Good news! You can be saved from your sin and its ultimate penalty! The word “gospel” simply means “good news,” and that’s exactly what it is. If you understand and believe it, the gospel is the best news that you will ever hear!
It is this good news that gives you the ability to find, to know, and to love God, not to mention escaping your bondage to sin and the ultimate penalty of that sin: eternal death and separation from God. Here are the essential points of this good news that God graciously gives us in the Bible:
*God created and owns everything, including you. Genesis 1:1, Psalm 24:1
*God is perfectly holy. Matthew 5:48
*God requires your perfect obedience to His law. James 2:10
*You have broken God’s law. Romans 3:10; 23
*You will pay the eternal penalty for your sin. Romans 6:23
*You cannot save yourself by your good works. Titus 3:5
*Christ came to earth as both God and sinless man. Colossians 2:9
*Christ demonstrated His love by dying on the cross to pay sin’s penalty. Romans 5:8; 2 Corinthians 5:21
*Christ rose from the grave and is alive today. 1 Corinthians 15:4
*You must repent of all that dishonors God. Isaiah 55:7; Luke 9:23
*You must believe in Christ as Lord and Savior, and be willing to follow after Him. Romans 10:9
Here are some interesting thoughts on DNA and Genesis 1:1
It was over a hundred years ago that Louis Pasteur proved that spontaneous life cannot occur. A cell cannot increase its complexity. A cell cannot add information necessary in its DNA, or its genetic code, to take itself to a higher level. That is impossible. It has never been done, it has never been seen.
Nothing mutates upward. Cancer cells are an example of this. In fact, Darwin’s natural selection, or the process of change or mutation is always downward, never upward.
Individual life that varies too much from the center of the species go downward, according to the law of entropy. Thus, mutants don’t improve the species, they are a decline. Inevitably they die at the cellular level.
Natural selection then is only downward, not upward, and natural selection actually prevents evolution from taking place. No species is capable of moving up. It can decrease itself, by a decrease in its information, but it cannot increase what it is because it cannot come across new information.
Herbert Spencer, a non-Christian evolutionary scientist, hailed as one worthy of many prizes in science, died in 1903. His greatest achievement was that he discovered that everything that exists, fits into one of five categories.
time, force, action, space, matter,
Herbert ol’ chap! How about Genesis 1:1,
“In the beginning,” that’s time,
“God,” that’s force,
“created,”. that’s action,
“the heavens,” that’s space,
“the earth,” that’s matter.
Everything that Herbert Spencer discovered in 1903, is in the first verse of Scripture. The Bible says that God created everything, and in saying that, the Bible gives us all the categories that exist. And He did this out of and from nothing, that is with no preexisting material, and He did it in six literal 24 hour days.
One of my students told me the other day that she disagreed with my view and that she believed in the “big bang” theory. She was surprised when I said to her, ” Ask me about how I built my house?”
She said, “How did you build your house?”
I replied:
* First I bought a one acre lot.
*One day 5 trucks came and dumped a load of bricks mortar and concrete on the lot.
* Next day, 2 trucks came and off loaded all the roofing timbers and tiles.
* After that, another truck brought all the electrical wires and things and left them in a pile on the lot.
* Then a paint van came, and put 75 gallon size cans of paint on a corner of the lot.
* Next a plumber’s truck brought all the water pipes and left them in a pile.
* Finally I took 5 sticks of dynamite and put them under all this stuff and lit them.
There was a “BIG BANG ” and now I have a beautiful house. All the bricks, roofing tiles, timbers, plumbing and electrical wires and fittings are all in their right place, and the walls are all painted in a matching color.
My student said that it was impossible and that I was lying.
Yes, the “big bang” theory is impossible and just a big lie.
This equation:
“NOBODY + NOTHING = EVERYTHING” does not work!!!!!!!!!
Most people think they’re in the process of accumulating a record, and if the good outweighs the bad, then the Judge will make the ruling in his favor in the end. The truth is the judgment was passed when you arrived on the planet.
What caused this? “Because you have not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” You’re going to be sent to hell not for something you did but for what you didn’t do, and that’s believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
So that makes that pretty important, critically important. Every sinner is already condemned. The only way that verdict can be reversed and the slate cleaned and the sinner forgiven is by believing in the unique Son of God, the only way. So it’s important to remember this:
*what damns people to hell in the end is not because of some divine decree made by God.
