What Is Our Need?

▸ We are ____________________

Romans 3:23 – For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. (New Living Translation)

Romans 5:12 – Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned. (New Revised Standard Version)

What are the realities of sin ?

• Sin _________________________ us from God

Isaiah 59:1-2 – 1 Don’t think that the Lord is too weak to save you or too deaf to hear your call for help! 2 It is because of your sins that he doesn’t hear you. It is your sins that separate you from God when you try to worship him. (Good News Translation)

Titus 3:4-5 – 4 . . . When God our Savior revealed his kindness and love, 5 he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit. (New Living Translation)

Ephesians 2:8-9 – 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. (New King James Version)

• Sin ____________________ us before God

Romans 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (New King James Version)

2 Peter 3:9 – . . . But God is being patient with you. He does not want anyone to be lost, but he wants all people to change their hearts and lives. (New Century Version)

What Is God’s Provision?

▸ God is _________________________ Himself with us

2 Corinthians 5:19 – For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. (New Living Translation)

Why?

• God is ____________________

Psalm 103:17 – But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, . . . (English Standard Version)

Lamentations 3:22-23 – 22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,

his mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new every morning;

great is your faithfulness. (New Revised Standard Version)

• God is ____________________

How?

• _______________ is the substitutionary-atonement for the propitiation of our sins

John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (New King James Version)

1 John 2:2 – He [Jesus] is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. (English Standard Version)

Hebrews 9:22 – . . . For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. (New Living Translation)

What Is Your Response?

▸ _________________________

Acts 17:30 – . . . now he [Christ] commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him. (New Living Translation)

▸ ____________________

What will happen when you trust Him?

• _________________________

2 Corinthians 5:17 – This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! (New Living Translation)

• __________________________

Philippians 1:6 – And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. (New Living Translation)