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Everyone is in need of salvation. Romans 3:10, "As it is written, There is nonerighteous, no, not one." Righteousness is simply doing right. By deduction, we allmust conclude that nobody consistently does that which is right from withinhimself. Not because we are born with sin in us, rather we have all committed sinbecause in our flesh, wherein no good thing dwelleth. Romans 7:18 For I know thatin me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present withme; but how to perform that which is good I find not. Many take and use only thisone verse out of context (Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sindid my mother conceive me.), like another scripture verse Matthew 28:19. We allour born into a sin filled or sinful world. (And defined as the following: Atainted with, marked by, or full of sin. There are three main sins. And by themcomes all sin and it's bad effects, upon us all. They are the lust of the flesh,the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. We are to deny them and instead livesoberly and righteously in this present world. This is found in 1 John 2:15-17 andTitus 2:11-15.) Adam and eve ate of the tree of knowledge between good and evil.In Genesis 2:9-3:22. Not one of inheritance. In order to be accountable for sin,one must commit it. James 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doethit not, to him it is sin. A baby is innocent of sin because it does not haveknowledge or beliefs. Therefore, until one has knowledge and belief, they cannotsin. We will read on. The flesh is easily corrupted. Genesis 6:12 And God lookedupon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his wayupon the earth. God told us there are two ways, to follow the desires of the fleshto sin and death, or the spirit of God to life everlasting. Galatians 6:7-9 Be notdeceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he thatsoweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not beweary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. One day weall reap what we have sown. God is not unrighteous to forget the work you havedone by faith in his name. This is found in Hebrews 6:10. For God is notunrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed towardhis name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. How can onebe saved then? Well, Christ the lamb of God, (John 1:29 and Hebrews 9:15-22) diedfor all sin. The work of redemption is multi-fold. Someone must make an atonementfor sin, and someone must empower and enable the converts to live and walk in thelife of holiness and righteousness. There is no doubt that Jesus Christ alonereally fulfilled all these requirements as our Teacher, our King, and our Priest.As teacher, He declared the Truth, the Light and the Way. As king, He empoweredHis subjects to follow His commandments. As priest, He "being made perfect, hebecame the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Called of Godan high priest after the order of Melchisedec," (Hebrews 5:9-10). Nobody contendsthe fact that Jesus died in their place to remove all sin. All who believe in himwill have their sins removed from their lives. Unbelief will condemn the world.Roman 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercyupon all. All sin is unbelief. Whosoever believes and obeys Christ by that thatsame belief, (John 14:15/15:14 and 2 Kings 2:5:1-15) shall be saved. John 3:16-21For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoeverbelieveth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent nothis Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him mightbe saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not iscondemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begottenSon of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, andmen loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every onethat doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deedsshould be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deedsmay be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. The word sin has the letter"i" in at it's center. Satan gave the five "I wills" in Isaiah 14. Sin is beingself centered and not God centered. Faith is being focused on God (Isaiah 26:3-4)and centering our lives (Mark 12:29-30) on him. Faith is expressed or shown by the
 
reaction that we have to the message of God. It can be seen as the trust we havein his words. Romans 3:24-27 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith ofJesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely byhis grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forthto be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness forthe remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, Isay, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier ofhim which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law?of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Some say faith requires not work to showit. These are not the words of Jesus nor his followers. Jesus replied to theunbelieving Jews who just wanted him make more food for them. John 6:28-29 Thensaid they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesusanswered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whomhe hath sent. Here Jesus said faith in of itself is or produces a work. Not a selfrighteous one. But a faith based one. Mark 16:16 restates this idea. He thatbelieveth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall bedamned. James 2:18-26 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shewme thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. Thoubelievest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, andtremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Wasnot Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son uponthe altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faithmade perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God,and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend ofGod. You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had receivedthe messengers, and had sent them out another way? For as the body without thespirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. In all of Paul's letters andhis preaching (Acts 13:38-39), he contrasts two ideas, or systems whereby someonemight be declared righteous before God. A person can choose to enter Christ andrely upon what the salvation Jesus has provided in order to be counted righteousor he can seek to obtain his own righteousness by fulfilling the demands of theLaw. The first is known as being justified out of faith while Paul refers to thelast as being justified out of the works of the Law. Paul and James both preachedthe same Gospel. Paul's contrast is between the works of the Law verses faith inChrist. In Romans 9:30-10:21, Paul explained why Israel had failed to receive therighteousness which comes by faith. Israel had allowed an obstacle to block herpath (Romans 10:1-4). Paul used Deuteronomy 30:11-14 to teach that therighteousness which comes by faith requires that "the message," namely Jesus,becomes a belief in some one's heart and a confession upon his lips (Romans 10:8-10). Since Israel had refused to acknowledge and internalized the message ofJesus, she had not received the blessings which come from faith in Christ. Butsince salvation is open to all who will call upon the Lord (Romans 10:11-13), thatis, to all who will respond by trusting in Jesus, even an Israelite would be savedif he would overcome this obstacle and respond to the message of Christ with hisheart and his lips. Paul did himself called upon the name of the Lord Jesus (Acts10:36 Jesus is Lord of all.) in his baptism. Acts 22:16 And now why tarriestthou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of theLord. This agrees with the words of Peter in Acts 2:38. Peter said to them,"Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission(forgiveness) of your sins". The Eunuch also who believed with all of his heartconfessing this with his mouth, was baptized (in the name of Jesus) by Phillip inthe waters. This is found in Acts 8:26-40. That Paul did not understand faith inChrist to be "just accept Jesus into your heart as your Lord and Savior by sayinga sinner's prayer." This is made abundantly clear. Having repeatedly upheld theprinciples of faith and grace against works, Paul concluded that Christians arenot under the Law, but rather are children of God by faith in Christ as a result
 