*What damns people to hell is not because of some deficient provision in the sacrifice of Christ.
*”What damns people to hell is because they sin, as they break God’s Law, and because they do not believe in Jesus Christ.” That’s the issue.
So when you talk to people, I think it’s sometimes okay to say, “You know, you’re a lawbreaker, you’ve broken this law, broken that law, broken the Ten Commandments, fine. That’s all forgivable.”
Sooner or later in the conversation, and may I suggest sooner rather than later, you need to address people about what they think concerning Jesus Christ and cut to the chase and say,
“If you do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as Redeemer, and Savior, and Lord, you will die in your sins and go to hell. That is the one unforgivable sin.”
John 3:18 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.
John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.
To sum up it is unequivocally clear that the one unforgivable sin is permanently rejecting Christ (John 3:18; 3:36). Thus, speaking against the Holy Spirit is equivalent to rejecting Christ with such finality that no future repentance is possible. ‘My spirit shall not always strive with man,’ God said long ago (Genesis 6:3).
What caused this? “Because you have not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” You’re going to be sent to hell not for something you did but for what you didn’t do, and that’s believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
So that makes that pretty important, critically important. Every sinner is already condemned. The only way that verdict can be reversed and the slate cleaned and the sinner forgiven is by believing in the unique Son of God, the only way. So it’s important to remember this:
*what damns people to hell in the end is not because of some divine decree made by God.
*What damns people to hell is not because of some deficient provision in the sacrifice of Christ.
*”What damns people to hell is because they sin, as they break God’s Law, and because they do not believe in Jesus Christ.” That’s the issue.
So when you talk to people, I think it’s sometimes okay to say, “You know, you’re a lawbreaker, you’ve broken this law, broken that law, broken the Ten Commandments, fine. That’s all forgivable.”
Sooner or later in the conversation, and may I suggest sooner rather than later, you need to address people about what they think concerning Jesus Christ and cut to the chase and say,
“If you do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as Redeemer, and Savior, and Lord, you will die in your sins and go to hell. That is the one unforgivable sin.”
John 3:18 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.
John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.
To sum up it is unequivocally clear that the one unforgivable sin is permanently rejecting Christ (John 3:18; 3:36). Thus, speaking against the Holy Spirit is equivalent to rejecting Christ with such finality that no future repentance is possible. ‘My spirit shall not always strive with man,’ God said long ago (Genesis 6:3).
As many of you are aware I am 100 percent Irish and was born in Belfast just two streets from the home of C. S. Lewis.
On this St. Patrick’s Day, 2018 the most loving thing I can ever do is echo the words of our beloved patron Saint, St. Patrick, and remind my Irish friends, that if you are not a believer in, and follower of the Lord Jesus, that you are a lost sinner on the road to hell.
Here is a transcript of my annual St. Patrick’s day message, as I call my fellow Irishmen & Irish women, to exercise repentant faith in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
I do realize that this gospel message may be offensive to some of you as I have already been informed and even rebuked by the merely religious folk. I realize some of you never hear the word “HELL” from the pulpit.
But it is a bible word, and as St Patrick says, some of you may be headed for damnation!
Should that be the case perhaps you too need to believe and exercise repentant faith, confess Jesus as Lord, (KURIOS,) and accept your new status as his slave, his (doulos!)
So, what am I supposed to believe to become a Christian! BELIEVE WHAT?
*Believe, Admit, and Agree you are a sinner.
*Believe, Admit, and agree you are alienated from God, and must truly repent and turn from your sin.
*Believe, Admit and Agree that you are “condemned already” and need a pardon.
*Believe, Admit and Agree that you need to repent (turn your back from sin) and produce fruits of obedience.
*Believe, Admit and Agree that Jesus took your punishment on the cross as your substitute, and is waiting to pardon you.
*Believe, Admit, and Agree that God’s justice was satisfied by the fact that God raised Jesus…from the dead. And when God raised Him from the dead He was saying, “I am satisfied.”
*Believe, Admit and Agree, that the evidence that you are truly a believer is that you produce “fruits of obedience.”
That’s what you BELIEVE! That’s the gospel. And when you believe that by faith, and REPENT, simply trusting God, He, in His mercy takes the righteousness of Jesus Christ and credits it to you because your sins were credited to Christ when He died on the cross.
