Tuesday, August 5, 2014

A Soul-Saving and Soul-Damning Ministry

A Soul-Saving and Soul-Damning Ministry

Mark 16:15-16 


15 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.


Romans 2:7-16


7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 


8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. 


9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;


10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 


11 For God does not show favoritism.


12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 


13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 


14  (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law,


15 since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their 


consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.) 

16 This will take place on the day when God will judge men's secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.


1 Corinthians 1:18-25 


18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 


19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”


20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 


21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 


22 Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 


23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 


24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 


25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

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