Psalm 86:5
5 For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.
Psalm 103:10
10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor punished us according to our iniquities.
Psalm 130:3-4
3 If You, Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with You,
That You may be feared.
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1 Thessalonians 5:9
9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Psalm 119:136
136 Rivers of water run down from my eyes, Because men do not keep Your law.
2 Peter 2:20-21
20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.
21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.
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Romans 10:13-16
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Israel Rejects the Gospel
14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:
“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,
Who bring glad tidings of good things!”
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
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OUR WILLINGNESS TO PRESENT THE GOSPEL SHOULD NOT DEPEND ON ITS RECEPTION: GOD HAS ALREADY SAID THERE WILL BE FEW WHO ACCEPT.
Many will not obey the Gospel because of these reasons:
–Indecision
–Procrastination
–Death outside of Christ