Jim Batterton - That night, January 9, 1989, I paced around my room. All of the memory verses I had ever learned were racing through my mind. I knew I really needed to be saved, and as I became increasingly more upset, I was realizing that I really didn’t know how to be saved...
I. THE FUTURE DESTINY OF THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD. John 8:24 — "I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins." (Note the context, verse 21.)
Proposition: Those who do not believe that Jesus is the Messiah and Son of God will die in their sins.
The faith here spoken of is not a mere opinion, but a faith that governs the life. (Compare to John's use of faith everywhere; e.g., 1 John 5:1, 4-5.)
Jim Batterton
