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A  BIBLE-BELIEVING 

GOD-FEARING CHURCH.

sTRONG IN PRAYER

AND MISSIONS.    

Our purpose:  

Here at Willomore Baptist Church we place a high priority on the preaching of God's Word and evangelizing the world through local outreaches and global missions. (2 Timothy 4:1-4:  I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables]. [King James Version]. Each believer has a God-given place, a God-appointed gift, and a responsibility to the local church.

The Christian Life in a Nutshell:

If we are saved, we are a new creature. (2 Corinthians 5, ¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold [a want to follow Christ], all things are become new). In Christ, we have a new meaning and purpose. Second Corinthians 5:17 is a promise--believing in Christ and being placed in Christ.  (1 Corinthians 6:11:  Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God). The Christian life is a walk by faith rather than by sight.  (2 Corinthians 5:7:  For we walk by faith, not by sight). The Christian matures by allowing the Holy Spirit to transform their minds through regular intake, belief, and application of God’s Word.  (Romans 12:1-2:  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world:  but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God).    

What God Wants You to Know: 

God’s plan of salvation--the gospel. (1 Corinthians 15, Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; ² By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. ³ For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; ⁴ And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures).

(1) Why do we need to be saved? Jesus said that we must be born again [saved]. (John 3, ⁷ Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again). We need to be saved because we all are born sinners--by birth and by choice. Sin is breaking God’s law. (1 John 3, ⁴ Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law). We have all sinned against a holy God and cannot save ourselves. (Romans 3, ²³ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God). The wages [payment] of sin is death--eternal separation from God in hell. (Romans 6, ²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord). 

2) Who provided for our salvation? We all deserve hell, but the good news is that God has made a way for us not to go to hell. The free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6, ²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord). God Himself is the only one who can provide for our salvation. God loves us so much that He provided eternal life by sending His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die in our place. God became a human being in the person of Jesus Christ. (John 1, ¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1, ¹⁴ And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth). Jesus Christ lived a sinless life and offered Himself as a perfect sacrifice on our behalf. Jesus is 100% God, 100% man, and 100% sinless [fully God and fully man]. He took the guilt and penalty of our sin [the punishment we deserve] making it possible for salvation to be extended to all who believe [means to be fully persuaded]. (Romans 5, ⁸ But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us). Christ had to die because without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. (Hebrews 9, ²² And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission). Unless we believe on Jesus who died in our place, we will spend eternity in hell.

3) How are we saved? It is not a blind leap of faith. We are saved through faith alone, by grace alone, through Christ alone, to the glory of God alone. (Ephesians 2, ⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast). There is no amount of good works we can do to save ourselves from being eternally separated from God. We are not saved by growing up in a Christian family, being good, doing what is right, going to church, reading the Bible, witnessing, baptism, or by church membership, etc. There is no other way to be saved except through Jesus Christ. (Acts 4, ¹² Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved). If we are saved, our past, present, and future sins are forgiven. 

4) Do you believe God? (Romans 10, ⁹ that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation). This involves repentance. This repentance in relationship to salvation is a change of mind from what you were believing to believing the good news of the gospel. You change your mind about sin and about Jesus. You agree with God that you are a sinner and also agree that God send His Son, the Lord Jesus, to pay for your sins on the cross and confess Jesus as Lord [G2962: a person exercising absolute ownership rights]. You are saved by the Spirit of God when you truly believe in your heart [with your whole being: your mind, emotion, and will] that according to the Scriptures that Christ died for your sins and that He was buried and that He was raised on the third day and confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord. What did you decide? Did you receive God’s plan of salvation? Are you saved?