God’s Simple Plan of Salvation--(JUST TO REMIND YOU-- THESE DO NOT SAY YOU MUST BE A CERTAIN RELIGION OR DENOMINATION -- JUST BELIEVE!!!!)
by Pastor Ford Porter

My Friend: I am asking you the most important question of life. Your joy or your sorrow for all eternity depends upon your answer. The question is: Are you saved? It is not a question of how good you are, nor if you are a church member, but are you saved? Are you sure you will go to Heaven when you die?

God says in order to go to Heaven, you must be born again. In John 3:7, Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Ye must be born again.”

In the Bible God gives us the plan of how to be born again which means to be saved. His plan is simple! You can be saved today. How?

First, my friend, you must realize you are a sinner. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).

Because you are a sinner, you are condemned to death. “For the wages [payment] of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). This includes eternal separation from God in Hell.

“ . . . it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).

But God loved you so much He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus, to bear your sin and die in your place. “ . . . He hath made Him [Jesus, Who knew no sin] to be sin for us . . . that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Jesus had to shed His blood and die. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood” (Lev. 17:11). “ . . . without shedding of blood is no remission [pardon]” (Hebrews 9:22).

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

Although we cannot understand how, God said my sins and your sins were laid upon Jesus and He died in our place. He became our substitute. It is true. God cannot lie.

My friend, “God . . . commandeth all men everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30). This repentance is a change of mind that agrees with God that one is a sinner, and also agrees with what Jesus did for us on the Cross.

In Acts 16:30-31, the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas: “ . . . ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ And they said, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved . . . .’ ”

Simply believe on Him as the one who bore your sin, died in your place, was buried, and whom God resurrected. His resurrection powerfully assures that the believer can claim everlasting life when Jesus is received as Savior.

“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name” (John 1:12).

“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).

Whosoever includes you. Shall be saved means not maybe, nor can, but shall be saved.

Surely, you realize you are a sinner. Right now, wherever you are, repenting, lift your heart to God in prayer.

In Luke 18:13, the sinner prayed: “God be merciful to me a sinner.” Just pray: “Oh God, I know I am a sinner. I believe Jesus was my substitute when He died on the Cross. I believe His shed blood, death, burial, and resurrection were for me. I now receive Him as my Savior. I thank You for the forgiveness of my sins, the gift of salvation and everlasting life, because of Your merciful grace. Amen.”

Just take God at His word and claim His salvation by faith. Believe, and you will be saved. No church, no lodge, no good works can save you. Remember, God does the saving. All of it!

God’s simple plan of salvation is: You are a sinner. Therefore, unless you believe on Jesus Who died in your place, you will spend eternity in Hell. If you believe on Him as your crucified, buried, and risen Savior, you receive forgiveness for all of your sins and His gift of eternal salvation by faith.

You say, “Surely, it cannot be that simple.” Yes, that simple! It is scriptural. It is God’s plan. My friend, believe on Jesus and receive Him as Savior today.

If His plan is not perfectly clear, read this tract over and over, without laying it down, until you understand it. Your soul is worth more than all the world.

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).

Be sure you are saved. If you lose your soul, you miss Heaven and lose all. Please! Let God save you this very moment.

God’s power will save you, keep you saved, and enable you to live a victorious Christian life. “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (1 Corinthians 10:13).

Do not trust your feelings. They change. Stand on God’s promises. They never change. After you are saved, there are three things to practice daily for spiritual growth:


Pray -- you talk to God.
Read your Bible -- God talks to you.
Witness -- you talk for God.
AFTER you are saved, you should be baptized in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ as a public testimony of your salvation, and then unite with a Bible-believing church without delay. “Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord . . . .” (2 Timothy 1:8).

Please note that you DON'T have to be baptized to go to Heaven. It is a step of obedience for the believer.

“Whosoever therefore shall confess [testify of] Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32).

beautiful Sally . david

Continuation of Sermonettes to dajcat AT HIS INVITATION, from page 4 of this thread

THIS SERMONETTE IS ON THE FUTILITY OF REPETITIVE QUESTIONS EVEN AFTER BEING GIVEN THE CORRECT ANSWER.

THIS SERMONETTE INCLUDES A TEACHING ON HOW TO TREAT CATHOLICS WITH RESPECT, CIVILITY AND CHRISTIAN CHARITY, INSTEAD OF LYING AND SPREADING FALSE ALLEGATIONS ABOUT THEIR BELIEFS.

