Your Gift from God
Saturday, Sep. 27 2025
Your Gift from God

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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
 - John 3:16-17

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
 - John 14:5-7

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Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
 - Gen. 2:7-8

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
 - Gen. 2:15-17

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
 - Gen. 3:6-7

And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
 - Gen. 3:22-23

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned— To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.
 - Romans 5:12-14


On this mountain he will destroy
    the shroud that enfolds all peoples,
  the sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever.
  The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears
    from all faces;
  he will remove his people’s disgrace
    from all the earth.
  The Lord has spoken.
 - Isaiah 25:7-8

He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
    and like a root out of dry ground.
  He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
  Like one from whom people hide their faces
    he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
 Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,
  yet we considered him punished by God,
    stricken by him, and afflicted.
 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
  the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
    and by his wounds we are healed.
 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
    each of us has turned to our own way;
  and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.
 - Isaiah 53:2-6

He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
    and with the rich in his death,
  though he had done no violence,
    nor was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
    and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,
  he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
    and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
After he has suffered,
    he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
  by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
    and he will bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
    and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
  because he poured out his life unto death,
    and was numbered with the transgressors.
  For he bore the sin of many,
    and made intercession for the transgressors.
 - Isaiah 53:9-12

Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.
 - Daniel 12:10

Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.
 - Eccles. 3:19-20


“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
 - Matt. 3:11-12


He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
    and all his ways are just.
  A faithful God who does no wrong,
    upright and just is he.
 - Deut. 32:4

Learn to do right; seek justice.
    Defend the oppressed.
  Take up the cause of the fatherless;
    plead the case of the widow.
 - Isaiah 1:17

Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you;
    therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.
  For the Lord is a God of justice.
    Blessed are all who wait for him!
 - Isaiah 30:18

“For I, the Lord, love justice;
    I hate robbery and wrongdoing.
  In my faithfulness I will reward my people
    and make an everlasting covenant with them.
 - Isaiah 61:8

“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’ “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’ “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family,  for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’ “ ‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’ ”
 - Luke 16:19-31


Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me. “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name!”
    Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” 
 - John 12:23-28

He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” 
 - Luke 24:6-7

He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
 - Luke 24:38-39


Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
 - Matt. 10:28

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 
 - John 10:27-28


Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
 - Revelation 21:1

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
 - Revelation 21:3-8
Non-Christian Evidence for Jesus' Existence
  • Josephus (Jewish Historian): 
    Writing around 93-94 AD, Josephus mentions Jesus twice in his Jewish Antiquities. 
    • One passage, the Testimonium Flavianum, contained an authentic mention of Jesus.
    • A second, a reference describes James, the brother of "Jesus, the so-called Christ". 
  • Tacitus (Roman Historian): 
    Writing around 116 AD, Tacitus mentions "Christus" (Christ) and his execution by Pontius Pilate during the reign of Emperor Tiberius.
  • Suetonius (Roman Historian): 
    Around 121 AD, Suetonius noted that a riot in Rome was started by Jews incited by a figure named "Chrestus".
  • Babylonian Talmud: 
    This collection of Jewish writings, from a century or so after Jesus, mentions that Jesus was crucified and practiced sorcery, a belief that he had some supernatural power.
  • Thallus: 
    Though his work is lost, the Christian writer Julius Africanus quoted Thallus in the 3rd century, who referenced the darkness that occurred during the crucifixion of Jesus. 
  • Pliny the Younger (Roman Official): 
    In letters from around 112 AD, Pliny, governor of Bithynia (in modern-day Turkey), wrote about the growing number of Christians and their practice of worshiping Christ as a god. 
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