salvation bracelet tract v1.6.

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In John 5:39, Jesus said to the religious
leaders, You search the Scriptures because you
think that in themyou have eternal life; it is these
that testify about Me. The expressed purpose for
God delivering to us His Word in the Bible is so
that we could learn of His redemptive purpose in
Jesus Christ. The whole of the Bible chronicles
the life and works of our Lord, Jesus.
John 1:14 says, the Word became flesh, and
dwelt among us. At one point, a follower of
Jesus said to Him, Lord, to whomshall we go?
You have the words of eternal life.Romans 10:17
says, faith comes fromhearing, and hearing by
the word of Christ. And John 17:3 says, This is
eternal life, that they may know You, the only true
God, and J esus Christ whomYou have sent.
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Thread of Redemption
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Knots Perseverance of the
Saints
The knots, that hold the beads on
the bracelet, represent the security
found in Christ, for all those who would repent
and believe the gospel. (Mark 1:15). Romans
8:38-39 says, For I am convinced that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created
thing, will be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In Psalm 139:5, the psalmist says to God, You
have enclosed me behind and before, And laid
Your hand upon me. The Apostle Paul
describes it this way: For those whom He
foreknew, He also predestined to become
conformed to the image of His Son, so that He
would be the firstborn among many brethren;
and these whom He predestined, He also called;
and these whom He called, He also justified;
and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
(Romans 8:29-30) He chose us in Him before
the foundation of the world, that we would be
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representation of His nature. (Hebrews 1:3)
This light is first seen in Genesis chapter one,
when God said Let there be light. In the gospel
according to John, he says of Jesus, In Him
was life, and the life was the Light of men. The
Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness
did not comprehend it. (John 1:4-5)
And just as Gods glory illuminated creation,
before the sun was created, John describes how
this is also the case in heaven when he says,
And the city has no need of the sun or of the
moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has
illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
(Revelation 21:23)
Blue Creation
The very first verse in the Bible says,
In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)
The blue bead represents the Earth, which is
part of God's creation. The Bible speaks of The
God who made the world and all things in it,
since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not
dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He

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Green Growing in Holiness
(Sanctification)
For we are His workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus for good works, which
God prepared beforehand so that we would walk
in them. (Ephesians 2:10) His divine power has
granted to us everything pertaining to life and
godliness. (2 Peter 1:3) The green bead
represents the fact that a follower of Jesus
Christ is commanded to continually grow in their
obedience toward God: You shall be holy, for I
am holy. (1 Peter 1:16)
Gold Eternity in Heaven
(Glorification)
In Revelation 21:21, John says, the
street of the city was pure gold, like
transparent glass. The gold bead represents
the future reward in heaven, for all those who
would turn from their sins, in repentance, and
put their faith in Jesus Christ to save them. In
John 5:24, Jesus says, Truly, truly, I say to you,
he who hears My word, and believes Him who
sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into
judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
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problem, because Among them we too all
formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and
were by nature children of wrath, even as the
rest. (Ephesians 2:3) The right response is to
fear God for our God is a consuming fire
(Hebrews 12:29), and The fear of the Lord is
the beginning of wisdom. (Proverbs 9:10) The
orange bead represents the fire of God's
judgment and reminds you to cry out to God to
rescue you, for Whoever will call on the name
of the Lord will be saved. (Romans 10:13)
Red Christ's Blood (Payment for
Sin)
But God, who is rich in mercy, has
provided a way of salvation for those
who would call out to Him in repentance toward
God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts
20:21) But when the fullness of the time came,
God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born
under the Law, so that He might redeem those
who were under the Law, that we might receive
the adoption as sons. (Galatians 4:4-5)
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served by human hands, as though He needed
anything, since He Himself gives to all people
life and breath and all things. (Acts 17: 24-25)
God is our creator and worthy of our worship.
Black Our Sin
Shortly after God created the first man
and woman, Adam and Eve, they
rebelled against God's command and
therefore, through one man sin entered into the
world, and death through sin, and so death
spread to all men, because all sinned. (Romans
5:12) The black bead represents the black heart
of sin that we all have inherited from Adam. We
all know that we sin when we lie, steal, disobey
our parents, or break any other of God's Ten
Commandments, for Everyone who practices
sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is
lawlessness. (1 John 3:4)
Orange Gods Wrath
Because we have disobeyed God, He
must punish us. After all, Shall not the
Judge of all the earth deal justly?
