Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionFor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.New Living Translation“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that every...
In this context, death refers not only to physical death but also to spiritual separation from God, which is the ultimate consequence of sin.5. Eternal LifeA key promise of the Christian faith, eternal life is the everlasting life with God, granted through faith in Jesus Christ. Teaching ...
Mankind’s biggest problem is spiritual separation from God. There is a God. He is the Eternal Creator, without beginning or end. He created everything, including you and me. He is perfectly holy, perfectly just, and perfectly loving. As such, He cannot allow anything that isn’t perfect...
Should it be said, Each of these passages is from the Old Testament, it would be sufficient to say, True, but it is the same God as the New Testament reveals that is there speaking. But consider one verse from the New Testament also. The Christ of God is yet going to say to men,...
it will lead us to happiness and eternal life. When we follow the temptations of the devil, we will find that we become captive in sin and miserable. Though his temptations may seem fun and will make you happy, the consequences will be further separation from God and captivity to the devi...
“O Humans revere your Guardian-Lord, Who created you from a single person created of like nature its mate, and from this scattered (like seeds) countless men and women. Reverence Allah through Whom you claim your mutual rights” (Quran 4:1). In this verse by stressing the equality of ...
our broken promises, you name it: all of these things are sin. Each one deserves separation from a holy God. BUT God “so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son (Jesus), that whosoever [puts his whole faith] in Him, should not perish (be separated from God), but hav...
“And if I get banished from the kingdom up above / I’d sacrifice money and heaven, all for love / Let me be loved, let me be loved,” Jenny Lewis sang in the second verse of “More Adventurous,” and those lines have stuck with me. There’s a simplicity and benevolence in ...
Again, they will be a reminder to your God. I am the Eternal One, your True God. 11 When the cloud finally rose up (on the twentieth day of the second month of the second year) from over the congregation tent that housed the terms of the covenant, 12 the Israelites set out from ...
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20). As such, are we really honoring the passion of Christ– indeed, ca...