Last Sunday was filled with excellent teaching. We started off the day with Dan leading Sunday School in our Bible study of Genesis chapters 20 - 22. Pastor Randy was up next with our Sunday Morning Service. He started with the question: If the church is for believers, does that mean that the unsaved aren't welcome? The answer is, of course, the unsaved are very welcome. God's will is for all to be saved and we are to be the lights in a dark world showing people the way to Christ. Pastor focused on some verses from the book of Romans and taught about what we believe as a church and the simple truths of salvation. Here are some of the verses we studied:
Romans 3:21-25 (ESV)
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Romans 6:23 (ESV)
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 10:1-13 (ESV)
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Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. 2
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3
For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
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For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. 6
But the righteousness based on faith says, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down) 7
or "'Who will descend into the abyss?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8
But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 9
because, 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. 10
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 11
For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame." 12
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. 13
For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Hebrews 11:1-6 (ESV)
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the people of old received their commendation. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. 4 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Acts 4:11-12 (ESV)
This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
Verses from Sunday School
Genesis 20-22
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