Monday, February 02, 2015

Evangelistic Flash Cards Part 1: Man's Origins & Future


Page 1
a) Genesis 1:1 (the creation of the universe) 
In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth.

b) Genesis 1:31 (creation of all living things) 
GOD saw all that He had made, and it was very good.

c) The Fall of Man
Isaiah 59:2 
But your iniquities have separated you from your GOD; your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.

Genesis 3:23 
So the LORD banished both Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

   
Page 2
a) Cain murders Abel
Genesis 4:10-11
"What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hands."

Genesis 6:5
The LORD saw how great Man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

b) Genesis 6:19 (God instructs Noah to build an ark) 
"You are to bring into the ark two of each living creature, male and female, to keep them alive with you."

c) Genesis 8:20 (Noah builds an alter to the Lord)
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.

d) Genesis 11:8-9 (The Tower of Babel) 
So the LORD scattered the people from the city all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel - because it was there that the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and there that the LORD scattered them over the face of the earth.

e) Genesis 22:12 (Abraham put to the test)
The angel called out to him, "Do not lay a hand on the boy! Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear GOD, because you have not withheld from me your only son."

f) Hebrews 3:5 (Moses with the Ten Commandments) 
Moses was faithful as a servant in all GOD's house, testifying to what would be said in the future.


Page 3
a) The Nativity
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

b) Jesus casts out demons
Mark 1:27
The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching- and with authority! He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey Him."

c) Jesus calms the storm
Matthew 8:27
The men were amazed and asked, "What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey Him!"

d) Jesus resurrects Jairus' daughter
Mark 5:41-42
Jesus took the girl by the hand and said, "Little girl, I say to you, get up!" Immediately the girl stood up and walked around.

e) Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 7:28-29
When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at His teachings, because He taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.


Page 4
a) Jesus carries the cross
John 19:17-18
Carrying His cross, Jesus went out to the place of the skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). Here the Romans crucified Him, and with Him two others.

b)  The Crucifixion
1 Corinthians 15:3
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.

Hebrew 9:22
The law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.


Page 5
a) Matthew 28:6 (the empty tomb)
The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”

b) Luke 24:50-52 (the Ascension)
When Jesus had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, He lifted up His hands and blessed them. 5hile He was blessing them, He left them and was taken up into heaven. Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.

c) Acts 2:1-4 (the Pentecost)
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

d) Acts 8:4 (the first Christians)
Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.

e) 1 John 5:19 (Satan's dominion)
We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.


Page 6 (the way to heaven)
Romans 1:29-32
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, STRIFE, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."


Page 7 (John's visions)
Acts 1:11
“Men of Galilee,” the angels said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

Revelations 1:7-8
"Look, He is coming with the clouds," and "every eye will see him,
even those who pierced Him”; and all peoples on earth "will mourn because of Him." So shall it be! Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the LORD God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”