Gospel Basics Part 1 Joint -- What We Should All Know Word 042024 Sermon Handout

The Basics (What We Should Have All Heard and Been Taught) A. God's Purpose and Desire John 3:14-21; esp. v. 16--For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. Romans 2:4--Don't you realize how kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Or don't you care? Can't you see how kind he has been in giving you time to turn from your sin? (CEV) Ephesians 1:4-9--Before the world was created, God had Christ choose us to live with him and to be his holy and innocent and loving people. God was kind and decided that Christ would choose us to be God's own adopted children. God was very kind to us because of the Son he dearly loves, and so we should praise God. Christ sacrificed his life's blood to set us free, which means that our sins are now forgiven. Christ did this because God was so kind to us. God has great wisdom and understanding, and by what Christ has done, God has shown us his own mysterious ways. (CEV) Ephesians 3:6-12-- 6Here is the mystery. Because of the good news, God's promises are for non-Jews as well as for Jews. Both groups are parts of one body. They share in the promise. It belongs to them because they belong to Christ Jesus. . .. 11That was God's plan from the beginning. He has worked it out through Christ Jesus our Lord. 12Through him and through faith in him we can approach God. We can come to him freely. We can come without fear. (CEV) 1 Timothy 2:1-7, esp. v. 4--God desires all to be saved. (CEV) (See also Ezekiel 18:31-32.) 2 Peter 3:8-10--But you must not forget, dear friends, that a day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. The Lord isn't really being slow about his promise to return, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to perish, so he is giving more time for everyone to repent. But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and everything in them will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be exposed to judgment. (CEV) B. The Nature of Humanity--All Have Sinned Genesis 8:21--And the Lord was pleased with the sacrifice and said to himself, "I will never again curse the earth, destroying all living things, even though people's thoughts and actions are bent toward evil from childhood." (CEV) Psalms 14:1-3 (Cf. Psalms 53:1-3) --. . .. No one does good! The Lord looks down from heaven on the entire human race; . . . to see if there is even one with real understanding, one who seeks for God. But no, all have turned away from God; all have become corrupt. No one does good, not even one! (CEV) Psalms 143:1-2--Listen, LORD, as I pray! You are faithful and honest and will answer my prayer. I am your servant. Don't try me in your court because no one is innocent by your standards. (CEV) Proverbs 20:9--Who can say, "I have cleansed my heart, I am pure and free from sin?" (CEV) Ecclesiastes 7:20, 29--There is not a single person in all the earth who is always good and never sins. . .. "I discovered that God created people to be upright, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path." (CEV) Isaiah 53:1-12, esp. v. 6--We all . . . have gone astray. . .. (CEV) Romans 3:9-20--. . .. We have already shown that all people, whether Jews or Gentiles, are under the power of sin. . .. Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses and to bring the entire world into judgment before God. For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it. (CEV) Romans 7:14-8:14--The law is good then. The trouble is not with the law but with me, because I am sold into slavery, with sin as my master. . .. I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. No matter which way I turn, I can't make myself do right. I want to, but I can't. . .. Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things. . .. If your sinful nature controls your mind, there is death. . .. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will. (CEV) 1 Corinthians 1:18-21--I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to those who are on the road to destruction. . .. As the Scriptures say, "I will destroy human wisdom and discard their most brilliant ideas. . .." Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never find him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save all who believe. (CEV) James 4:1-6--What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Isn't it the whole army of evil desires at war within you.. . And yet the reason you don't have what you want is that you don't ask God for it. And even when you do ask, you don't get it because your whole motive is wrong--you want only what will give you pleasure. . .. I say it again, that if you aim to enjoy this world, you can't be a friend of God. (CEV) C. The Sentence and Judgment upon All Humanity: Death Ezekiel 18:4--The soul who sins is the one who will die. . .. (CEV) Romans 6:23--For the wages of sin is death. . .. (CEV) (Cf. Hebrews 9 (esp. 19-22) --Moses told the people everything that the Law said they must do. . .. And no sins can be forgiven unless blood is offered.) (CEV) D. The Escape from Our Punishment = Christ's Gift of His Death and Resurrection and Our Receipt of the Gift by Confession and Repentance, and Our Receipt of the Holy Spirit Psalm 32:5--Then I acknowledged my sin to you . . . and you forgave the guilt of my sin. (CEV) Acts 4:12--Only one name . . . which can save. (CEV) John 14:6--No one comes to the Father, but by Jesus. Romans 3:21-24--But now righteousness from God, apart from the law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. (CEV) Romans 6:23--For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. (CEV) Romans 10:9-10--If, you confess . . . , "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (CEV) Ephesians 2:8-9--For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith . . . not by works, so that no one can boast. (CEV) 2 Cor. 1:21-22l 2 Cor. 5:5; and Eph. 1:3-4: The Holy Spirit as our Seal and Guarantee. Hebrews 9-10-Jesus is our perfect substitution and sacrifice. 1 Timothy 2:5--Jesus as the only mediator. 1 Peter 1:5--Faith shields believers until salvation is revealed. 1 Peter 3:18--For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. (CEV) 1 John 1:9-10--If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives. (CEV) THE BASICS OF SALVATION-Sermon Handout Part One of the Gospel Basics Gospel Basics: Part One-Page 7 of 9 Copywritten (c) 1997, 2010, and 2020 by Floyd Knight. All Rights Reserved. No part of this book covered by the copyrights hereon may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means--graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, or information storage and retrieval systems--without the written permission of the author.