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2nd step of Salvation

  Realization of the Consequences of sin


“the wages of sin is death….” (Romans 6:23)

Wages refer to what we earned.  Our sins lead to a penalty of death….which is separation from God forever.  Spiritual death is being separated from communion with God.  St. Augustine one said:  (“Our soul is restless until we rest in you.” ) Physical death refers to the soul being separated from the body at death. Eternal death refers to eternal separation from God. To be in hell forever! This is the final outcome to those who reject God.

The biggest question today is:  Why would a loving God send people to hell to suffer forever?  The better question is; What would God do to those who reject Jesus Christ, who suffered so immensely as a substitute for our deserved consequences.  He suffered in order that we might not have to suffer!

In Mark 9:43-47, Jesus makes it clear that hell is a place where “the worm dies not and the fire is not quenched.”  He makes that point emphatically by restating it three times. 

The worm refers to the flesh of man and the fire that isn’t quench means that it never goes out.  If you pour gasoline on a person and set them on fire and the fire never goes out and the body isn’t consume then you would have an idea of the horrors of hell.

In Revelation 14:10-11 the Bible says:  “….He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the lamb.  And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever, and they have no rest day or night….”

A holy God who hates sin and deeply loves His Son will have No Mercy on those who reject Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.  The wrath of God will be poured out abundantly on those, who reject Him!

 

Development of Sanctication-First Step

Questions with Answers found in this section of Scripture: 

      1.  What is the most important quality that we need to add FIRST to our faith?


      2.   What is the will of God according to this section of Scripture

      3.    What is virtue?

      3.    What is the gravest sin in the Church

      4.     What two qualities will sexual immorality destroy inside of us?

       5.     What relationships will sexual immorality destroy?

2 Peter 1: 5 “…giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue-which is moral excellence (2 Peter 1:5a).  It doesn’t say, add, church involvement, or soul winning, or separation. To our precious faith add moral excellence. Does that sound a little odd?  In I Thessalians 4: 3-the Word of God says; “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles, who don’t know God…For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 

Therefore, he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. (I Thessalonians 4:3-5, 7-8). In I Corinthians 6:18-20 the Word of God declares:  Flee sexual immorality, as every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immortality sins against his own body.  Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.


Sex is sacred and marriage is a picture of the intimacy, oneness, and purity that the Lord wants in His relationship with a believer. “For this reason a man shall leave his    father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.  This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
  1. Sexual immorality is one of the gravest sin in the church.  It destroys relationships and families. Satan has used sexual immortality to destroy the ministry of pastors, who gnvolved in an illicit relationship.
  2. Many men in the church have an insatiable appetite for pornography that destroys their relationship with both their wife and the Lord.
  3. Too many women in the church love their soap operas and they often have romance thoughts about being involved in an affair.
  4. Adding moral excellence to our precious faith will create much stability and strength in our character in addition to gaining God’s favor and many blessings from the Lord.
  5. Sexual immorality is one of Satan’s favorite tool for enslaving those who are involved in it.Sexual immorality will destroy a person’s character and conscience.  Therefore, ADDmoral excellence to your precious faith
  6. To illustrate character I would use cement that is wet and mix with gravel, when it is first laid down on the ground.  When it is settle it will become hard and sturdy.  Moral excellence is the beginning of a foundation that will soon become hard and sturdy.

(Abstain from sexual immortality)


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