Quote: Originally posted by dajcat on 02 September 2009
You are welcome to post any sermonette you choose Firebird......... Please we would love to read your sermonette..... dajcat
Thank you for the invitation to post another Sermonette.
Mine is all about the importance of teaching and speaking the truth. If the truth means sharing God’s Word as Catholics believe, then that truth should be respected. If you don't accept Catholic teachings, no one has forced you to do so. You are free to worship your Bible as you choose, instead of daily slandering Catholics and spreading hate-filled propaganda about our beliefs.

1. You persistently ask the same trite questions about our beliefs even after being given the correct Catholic teaching. This comes from soul unrest and disturbance. It is annoying, offensive, rude and obnoxious. It causes others seeking Christ to turn away in discouragement. Instead of saying you don't agree, you launch into even more vitriolic attacks which digress from the initial question you asked. That leads to more spiritual unrest, more unstable thinking; it sows discord, plants doubt, stirs needless strife and engenders religious intolerance towards Catholics. None of this behavior accords with Christ's teachings, nor are you teaching God's Word as you often claim. It is really all about YOU, YOUR FALSE OPINIONS and MISTAKEN BELIEFS about Catholicism.

You willfully break God's commandments and scandalize unbelievers by your hypocrisy! Those who have had the misfortune to give bad example, and to wound or cause the perdition of souls by scandal, must take care to repair all in this world, if they would not be subjected to the most terrible expiation in the other. It was not in vain that Jesus Christ cried out, "Woe to the world because of scandals! Woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh!" (Matt 18:7). Check Pages 4-6 of this Sermonette Thread and below for evidence of your despicable unchristian behavior:

2. ON REPEATEDLY DENYING PURGATORY in Catholic Truths & Myths, P. 68 - Post #1342; P. 84 - Posts #1675, #1677 & #1679

3. ON DENYING PURGATORY AGAIN ON P. 90 of the Keys thread, 6 February 2009
QUOTE by dajcat on 6 February 2009
Purgatory cannot be proved it is an invention of the RC church. Are you not afraid of the suffering you will have to endure in your imaginary purgatory? If there is no pain in purgatory what use does it serve? Only another form of self inflicted torment that makes you feel more pius.
QUOTE from emcyay2000 on 06 February 2009
I have no idea what you’re even talking about now. We were actually discussing things and then -- whammo! Did someone tell you it’s suddenly open season on Catholics again?

I don’t even know why you ask these questions. Are you looking for a different answer? Do you think an angry diatribe is going to make me flinch or fall apart? Not going to happen, my friend. Like I said earlier, daj -- you don’t like to be accused of bashing, or bigotry let’s try the word prejudice. You have already prejudged me and 1.1 billion like me, so I guess that would make you, oh I see, God? Sorry, the job’s been filled, my friend and you ain’t He.

You’ve gotten yourself all worked up and I’m just not going to even try to answer. Who wins by this kind of vitriolic frenzy, daj? Who’s feeding your head? Go back and ask whatever it is driving you right now to identify itself. Tell it to stand up for itself and stop using you Em

QUOTE by dajcat on 06 February 2009, telling a bold-faced lie that he is worked up.
I’m not the least worked up Em only posting the truth. If i can save one person from making the mistake of becomming RC by my postings then i have done my job.
QUOTE from emcyay2000 on 06 February 2009
So you have appointed yourself God, judge of all and reader of souls. But you might want to be a little more articulate next time, God.

4. ON CATHOLIC SAINTS in Catholic Truths & Myths, P. 76 Posts #1513-#1514 rebuttals to your hate-filled attacks on Catholic Saints & why they are not around today.

5. ON ORDINATION OF WOMEN in the Keys Thread, P. 36 on August 18, 2008
QUOTE from rorussell on 18 August 2008 to refute your allegations:
Dajcat, do you ever read a post and ask yourself what it means before you start running off at the mouth? What part of firebird’s post on the ordination of women don’t you understand? She said, "The RCC does not ordain women." If a renegade bishop or priest attempts to ordain inappropriately, they are excommunicated. That person is not the RCC. They are not the same thing. You’re making a fool out of yourself by attacking others for your misconceptions.

6. ON CHEAPENING AND DIRTYING ANOTHER'S BELIEFS in the Mormon Thread, P. 172
Quote from dajcat
"it doesn’t hurt to remind ( even ourselves) where the Mormons are coming from. They might be a good and loving people but they are not God’s people."
Quote from gfchase - "David, it is truly amazing how you manage to twist things to suit your own agenda and to make something cheap and dirty out of something holy. I feel sorry for you.....Talk about irrational, I do not believe you even bothered to read what I wrote, as it appears that you are rambling on about things I never said. Let me suggest that you take a couple of deep breaths and start over."

