THE FACTS OF LIFE

LET THE BIBLE SPEAK ABOUT
THE FACTS OF LIFE:

YOU ARE CREATED FROM THE DUST OF THE GROUND.

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." (GENESIS 1:26 NKJV).
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. (GENESIS 2:7 NKJV).

YOU ARE A SINNER.

What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one; (ROMANS 3: 9-10 NKJV).
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (ROMANS 3:23 NKJV).
For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all. (ROMANS 11: 32 NKJV).

YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned-- (ROMANS 5:12 NKJV).
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (ROMANS 6: 23 NKJV).
All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust. (ECCL. 3:20 NKJV).
Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it. (ECCL. 12: 7 NKJV).

YOU ARE GOING TO BE JUDGED.

For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil. (ECCL. 12: 14 NKJV).
"Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead." (ACTS 17: 30-31 NKJV).
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. (2COR. 5:10 NKJV).
And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.  (REVELATION 20: 12-13 NKJV).

YOU CANNOT SAVE YOURSELF.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. (EPH. 2: 8-9 NKJV).
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. (ROMANS 10: 3-4 NKJV).
But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away. (ISAIAH 64: 6 NKJV).

YOUR ONLY HOPE IS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (JOHN14: 6 NKJV).
"Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." (ACTS 4: 12 NKJV).
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. (ROMANS 5: 8-9 NKJV).
That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved." (ROMANS 10: 9-10, 13 NKJV).
So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. (HEBREWS 9: 28 NKJV).

YOUR SALVATION IS AS OUTLINED IN THE BIBLE.

HEAR– “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).

BELIEVE– “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6; John 3:16; 20:30–31). When the Bible speaks of believers being saved, it means obedient believers and not disobedient ones (Acts 16:34; 2:44; Galatians 5:6). Faith alone will not save (James 2:24).

REPENT– “I tell you, no: but unless you repent, ye will all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3; 24:46–47; Acts 17:30–31). To repent means to change one's mind and conduct (Matthew 21:28–29).

CONFESS– “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32–33; Romans 10:9–10; Acts 8:37). One is not to confess that he is taking Jesus Christ as his personal Savior, or that God, for Christ's sake, has pardoned his sins, but that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God (Acts 8:37).

BE BAPTIZED– “Then Peter said to them, ‘Repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit’ ” (Acts 2:38; 22:16; Mark 16:15–16; I Peter 3:21; Galatians 3:27).

BAPTISM IS A BURIAL IN WATER– “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:4; 6:17; Colossians 2:12; Acts 8:37–39).

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