of their being clothed with Christ in baptism. Galatians 3:26-27 Baptism is an actof faith whereby someone relies upon Jesus for salvation. Today there are manypeople who run into problems with the terms faith, works and obedience. It isbecause they falsely assume that when Paul condemned works that he was condemningall forms of human action and obedience to God; and conversely when he praisedfaith he was lauding mere but genuine belief in Christ. Accepting such a frameworkwill cause a person to encounter many contradictory statementswithin the Scriptures. Furthermore, when these unbiblical definitions are takento their logical conclusions, they demand that someone must believe God enableshim to believe, otherwise people would be saved by their works (namely, theirdecision to believe). Why are people driven to this conclusion? Given theirdefinitions of works, since even believing in Jesus requires the human initiativeof responding to God's actions (and is therefore by their definition "a work"),those who want to be consistent with their definitions are forced to the erroneousconclusion that God must enable a person to believe. Paul himself wasn'tdenouncing "obedience" and elevating "just believing." Instead Paul reminds theGalatians ( Galatians 3:2-9 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spiritby the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? havingbegun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Have ye suffered somany things in vain? if it be yet in vain. He therefore that ministereth to youthe Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law,or by the hearing of faith? Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted tohim for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the sameare the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justifythe heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, Inthee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed withfaithful Abraham.) that their reception of the Spirit by faith and the fact thatGod had performed miracles among them was not because they are following the Lawof Moses, but rather because they had believed. The contrast is between relyingupon the Law instead of relying upon Jesus. As Paul himself said in Phillipians2:12. "Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presenceonly, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear andtrembling." Hebrews 11:1-7 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, theevidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Throughfaith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that thingswhich are seen were not made of things which do appear. By faith Abel offered untoGod a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he wasrighteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. Byfaith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found,because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony,that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he thatcometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them thatdiligently seek him. By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet,moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which hecondemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. Weread in 1 Peter 2;20-21 Which sometime were disobedient, when once thelongsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing,wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereuntoeven baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of theflesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection ofJesus Christ. Baptism now saves us by our active belief or faith. Getting wet ordunked in titles ( The name of the father, singular, and of the son, singular, andof the Holy Spirit, and again, singular.) never will do it. Acts 4:10-12 Be itknown unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of JesusChrist of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by himdoth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set atnought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is theresalvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men,
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My friend said the following statements. "its true that the sun is 400x bigger than the moon scientists say and the moon is 400x distance the sun moon and earth so that we have an exact eclipse, which is only seen from earth since we are the exact distance in the middle of the milky way, which is the exact distance for life on earth to exist, and we are the exct distance from the moon for a night light and ocean cleansing,also the stars just happen to give us a perfect clock and calendar, and some people have the nerve to say they dont believe"...

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This song is a version of Onward Christian Soldiers for children. They kids are the next in line to carry on the faith. We must train or teach them well. If one fails to guide their own correctly in patience and faith by love, they will fail the main purposes of their life. Never force Christ but gently lead them and they will follow. In the worse case scenario: If nothing else, you will of earned their respect. They cannot Christ lives in you. Onward, little soldiers, bravely onward go; Right about for Jesus, learn to face the foe; Jesus is your Leader, and your soul will shield; Onward, little soldiers, to the battlefield. Refrain: Onward, little soldiers, bravely onward go; Right about for Jesus, learn to face the foe. Onward, little soldiers, in the gospel light; Keep your banner waving, and your armor bright; Follow Jesus closely, and from fear be free; Let your weapons always love and kindness be. Onward, little soldiers, onward every day, Full of love for Jesus, eager for the fray; Every hour that passes, Even you may win Victories for Jesus over doubt and sin.

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This song is a version of Onward Christian Soldiers for children. They kids are the next in line to carry on the faith. We must train or teach them well. If one fails to guide their own correctly in patience and faith by love, they will fail the main purposes of their life. never force Christ but gently lead them and they will follow. In the worse case scenario: If nothing else, you will of earned their respect. They cannot Christ lives in you. Onward, little soldiers, bravely onward go; Right about for Jesus, learn to face the foe; Jesus is your Leader, and your soul will shield; Onward, little soldiers, to the battlefield. Refrain: Onward, little soldiers, bravely onward go; Right about for Jesus, learn to face the foe. Onward, little soldiers, in the gospel light; Keep your banner waving, and your armor bright; Follow Jesus closely, and from fear be free; Let your weapons always love and kindness be. Onward, little soldiers, onward every day, Full of love for Jesus, eager for the fray; Every hour that passes, Even you may win Victories for Jesus over doubt and sin.

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The eternal precepts of God are hidden at the start. "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honour of kings is to search out a matter," (Proverbs 25:2). Also, "the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned," (I Corinthians 2:14). All the world dwells in spiritual darkness until the light of Jesus Christ shines upon them. Isaiah prophesied the birth of Jesus Christ, saying, "The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up," (Matthew 4:16). John said, "In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," (John 1:4,5,9) Jesus lamented the spiritual blindness and deafness of the masses, speaking to them in parables. He delighted in his disciples' grasp of eternal truths, saying, "blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. (Matt 13:16,17). The Apostle Paul recognized that the gospel was a revelation of the "hidden wisdom of God" in 1 Corinthians 2:7, "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory."

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