February 18-19, 2006, John 3:16-17, Selected

GO FISH!
MUDDY WATER!

NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, WHERE YOU COME FROM, OR WHEN YOU WERE BORN - WE ALL COME TO CHRIST THE SAME WAY!

TWO QUESTIONS:

- WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO KNOW TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN?

- WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN?

*** John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." [New International Version]

GOD LOVED!

*** Jeremiah 31:3 "And from far away the Lord appeared to his people and said, "I love you people with a love that will last forever." [New Century Version]

THE ONE WHO KNOWS YOU BEST LOVES YOU THE MOST!

GOD GAVE!

*** Acts 4:12 "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." [NIV]

BELIEVES IN!

BELIEVE IN NOT BELIEVE THAT!

**** Acts 8:12 "But when they believed Philip as he preached the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women." [NIV]

*** Acts 16:15 "When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. "If you consider me a believer in the Lord," she said, "come and stay at my house." And she persuaded us." [NIV]

*** Acts 16:30-33 "He then brought them out and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved--you and your household." Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were baptized." [NIV]

AN OUTWARD DEMONSTRATION OF AN INWARD DECISION!

*** John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." [New International Version]

RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE!

**** John 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." [NIV]

*** John 3:17 "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." [NIV]

PEOPLE DON'T SPEND ETERNITY SEPARATED FROM GOD BECAUSE OF SIN!

PEOPLE SPEND ETERNITY SEPARATED FROM GOD BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T BELIEVED IN AND RECEIVED ETERNAL LIFE FROM GOD!

LIVE IT OUT! LAY IT OUT!

SO...GO FISH!

Thanks to Andy Stanley and North Point Community Church, Alpharetta, GA for the concept of Go Fish.