(Genesis 18:25) Every one of us has the same
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Purple Christ Is King
Revelation 19:16 - And on His robe
and on His thigh He has a name
written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD
OF LORDS.
Jesus Christ is the King, and the purple bead
represents His royalty. God highly exalted Him,
and bestowed on Him the name which is above
every name, so that at the name of Jesus every
knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and
on earth and under the earth, and that every
tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to
the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:9-11)
Those who are being save will worship Him
throughout all eternity, For God so loved the
world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but
have eternal life. For God did not send the Son
into the world to judge the world, but that the
world might be saved through Him. He who
believes in Him is not judged; he who does not
believe has been judged already, because he
has not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God. (John 3:16-18)
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Clear God
All things start with God. There is one
God existing eternally in three
persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit),
having neither beginning nor ending. Of God,
the Bible says, Oh, the depth of the riches
both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are His judgments and
unfathomable His ways! For who has known the
mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?
Or who has first given to Him that it might be
paid back to him again? For from Him and
through Him and to Him are all things. To Him
be the glory forever. Amen. (Romans 11:33-36)
The clear bead represents the fact that we
cannot see God because God is spirit, and
those who worship Him must worship in spirit
and truth. (John 4:24)
You will also notice that when you take your
bracelet into a dark place, the clear bead
begins to glow. This glowing represents the
Light of Gods glory that is embodied in the
person and work of Jesus Christ, because He
is the radiance of His glory and the exact
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holy and blameless before Him. In love He
predestined us to adoption as sons through
Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind
intention of His will. (Ephesians 1:4-5) And as
many as had been appointed to eternal life
believed. (Acts 13:48)
Scarlet Thread Christ Is the Central
Theme of the Bible
Just as the scarlet red thread runs
through each bead of the gospel bracelet,
Jesus Christ is woven throughout the Bible from
beginning to end. Jesus testifies to this when in
Luke 24:27, beginning with Moses and with all
the prophets, He explained to them the things
concerning Himself in all the Scriptures. And
there is salvation in no one else; for there is no
other name under heaven that has been given
among men by which we must be saved. (Acts
4:12)
The truth is, Jesus Christ is at the center of all
things, For from Him and through Him and to
Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever.
Amen. (Romans 11:36)
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God was in Christ reconciling the world to
Himself. (2 Corinthians 5:18) Jesus lived a
perfect life, and was crucified according to the
purpose God predestined to occur (Acts 4:28),
dying in the place of all those who would repent
(turn from sin) and believe the gospel. (Mark
1:15) For while we were still helpless, at the
right time Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans
5:6) But the Lord was pleased to crush Him,
putting Him to grief, (Isaiah 53:10), so that He
would be just and the justifier of the one who
has faith in Jesus. (Romans 3:26) The red bead
represents the blood of Jesus, knowing that you
were not redeemed with perishable things like
silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited
from your forefathers, but with precious blood,
as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the
blood of Christ. (1 Peter 1:18-19) Therefore
having overlooked the times of ignorance, God
is now declaring to men that all people
everywhere should repent, because He has
fixed a day in which He will judge the world in
righteousness through a Man whom He has
appointed, having furnished proof to all men by
raising Him from the dead. (Acts 17:30-31)
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White Christs Perfection and Our
Salvation (Justification)
The first aspect that the white bead
represents is the sinless life of Christ,
who committed no sin, nor was any deceit
found in His mouth. (1 Peter 2:22) It is by the
sinless perfection of Christ that the Bible
proclaims Jesus deity. It was Christ that said,
No one is good except God alone. (Mark
10:18) And this perfection allowed Christ to be
whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation
in His blood through faith. (Romans 3:25) This
means that Christ satisfied Gods wrath.
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our
behalf, so that we might become the
righteousness of God in Him. (2 Corinthians
5:21) Secondly, the white bead represents the
righteousness that we receive from Christ's
death and resurrection once we have been
granted repentance (the ability to turn from sin)
(Acts 11:18), and been given the gift of faith
(Ephesians 2:8). Just as the beloved hymn says,
Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe, sin had left a
crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.
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