How People Respond To The Gospel

The only way we can have our sins forgiven is by hearing and obeying the gospel of Christ.

We have redemption and forgiveness of sins by hearing and obeying the gospel of Christ

For the message on this morning, will reflect and meditate on the Parable of the Sower.

The joyous good news of salvation in Jesus Christ. Thee Greek word translated as “gospel” means “a reward for bringing good news” or simply “good news.” The gospel is not a new plan of salvation; it is the fulfillment of God’s plan of salvation that was begun in Israel, was completed in Jesus Christ, and is made known by the church. The gospel is the saving work of God in His Son Jesus Christ and a call to faith in Him (Rom. 1:16-17). Jesus is more than a messenger of the gospel; He is the gospel. The good news of God was present in His life, teaching, and atoning death (Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary)

Be Baptized: Matt 28:18-19, Mark 16:16, Acts 2:38, Rom 6:3-5, Gal 3:26-27, Eph. 4:5, Col. 2:12

1 Cor 15:2 - 1 Cor 15:4 (KJV)
¹Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
²By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
³For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
⁴And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Rom 10:13 - Rom 10:17 (KJV)
¹³For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
¹⁴How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
¹⁵And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
¹⁶But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
¹⁷So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God

Mark 16:15 - Mark 16:16 (KJV)
¹⁵And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
¹⁶He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Heb 11:6 (KJV)
⁶But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Luke 13:2 - Luke 13:3 (KJV)
³I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

Acts 17:30 (KJV)
³⁰And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

Matt 10:32 - Matt 10:33 (KJV)
³²Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
³³But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

Rom 10:10 (KJV)
¹⁰For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Acts 2:37 - Acts 2:38 (KJV)³⁸Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

A parable is a brief story that makes a comparison. It typically uses an illustration from everyday life to bring out a spiritual truth.

For the message on this morning, will reflect and meditate on the Parable of the Sower.

· The “Parable of the Sower” is recorded in the New Testament in 3 of the 4 gospel books.

· In Palestine, the farmer would first scatter the seed. Then the ox and plow would come and cover the seed. Jesus used this situation to show how God’s words are accepted in people’s hearts. In today’s world, many seeds fall among thorny weeds. God’s message today is becoming choked by worries, riches, and pleasures of this life. Some Christians who used to bear fruit have stopped. They have become entangled in the search for money, success, and pleasure.

· Jesus used this parable to show how different people react or respond to the gospel.

· We should make sure our hearts are ready to receive the Word of God (Matt. 13:1-23)

· Jesus had already talked about thee importance of bearing fruit (Mt. 7:15; 12:33)

· Matt 4:2 “he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine”

The sower is Christ working through His disciples to spread the gospel throughout the world.

The word of God tells us how to be saved and how to live the Christian life. You were shown in the word what to do to be saved. The Bible also shows you how to live as a Christian. When you believe and obey (Mat 7:21, Acts 5:32, Heb. 5:9), the “seed” is growing within you to produce good fruit. How you react to the word shows the kind of soil you are.

a. Unresponsive people who fail to respond to the seed or word (gospel) sown, so Satan quickly removes it lest they be saved (Luke 8:12)

b. These are people who hear the word but do not respond with true faith (Luke 8:12). If you have become a Christian, this soil does not describe you.

g. Satan easily takes the Word away from hard hearts. Hard hearts do not respond.

1 Cor 1:18 (KJV)
¹⁸For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

b. Some people receive the word with joy (they are really excited at the time), but after believing for a while they fall way (Luke 8:13). Jesus saith, “These have not root.” They do not become firmly established. He said this would happen “in time of temptation.”

h. When trouble comes because of the Gospel, some go back to the old ways. (Matt. 12:43-45; Heb. 6:1-6)

Matt 15:8 - Matt 15:9 (KJV)
⁸This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
⁹But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Psa 119:10 - Psa 119:11 (KJV)
¹¹Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Psa 119:105 - Psa 119:105 (KJV)
¹⁰⁵Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

2 Tim 3:15 - 2 Tim 3:17 (KJV)
¹⁵And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
¹⁶All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
¹⁷That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

2 Tim 2:14 - 2 Tim 2:15 (KJV)
¹⁵Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

b. Three things would choke the word. These “cares, riches, and pleasures” may not be sinful things, but simply things that demand so much attention from us that we neglect spiritual things. Consider too that one might continued to attend worship with the church but still not be bearing fruit as Jesus expects.

c. This points to the need for proper balance in life. You have obligations with school, a job, family, etc. These obligations must not be neglected. But none of these things should be allowed to become so important to you that you neglect your spiritual life (Read Luke 10:38-42; II Timothy 3:4; Luke 14:18-20; I Timothy 6:9-10.

h. A heart that loves the world does not produce fruit for God because he worries about things that pagans seek (Matt. 6:24-34)

2 Cor 6:14 - 2 Cor 6:18 (KJV)
¹⁴Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
¹⁵And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
¹⁶And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
¹⁷Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
¹⁸And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

James 4:4 - James 4:10 (KJV)
⁴Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
⁵Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
⁶But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
⁸Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
⁹Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

1 John 2:15 - 1 John 2:17 (KJV)
¹⁵Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
¹⁶For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
¹⁷And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

1 Cor 6:11 - 1 Cor 6:12 (KJV)
¹²All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Heb 6:1 - Heb 6:6 (KJV)
¹Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
²Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
³And this will we do, if God permit.
⁴For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
⁵And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
⁶If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Heb 12:2 - Heb 12:2 (KJV)
¹Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
²Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Rom 12:2 - Rom 12:2 (KJV)
¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

a. These are the good and honest hearts who “keep” the word and “bring forth fruit (Luke 8:15).

b. These are they which keep the word “with patience”. This means they never give up; they never quit.

d. When people’s hearts are true to Jesus, trouble does not make them leave their faith in Christ.