In 2 Corinthians 5:21 we read
“GOD made JESUS who did not know sin to be sin for US, so that WE might become the righteousness of GOD in Him. “
In Acts 2:37-38, after hearing the gospel the people became aware of their guilt as sinners and said, “What shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
In Luke 18:14, the repentant sinner said, “God be merciful to me a sinner.”
So, if you cry out to God in faith trusting, God will hear you and your life will be transformed in a moment. If your faith is weak ask Him to help you to believe. If you need more information read the Gospel of John, and ask God to teach you the truth of Christ.
Dr. Brian Henry
Just an old sinner saved, rescued delivered and transformed by God’s amazing grace alone, not by works; by faith alone, not by rituals; in Christ alone, not in Mary!
The most loving thing I can ever do is tell you in 2018 is that if you are not a believer in, and follower of the Lord Jesus, that you are a lost sinner on the road to hell.
However, the good news is that Jesus died on the cross and paid for your sins, making it possible for you to be reconciled to God, and be assured of a home in heaven one day. I am calling on you to repent and believe!
So, what am I supposed to believe to become a Christian! BELIEVE WHAT?
*Believe,Admit, and Agree you are a sinner.
*Believe, Admit, and agree you are alienated from God, and must truly repent and turn from your sin.
*Believe, Admit and Agree that you are “condemned already” and need a pardon.
*Believe, Admit and Agree that you need to repent (turn your back from sin) and produce fruits of obedience.
*Believe, Admit and Agree that Jesus took your punishment on the cross as your substitute, and is waiting to pardon you.
*Believe, Admit, and Agree that God’s justice was satisfied by the fact that God raised Jesus…from the dead. And when God raised Him from the dead He was saying, “I am satisfied.”
*Believe, Admit and Agree, that the evidence that you are truly a believer is that you produce “fruits of obedience.”
That’s what you BELIEVE! That’s the gospel. And when you believe that by faith, and REPENT, simply trusting God, He, in His mercy takes the righteousness of Jesus Christ and credits it to you because your sins were credited to Christ when He died on the cross.
In 2 Corinthians 5:21 we read
“GOD made JESUS who did not know sin to be sin for US, so that WE might become the righteousness of GOD in Him. “
In Acts 2:37-38, after hearing the gospel the people became aware of their guilt as sinners and said, “What shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
In Luke 18:14, the repentant sinner said, “God be merciful to me a sinner.”
So, if you cry out to God in faith trusting, God will hear you and your life will be transformed in a moment. If your faith is weak ask Him to help you to believe. If you need more information read the Gospel of John, and ask God to teach you the truth of Christ.
Churches today are literally filled with people who are under the delusion that they have saving faith.
They are looking forward to heaven when the fact is there has never been a transformed life and therefore there’s never been a justifying change in their inner most being.
You can say you have faith but I can’t see that faith unless you show me that faith. And you can’t show me that faith unless you show it to me in a repentant transformed life.
It is not enough to say you have faith, that proves nothing. That’s merely an affirmation which may or may not be true.
Faith in a sense is like the wind, you can’t see it, you only see its effects. It’s like electricity, you can’t see it but you can feel and enjoy and appreciate its effects. It’s like radio waves, you can’t see them, they’re invisible but you can appreciate their effect.
Faith is not known to be real until it is evident in action, deeds, in doing. As in James 1 : 22 put it, or in works as we see in chapter 2.
Faith in James’ mind is a statement equal or a word equal to spiritual life. When he says “faith without works is dead,” what he really means to say, if we can clarify it that way, is spiritual life without works is dead.
There’s no real life there at all. Unless you are living a repentant transformed life, there is no way that your faith can be verified to anyone nor in fact to yourself.
Have you come out of the closet yet??
When you think about somebody coming out of the closet, you might think of sodomites, homosexuals, and lesbians choosing to disclose their sinful sexual perversions.
But my question is directed to those closet christians, who choose to downplay or hide their christian faith and beliefs, in the hope of not offending, but rather pleasing people.
In 2 Corinthians: 9 Paul says, “We have as our ambition to be pleasing to Him.” For example, look at Paul’s life. He lived to please the Lord.
He was like a violinist who really didn’t care for the applause of the audience, but longed for the smile of the master who taught him how to play.
He was like an athlete who wasn’t really moved by the roar of the crowd, but by the commendation of the coach.
