Showing posts with label Salvation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salvation. Show all posts

How do you circumcise yourself to the Lord?

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Circumcise yourselves to the Lord ,      circumcise your hearts,      you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my wrath will ...

Is God surprised when people don’t accept Him?

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This is what the Lord says: “What fault did your ancestors find in me,      that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless i...

Are deathbed conversions acceptable to God?

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But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we a...

What’s wrong with the older brother in the Prodigal Son story?

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“The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. But he answered his father, ‘Look! All t...

How does one repent?

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“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will s...

What’s heaven’s response to someone who gives their life to Jesus?

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“I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons ...

Did Jesus say our salvation is based on works?

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“ For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me i...

Why, in Jesus’ parable, did the king kill someone not wearing the right wedding clothes?

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“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. He asked, ‘How did you get in her...

Are deathbed confessions fair?

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When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you h...

Can rich people be saved?

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Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, i...

If I don’t show mercy, am I saved?

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  “Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.   Sho...

Why was the “sign of Jonah” important?

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He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jo...

Why do people seem to accept Christ then fall away?

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Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? The farmer sows the word. Some peop...

Why do people get baptized?

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And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.  The whole Judean country...

Is the unbelieving spouse “saved” if they have a believing spouse?

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F or the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husb...

If I get saved, does that mean my family gets saved too?

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The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I ...

Why did Timothy have to get circumcised before working with Paul?

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Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was Jewish and a believer but whose father was a...

Why did people think you had to be circumcised before you could become a Christian?

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Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taugh...

Does the Bible say we have to repent AND be baptized to be saved?

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Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will recei...

Did the Old Testament Jews believe in resurrection?

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But your dead will live, Lord ;      their bodies will rise— let those who dwell in the dust      wake up and shout for joy— your de...