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Jesus Christ Spoke Much On Life & Having Life More Abundantly
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Mark 8:35-36 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
The most important part of the tombstone epitaph is the dash between the date of birth and death for it represents a lifetime. What does your dash stand for? There are really only 2 choices on the shelf – pleasing God or pleasing self!
1) You can’t split your life. Matt.6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
2) To keep your life is to lose it. You can consume it in selfishness, OR waste it in foolishness, or defile it in impurity or bitterness.
3) To give your life for Jesus Christ is to gain it. You can give it away to others for the Gospel’s sake – then you will be fulfilled !
When you come to the end of your life you’ll say either: “I sure wish I had.” OR “I’m sure glad I did.”
“Lord, help me to live from day to day,
In such a self forgetful way
That even when I kneel to pray,
My prayer shall be for others.
Help me in all the work I do,
To ever be sincere and true
And know that all I’ll do for you,
Must needs be done for others.
And when my work on Earth is done,
And my new work in Heaven begun,
May I forget the crown I’ve won,
While thinking still of others.
Others, Lord, others,
Let this my motto be.
Help me to live for others,
That I may live like Thee.
“For to me to live is Christ; and to die is gain.” Philp.1:21
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A Cowper Poetic Reminder
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God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never-failing skill
He treasures up His bright designs,
And works His sovereign will.
Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take;
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break
In blessings on your head.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace;
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.
His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour;
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.
Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan His work in vain;
God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain.
William Cowper, 1731-1800
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A Needed Repeat: Children-A Reward & A Blessing!
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This brief article is being repeated for it is about one of the more misunderstood but supremely necessary institutions in our day and age. When society’s concept of the “family” has gone so far as to think that the subnormal and abnormal is the normal, it’s high time to review God’s intentions for the high role the family is to play.
Too many have never known the joy of a close and happy family in the LORD! This type of family IS possible when Jesus Christ is the Centre and Head. We are not speaking of sinless perfection but a family where each member is making spiritual progress in their personal relationship walk with the Lord Jesus Christ as each genuinely seeks to honour God with their lives!
Psalm 127 “Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” Children are God’s blessing to a Mother and a Father. How awful when children are looked upon as a burden or a bother. HOW SELFISH ! Isn’t it a good thing that our parents took the time and money to help US grow up?! This must be motivated by genuine love – the unselfish giving of oneself to meet some one else’s needs.
So much of the world is motivated by lust – that can’t wait to “GET and USE”. Those who want to live the way the Lord Jesus Christ intended us to live – can’t wait to “GIVE and NURTURE”. Face it, we have such a small amount of time to love and care and enjoy the reward and blessing of our children – we better do it now and do it God’s way, the Bible way. Ephesians 6 “And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” Deuteronomy 6 “The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”
(Mothers): Titus 2 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.” Ephesians 6 “Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother…”
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What We Do Believe
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“What do you believe …?.. was the question asked.” Good Question, because if we believe right (like the Bible, viz. like God) then we know how to live right and also how to die right. . Right beliefs/right thinking brings about right living and right dying! Therefore, Here Is What We Do Believe:
We believe Jesus Christ is God as well as the Holy Spirit and the Father. We believe they are the triune Jehovah, the Godhead, the trinity, one living and true God revealed in three distinct persons, eternal in existence, and equal in every Divine perfection, essence and attribute. Creation (the universe) had this living and true God as the Creator, with the Lord Jesus Christ being the chief active Agent: Colossians 1:16-17 “For by him [Jesus] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”
We believe God is not willing that any human being should perish in the eternal Hell. Salvation must be accepted God’s way to miss hell and go to Heaven. John 3:18, “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” Hence, Jesus the only begotten Son voluntarily came, as the Father gave Him, and the Holy Spirit glorified Him. The Lord Jesus Christ is the only Saviour ever for all peoples for all ages. Salvation is a gift that Jesus Christ Himself paid for by dying for all mankind’s sins and shedding His blood on Calvary’s Cross. He satisfied the holy wrath and justice of God and purchased our salvation by living a sinless perfect life. He died our death for us enduring our Hell on the Cross (the awful cost of sin) shedding His precious blood. He was buried and rose from the dead on the third day; He was seen by hundreds and is alive for evermore! Not only that, but He will complete His will for the universe for – The Lord Jesus Christ IS coming back again.
