CHASE
We all chase the wind with a heart of sin.
 
1 CHASE I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

2 SEARCH   Psalm 39:23,24  Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

3 TREASURE  Matthew 6:19-21  Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.  But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

4 PLANS  Jeremiah 29:11; 33:3  “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things which you do not know.’

5 EXCUSE  Romans 1:20  For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

6 WONDERFUL  Psalm 139:13,14 Isaiah 96 For you created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are ... Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace…

SPACE
Sin has put a space between us and God's face.

7 WAGES Romans 3:23; 6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

8 SEPARATED Proverbs 14:12  Isaiah 59:2   There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.   Your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you…

 9 WAY  John 14:6  No man comes to the Father except through me. I am the way, the truth and the life.

10 MEDIATOR  1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus...

11 REASON  Isaiah 1:18  “Come now let us reason together.” says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. 

ERASE
God gave up His only Son to erase sin's debt for everyone.

 13 ETERNAL  John 3:16  For God so loved the world  that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

 14 RESCUES  Daniel 6:26,27  For he is a living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end.  He rescues and he saves; he performs sings and wonders in the heavens and on the earth…

15 FORGIVING  Daniel 9:9, 2:20   The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him;  Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his.

16 TREE  I Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.  Isaiah 53:6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

17 REPENT  Acts 3:19 John 1:12   Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may  come from the Lord…   Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

18 TOMORROW  Genesis 1:27 Ecclesiastes 3:11 Galatians 6:7 2:20 Mark 10:45 James 4:14  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.  

He has made everything beautiful in its time.  He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

 Do not be deceived God cannot be mocked, a man reap what he sows.

For even the Son of man did not come to be served but to give his life as a ransom for many.

Why you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life?  You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

EMBRACE
Admit your sins and believe; Embrace Jesus and receive.

19 BELIEVE  Romans 10:9    if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

20 NOW  Romans 6:8   Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.  

21 SALVATION  Acts 4:12   Salvation is found in no one else, for there is

 22 ANYONE  Romans 10:11; 8:1 Acts 10:43   …Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.   …everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.  Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus

23 FAITH  Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Romans 5:1,2  Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

 24 FOLLOW  Mark 8:34-36 For it is by grace you have been saved through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.

GRACE
God's grace shown to man is His eternal life plan.

25 GRACE Ephesians 2:8,9 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.

26CONFESS 1 John 1:9  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all righteousness.

 27CROSSED  John 5:24   I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.

28 LOVE 
1 Corinthians 13:4-8,13 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails.  And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. 

 29 MERCY  Titus 3:4,5 But when the kindness and  love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy…  

REDEMPTION Colossians 1:13  For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

REPLACE
Let God replace you debt of sin, then new life can begin.

31 CREATION 
2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has  gone, the new has come.

32 BRING  1 Peter 3:14 1 Corinthians 15:22 Romans 5:8   For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,

For as in Adam all die, so in  Christ all will be made alive.

But God demonstrates his own love Christ died for us.

33 LIFE  1 John 5:11-13  And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

34 FREE   John 6:47,48; 7:37b,38 8:12,36  I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. I am the bread of life.  I’m the light of the world Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.  Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from him. If anyone is thirsty let him come to me and drink. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free you will be free indeed. 

35 WHOEVER  John 3:36; 10:10  Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him. I have come that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.

PLACE
God has a place for us - in heaven - when we trust.
 
37 PLACE  John 14:2   “In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would  have told you.  I am going there to prepare a place for you.”

38 FAR  Psalm 103:8-12 The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.  For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. 

39 WIPE  Revelation 21:4,6  He will wipe every tear from their eyes.  There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.  I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life.

 40 RECORD  Psalm 130:3-5  If you O Lord, kept a record of sins O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.

 41 DOOR  Revelation 3:20  Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.

42 INEXPRESSIBLE  Romans 8:38,39 1 Peter 1:8,9 Philippians 3:20 
For I am convinced  that neither death nor life,  neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy...

But our citizenship is in  heaven... And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ…