• He is part of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is God.
• A few references to the Holy Spirit being God: 1 Cor. 2:10, John 3:5-6, Titus 3:5, and 1 Cor. 6:11.

• God gives every one a choice to believe and accept Jesus as a personal Savior. “…choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.” (Joshua 24:15)
• Regardless of whether or not we understand the ‘hows’ and the ‘whys’ of what happens in life, God will always remain good, just and merciful.
• God wants all people to come to know Him and to believe and trust Him. Salvation is a matter of man humbling himself (herself) and believing in Jesus because He paid the ultimate price by dying a gruesome death so that our sins would be forgiven. That sounds like a loving God to me!

• Yes.
• Romans 1:18-20 – “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.”
• 2 Peter 3:9 – “He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”
• John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.”
• Some Christians are dogmatic and espouse their belief that man does not have a choice and that God has predestined certain people to become His children. Scripture does not support this belief. This is holy ground and something that our finite minds cannot understand. Deuteronomy 29:29 – “The secret things belong to the Lord our God….”

• They should have known because of the Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah. 
• Many witnessed the miracles that Jesus used to heal the blind, sick and even the dead.
• The Jews were expecting a king to rule them, not the suffering Savior.

• No. Hebrews 13:8 says Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
• Jesus also spoke about His eternal deity: “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End” (Revelation 22:13). At no time has Jesus ever ceased to be God.

• Yes –His sacrifice was perfect for taking care of the penalty for sin for all people.
• Christ’s sacrifice was sufficient, once for all. (Hebrews 10:1-18) 

• Jesus was 100% God and 100 % man – it was the sinless human side of Him that died on the cross.
  • He endured excruciating pain, a pain that is unimaginable for most of us.
  • He tolerated it because of His love for us.

• Absolutely. Why? Because you are saved by Christ alone, by faith….Ephesians 2:8-9.
• Baptism is a way or celebrating your salvation and publicly declaring your faith in Jesus.

• The burden of sin.
• Because God is holy, He can have nothing to do with sin. It was necessary for Jesus, the God-man, to carry the burden of sin for all of humanity while on the cross. (2 Corinthians 5:21, “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us….”)
• As human beings, we have no idea how difficult it must have been for Jesus to take on that burden of sin.
• A separation from God 
  • Because of God’s holiness, it was necessary for Him to turn His face away from Jesus while Jesus carried the sin of the world on His shoulders.
  • That is why Jesus cries out on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34)
  • This was the first time in eternity that there was a separation within the perfect love relationship of the Trinity.
  • As Dr. D. A. Carson reminds us, “Within this cry of dereliction [abandonment], the horror of the world’s sin and the cost of our salvation are revealed.”1

• In the Jewish way of calculating days, any part of a day and night counts as a complete period.
• With Jesus being buried on Friday afternoon and rose again on Sunday morning, it would have been considered three days and three nights.

• Get into the Scriptures
• Pray and let God direct you rather than your own expectations
• You have to do your part. Turn away from, or repent from, those things, people, or relationships that cause you to walk with the world and not God. It is difficult at first but eternally worth it!
• In Matthew 22:37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’”

• If not dealt with, this can go on for a lifetime. Prayer, reading Scripture, and confessing to God is the only way to put an end to this. Quote Scripture when it happens and tell Satan to be gone from your mind. 1 John 1:9  “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”  Philippians 4:8-9 “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.”
• The promise from God is that if we choose not to think on the bad things, and choose to think on only those things that are right and true, God will help us along the way.

• Yes, we have been given the right to choose not only Jesus as our Savior but also whether or not to obey Him.
• Every person has the freedom to choose to accept or reject God. We also have the power and understanding to choose to do the right thing.

• Heaven is a place where God manifests His love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness and self-control at all times in abundance.
• Upon death, people’s souls, who have truly accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior, immediately go “home with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8).
• Scripture: Revelation 21:1-5 – “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.’ He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’ Then he said, ‘Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.’”

• It is a place where God unleashes His wrath and has removed all that is good, loving, kind and peaceful. It is eternal. Entry is for all who reject Jesus as God, the Savior and Lord. Jesus Christ declares that it is so (Matthew 25:46).
• Scripture speaks about hell, the destination for the unrepentant sinner:
  • Isaiah 33:14 – The unrepentant sinner dwells in “everlasting burnings.”
  • Psalm 49:19 – He/she “shall never see light.”
  • Psalm 73:19 – He/she is “utterly consumed.”
  • Mark 9:44 – “the fire is not quenched”
  • Isaiah 26:14 – He/she is everlastingly “dead” and “will not live.” A person in hell: when he calls, he is never answered; when he seeks he never finds.
  • Matthew 25:46 – “Then they [unbelievers] will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
  • Matthew 13:49-50 – “This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
• “In a word, they (unbelievers) sink to a death beyond prayer, a condemnation beyond forgiveness and a doom beyond the reach of Christ.”2,3

• What should be our attitude when confronting those who are in the world or those who are not as mature as we are in the faith? 1 John 3:13
• 1 John 3:18-20, 1 John 4:7-12

• Whoever blasphemes the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
• Blaspheme is rejecting the work of the Holy Spirit and by not only rejecting Christ but does so maliciously.
• If a Christian is worried about having done this, there is probably nothing to be concerned about because a true blasphemer would not be concerned about such a thing.