Ahem!
Pontificating from your shaky sola scriptura stool and uttering foolish personal opinions are not allowed by God. It makes many people angry and frustrated with you. It causes dissension. Do accept my deepest appreciation for inviting me to gift you with another Sermonette - this time it is on civility; how to speak out of Christian charity to others in Spirit and Truth, and how to obey God's Word. You will find this lesson useful for your soul. It will impede any effort to spin outrageous yarns, hurt others by your sinful tactics and constant persecution, harassment and attacks against Catholics. You are over 81 years old and claimed you never came across anyone like me before. Well, dajcat, thank Almighty God for putting me in your path as your ministering angel. Every time you fall into habitual sins, I will yank you up by your little longies right out of the abyss that you are plunging yourself into.

[quote=dajcat]Your diatribe is not worth answering Firebird. I put my faith in Jesus Christ not a denomination as you do.
Liar!
You do not put your faith in Christ since you openly disobey His teachings to love God and neighbor. You go against God's Word by your habitual lies, calumny and false witness against Catholics. That is not love. It is pure hate!

Liar!
I do not put my faith in my denomination. That is a false accusation. I worship God in His temple daily when I can. Whereas you worship your Bible since you told Martin not to go to Church but to stay home and read the Bible! Thank God Martin was led by the Holy Spirit and not your spirit.
He soundly rejected your silly advice for the good of his soul!

You erroneously claimed you worship the Lord of the Bible! There is no such Lord of the Bible. Thou shalt not worship false gods.

Russell was right. He did say you invent lies and keep fabricating new ones all the time.

Attacking Catholics and their beliefs from your prejudice and mistaken notions leads to consequences. Expect to be given inconvenient truths about yourself and your own religion.

You kind of contradicted your sermonette about the serviceman who stayed because he was needed.. . I'm confused. What DO you believe?

Aparently no one is ignoring so that's a moot point. Then again, after my Christians United posting calling everyone out on the floor there, Maybe it's not. Hm.

Read my post in Christian's United.. .

When someone offends you, you should bring it to their attention. If they do not take accountabillity for offending you...then it's time to take another course of action.. Depending on the severity of the matter. Ignoring is one thing..but why should Fiona (or anyone else for that matter) ignore erroding remarks, just becuase she believes differently than you or anyone else for that matter? You all dont mind Not Ignoring her? I dont understand this double standard. Someone please explain this to me?

Yes. Becuase Saying "I'm Sorry" is not in fashion in these forums. No Sir Ree!

SOME of us dont HAVE TO APOLOGIZE.

Look past your nose. Calling someone on offense is NOT Anti-Christian...is it? ? I mean. Aren't we supposed to correct our brothers and sisters? Because, if not. You all need to back up and just ignore if that is what you want others to do that as well. Practice what you preach.

Point the finger at me any time you want. You are a human just like me. You dont know me from anyone and especially you dont know my heart like God does so Please keep your remarks to yourself....or better yet.

IGNORE THEM.

A Sermonette

"But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." (Matthew 12:36)

"Let your speech be always with grace," the Scripture says (Colossians 4:6), "seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man," and "study to be quiet, and to do your own business" (1 Thessalonians 4:11).

There is such a thing as the sin of talkativeness, and many Christians are beset by it. Note some of the pertinent Scriptures: "He that hath knowledge spareth his words. . . . Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding" (Proverbs 17:27-28). "Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few" (Ecclesiastes 5:2).

"Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath" (James 1:19). "But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil" (Matthew 5:37).

"In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise" (Proverbs 10:19). "Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks" (Ephesians 5:4).

There are many other such warnings, of course, but the one in our text is perhaps the most sobering of all. Evidently God has a sort of "tape recording" of all our conversations, and we shall be required some day to explain all those words which were not gracious and edifying. We would do well before the record of our idle and pointless conversations (not even to mention any that are hurtful or profane) mounts any higher to forsake the sin of talking too much, and to cultivate prayerfully the grace of quietness. HMM ICR

OUR BIBLE by Myrtly Broadworth

Oh blessed book within our hand
inspired thy pages fair
In reverend awe thy truths we seek
and find such treasures there


We read of God----Omnipetent
who all the worlds has made
the majestyof starry skies,
the quiet dewy glades

His footsteps mark unfathomed seas
His eye each hidden spring,
Whle in His hand He holds the breath'
of every living thing


but more precious all His thoughts expressed
in love to fallen man
and far beyond creation's power
God's great redemption plan


That He the High and Holy One
shouldst stoop in hearts to dwell
through Calvary's Love Immeasurable
nor every tongue can tell


Oh. Holy treasure , book Divine
our light upon the way
Impress thy truths upon our hearts
more dear to grow each day



Sally you have been asked by more than one not to leave. Remember good and bad attitudes will be found no matter where you go. Leaving will not change anything. Put on the full armor of God. and stay. david