Translation Document 14.07.24

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New City Catechism: Question 28

Question 28: What happens after death to those not united to Christ by faith?

Answer: At the day of judgment they will receive the fearful but just sentence of condemnation pronounced against them. They will be cast out from the favorable presence of God, into hell, to be justly and grievously punished, forever.

Johannes 3,16–18 NIV

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

Johannes 3,36 NIV

36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

Prayer

Honoring God with our Offerings

Psalm 24,1 NIV

1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;

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Sermon Text:

Jakobus 5,19–20 NIV

19 My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, 20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

Sermon Title: Bringing someone who strayed back to the truth

Jakobus 5,20 (NIV)

20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

James 5:16 (NIV)

16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.

Johannes 14,6 NIV

6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Because Jesus is the truth that forgives sins and gives us true life, we should save sinners from error

3 Questions about this salvation: (Main Points)

1. Who saves? (God through us)

2. Who do we save? (Everyone needs saving)

3. How do we save? (Jesus as an example)

1. Who saves?

James 5:20 (NIV)

20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

1. Timotheus 2,5 NIV

5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,

Quote from John Calvin:

Nothing is better or more desirable than to deliver a soul from eternal death; and this is what he does who restores an erring brother to the right way: therefore a work so excellent ought by no means to be neglected… We must therefore take heed lest souls perish through our sloth, whose salvation God puts in a manner in our hands. Not that we can bestow salvation on them; but that God by our ministry delivers and saves those who seem otherwise to be nigh destruction.

1. Who saves? (God through us)

2. Who do we save?

James 5:19 (NIV)

19 My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back,

*I will say this in English and German. But it might still be good for you to say it*

Prone to wander, Lord I feel it Prone to leave the God I love Here's my heart, oh take and seal it Seal it for Thy courts above

1. Who saves? (God through us)

2. Who do we save? (Everyone needs saving)

3. How do we save?

Matthäus 23,27–28 NIV

27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Levitikus 19,17 NIV

17 “ ‘Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt.

Matthäus 11,28 NIV

28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Quote from Edith Schaeffer

I was scared…it is hard to know when to talk, and when simply to “interced” - that is, to intercede by asking for God’s help for the other person. It is as important to know when to keep quiet as to know when to speak clearly and courageously. Just keeeping quiet can at times be the greatest work or activity of a whole period of time during which an “event” [ of doubt] like this is going on! Surely not one of us has wisdom enough to know when to talk and when to be quiet, without asking God for such wisdom - time after time.

Fran came to the end of this time with firm conviction that indeed God is there, the Bible is true, the word “truth” applies to thw whole scope of life, and that the Christian life can flow on into all areas of creativity, as well as into day-by-day living.

1. Who saves? (God through us)

2. Who do we save? (Everyone needs saving)

3. How do we save? (Jesus as an example)

2 Songs

Blessing

Numeri 6,24–26 NIV

24 “ ‘ “The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.” ’