The Lord Jesus has left His faithful Churches to carry out His Commission to preach the Gospel to every creature, here and abroad. We are to tell folks everywhere the whole message about Jesus Christ. When folks get saved by believing on Jesus Christ, we are to then baptize the saved and disciple them to mature Christians to do likewise.
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) Hence, salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone, plus nothing, minus nothing. Salvation is a Person – Jesus Christ alone. Salvation as well, is the gift Jesus Himself obtained when He paid the penalty for our sins. He purchased, prepared and provided this gift proving His incomparable love. This is the mercy and grace of God. This expresses His loving undeserved, unmerited favour toward mankind. Another way to say it is, “God doing for us what we do not deserve, and that we could never do for ourselves.”
This salvation by grace through faith by Jesus Christ is a gift offered to all, that is given upon acceptance by faith (come to the Lord Jesus believing On Jesus Name and receive Him personally once and for all as the only qualified and possible Saviour ever!) Any man, woman, boy or girl that would realize they are a sinner before God because they admit to Jesus they have done wrong and broken God’s laws; and that all their good deeds/works will never get them any closer to Heaven; and that eternal salvation is based solely on what Jesus Christ has already done for them on the Cross they can be saved. How? If that one would turn from their “good works” and their “bad deeds” and place their trust in Jesus Christ alone believing His death, burial and resurrection is the only sufficient way of salvation then they would get saved once and for all and forever at that very moment. And then the promise of going to Heaven when they die is their very own. Romans 10:9 & 13 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
We believe the Bible is the living inerrant, infallible Word of God, God’s mind on every subject relevant to life and eternity! The Bible is God’s Words, given and kept for every generation, as He promised. We believe for those who read and speak English, the Authorized King James Version is the complete Word of God. Some other Saved Christian Believers like to express it this way: “we use the King James Version because of centuries of textual continuity on which it is based.” If by that statement it means the LORD Kept And Keeps His Own Word(s) because He keeps His Promises He has given about His Bible – then – OK! See Psalm 138:2 “I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.”
This is not exhaustive but likely it’s enough to give you the heart of what we believe and for Whom we live! -Pastor Spence
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Following a Multitude To Do Evil
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God said to His chosen people, “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.” Exodus 23:2 What relevant advice this is still. Today many are “kicking over the traces” and “doing what feels good .. their own thing”.
Never in the history of Western Civilization has it been so easy to do evil and still be respected. If you want to get drunk, smoke pot, cheat on your spouse, use God’s Name in vain, peruse porno, you will not be made to feel guilty by TV, any media or even your peers; because they are either doing the same thing or promoting it. The results are that one of the most important factors our society has had in keeping moral standards is just about gone — that of peer pressure!
However, if you are truly SAVED, you still have plenty of incentive to NOT follow the evil crowd.
1st: As a new creature in Christ, you (the Saved Christian Believer) have a new nature (“Christ in you”). Your new nature desires to do right always. When tempted, the Divine nature within, produces a “heart voice” that will warn you against following the crowd to evil & remind you to turn to Jesus for power & wisdom! 2nd: The HOLY Spirit in you is HOLY= pure, sinless & only dedicated to truth, good, and what’s right & best for you. 3rd: Your Heavenly Father is watching over you & you do not wish to disappoint HIM! 4th: The Bible God’s Word directly forbids evil conduct.
It may seem like “everybody else is doing it” and you may feel pressure to “follow”. You may weaken a bit and wonder if not doing “it” with them really makes a difference. You may be made fun of, even despised for keeping your Bible standards. Hallelujah! -you’ll have a clear conscience & God will reward you. “And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. Be hold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.” Revelation 22:12 & 3:11
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Children – a Blessing – a Reward !
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Psalm 127:3 “Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” Children are God’s blessing to a Mother and a Father. How awful when children are looked upon as a burden or a bother. HOW SELFISH !
Isn’t it a good thing that our parents took the time and money to help US grow up?! This must be motivated by genuine love – the unselfish giving of oneself to meet some other one’s needs.
