ETERNAL DEATH The necessary consequence of sin. Romans 6:16 Don’t you know that if you offer to be someone’s slave, you must obey that master? Either your master is sin, or your master is obedience. Letting sin be your master leads to death. Letting obedience be your master leads to God’s approval. Romans 8:13 If you live by your corrupt nature, you are going to die. But if you use your spiritual nature to put to death the evil activities of the body, you will live. James 1:13–15 When someone is tempted, he shouldn’t say that God is tempting him. God can’t be tempted by evil, and God doesn’t tempt anyone. Everyone is tempted by his own desires as they lure him away and trap him. Then desire becomes pregnant and gives birth to sin. When sin grows up, it gives birth to death. The wages of sin. Romans 6:23 The payment for sin is death, but the gift that God freely gives is everlasting life found in Christ Jesus our Lord. The portion of the wicked. Matthew 25:41 “Then the king will say to those on his left, ‘Get away from me! God has cursed you! Go into everlasting fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels! Matthew 25:46 “These people will go away into eternal punishment, but those with God’s approval will go into eternal life.” Romans 1:32 Although they know God’s judgment that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do these things but also approve of others who do them. Christ, the only way of escape from. John 3:16 God loved the world this way: He gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not die but will have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but to save the world. Acts 4:12 No one else can save us. Indeed, we can be saved only by the power of the one named Jesus and not by any other person.” ALLOW THESE VERSES TO BE A GUIDE UNTO YOUR LIFE. Everlastingsalvationchurchofgod.com PASTOR ANDRA HIGGINBOTHAM
WE MUST TESTIFY ABOUT JESUS Everlastingsalvationchurchofgod.com 1 PETER 2:24 AMP He personally carried our sins in His body on the cross [willingly offering Himself on it, as on an altar of sacrifice], so that we might die to sin [becoming immune from the penalty and power of sin] and live for righteousness; for by His wounds you [who believe] have been healed. THANK’S TO JESUS, SIN DOESN’T HAVE POWER OVER US. STOP SINNING, LIVE A RIGHTEOUS LIFE. Acts 4:33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all. WE MUST CONTINUE TO TESTIFY TO THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD JESUS. WE MUST TELL PEOPLE THAT JESUS GOT UP, AND THAT JESUS IS ALIVE. JESUS IS ALIVE IN US. GLORY!!! HALLELUJAH!!! PASTOR: ANDRA HIGGINBOTHAM
Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me. Those eagerly looking for me will find me. Matthew 7:7–8 “Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened for you. Everyone who asks will receive. The one who searches will find, and for the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 2 Chronicles 15:1–2 God’s Spirit came to Azariah, son of Oded. Azariah went to Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all you men from Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you will dedicate your lives to serving him, he will accept you. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you. Psalm 119:2 Blessed are those who obey his written instructions. They wholeheartedly search for him. Psalm 34:8–10 Taste and see that the LORD is good. Blessed is the person who takes refuge in him. Fear the LORD, you holy people who belong to him. Those who fear him are never in need. Young lions go hungry and may starve, but those who seek the LORD’s help have all the good things they need. God’s desire is that all people should seek after him and find him. Those who seek God with all their heart are rewarded, but those who fail to seek him do so to their eternal loss.
Everlastingsalvationchurchofgod.com In the previous verse, Christ said, “Abide in Me.” He then announced the great, unalterable law of all branch-life, on earth or in heaven, “not…of itself,” “except it abide.” In the opening words of the parable, He has already spoken, “I am the true vine.” He now repeats the words. He wants us to understand—note well the lesson, simple as it appears, it is the key to the abiding life—that the only way to obey the command, “Abide in me,” is to have our eyes and heart fixed on Him. “Abide in Me…I am the true vine.” Yes, study this holy mystery until you see Christ as the true Vine, bearing, strengthening, supplying, and inspiring all His branches. He will be and do in each branch all that it needs, and the abiding will come of itself. Yes, gaze upon Him as the true Vine, until you feel what a heavenly mystery it is and are compelled to ask the Father to reveal it to you by His Holy Spirit. He to whom God reveals the glory of the true Vine—he who sees what Jesus is and waits to do every moment—can do nothing but abide. The vision of Christ is an irresistible attraction; it draws and holds us like a magnet. Listen continually to the living Christ still speaking to you and waiting to show you the meaning and power of His Word: “I am the vine.” How much weary labor is involved in striving to understand what abiding is! How much fruitless effort goes along with trying to attain it! Why is this? Because the attention is turned to the abiding as a work we have to do, instead of the living Christ, in whom we have to abide. He is Himself to hold and keep us. We think of abiding as a continual strain and effort—we forget that it means rest from effort to one who has found the place of his abode. Notice how Christ said, “Abide in Me. I am the Vine that brings forth and holds and strengthens and makes fruitful the branches. Abide in Me, rest in Me, and let Me do My work. I am the true Vine. All I am and speak and do is divine truth, giving the actual reality of what is said. I am the Vine; only consent and yield your all to Me. I will do all in you.” And sometimes it happens that souls, who have never been especially occupied with the thought of abiding, abide all the time, because they are occupied with Christ. Not that the word abide is not important. Christ used it so often because it is the very key to the Christian life. But He wants us to understand it in its true sense. “Come out of every other place, and every other trust and occupation; come out of self with its reasoning and efforts; come and rest in what I will do. Live out of yourself; abide in Me. Know that you are in Me; you need no more. Remain there in Me.” “I am the vine.” Christ did not keep this mystery hidden from His disciples. He revealed it—first in words here, then in power when the Holy Spirit came down. He will reveal it to us, too—first in the thoughts and confessions and desires these words awaken, then in power by the Spirit. Let us wait on Him to show us all the heavenly meaning of the mystery. Let our chief thought and aim each day in our quiet time—in the inner chamber with Him and His Word—be to get the heart fixed on Him. Let us be assured that all a vine can ever do for its branches, my Lord Jesus will do—is doing—for me. Give Him time. Give Him your ear, that He may whisper and explain the divine secret: “I am the vine.” Above all, remember, Christ is the Vine of God’s planting, and you are a branch of God’s grafting. Stand always before God, in Christ—waiting for all grace from God, in Christ. Yielding yourself to bear the “more fruit” for which the Husbandman asks, in Christ. And pray much for the revelation of the mystery that all the love and power of God that rested on Christ is working in you, too. “I am God’s Vine,” Jesus says, “All I am I have from Him; all I am is for you; God will work it in you.” I am the Vine. Blessed Lord, speak that word into my soul. Then I will know that all Your fullness is for me. And I can count on You to stream it into me. My abiding is so easy and so sure when I forget and lose myself in the adoring faith that the Vine holds the branch and supplies its every need.
