Handbook Of Biblical Truths

In this life, there are many trials and troubles besetting the Christian. Although a believer is completely secure and will go to heaven, there are many enemies such as: Satan, the world, and our own sinful nature that fight against us. Against this triad of evil, we cannot fight against them on our own. We are helpless and will fail in this war. Yet our Lord has given us a powerful weapon. In the Old Testament we read, “Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces (Jeremiah 23:29)?” And in the New Testament we read, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart (Hebrews 4:12).”

My purpose is to bring together a whole host of verses from God’s Word that will remind the Christian once again that they are not helpless, they are not without divine protection, and they are not without hope! God cannot lie, and He says so, “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good (Numbers 23:19)?” What God has spoken will be done with all speed, alacrity, and finality. Basically, you can literally bet your very life on what God has said in His Word!

This is not a complete list – far from it. But it touches on some very important points. Not the least of which is the answer to these question of questions, “Who am I?” and “To whom do I belong?” In short, I have striven to bring together answers this most important question, “Why am I here?” It is a matter of identity. I have found many, many, many people wandering aimlessly about in this life. They have no identity, no direction, no purpose, and no hope. For these people, life is one big empty vessel, which they cannot fill! Only God, YHWH, can fill this need of ours.

Therefore, read these verses slowly, and reverently. Get your bible out and read the context in which these are taken from. Read them over and over and over again. Memorize them! As it is written, “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you (Psalm 119:11).”

A.    You are supremely loved by God

1.      For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

2.      Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ (Jude 1:1, NIV)

3.      Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children (Ephesians 5:1, NIV).

4.      Greater love has no-one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13, NIV)

5.      This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. (1 John 3:16, NIV)

6.      This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. (I John 4:9, NIV)

7.      This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins (I John 4:10, NIV)

8.      But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)

9.      But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. (Ephesians 2:4-5, NIV)

10.  …,but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. (Exodus 20:6, NIV)

11.  For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us (Psalm 103:11-12, NIV).

B.    You are completely forgiven.

1.      But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. (I John 1:7)

2.      Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. (Luke 23:34)

3.      Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24).

4.      All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name. (Acts 10:43, NIV)

5.      No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more." (Jeremiah 31:34, NIV)

6.      Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry for ever but delight to show mercy. (Micah 7:18, NIV)

7.      For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us (Psalm 103:11-12, NIV).

8.      I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all you idols (Ezekiel 36:25).

9.      Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38, NIV).”

10.  When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having cancelled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. (Colossians 2:13-14, NIV)

11.  And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. (Exodus 34:6-7)

C.    You are Justified (declared not guilty) by faith before the Most Holy God

1.      Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1).

2.      Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. (Romans 3:28, NKJV)

3.      He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. (Isaiah 53:11)

4.      "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness (Jeremiah 23:5-6, NIV)

5.      And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. (I Corinthians 6:11)

6.      But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! (Romans 5:8-9, NIV)

7.      Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. (Romans 5:16, NIV)

8.      Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. (Romans 5:17, NIV)

9.      "We who are Jews by birth and not ‘Gentile sinners’ know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no-one will be justified. (Galatians 2:15-16, NIV)

D.   You are at peace with God and will not face His wrath

1.      Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1).

2.      Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. (Romans 5:9)

3.      Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests." (Luke 2:13-14, NIV)

4.      But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5)

5.      How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! (Isaiah 52:7)

E.    You are Holy as God is.

1.      To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: (I Corinthians 1:2, NKJV)

2.      And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. (I Corinthians 6:11)

3.      He made no distinction between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith (Acts 15:9).

4.      to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a reiant church without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. (Ephesians 5:26-27)

5.      Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, (Ephesians 1:3-4, NKJV)

6.      It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. (I Corinthians 1:30, NKJV)

7.      Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers (Hebrews 2:11, NIV)

8.      And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all (Hebrews 10:10, NIV)

9.      because by one sacrifice he has made perfect for ever those who are being made holy. (Hebrews 10:14, NIV)

10.  May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones (I Thessalonians 3:13, NIV).

F.     You are Blameless

1.      For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. (Ephesians 1:4, NIV)

2.      He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ (I Corinthians 1:8).

3.      But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation (Colossians 1:22, NIV).

4.      That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. (Ephesians 5:27).

G.    You are Righteous as God is through faith in Christ.

1.      It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. (I Corinthians 1:30, NKJV)

2.      and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; (Philippians 3:9, NKJV)

3.      And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. (I Corinthians 6:11)

4.      "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness (Jeremiah 23:5-6, NIV)

5.      For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21)

6.      For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes (Romans 10:4, NKJV).

7.      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. (Romans 5:18, NIV)

H.   You are sanctified; that is, you have been consecrated or set apart for God.

1.      Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, (Ephesians 5:25-26).

