What it means to Follow Jesus.
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---Recognize you are a sinner---
Romans 3:10 There is no one righteous, not even one.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
---Hear---
John 6:45 Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to me (Jesus).
Romans 10:17 Faith comes from hearing the message, and the messages is heard through the work of Christ.
---Believe---
John 5:24 I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me (Jesus) has eternal life and will not be condemned.
Mark 16:16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
John 1:12 To all who received Him, to those who believed in His name he gave the right to become children of God.
---Repent---
Acts 2:38 Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven.
Acts 17:30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance; but now He commands all people everywhere to repent.
---Confess---
Romans 10:9 If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Matthew 10:32-33 Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.
---Be Baptized---
Acts 2:38 Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 6:3-4 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
Acts 10:48 So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
---Live the Life---
Luke 9: 23 Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Titus 2:11-13 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.
Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 3:10 There is no one righteous, not even one.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
---Hear---
John 6:45 Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to me (Jesus).
Romans 10:17 Faith comes from hearing the message, and the messages is heard through the work of Christ.
---Believe---
John 5:24 I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me (Jesus) has eternal life and will not be condemned.
Mark 16:16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
John 1:12 To all who received Him, to those who believed in His name he gave the right to become children of God.
---Repent---
Acts 2:38 Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven.
Acts 17:30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance; but now He commands all people everywhere to repent.
---Confess---
Romans 10:9 If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Matthew 10:32-33 Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.
---Be Baptized---
Acts 2:38 Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 6:3-4 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
Acts 10:48 So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
---Live the Life---
Luke 9: 23 Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Titus 2:11-13 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.
Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.