Eph 2:8 - Eph 2:10 (KJV)
⁸For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
⁹Not of works, lest any man should boast.
¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Gal 6:9 - Gal 6:10 (KJV)
⁹And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
¹⁰As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Heb 6:10 (KJV)
¹⁰For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

1 Thess 1:8 - 1 Thess 1:10 (KJV)
⁸For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
⁹For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
¹⁰And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

1 Cor 3:5 - 1 Cor 3:9 (KJV)
⁶I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
⁷So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
⁸Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
⁹For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

1 Cor 9:16 - 1 Cor 9:18 (KJV)
¹⁶For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
¹⁷For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
¹⁸What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

Rom 2:6 - Rom 2:10 (KJV)
⁶Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
⁷To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
⁸But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
⁹Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
¹⁰But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

1 Cor 15:58 (KJV)
58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Rev 14:13 (KJV)
¹³And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

Gal 1:6 - Gal 1:12 (KJV)
⁶I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
⁷Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
⁸But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
⁹As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
¹⁰For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
¹¹But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
¹²For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Isa 59:1 - Isa 59:2 (KJV)
¹Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
²But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

John 8:21 - John 8:24 (KJV)
²¹Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
²²Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
²³And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
²⁴I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

Rom 3:23 - Rom 3:24 (KJV)
²³For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
²⁴Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Rom 6:23 (KJV)
²³For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Col 1:13 - Col 1:14 (KJV)
¹⁴In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Rom 14:10 - Rom 14:12 (KJV)
¹⁰But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
¹¹For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
¹²So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Heb 9:27 - Heb 9:28 (KJV)
²⁷And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
²⁸So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

2 Cor 5:10 - 2 Cor 5:11 (KJV)
¹⁰For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
¹¹Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

Heb 10:30 - Heb 10:31 (KJV)
³¹It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Matt 4:22 - Matt 4:23 (KJV)
²³And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

Matt 15:8 - Matt 15:9 (KJV)
⁸This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
⁹But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Matt 28:18 - Matt 28:20 (KJV)
¹⁸And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
¹⁹Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
²⁰Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Mark 13:9 - Mark 13:10 (KJV)
¹⁰And the gospel must first be published among all nations.

Luke 4:18 - Luke 4:19 (KJV)
¹⁸The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
¹⁹To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Mark 16:15 - Mark 16:18 (KJV)
¹⁵And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
¹⁶He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
¹⁷And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
¹⁸They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

John 8:31 - John 8:32 (KJV)
³¹Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
³²And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Rom 1:16 - Rom 1:17 (KJV)
¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
¹⁷For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

1 Cor 1:17 - 1 Cor 1:18 (KJV)
¹⁷For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
¹⁸For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

1 Cor 9:14 - 1 Cor 9:18 (KJV)
¹⁴Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
¹⁵But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
¹⁶For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
¹⁷For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
¹⁸What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

2 Cor 4:3 - 2 Cor 4:5 (KJV)
³But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
⁴In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
⁵For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.

2 Cor 10:3 - 2 Cor 10:5 (KJV)
⁴(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
⁵Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Gal 3:6 - Gal 3:9 (KJV)
⁶Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
⁷Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
⁸And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
⁹So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

Eph 1:12 - Eph 1:13 (KJV)
¹³In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Eph 6:11 - Eph 6:15 (KJV)
¹¹Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
¹²For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
¹³Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
¹⁴Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
¹⁵And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Col 1:3 - Col 1:6 (KJV)
³We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
⁴Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
⁵For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
⁶Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

1 Thess 1:5 - 1 Thess 1:10 (KJV)
⁵For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
⁶And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
⁷So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
⁸For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
⁹For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
¹⁰And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

1 Thess 2:2 - 1 Thess 2:14 (KJV)
¹For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
²But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
³For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
⁴But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
⁵For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:
⁶Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
⁷But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
⁸So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
⁹For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
¹⁰Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
¹¹As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
¹²That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
¹³For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
¹⁴For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

2 Thess 2:7 - 2 Thess 2:14 (KJV)
⁷For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
⁸And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
⁹Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
¹⁰And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
¹¹And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
¹²That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
¹³But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
¹⁴Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Tim 1:6 - 2 Tim 1:12 (KJV)
⁶Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
⁷For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
⁸Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
⁹Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
¹⁰But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
¹¹Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
¹²For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

Heb 4:2 - Heb 4:6 (KJV)
¹Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
²For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
³For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
⁴For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
⁵And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
⁶Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

Heb 5:5 - Heb 5:14 (KJV)
⁵So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
⁶As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
⁷Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
⁸Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
⁹And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
¹⁰Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
¹¹Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
¹²For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
¹³For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
¹⁴But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

James 1:22 - James 1:25 (KJV)
²²But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
²³For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
²⁴For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
²⁵But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

1 Pet 1:22 - 1 Pet 1:25 (KJV)
²²Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
²³Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
²⁴For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
²⁵But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

2 Pet 2:20 - 2 Pet 2:22 (KJV)
²⁰For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
²¹For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
²²But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Rev 14:5 - Rev 14:6 (KJV)
⁶And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

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