Jesus Has Given Us An Invitation of Eternal Consequences.

1. The Invitation Rejected.

Matthew 12:13-14 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. 14 But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus. (NIV)

Matthew 10:24 A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

Matthew 10:34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Matthew 10:16a I am sending you out like sheep among wolves.

Matthew 10:28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell

Matthew 11:20 Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.

Matthew 11:23 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

Matthew 12:41 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here.

2. The Invitation Accepted.

Matthew 10:32 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 10:42 And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

The Choice to Accept Deliberately.

The Choice to Accept Daily.