Four Spiritual Laws
Have you heard of the Four Spiritual Laws?
1. God loves you, and offers a wonderful plan for your life.
God's Love: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." (John 10:10).
God's Plan: (Christ speaking) "I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly" (that it might be full and meaningful) (John 10:10).
2. Man is sinfull and separated from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God's love and plan for his life.
Man is Sinful: "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).
Man is Separated: "For the wages of sin is death" (spiritual separation from God) (Romans 6:23).
3. Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin. Through Him you can know and experience God's love and plan for your life.
He Died in Our Place: "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
He Rose from the Dead: "Christ died for our sins...He was buried...He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures...He appeared to Peter, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred..." (1 Corinthians 15:3-6).
He is the Only Way to God: "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through me' " (John 14:6).
4. We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives.
We Must Receive Christ: "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name" (John 1:12).
When We Receive Christ, We Experience a New Birth: (Read John 3:1-8).
We Receive Christ by Personal Invitation: (Christ is speaking) "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him" (Revelation 3:20).
Receiving Christ involves turning to God from self (repentance) and trusting Christ to come into our lives to forgive our sins and to make us the kind of people He wants us to be. Just to afree intellectually that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died on the cross for our sins is not enough. Nor is it enough to have an emotional experience. We receive Jesus Christ by faith, as an act of the will.
God's Love: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." (John 10:10).
God's Plan: (Christ speaking) "I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly" (that it might be full and meaningful) (John 10:10).
2. Man is sinfull and separated from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God's love and plan for his life.
Man is Sinful: "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).
Man is Separated: "For the wages of sin is death" (spiritual separation from God) (Romans 6:23).
3. Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin. Through Him you can know and experience God's love and plan for your life.
He Died in Our Place: "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
He Rose from the Dead: "Christ died for our sins...He was buried...He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures...He appeared to Peter, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred..." (1 Corinthians 15:3-6).
He is the Only Way to God: "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through me' " (John 14:6).
4. We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives.
We Must Receive Christ: "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name" (John 1:12).
When We Receive Christ, We Experience a New Birth: (Read John 3:1-8).
We Receive Christ by Personal Invitation: (Christ is speaking) "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him" (Revelation 3:20).
Receiving Christ involves turning to God from self (repentance) and trusting Christ to come into our lives to forgive our sins and to make us the kind of people He wants us to be. Just to afree intellectually that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died on the cross for our sins is not enough. Nor is it enough to have an emotional experience. We receive Jesus Christ by faith, as an act of the will.
Exerpts taken from the booklet entitled "Have You Heard of the Four Spiritual Laws? written by Bill Bright. Copywright Campus Crusade for Christ Inc., 1965.
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