So much of the world is motivated by lust – that can’t wait to “GET and USE”. Those who want to live the way the Lord Jesus Christ intended us to live – can’t wait to “GIVE and NURTURE”. Face it, we have such a small amount of time to love and care and enjoy the reward and blessing of our children – we better do it God’s way, the Bible way.
Ephesians 6:4 “And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
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O CANADA
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O Canada
Our home and native land
True patriot love
In all Thy sons command
With glowing hearts we see Thee rise
The true north strong and free
From far and wide O Canada
We stand on guard for Thee
chorus:
GOD Keep our land
Glorious and free
O Canada
We stand on guard for thee
O Canada
We stand on guard for thee
Ruler Supreme
Who hearest humble Prayer
Hold our Dominion
In Thy loving care
Help us to find O GOD in Thee
A lasting rich reward
As waiting for The better Day
We ever stand on guard
Let’s consider CANADA’S heritage.
One hundred and forty three years ago the Dominion of Canada came into existence. The term dominion means “sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling in a self-governing nation.” As the Fathers of Confederation met in 1867, a name for its new nation needed to be chosen. It was suggested to call our country the “Kingdom of Canada”; but this did not seem suitable.
Sir Leonard Tilley, Premiere of New Brunswick, proposed “Dominion of Canada”. This idea had come as he had been studying his Bible. He had recently been reading Psalm 72, with verse 8 standing out, “He shall have dominion also from sea to sea…”.
From the very beginning, God Almighty was understood to be our Ruler Supreme; the One Who would keep our land glorious and free. Even the preamble of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which was passed in 1981, states, “Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law…”
Today, there are those who want to remove the true God from His rightful place as the God over us. They want to have a secular society. Secularism is indifferent to, or completely rejects God and religion in public life. It teaches that life without God is normal. Others promote pluralism, which teaches that there are many true beliefs and that all religions have validity. They state that we “cannot impose Christian beliefs upon society.” In effect pluralists give validity to every religion it seems, except for Bible Christianity that rests upon Jesus Christ as Creator and the only Saviour.
As the LORD’S saved people, let us not be swayed by these atheistic/humanistic philosophies. Remember God’s promise to us: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD”. Psalm 33:12 Only as long as God has dominion over us will we be a land that is “glorious and free.”
Personally, on an individual basis, one can be made glorious and free through the salvation purchased by Jesus Christ for us when He died on Calvary’s Cross for our sins. When Christ shed His blood on that cruel cross it paid the penalty & debt of our sin in full for us. Jesus was then buried and rose from the dead the third day, the victor over death and hell for us.. He was seen by hundreds and is alive for evermore. If you would believe on the Lord Jesus as your own personal Saviour you would have your sins forgiven, be given the gift of righteousness & eternal life; and a home in Heaven for when you die. John 1:12 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. Romans 8:21 “Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.” Galatians 3:26 “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”
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THE TRUTH OF IT ALL
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A. The true God gives everyone light=truth about Himself inside & out! Romans 1:19-20 “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse” God has given each the truth of His reality as Creator (v.20) and given an internal faculty (spirit) to have knowledge of God (v.19).
B. Clearly each is responsible for the light he/she is given. John 1:9 “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” Titus 2:11 “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.”
C. When men respond to God’s light/truth He gives much more truth. John 7:17 “If any man will do his [God's] will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.” Jeremiah 29:13 “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”
Examples: READ Acts 10- Cornelius/Acts 8- Ethiopian eunuch. In both cases they’re responding to (acknowledging) the TRUTH/LIGHT they had already been given and God kept giving them more truth/light and the Gospel Light of Jesus Christ; and they responded again and they chose to believe on Jesus Christ and they got saved! THIS IS THE POINT OF IT ALL!
D. God’s will is that, not anyone go to Hell – but GET SAVED.
1 Timothy 2:3-4 “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.” 2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
E. Hell was prepared for Satan and his devils not originally for man. Matthew 25:41 “Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels” Man, really then is an intruder in Hell; and goes there by choice. Man too, like Satan, rejected God’s will; which for man would be to believe on Jesus Christ alone as personal Saviour and be saved forever!
