A method known as the “Romans Road” is often used to
show people the plan of salvation. If
you are interested, you can Google “romans road,” and you will find lots of
hits describing it. I pray that Lamp in
a Corner, at its core, will be used by the Holy Spirit to lead people to
Christ. I pray also that we will be
used to disciple those who have surrendered themselves to Him.
To that end, then, here are some Bible verses that show
the way to Jesus, and other verses to illustrate how the Christian life is led:
…for all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God, (Romans 3:23 NIV)
There is no one righteous, not even one;
There is no one who understands,
No one who seeks God. (Romans 3:10-11 NIV)
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift
of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NIV)
He is patient with
you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. (2Peter
3:9 NIV)
God is love. (1John 4:16 NIV)
But God demonstrates his own love for us in
this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8 NIV)
For God so loved the
world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should
not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16 NIV)
Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
shall be saved. (Romans 10:13 NIV)
We know that we have come to know him if we
obey his commands. The man who says, ‘I
know him,’ but does not do as he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in
him. But if anyone obeys his word, God’s
love is truly made complete in him. This
is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to be in him must walk as Jesus
did. (1John 2:3-6 NIV)
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive
ourselves and the truth is not in us.
(1John 1:8 NIV)
I do not understand what I do. For what I
want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do … I know that nothing good lives
in me, that is in my sinful nature. For
I have the desire to do good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do;
no, the evil I do not want to do – this I keep on doing … What a wretched man
that I am! Who will rescue me from this
body of death? Thanks be to God –
through Christ Jesus our Lord!
(Romans 7:15-25 NIV)
(Romans 7:15-25 NIV)
… I write this to you so that you will not
sin. But if anybody does sin, we have
one who speaks to the father in our defense – Jesus Christ, the Righteous
One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our
sins … (1John 2:1-2 NIV)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1John
1:9 NIV)
For it is by grace you have been saved,
through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by
works, so that no one can boast. For we
are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God
prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:8-10 NIV)
I am the vine; you
are the branches. If a man remains in me
and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. (John
15:5 NIV)
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the
Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:1-2 NIV)
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may
increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any
longer? Or don’t you know that all of us
who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death. We were therefore buried with him through
baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead
through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. (Romans 6:1-4 NIV)
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of
Gods mercy, to offer yourselves as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God –
this is your spiritual (or reasonable) act of worship. (Romans 12:1 NIV)
If anyone would come
after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose
it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole
world, and yet lose his very self? (Luke
9:23-25 NIV) (yet forfeits his soul? Matthew 16:26 NIV)
I will not leave you
as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore,
but you will see me. Because I live, you
will also live. On that day you will
realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. (John 14:20
NIV)
All this I have
spoken to you while still with you. But
the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will
teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
(John 14:25-26 NIV)
So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will
not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the
Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. (Galatians 5:16-17 NIV)
Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in
step with the Spirit. (Galatians 5:25 NIV)
Those who live according to the sinful
nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in
accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
(Romans 8:5 NIV) You, however, are
controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God
lives in you. And if anyone does not have
the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead
because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus
from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also
give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
(Romans 8:9-11 NIV)
