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Receiving Jesus Christ as Savior and confessing
him as Lord are the most important steps of faith anyone can ever
take. " to all
who received him (Christ), to those who believed in his name, he
gave the right to become children of God." --John 1:12.
Please read through the following Scriptures to see God's
wonderful plan for you. Some
texts quoted below, but some only cited---Please look them up in
your Bible. First,
the bad news -- all have sinned. Romans
3:23 All have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God.
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John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us. Sin
separates us from God. Isaiah 59:2 Unforgiven sins separate us from God and hide his face from us. Romans
6:23 The wages
of sin is death….spiritual death. 1
Peter 3:18 Christ
died once for all, the righteous of the unrighteous (us!) to bring
us to God Ephesians
2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is
not your own doing, it is the gift of God--not because of works,
lest any man should boast. Romans 5:8 God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Romans
4:25 He died for our sins and rose again to make us right with
God. You
accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior by believing in Him,
confessing that faith and repenting of your sins, and being
baptized in his name for the forgiveness of your sins. John
1:12 To all who
received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become
children of God; who were born, not of blood nor of the will of
the flesh to of the will of man, but of God.
Romans 10:9 If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Acts
2:38 Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of
Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven. And you will
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Colossians 2:12 Through baptism, we are buried with Christ. In it we are also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead." Salvation is by faith--- our faith in God’s work. In
a way, baptism is the end of a process; but it is also a great new
beginning! It is
likened to burial and
resurrection. We rise from the watery grave of baptism dead to the
old self and alive to God (see all of Romans 6).
The love that sent Christ to the Cross becomes to us
“compelling” (2 Cor. 5:15) and, empowered by God’s gift of
His Spirit in our lives (Rom. 8:11).
We live out that love in fellowship with other Christians
(Heb. 10:14, 1 Cor. 12, 2 Cor. 5) and in service to all (1 John
3:17-18, Galatians 6:10).
Once accepted, nothing can separate you from God’s
love…it will be light and life and joy for you throughout time
and for all eternity! (Romans
8:35-39). Scripture says "as many of you as were baptized
into Christ have put on Christ." (Galatians 3:27) The Bible
uses such relational terms to describe our fellowship with Christ.
We are baptized “into”him and we “put” him on in baptism.
The New Testament speaks of Christians as being “in
Christ” far more than it uses the term Christian.
[Here is a good web site if you’d like to do a more in-depth
study of New Testament baptism:
http://www.bebaptized.org/.] |
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