2.      And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. (I Corinthians 6:11)

3.      To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ— their Lord and ours (I Corinthians 1:2, NIV)

4.      To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 1:7)

5.      to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me. (Acts 26:18, NIV)

6.      Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified (Acts 20:32, NIV)

7.      Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers (Hebrews 2:11, NIV)

8.      And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all (Hebrews 10:10, NIV)

9.      because by one sacrifice he has made perfect for ever those who are being made holy. (Hebrews 10:14, NIV)

I.       You are an (adopted) child of God

1.      You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. (Galatians 3:26-27, NIV)

2.      But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." (Galatians 4:4-6, NIV)

3.      So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir (Galatians 4:7, NIV).

4.      Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. (John 1:12-13, NIV)

5.      Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not (I John 3:1).

6.      You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater then he who is in the world (I John 4:4, NKJV).

7.      You are the children of the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 14:1a)

8.      because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. (Romans 8:14, NIV)

9.      For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (Romans 8:15, NIV)

10.  The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children (Romans 8:16, NIV)

11.  Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children (Ephesians 5:1, NIV)

J.       You are cleansed from all sin

1.      But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. (I John 1:7)

2.      I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all you idols (Ezekiel 36:25).

3.      Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, (Ephesians 5:25-26).

4.      How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God! (Hebrews 9:14, NIV)

5.      I answered, "Sir, you know." And he said, "These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Revelation 7:14, NIV)

6.      and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood (Revelation 1:5, NIV)

7.      But if anyone does not have them, he is short-sighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins. (2 Peter 1:9, NIV)

K.    You are completely free from all condemnation or accusation

1.      Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, (Romans 8:1)

2.      Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us (Romans 8:34, NIV).

3.      But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— (Colossians 1:22, NIV)

4.      For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. (Ephesians 1:4, NIV)

5.      and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. (Ephesians 5:27, NIV)

6.      so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ (Philippians 1:10, NIV).

7.      so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe (Philippians 2:15, NIV)

8.      May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones (I Thessalonians 3:13, NIV).

9.      He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:18)

10.  I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life (John 5:24, NIV)

L.     You have eternal life right now!

1.      For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16, NIV)

2.      I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life (John 5:24, NIV)

3.      Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him. (John 3:36, NIV)

4.      but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. (John 4:14, NIV)

5.      For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:40, NIV)

6.      Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:54, NIV)

7.      I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no-one can snatch them out of my hand. (John 10:28, NIV)

8.      Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. (John 17:3, NIV)

9.      For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23, NIV)

10.  Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses (1 Timothy 6:12, NIV).

M.  You are reconciled to God.

1.      But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation (Colossians 1:22, NIV).

2.      Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! (Romans 5:8-9, NIV)

3.      For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! (Romans 5:10, NIV)

4.      All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18, NIV)

5.      But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation (Colossians 1:22, NIV).

6.      For God was pleased to have all his fulness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. (Colossians 19-20, NIV)

7.      and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility (Ephesians 2:16, NIV).

N.   You have been redeemed, that is, you are now God’s very own possession.

1.      Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people. (Luke 1:68, NIV)

2.      Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree. (Galatians 3:13, NIV)

3.      He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. (Galatians 3:14, NIV)

4.      For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, (I Peter 1:18, NIV)

5.      And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No-one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth (Revelation 14:3, NIV)

6.      But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. (Galatians 4:4-5, NIV)

7.      This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus (Romans 3:22-24, NIV)

8.      It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:30, NIV)

9.      Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. (Romans 8:23, NIV)

10.  In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace (Ephesians 1:7, NIV)

O.   You are a new creation/creature in Christ.

1.      Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17, NIV)