He was like a soldier who fought not for the thrill of victory, but the affirmation of his general who said, “Well done, soldier.”
The apostle Paul knew exactly who it was he had to please. In Galatians 1:10 he writes, “Am I striving to please men? If I were still striving or trying to please men I would not be a bond-servant of Christ, I can’t do both.” The focus is to please Him.
It’s like 2 Timothy 2:3-4 Paul says to Timothy, that being a christian is like a soldier. The soldier has to suffer hardship and the soldier has to disconnect himself from all the earthly entanglements, in order that he might please the one who chose him to be a soldier.
This is the basic principle of all Christian living, you do whatever you do to please the Lord. You present your body a living sacrifice, you come to a renewed mind because that is well-pleasing, Romans 12:2
In Ephesians 5: 8-10 “Walk as children of light, trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.” Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
In the light of these scriptures, I would urge you if you are a “closet christian,” to stop pleasing people, and “COME OUT” and live a life pleasing to God.
My testimony in Russian.
Кто есть Брайан Генри. Мое свидетельство!
Я родился в Белфасте, в Ирландии, недалеко от места где жил Льюис, в религиозной среде. Мой отец был спасен в возрасте 17 лет.
Однажды, он был приглашен в Евангельскую Церковь на улице Рейвенхилл в Белфасте (Северная Ирландия).
Именно там он услышал Евангелие и покаявшись
в своих грехах стал последователем Иисуса Христа. После свадьбы на моей маме, мои родители в течении короткого периода времени посещали Конгрегационалисткую Церковь.
Будучи младенцем, мне там пришлось подвергнуться совершенно бессмысленному, небиблейскому и ненужному ритуалу крещения через окропление водой.
KПозднее моя мама тоже примирилась с Богом уверовав в Иисуса Христа как своего личного Спасителя и Господа
и мы начали посещать “Зал Евангелия” в Белфасте.
Будучи школьником начальных классов, мне посчастливилось услышать Евангелие, изучать
стихи из Библии и приобрести много церковных друзей. Я много раз видел как люди избитые грехом, пьяницы, аморальные люди каялись исповедуя свои грехи и присоединялись к Церкви.
Но я чувствовал что я был хорошим человеком и мне не в чем не надо было каяться. Я неправильно понимал
один важный Библейский стих, где Иисус Христос говорит:
“Я пришел призвать не праведников а грешников к покаянию “.
Тем не менее, меня тревожили
бесконечные похоронные процессии и Ирландские поминки, маршировавшие вниз по дороге Милади в Белфасте (Северная Ирландия), которые
мне напоминали о смерти. Будучи ребенком, это постоянное напоминание о смерти вселяло в меня сильный страх.
Я знал что я не готов к смерти,
но я не думал о том что нуждаюсь в покаянии. Когда мне было 9 лет я вместе с моими родителями и двумя сестрами отправились жить в Африку.
Мой папе обещали там хорошую работу, и он так же хотел проповедовать там Евангелие людям смешанной расы. Таким образом, после двух недель
морского путешествия мы прибыли в землю “яркого солнечного света” где страх “похорон и смерти” исчез и я жил там как счастливый парень три года.
Когда мне исполнилось двенадцать лет, беззаботные годы закончились. Я присутствовал на длившейся неделю серии Евангелизационных собраний на Ланкастер-Авеню в Булавайо, Родезия.
Проповедовал там Ли Спратт и я пришел к глубокому убеждению что я грешник по
характеру и по выбору, несмотря на то что жил не на низком уровне. В ту ночь, у моей постели я уверовал, покаялся и доверился моему Спасителю.
Четыре года спустя, в возрасте 16 лет я имел радость следования за моим Господом, приняв водное крещение вместе с двумя моими лучшими друзьями:
Ройстоном и Джоном. Моя вера значительно укрепилась через участие во многих лагерях возле Дурбана. Такие проповедники как Фергюсон,
Левенгуд, и Флеминг значительно повлияли на мою жизнь и веру.
Прошло много лет с тех пор как я сделал историческое решение довериться и покориться гласу Бога.
Вы возможно спросите:”Как это изменило твою жизнь?” – Бесконечное спокойствие, мир с Богом, гарантия того что все мои грехи прощены и надежда на вечную жизнь с моим Господом и Спасителем.
Я действительно спасен и знаю это.
И я готов увидеть моего Господа
“лицом к лицу”, а как насчет тебя?
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