• Whoever blasphemes the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
• Blaspheme is rejecting the work of the Holy Spirit and by not only rejecting Christ but does so maliciously.
• If a Christian is worried about having done this, there is probably nothing to be concerned about because a true blasphemer would not be concerned about such a thing.

• Whoever blasphemes the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
• Blaspheme is rejecting the work of the Holy Spirit and by not only rejecting Christ but does so maliciously.
• If a Christian is worried about having done this, there is probably nothing to be concerned about because a true blasphemer would not be concerned about such a thing.

• Whoever blasphemes the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
• Blaspheme is rejecting the work of the Holy Spirit and by not only rejecting Christ but does so maliciously.
• If a Christian is worried about having done this, there is probably nothing to be concerned about because a true blasphemer would not be concerned about such a thing.

• Many who call themselves Christians are not Christians.
• Our response to God for what He has done is to love Him and to obey… because we want to and not because we have to. If we understand what Christ did for us on the cross, then our response would be one of thanksgiving with a desire to obey the One who saved us!
• There is more to the Christian life than charting a “don’t do” list.
• Our life on earth is to have a wonderful relationship with Jesus, to be a light for others and to look forward to spending eternity with Him.
• It is not fire insurance.

• 2 Corinthians 5:21 “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
• Romans 5:19 “For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.”
• Not only are you forgiven, but you are also considered righteous by God’s standard. This is hard to believe. It means that even though we are not perfect and we will still sin, the sins we commit are already forgiven through the shedding of Christ’s blood on the cross, if we are willing to confess our sins to Him (Ephesians 1:7).

• Our sin nature will always be with us until we die. When Christ died, it freed us from the bondage of sin. As believers with the Holy Spirit living in us, we now have power over sin and the forgiveness of sin. We now have a choice to say “no” and the power to do it, even if we are tempted.
• Romans 7 is about Paul’s struggle with continually sinning, even when he didn’t want to sin. The last two verses sum it up: Thanks be to God-through Jesus Christ my Lord. So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

• The method of finding the date of a dinosaurs is determined by the strata in which it was found. Dinosaurs have been found in several different strata as have other animals proving a world wide flood. Trees have also found growing through several different strata which proves the unreliability of the strata dating system.
• The strata layers are assigned by the evolutionist. How scientific is that?
• Carbon dating is outdated and inaccurate.

The word for image in Hebrew means “similar but not identical.” It means that we are created to represent God by being made in His image. Many believe that it also means that because we are made in His image, we are creative, experience beauty, make moral decisions, make willing choices, have dominion over the earth, have a spiritual nature and can love (Isaiah 43:7; Ephesians 1:11-12; 1 Corinthians 10:31

Galatians 3:6-9 – “Consider Abraham: ‘He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.’ Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: ‘All nations will be blessed through you.’ So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.”

• Cults see themselves as the only true church.
• Pseudo Christian religions mix the Bible plus other writings and traditions.

• According to Mormon doctrine, African American people misbehaved in heaven so God cursed them with black skin.
• In 1978, the Mormons contend that “god” lifted the curse because of the need for Mormon football players. 

• Make sure they are studying from the Bible only.
• Do they believe Jesus is God?
• Do they teach the gospel of grace?
• Do they believe in the Trinity?
• Do they believe in the bodily death and resurrection of Christ?

• There are many Catholic believers.
• Catholicism is often looked at as an Apostate Religion because it often moves from grace of God to church traditions which are heavily related to works and other beliefs.
• The worship of Mary, the mother of Jesus, is idolatry. Many see her as sinless, though this runs counter to the message in Romans 3:23.

• The issue is not heterosexuality.
• The issue is not that someone is gay. The issue is their relationship with our holy God.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 “ Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”

If a person is struggling with issues of not being as “manly” and others pick on him and call him “gay” and bully him, many times these people will think of themselves as being less than whom God created them to be, and start believing that they are gay. Words have power; name calling hurts and can ruin lives.

Absolutely!

• God is the one true God and He will judge the harshness of consequences. We have to differentiate between punishment and consequences to sin.
• Who are we to dictate what God does and doesn’t do?
• Keep in mind that sin is very serious. 1 Corinthians 6:18 “…you were bought with a price…”

• No, not necessarily. That would be up to God.
• The bigger picture is: God calls us to be obedient, He blesses us with obedience, He blesses us with no guilt, no worry of STD’s, and keeping you from bringing extra baggage into future relationships.

• Absolutely.
• God is a God of second chances.
• Sin does have its consequences. We can choose to sin but God will choose the consequences.