2.      Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. (John 1:12-13, NIV)

3.      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 (Romans 6:4, NIV)

4.      Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation. (Galatians 6:15, NIV)

5.      He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new! (Revelation 21:5, NIV)

6.      and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. (Colossians 3:10, NIV)

7.      and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4:24, NIV)

A.    You can come boldly into God the Father’s presence

1.      Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4:16)

2.      Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, (Hebrews 10:19)

3.      In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence (Ephesians 3:12, NIV)

B.    You can approach this Most Holy and Righteous God without any fear and with full confidence.

1.      Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water (Hebrews 10:22)

2.      For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father (Ephesians 2:18).

3.      Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God (2 Corinthians 3:4, NIV)

4.      Now little children, abide in him, so that when he is revealed we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming (I John 2:28).

5.      Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. (I John 3:21-22, NIV)

C.    God the Father will not reject you.

1.      If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matthew 7:11)

2.      All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37)

A.    You can come to God, just as you are

1.      All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37)

2.      Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light (Matthew 28-30).

3.      Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else (Isaiah 45:22)

4.      Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price (Isaiah 55:1)

5.      In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink (John 7:37)

6.      And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (Revelation 22:17)

B.    God has qualified you

1.      giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light (Colossians 1:12, NIV)

2.      Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. (2 Corinthians 3:5, NIV)

C.    God chose (elected) you. You did not choose God.

1.      You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name (John 15:16, NIV).

2.      If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. (John 15:19, NIV)

3.      Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? (John 6:70, NIV)

4.      I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. (John 13:18, NIV)

5.      Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? (Romans 8:33, NIV)

6.      So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. (Romans 11:5, NIV)

7.      In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will (Ephesians 1:11, NIV)

8.      To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27, NIV).

9.      For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you (I Thessalonians 1:4, NIV)

10.  Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God’s elect, strangers in the world, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, (I Peter 1:1-2a, NIV)

11.  But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (I Peter 2:9, NIV)

D.    God has called you!

1.      For the sake of Jacob my servant, of Israel my chosen, I summon you by name and bestow on you a title of honour, though you do not acknowledge me (Isaiah 45:4, NIV)

2.      I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness (Isaiah 42:6-7, NIV)

3.      Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am he; I am the first and I am the last. (Isaiah 48:12, NIV)

4.      They will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of the LORD; and you will be called Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted (Isaiah 62:12, NIV).

5.      But now, this is what the LORD says—he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. (Isaiah 43:1, NIV)

6.      I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, ‘You are my servant’; I have chosen you and have not rejected you (Isaiah 41:9, NIV)

E.    We have been chosen for salvation

1.      I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no-one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no-one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand (John 10: 28-29, NIV)

2.      And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day (John 6:39, NIV)

3.      No-one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day (John 6:44, NIV)

F.     We have been chosen to inherit the Kingdom of God

1.      And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. (Acts 30:32)

2.      In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will (Ephesians 1:11)

3.      Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light (Colossians 1:12)

4.      Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ (Colossians 3:24)

5.      And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance (Hebrews 9:15)

6.      To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you (I Peter 1:4).

G.    God is still in the business of calling and saving sinners just like you.

1.      All the people saw this and began to mutter, "He has gone to be the guest of a ‘sinner’." But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount." Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost." (Luke 19:7-10, NIV)

2.      When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?" On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." (Matthew 9:11, NIV)

3.      This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. (I Timothy 1:15).

4.      On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." (Mark 2:17, NIV)

5.      For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him (John 3:17, NIV).

6.      Then he turned towards the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet. Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven— for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little." Then Jesus said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." (Luke 7:44-48, NIV)

A.    No one can take my sheep from my hand or my father’s hand.

1.      And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:39-40, NIV)

2.      My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no-one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no-one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand (John 10:27-29, NIV)

3.      I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no-one may harm it (Isaiah 27:3, NIV).

4.      I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number. I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing," declares the LORD (Jeremiah 23:3-4, NIV)

5.      While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled (John 17:12, NIV)

B.    He will keep and preserve you

1.      He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ (I Corinthians 1:8)

2.      While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. (John 17:12-13, NIV)

3.      Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come (2 Corinthians 1:21-22, NIV).

4.      being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6, NIV)

5.      Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:2, NIV)