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God Has a Message for Human Beings

God Has a Message for Human Beings. A Visualized Bible Study. HUMAN BEINGS NEED DIVINE GUIDANCE. “I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps” (Jeremiah 10:23).

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God Has a Message for Human Beings

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  1. God Has a Message for Human Beings A Visualized Bible Study

  2. HUMAN BEINGS NEED DIVINE GUIDANCE “I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps” (Jeremiah 10:23). According to this passage, can human beings can find their own way without God’s help?

  3. GOD HAS PROVIDED A WRITTEN GUIDE, THE HOLY SCRIPTURES “But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:14-17).

  4. GOD HAS PROVIDED A WRITTEN GUIDE, THE HOLY SCRIPTURES Are the scriptures inspired of God? Are the scriptures a sufficient guide enabling God’s people to do every good work? Are other sources of guidance needed in order to know God’s will?

  5. GOD HAS PROVIDED A WRITTEN GUIDE, THE HOLY SCRIPTURES Which of the following are inspired of God and possess divine authority? • Human feelings? • Traditions and doctrines of men? • Actions of the majority? • The scriptures?

  6. TODAY, GOD GUIDES HUMAN BEINGS BY MEANS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST “In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world” (Hebrews 1:1, 2).

  7. TODAY, GOD GUIDES HUMAN BEINGS BY MEANS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST “For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:17).

  8. TODAY, GOD GUIDES HUMAN BEINGS BY MEANS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST “And Peter said to Jesus, ‘Lord, it is well that we are here; if you wish, I will make three booths here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.’ He was still speaking, when lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, ‘This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him’” (Matthew 17:4, 5).

  9. TODAY, GOD GUIDES HUMAN BEINGS BY MEANS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST Before Christ came, God’s people were Israelites who lived and worshiped according to the law of Moses and the teaching of prophets preserved in the Old Testament. Since Christ has come, God’s people are those who follow Christ and his teaching.

  10. TODAY, GOD GUIDES HUMAN BEINGS BY MEANS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST “He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has a judge; the word that I have spoken will be his judge on the last day” (Jesus in John 12:48). The word of Jesus Christ is the standard by which people will be judged on the day of judgment.

  11. TODAY, GOD GUIDES HUMAN BEINGS BY MEANS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST “Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit; for the written code kills, but the Spirit gives life” (2 Corinthians 3:4-6).

  12. TODAY, GOD GUIDES HUMAN BEINGS BY MEANS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST The new covenant (or new testament) is the part of the Bible which contains the will of Christ. The sole authority for learning how to become a follower of Christ, how to worship as a Christian, and how to be saved in the last day is the new covenant (or new testament).

  13. THE NEW TESTAMENT REVEALS EVERY HUMAN BEING’S NEED FOR SALVATION WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE LOST? “And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience…

  14. THE NEW TESTAMENT REVEALS EVERY HUMAN BEING’S NEED FOR SALVATION WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE LOST? “…Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. . .

  15. THE NEW TESTAMENT REVEALS EVERY HUMAN BEING’S NEED FOR SALVATION WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE LOST? “…Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. . .

  16. THE NEW TESTAMENT REVEALS EVERY HUMAN BEING’S NEED FOR SALVATION WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE LOST? “…They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart . . . “ (Ephesians 2:1-3,12; 4:18).

  17. THE NEW TESTAMENT REVEALS EVERY HUMAN BEING’S NEED FOR SALVATION WHAT IS SIN? “Every one who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness” (1 John 3:4). “All wrongdoing is sin . . .” (1 John 5:17). “Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin” (James 4:17).

  18. THE NEW TESTAMENT REVEALS EVERY HUMAN BEING’S NEED FOR SALVATION WHAT IS SIN? Sin is acting contrary to the law of God (“lawlessness”). Sin is doing that which is not right. Sin is not doing the good we know we ought to do.

  19. THE NEW TESTAMENT REVEALS EVERY HUMAN BEING’S NEED FOR SALVATION “ . . . all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). I have sinned, and I continue to fall short of the glory of God.

  20. THE NEW TESTAMENT REVEALS EVERY HUMAN BEING’S NEED FOR SALVATION “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth” (Romans 1:18). Since I have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, God’s wrath (anger) is revealed from heaven against me.

  21. THE NEW TESTAMENT BEARS WITNESS TO THE GOOD NEWS OF HOW GOD MAKES SALVATION POSSIBLE FOR MANKIND “Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the gospel, which you received, in which you stand, by which you are saved, if you hold it fast—unless you believed in vain.

