
(Luke 9:24 NLT) If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.