Reading: Romans chapter 6 1 2nd Timothy 3 vv 1 to 5 N.E.B. You must face the fact: The final age of this world is to be a time of troubles. Men will love nothing but money and self; They will be arrogant, boastful, and abusive; With no respect for parents, no gratitude, no piety, no natural affection; They will be implacable in their hatreds, scandalmongers, intemperate and fierce, strangers to all goodness, traitors, adventurers, swollen with self-importance. They will be men who put pleasure in the place of God, men who preserve the outward form of religion, but are a standing denial of its reality. Keep clear of men like these. 2 1
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Revelation 21 vv 3 & 4 I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Numbers 14 v 21 As truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. 6 3
Psalm 72 v 8 Jesus shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. Luke 1 vv 32 & 33 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. 7 Psalm 2 v 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed. Psalm 2 v 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter s vessel. Psalm 2 v 12 Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. 8 4
Isaiah 24 v 23 The LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. 9 Isaiah 35 vv 5 & 6 The eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. 10 5
Isaiah 2 v 3 Many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 11 Isaiah 2 v 4 He (Jesus) shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,, and their spears into 1st Corinthians 15 vv pruninghooks: 25 & 26 For he must nation shall not lift reign, till he hath put all up sword against enemies under his feet. nation, neither The last enemy that shall shall they learn be destroyed is death. war any more. 12 6
Luke 17 vv 26 As it was in the days of Noe,, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. Genesis 6 vv 5 & 6 God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 13 Genesis 6 v 8 Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. Genesis 6 v 9 Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. WILL WE FIND FAVOUR IN THE SIGHT OF GOD? 14 7
1st Corinthians 15 v 22 For as in Adam all die Romans 6 v 23 For the wages of sin is death. 1st Corinthians 15 v 22 Even so in Christ shall all be made alive. Galatians 3 v 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 15 Mark 16 vv 15 & 16 He (Jesus) said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be condemned. 16 8
Ephesians 4 v 5 There is. One Lord, One faith, One Baptism. 17 BAPTIZO = to sink, dip or immerse RHANTIZO = to sprinkle Cloth being Baptised in the dye 18 9
Matthew 3 v 16 Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water. John 3 v 23 John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim,, because there was much water there. John 15 v 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do what I command you. 19 Acts 2 v 38 Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. Acts 2 v 41 They that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. 20 10
Romans 3 v 23 All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Romans 6 v 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6 v 3 & 4 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 21 If we try to obey God s commands, by living a good life, is not this enough? are we really compelled to be baptised? 22 11
A Centurion A devout man A prayerful man His love and charity was known to all men BUT ONE THING WAS MISSING FROM HIS FAITHFUL LIFE 23 Sirs, what must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved Acts 16 v 33 And he took them the same hour of the night,. and they were baptized. 1st Peter 3 v 21 The answer of a good conscience toward God. 24 12
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Eternal life of peace & happiness 27 Matthew 7 vv 13 & 14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 28 14
The Christian life Romans 12 vv 1 & 2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 29 The Christian life Ephesians 4 vv 31 & 32 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted,, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ s sake hath forgiven you. Luke 18 v 8 When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? 30 15
2nd Peter 3 v 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. Luke 17 v 36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 31 He that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out. 32 16
Isaiah 64 v 4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him Some will see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom - and themselves cast out! Some WILL see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom 33 Revelation 3 v 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 34 17
Matthew 7 vv 7& 8 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 35 36 18
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