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Why John wrote.
31but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
John 20:31 (WEB) · context
Start reading the Gospel of John
Start reading the Gospel of John
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Jesus' command.
19Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Matthew 28:19-20 (WEB) · context
Baptism
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What the first believers did.
41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:41 (WEB) · context
Baptism
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What the first church did.
42They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
Acts 2:42 (WEB) · context
Do not walk alone
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Keep meeting.
24Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, 25not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:24-25 (WEB) · context
Do not walk alone
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Not ashamed.
16For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
Romans 1:16 (WEB) · context
Tell someone
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A light on a hill.
14“You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. 15Neither do you light a lamp and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house. 16Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 5:14-16 (WEB) · context
Tell someone
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Jesus spoke about hell in His most famous sermon.
22But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
Matthew 5:22 (WEB) · context
Even an angry word is enough
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He was not only talking about murderers. He was talking about the heart.
21“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’
Matthew 5:21 (WEB) · context
Even an angry word is enough
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That includes every one of us.
23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:23 (WEB) · context
Even an angry word is enough
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Which is why He came.
17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
John 3:17 (WEB) · context
Even an angry word is enough
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Jesus used the strongest picture He could find.
29If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
Matthew 5:29 (WEB) · context
Better to lose an eye than your whole self
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He repeated it more than once.
8If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. 9If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
Matthew 18:8-9 (WEB) · context
Better to lose an eye than your whole self
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In Mark He described Gehenna this way.
47If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire, 48‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
Mark 9:47-48 (WEB) · context
Better to lose an eye than your whole self
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The point: deal with sin before it deals with you.
Jesus is not asking anyone to injure their body. He is saying that nothing, however dear, is worth losing your soul for.
Better to lose an eye than your whole self
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Jesus said this to His own followers.
28Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Matthew 10:28 (WEB) · context
Do not fear people. Fear Him who can destroy body and soul.
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Luke records the same warning.
5But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
Luke 12:5 (WEB) · context
Do not fear people. Fear Him who can destroy body and soul.
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And then, immediately, this.
29“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. 30But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
Matthew 10:29-31 (WEB) · context
Do not fear people. Fear Him who can destroy body and soul.
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Jesus explained His own parable of the weeds.
41The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling and those who do iniquity, 42and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:41-42 (WEB) · context
At the end of the age the angels will separate
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And the righteous?
43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew 13:43 (WEB) · context
At the end of the age the angels will separate
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The parable of the net says the same.
49So it will be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous, 50and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13:49-50 (WEB) · context
At the end of the age the angels will separate
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Jesus said this to religious leaders, not to outcasts.
33You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
Matthew 23:33 (WEB) · context
Jesus' sharpest warning was for the religious
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Why?
27“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness. 28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Matthew 23:27-28 (WEB) · context
Jesus' sharpest warning was for the religious
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Religion cannot save. Only grace can.
8for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9not of works, that no one would boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (WEB) · context
Jesus' sharpest warning was for the religious
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Jesus ended the parable of the talents this way.
30Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Matthew 25:30 (WEB) · context
Outer darkness, weeping and gnashing of teeth
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He said it about people who assumed they were safe.
11I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, 12but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 8:11-12 (WEB) · context
Outer darkness, weeping and gnashing of teeth
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The door to the feast is open now.
23“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Luke 14:23 (WEB) · context
Outer darkness, weeping and gnashing of teeth
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Jesus described the day He returns as King.
31“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Matthew 25:31-32 (WEB) · context
Eternal punishment, eternal life
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He said who the fire was prepared for.
41Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
Matthew 25:41 (WEB) · context
Eternal punishment, eternal life
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Two destinies, both called eternal.
46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Matthew 25:46 (WEB) · context
Eternal punishment, eternal life
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God's desire is for life.
11Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?”’
Ezekiel 33:11 (WEB) · context
Eternal punishment, eternal life
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Jesus told a story about two men.
19“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. 20A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores, 21and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luke 16:19-21 (WEB) · context
The rich man and Lazarus
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After death their places were reversed.
22The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. 23In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
Luke 16:22-23 (WEB) · context
The rich man and Lazarus
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There was no crossing over.
26Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’
Luke 16:26 (WEB) · context
The rich man and Lazarus
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He asked for a warning for his brothers.
27“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house— 28for I have five brothers—that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’
Luke 16:27-28 (WEB) · context
The rich man and Lazarus
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The answer is still true.
31“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”
Luke 16:31 (WEB) · context
The rich man and Lazarus
