Category: Jesus

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Read a Poem Out Loud

Using rhythmic poetry is pleasing to the ear and catches the attention of those who pass by. Fill your poems with rich truths from scripture.

The Light
Jesus is the light, He you cannot fight.
Listen to your Lord, for Hell, you can’t afford.
(Levi age 6 with help from dad)

Grace and Mercy
If God gave us justice, we’d all end up in Hell. 
So turn to Christ, our Lord and Savior, where grace and mercy dwell. 

Life
Eternal life is a gift. No payment you can make.
Do not try to earn God’s favor, or eternal death you’ll take.

Rescue
You say you’ve never murdered. You’ve never robbed a store. 
You’re “not so bad” to get God’s wrath, but it’s knocking at your door.
It’s knocking if you’ve lied and if you’ve lusted too.
Only Christ’s sacrifice can ever rescue you.

All Roads
It’s true what heathens say, “to God leads every path.”
But only one leads to His goodness, all others to His wrath.

The Cup
When the perfect life of Christ expired on a tree, 
The sinless, spotless lamb of God, drank the cup for me.
What was in the cup, that Jesus fully drank?
It was the bitter wrath of God, so He, I daily thank.”

Victory
I’m here to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, God’s Son.
He bled and died that we might live; the victory HE won.

Abide
Do not try to run from God. Do not try to hide.
Go to Him through Jesus Christ and forever you’ll abide.

Don’t Hide
There’s nowhere to hide,
So you might just abide. 
(Levi age 6)

Hatred
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, so many hate that name.
But only He can save your soul. This is not a game.

Flee to Christ
Pack your Bags, abandon your home in Adam,
Christ gives you robes instead of rags.

City of Christ
Flee to the ‘City of Christ,’ it’s borders are open to you.
Abandon your home in Adam, come rest in Christ the New.

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Jesus is Our Ransom

  • Christ paid the ransom for us
  • 1 Timothy 2:5-6 – “For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.”
  • Matthew 20:28 – “…even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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Jesus Fulfilled OT Prophecy

  • Over 300 prophecies in the OT that were directly fulfilled by Jesus Christ in the NT
  • Born in Bethlehem – OT Micah 5:2 –
  • Born of a virgin – OT Isaiah 7:14 –
  • Crucifixion described 700-800 yrs before Jesus was born when death by crucifixion was not even known – the form of capital punishment that the Jews used in that day was stoning – OT Psalm 22 – pierced my hands and feet
  • Two thieves crucified with him & buried in a tomb of a rich man – OT Isaiah 53:6 
  • Judas betray him with 30 pieces of silver – OT Zachariah 11:12 –
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Jesus Removes the Power and Consequences of Your Sin

  • Psalm 103:12 – “as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.”
  • Isaiah 43:25 – “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.”
  • Isaiah 53:6 – “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned-every one-to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
  • Romans 4:7-8 – “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
  • Romans 8:1 – “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
  • Hebrews 10:4 – “For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.”
  • Hebrews 9:22 – “Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.“
  • Hebrews 10:11-14 – “And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
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Jesus is the Solid Rock

Bible Verses

Psalm 18:2 – “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”

2 Samuel 22:2 – “He said, “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,”

Hymn Lyrics – My Hope is Built on Nothing Less

Verse 1
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus Christ, my righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

Chorus
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.

Verse 2
When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.

Verse 3
His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.

Verse 4
When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
In Him, my righteousness, alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.

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Sin Debt Paid

Scripture

  • 1 John 4:10 – “In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
  • 1 John 2:2 – “He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.”
  • John 19:30 – “When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.” (TETELESTAI)
  • Colossians 2:13-15 – “And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.”
  • Romans 6:23 – “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
  • Isaiah 1:18 – “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”
  • Romans 3:23-26 – “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”

Illustrations

  • Credit/debit card paid by someone else
  • Speeding ticket paid by someone else
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Jesus is Lord

  • John 20:28 – “Thomas answered him, ‘My Lord and my God!'”
  • Colossians 1:15-17 – “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
  • 1 Corinthians 8:6 – “Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.”
  • Romans 10:13 – “For ‘everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'”
  • Give your allegiance to Jesus
  • Forsake all others