THIS IS A VERY POWERFUL REFRESHER. I URGE YOU TO STUDY IT, READ IT MORE THAN ONCE, AND I PROMISE YOU WILL BE BLESSED BY IT.
IF YOU WILL ALLOW GOD TO GUIDE YOUR LIFE, YOU CAN LIVE A LONG LIFE, FILLED WITH GOOD DAYS. Everlastingsalvationchurchofgod.com 1 Peter 3:10-11 GW “People who want to live a full life and enjoy good days must keep their tongues from saying evil things, and their lips from speaking deceitful things. They must turn away from evil and do good. They must seek peace and pursue it. Jeremiah 17:5 GW “This is what the Lord says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord . Jeremiah 17:7 GW Blessed is the person who trusts the Lord . The Lord will be his confidence.
DO NOT LIVE YOUR LIFE IN A MANNER THAT WILL CAUSE YOUR LIFE TO BE CURSED. LIVE YOUR LIFE IN A MANNER THAT WILL CAUSE GOD TO WANT TO BLESS YOU. ALLOW THESE VERSES TO BE A GUIDE UNTO YOUR LIFE.
ALL GOOD THINGS ARE GIVEN BY GOD Everlastingsalvationchurchofgod.com 1 Timothy 6:17 Tell those who have the riches of this world not to be arrogant and not to place their confidence in anything as uncertain as riches. Instead, they should place their confidence in God who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. Deuteronomy 8:18 But remember the LORD your God is the one who makes you wealthy. He’s confirming the promise which he swore to your ancestors. It’s still in effect today. 1 Corinthians 4:7 Who says that you are any better than other people? What do you have that wasn’t given to you? If you were given what you have, why are you bragging as if it weren’t a gift? Colossians 2:7 Sink your roots in him and build on him. Be strengthened by the faith that you were taught, and overflow with thanksgiving. Hebrews 12:28 Therefore, we must be thankful that we have a kingdom that cannot be shaken. Because we are thankful, we must serve God with fear and awe in a way that pleases him.
ALL GOOD IN OUR LIFE COMES FROM GOD, WE MUST GIVE THANKS TO GOD, HE IS WORTHY.
HOW ARE YOU LIVING? Everlastingsalvationchurchofgod.com Christians should live completely for God, not patterning their lives after the world. Romans 12:1-2 says, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
SELF-CHECK: WHO DOES PEOPLE SEE WHEN THEY SEE YOU? DO THEY SEE GOD OR DO THEY SEE THE WORLD? THINK ABOUT IT.
LIVE A GODLY LIFE Everlastingsalvationchurchofgod.com Galatians 5:26 ESV Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. 2 Timothy 2:15 ESV Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. LET US LIVE OUR LIFE ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD, AND BE BLESSED BY GOD. PASTOR ANDRA HIGGINBOTHAM
REVERENCE AND OBEDIENCE Everlastingsalvationchurchofgod.com Reverence towards God expresses itself in the actions, as well as the words and worship of believers. True reverence for God leads to obedience towards him. Reverence in worship is expressed in bodily attitudes. Psalm 95:6 Come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel in front of the LORD, our maker, Exodus 12:27 you must answer, ‘It’s the Passover sacrifice in the LORD’s honor. The LORD passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he killed the Egyptians.’ Then the people knelt, bowing with their faces touching the ground. Prostration: Genesis 17:3 Immediately, Abram bowed with his face touching the ground, and again God spoke to him, Numbers 14:5 Immediately, Moses and Aaron bowed with their faces touching the ground in front of the whole community of Israel assembled there. Revelation 5:14 The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then the leaders bowed and worshiped. Kneeling: Ezra 9:5 At the evening sacrifice I got up from my misery, and with my clothes torn, I knelt down, stretched out my hands to the LORD my God in prayer, SELF-CHECK: DO I REALLY LOVE GOD? DO I SHOW REVERENCE TO GOD? HOW DO I SHOW REVERENCE TO GOD? AM I EMBARRASSED TO SHOW REVERENCE TO GOD IN PUBLIC? I HOPE YOU RECEIVED GREATLY FROM THIS QUICK REFRESHER. PASTOR ANDRA HIGGINBOTHAM PayPal.me/donatetochurch
