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Four Spiritual Laws
by Pastor Richard Tow
December 11, 2016
Text: Romans 10:14
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Message equips believers to share the gospel using the four spiritual laws developed by Bill Bright. Techniques and principles for one-on-one evangelism are discussed.
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FOUR SPIRITUAL LAWS
12/11/17
Intro
A. Subject: How to make a simple presentation of the gospel to a non-Christian Will use tract written by Bill Bright, the founder of Crusade
for Christ entitled Four Spiritual Laws
B. Four Spiritual Laws are:
(1) “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.”
(2) “Humanity is tainted by sin and is therefore separated from God. As a result, we cannot know God’s wonderful plan for our lives.”
(3) “Jesus Christ is God’s only provision for our sin. Through Jesus Christ, we can have our sins forgiven and restore a right relationship
with God.”
(4) “We must place our faith in Jesus Christ as Savior in order to receive the gift of salvation and know God’s wonderful plan for our lives.”
C. A few cautions:
(1) Anyone who is truly saved got led to Christ by the Holy Spirit!
(2) There is nothing magical about this tract or any tract. They are just tools we can use.
Rom 10:9-10 “that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead,
you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
Those two essentials have to happen.
D. How does a person know he has genuinely been born again?
(1) An inner witness. Rom 8:16 makes this promise. “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.”
(2) A change in lifestyle over time. 1 John 3:7
Law 1: God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life.
People do need to understand God’s benevolence toward them. 2 Peter 3:9 tells us that God is “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
Law 2: Man is sinful and separated from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God’s love and plan for his life.
God said to Israel in Isa 59:1-2 “Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.”
The problem that is separating us from God is our own rebellion.
Law 3: Jesus Christ is God’s only provision for man’s sin. Through Him you can know and experience God’s love and plan for your life.
“God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” There is no Plan B. This is God’s way of rescuing fallen humanity.
Law 4: We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God’s love and plan for our lives. To do nothing is to stay under condemnation and judgment.
John 3:18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
An example of a prayer for salvation: “God, I know that I have sinned against you and deserve punishment. But Jesus Christ took the punishment that I deserve so that through faith in Him I could be forgiven. I place my trust in You for salvation. Thank You for Your wonderful grace and forgiveness – the gift of eternal life! Amen!”
