Sermon Number Two: What Must I Do To Be Saved? - Believe (Mark 16:15-16)

Article #15 by Mike on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 04:37 PM

“You are my witness,” declares the Lord, “that I am God. Apart from me there is no Savior.” Isaiah 43:10-11

INTRODUCTION: John 20:29-31_________________________________________________

SCRIPTURE READING: John 5:35-40______________________________________________

LESSON TEXT: Mark 16:15-16__________________________________________________

1. Preach the Good News______________________________________________________

2. He who believes and is baptized will be saved___________________________________

a. What is believing? cf. 2 Kings 5:10-14_______________________________________

3. Hear and believe the first witness. John 1:6-7__________________________________

a. John’s testimony; John 1:29-32____________________________________________

4. We must be born again to see the Kingdom of God. John 3:1-3____________________

a. cf. John 3:5____________________________________________________________

5. To believe in God we must believe in Jesus. John 12:44-50_______________________

To BELIEVE: 4100 pisteuo-
1) to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, to place confidence in
a) used of the thing believed, to credit, to have confidence
b) in a moral or religious reference
1) used in the New Testament of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher perogative and law of soul
2) to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith
3) mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith