Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New York
Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
The Torrey Collection - Chapter 1
I. THE BEST TEXTS FOR THE CARELESS, INDIFFERENT, AND ALL WHO DO NOT FEEL
DEEPLY THEIR NEED OF CHRIST
1. The fact and greatness of our sin
ROM 3:22-23 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.
1JO 1:8, 10 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and
the truth is not in us. . . If we claim we have not sinned, we make him
out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.
MAT 22:37-38 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the
first and greatest commandment."
PSA 130:3 If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could
stand?
2. The consequences of sin and unbelief
ISA 57:20-21 But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot
rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud. "There is no peace," says my
God, "for the wicked."
JOH 8:34 Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a
slave to sin.
GAL 3:10 All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it
is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything
written in the Book of the Law."
JOH 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever
rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."
HEB 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because
anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards
those who earnestly seek him.
JOH 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does
not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the
name of God's one and only Son.
ROM 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2TH 1:7-9 . . .And give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as
well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in
blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those who do not
know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be
punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of
the Lord and from the majesty of his power.
JOH 8:24 "I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not
believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your
sins."
JOH 8:21 Once more Jesus said to them, "I am going away, and you will
look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot
come."
REV 21:8 "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers,
the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and
all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
This is the second death."
HEB 10:28-29 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy
on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do
you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God
under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the
covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
3. God's love for us
JOH 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."
ROM 5:6, 8 You see, at just the right time, when we were still
powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. But God demonstrates his own
love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
ISA 53:5-6 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed
for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the
iniquity of us all.
LUK 22:44 And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his
sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
MAT 27:46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi,
Eloi, lama sabachthani?"--which means, "My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me?"
GAL 3:13 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."
1PE 1:18-19 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, but with the precious blood
of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
1PE 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we
might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have
been healed.
Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
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