May I ask a question, if my neighbors house was on fire and I knew they were inside, and I could help get them out and I didn't would I be a good person? Would I be guilty of letting them die?
Would you help your neighbor if you could and warn them about the fire?
Then please just give me 5 minutes
God says this in His word.
Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality, no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom. And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. Run from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body. Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11, 13, 18-20 HCSB
Look we chose to live in a lifestyle, sin. I used to live in sin but I made a choice not to live that way anymore, I lived and practiced sexual immorality, that is sexual relations outside of marriage. But I choose now to live as God has said to live our lives,.
In the verses above the Bible says : And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
That is me now, this does not mean I am better than you, or my sins are less than yours. It means that God is changing me, I have repented ( turned from my ways) and ask God to forgive me and help me.
When someone finds the bible offensive, condemning or convicting it is because God is working in them, they already know the truth.
God is the author of morality , He created and designed us and put in us a moral code.
For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth, since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them. For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse. For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles. Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen. This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. The males in the same way also left natural relations with females and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error. And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong. They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. Although they know full well God’s just sentence — that those who practice such things deserve to die — they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.
Romans 1:18-32 HCSB
And if I did not tell you the truth that your sin of unrepentance and rejection of God and His ways will lead you to hell, then I honestly could not tell you I love you.
You see I would rather have you mad at me now for speaking the truth to you because I do love you, than you spend an eternity in hell for rejecting God's ways.
And anyone who rejects God and His ways, is headed there again, these are not my words but our Creators, He is my Heavenly Father, and He has done everything needed for you and me to receive Him and His love as I did, but you have to acknowledge your sin, and repent that doesn't mean say your sorry and continue on living the same way, that means you know what your doing is wrong and you are going to turn from your sin and follow Him know matter what other's think and say.
Then ask them how will you respond to the truth?,hopefully you get to take them through the plan of salvation.
John 3:16 -21 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God. “This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed. But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”
God says if you reject Jesus you condemned yourself. God will not reject anyone willing to repent and come to Him.
Romans 5:8 tells us that God loved us so that "when we were in our sin Christ Jesus came to die for us."
Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"
All people have sinned. We have fallen short of God.
But not all people will acknowledge their sin. Sin keeps us from a life with God.
Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in. Christ Jesus our Lord."
Wages are just payment our just reward... what one has coming because of labor. The just payment for our sin is death.
If we continue in sin without repentance and asking for forgiveness well that condition, will separate us from God for all eternity.
The wages of sin is death. but God's free gift is eternal life. Wages are earned, a gift is offered no strings attached.
God says He will give us eternal life with Him in the place of sin's payment of death.
But we must accept Jesus as who He is
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. John 14:6
Because Jesus, His Son, has paid the price for sin by His death on the cross.
2nd Corinthians 5:21 says, "He who knew no sin became sin for us, that we may be made the righteousness of God through Him."
Jesus arose from the grave to conquer sin and death for all who receive Him as God's free gift.
How can you receive God's free gift of love and life?
Romans 10:9-10 "that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation."
A person receives God's free gift of love and life by placing faith in Jesus Christ. To believe is simply to take God at His word.
We believe that Jesus is God's Son who died for our sin on the cross and arose from the grave to live in us as Savior and Lord.
To believe in Jesus will result in confessing that faith with one's mouth and living as Christ has called us to.
Do you acknowledge that your are a sinner?
Do you believe by faith that Jesus, God's Son, died for your sin on the cross?
Will you now confess Him as your Savior and Lord?
Romans 10:13 "for Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."
This verse says that any person who will call upon the name of Jesus, the Lord, shall be saved.
To call means simply to ask in prayer. The verse does not require one to know more... do better... clean up one's life or in any way try to add to
What Jesus has done for us.
Will you now call upon Jesus to save you from your sin so that you can know God's love and forgiveness?
Pray like this: "Dear God, I confess that I am a sinner, and I am sorry. I need a Savior. I know I cannot save myself. I believe by faith that Jesus, your Son, died on the cross to be my Savior. I believe He arose from the grave to live as my Lord. I turn from my sin. I ask You, Lord Jesus, to forgive my sin and come into my heart. I trust you as my Savior and receive you as my Lord. Thank you, Jesus, for saving me."
When anyone calls on the Lord in this manner, that one is saved according to God's Word. If you pray a prayer of repentance and faith, you are saved.
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