Sermon Theme - How you can know for certain that you have eternal life.
- God's Love for man & woman
- Created in his own image
- Personal Relationship (shown first in the Garden of Eden)
- He gave us free choice (to love him or reject him)
- The only bridge from earth to heaven
- What it is not (good works)
- What it is (trusting in Christ alone for our salvation)
- Visualization on how this works (court trial)
- Prosecutor (the devil)
- Defendor (Jesus)
- Judge (God the Father)
- Evidence Ps 103:12 (gone "as far as the east is from the west")
- Evidence contained in Good Fruit
- James 2:17 "...faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead."
- Harvest of righteousness (James 3:18)
- Good Fruit (impartial and sincere) James 3:17
- Fruit of the Spirit (Galations 5:22,23a)
- Call to Christ
- Coordinated with your church leader
- Range of call ("If you do not have this joy ... Jesus is knocking at your heart at
this very moment.)
- Scherf to encourage personal study of the word, prayer, confession, and an invitation for Christ
- To be your Savior
- To be Lord of your Life
- Scherf to offer a prayer of confession and an invitiation for Christ to be their Savior and Lord.
- Pastor/Reverend/Father to lead a prayer of confession and the above declaration
- Pastor/Reverend/Father to have a formal altar call, perhaps with pre-arranged councilors
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