Saturday, October 22, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
SALVATION
The Bible says that all of us need to be “born again.” There was a man in the Bible who had a hard time understanding this truth. His name was Nicodemus.
When Nicodemus comes to Jesus with questions, Jesus told him, “‘Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Jesus was explaining a spiritual birth. When you are born again, God’s Holy Spirit breathes new life into your spirit. Christ is then born in you spiritually.
When you ask Christ to come into your heart, He gives you a fresh start in life. In fact, the Bible calls you a “new creation.” “If any man is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone and behold, God has made all things new! (II Corinthians 5:17). The Spirit of God Himself has now come to live inside of your heart.
The Bible says, “If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).
You can experience the miracle of salvation right now. Simply invite Jesus to come into your life and forgive you for all of your sins. Pray right now: “Jesus, I want to be born again. Please forgive my sins. I confess that You are Lord. Come into my life, and make me into a new creation. Fill me with Your Spirit. Thank you for giving me hope and purpose. Help me live for You. Amen.”
When Nicodemus comes to Jesus with questions, Jesus told him, “‘Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Jesus was explaining a spiritual birth. When you are born again, God’s Holy Spirit breathes new life into your spirit. Christ is then born in you spiritually.
When you ask Christ to come into your heart, He gives you a fresh start in life. In fact, the Bible calls you a “new creation.” “If any man is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone and behold, God has made all things new! (II Corinthians 5:17). The Spirit of God Himself has now come to live inside of your heart.
The Bible says, “If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).
You can experience the miracle of salvation right now. Simply invite Jesus to come into your life and forgive you for all of your sins. Pray right now: “Jesus, I want to be born again. Please forgive my sins. I confess that You are Lord. Come into my life, and make me into a new creation. Fill me with Your Spirit. Thank you for giving me hope and purpose. Help me live for You. Amen.”
Questions you may ask about our worship...
Why do we clap our hands?
Why do we lift our hands?
Psalms 134:2 Lift up your hands in the
sanctuary,And bless the LORD. 1 Timothy 2:8 I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting;
Why do we stand when we sing?
Psalms 135:1 Praise the LORD! Praise the name of the LORD; Praise Him, O you servants of the LORD! You who stand in the house of the LORD, In the courts of the house of our God, Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; Sing praises to His name, for it is pleasant.
I Corinthians 14:14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding. Also verse 39 Therefore, brethern, desire earnestly to proshesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues.
Accept Jesus Christ
The Bible goes on to record how God provided the remedy for our chosen path of selfishness. He came to us in the form of his son Jesus Christ. This son lived a life of fellowship, peace, harmony, and joy in full fellowship with God. Though innocent of any wrongdoing, he voluntarily allowed himself to suffer and die as a guilty lawbreaker, and received upon himself the full penalty of our selfishness by death on a cross.
The wonderful conclusion recorded in the Bible is that this Jesus rose from the dead and returned to God. He is forever our representative before God. He enables us today to enjoy fellowship with God, peace with our fellow man, harmony and joy within our family relationships, and to exercise proper dominion over this world in which he has placed us. We need only to pray and ask him to come in and rule in our hearts and lives.
Simply talk to God and say, "Thank you, God, for loving me and sending your Son to die on the cross for the wrongs I have done. I now choose to make Jesus the Lord of my life. Help me to be the kind of person that You want me to be. In Jesus' Name, Amen."
How to Know God  In the Bible, God tells us that he created us to have unending fellowship with him, peace with our fellow man, harmony and joy within our family relationships, and to have dominion over the world in which he placed us. But we chose to go another way. We learn in the same Bible that we, through our forefathers, chose to live our lives for ourselves, rather than to have fellowship with God. This choice of selfishness lead to our earthly death, to no peace with our fellow man, to disharmony and sadness within our family relationships, and to a lack of proper care of the world in which he placed us. Because of this, our future changed to one of eternal separation from fellowship with God after death, completely without hope of joy or peace. |
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