  22. THE NEW TESTAMENT BEARS WITNESS TO THE GOOD NEWS OF HOW GOD MAKES SALVATION POSSIBLE FOR MANKIND “… For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:1-4).

  23. THE NEW TESTAMENT BEARS WITNESS TO THE GOOD NEWS OF HOW GOD MAKES SALVATION POSSIBLE FOR MANKIND “While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man—though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die. But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us…

  24. THE NEW TESTAMENT BEARS WITNESS TO THE GOOD NEWS OF HOW GOD MAKES SALVATION POSSIBLE FOR MANKIND “… Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life” (Romans 5:6-10).

  25. THE NEW TESTAMENT BEARS WITNESS TO THE GOOD NEWS OF HOW GOD MAKES SALVATION POSSIBLE FOR MANKIND God loves human beings who are lost in sin so much that Christ died to pay the penalty for the sins of humanity. Are the ungodly justified (declared “righteous” or “not guilty”) by their own good works or by faith? Sinners, who are God’s enemies, are reconciled to God (made God’s friends again) through Christ’s death.

  26. THE NEW TESTAMENT BEARS WITNESS TO THE GOOD NEWS OF HOW GOD MAKES SALVATION POSSIBLE FOR MANKIND “. . . they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus . . . In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace” (Romans 3:24; Ephesians 1:7).

  27. THE NEW TESTAMENT BEARS WITNESS TO THE GOOD NEWS OF HOW GOD MAKES SALVATION POSSIBLE FOR MANKIND Redemption, justification, and forgiveness of sins are in Christ. Do you consider yourself to have been saved?

  28. THE NEW TESTAMENT BEARS WITNESS TO THE GOOD NEWS OF HOW GOD MAKES SALVATION POSSIBLE FOR MANKIND Your Religious History Profile Approximately, when were you saved? How old were you at the time? Were you saved at a religious service? If you were saved at a religious service, at what church?

  29. THE NEW TESTAMENT BEARS WITNESS TO THE GOOD NEWS OF HOW GOD MAKES SALVATION POSSIBLE FOR MANKIND Your Religious History Profile If you were saved at a religious service, what, if anything, did you confess before the church at the time of your salvation? Were you baptized? In your baptism were you immersed?

  30. THE NEW TESTAMENT BEARS WITNESS TO THE GOOD NEWS OF HOW GOD MAKES SALVATION POSSIBLE FOR MANKIND Your Religious History Profile If you were immersed, how much time elapsed between the day on which you believed you were saved and the day on which you were baptized? Were you told that baptism was required for you to be saved?

  31. THE NEW TESTAMENT BEARS WITNESS TO THE GOOD NEWS OF HOW GOD MAKES SALVATION POSSIBLE FOR MANKIND Your Religious History Profile Was baptism required for membership in the church you joined? If you were immersed, if you had died before you had been baptized, do you think you would have gone to heaven?

  32. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:3-4).

  33. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED How does one get into Christ? How does one get into Christ’s death which justifies and reconciles sinners to God?

  34. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED “. . . for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ” (Galatians 3:26, 27).

  35. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED

  36. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED One is a child of God through faith. In Christ, one is a child of God through faith. Through faith, one comes to be a child of God in Christ by being baptized into Christ.

  37. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED “And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned” (Mark 16:15, 16).

  38. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED “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 shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38).

  39. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED “And as they went along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, ‘See, here is water! What is to prevent my being baptized?’ And Philip said, If you believe with all your heart, you may. And he answered and said, ‘I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God’” (Acts 8:36, 37).

  40. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED Who may be baptized, i.e., what three things must one do before he or she may be baptized, according to these scriptures? One must believe the gospel and be baptized.

  41. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED Who may be baptized, i.e., what three things must one do before he or she may be baptized, according to these scriptures? One must repent and be baptized.

  42. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED Who may be baptized, i.e., what three things must one do before he or she may be baptized, according to these scriptures? One must confess faith in Christ by saying, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God” and be baptized.

  43. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED “We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:4).

  44. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED “. . .and you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead” (Colossians 2:12).

  45. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED “And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught up Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing” (Acts 8:38, 39).

  46. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED People are buried with Christ by baptism. Is a burial in water the same as sprinkling or pouring water on a person? Is one in Christ before he or she is baptized?

  47. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED Is one saved before he or she is baptized into Christ? Does one experience the forgiveness of sins before he or she is baptized into Christ?

  48. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God—not because of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8, 9).

  49. THE NEW TESTAMENT SHOWS HUMAN BEINGS HOW TO RECEIVE THE SALVATION GOD HAS PROVIDED “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word” (Ephesians 5:25, 26).

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