John 3:17-18 “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
F. Notice the choice many men make. John 3:19 “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men
loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” You see, men choose evil because they love darkness rather than the true light that God has been giving them all through their lives at opportune times.
2 Thessalonians 2:10, 12 “And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” They refuse God’s love which is seen in His truth; they believe not the truth and chose the pleasure in unrighteousness. No man will be able to stand before God and say that He was unjust. For God has done all that is necessary to give men opportunity to be saved.
G. To Deny All Evidence God Gives Men of Himself Is To Be A FOOL the Bible declares! Psalm 14:1 “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works…” The evidence is overwhelming Biblically and historically for the birth, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This doesn’t have to be proven in light of all the readily and easily known evidence through the centuries. It must be dis-proven. It never has-never will! Why? Because it is true and God will always have His truth (John 1:9, etc.) circulating among men while there is still an earth to circulate!
Sadly, men will keep trying to disprove the great God and Saviour Jesus Christ and the Bible. But a blind man can be sweating with his head tilted back at noon day and say, “There is no sun.. there is no such thing as the sun!!!” But there will still be a sun in the heavens. There is still the living and true God Who created all things and then came to earth to walk in a man’s body & live a sinless life for 33+ years. This true God=Jesus Christ allowed His creation to nail Him to Calvary’s Cross as the Lamb slain for them – to pay for all THEIR sins. This is when He shed His blood and died for them as a sacrifice and a substitute. He was buried and then rose from the dead the third day victorious over sin, death, Hell and Satan for us!!! The risen Christ was seen by hundreds of witnesses and is alive for evermore! He went through all this so men and women and boys and girls could be saved from hell and go to Heaven when they die and live for ever in real peace and joy. Acts 4:12 “Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
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The Truth Can Be Known
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The deep down yearning of every human being is to know more of the truth. The Lord Jesus Christ said, “.. I am the way, the truth and the life:no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6
However, because of our sin nature and its inclination is to resist the truth, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way….” Isaiah 53:6a. What conflict human beings suffer inside. On the one hand yearning for more truth while knowing much of it; and then on the other hand, resisting the truth while embracing many other things as truth that are untrue. For an example, “The Eerie Silence is the title of Paul Davies’ new book summarizing the first 50 years of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). More than $130 million has been spent scanning the universe for extra-terrestrial life, and the result has been ‘an eerie silence.’
It is described as ‘eerie’ only because SETI is based on evolutionary assumptions that life must have evolved on other planets. This problem is known as the ‘Fermi Paradox.’ In 1950 Enrico Fermi, an atomic scientist, was discussing the question of why evidence for a multitude of advanced civilizations has failed to turn up. He asked, “Where is everybody?” The answer has been in the Bible all along, and it is a Book that is scientifically accurate in all points. Whereas there is no observable evidence for Darwinian evolution, there is nothing but observable evidence for the Bible.
Simple predictions based on its teachings are either true or false and are therefore easily falsifiable. For example, the Bible says that all of life was created to reproduce after its own kind (Genesis 1). For thousands of years men have planted vegetables and raised animals, and it is an established law that life reproduces after its own kind. If corn turned into strawberries or dogs became bears, the Bible would be disproven, but this has never happened. Likewise, the Bible says that the earth was created for man and the stars were created as lights and signs for the earth. Thus, the Bible predicts that there will not be life elsewhere in the universe (except in Heaven). And this is exactly what modern science has discovered.
The ‘eerie silence’ disproves evolution and proves the Bible. Of course, die-hard evolutionists are forever hopeful of discovering evidence for their delusions, and they have never allowed scientific facts to get in their way.” (Church News Notes 6/4/10)
Again the Bible gives us the truth (facts) of the matter- “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.“ Genesis 3:20
As humans, we are running this way and that, pursuing truth “we think” (?)may be, and we painfully wish would be! We desperately try … and think … and indulge … and experiment … and study … and travel .. and reflect. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 14:12. We look within and are not pleased with what we see until someone comes along and tells us that, “It IS within you’ll find the truth. It just must be recovered and developed to be what you really always have been – a god yourself – complete and powerful and sufficient in the full realization of self. This crowd tells you as well, “It’s been those people all along that has confused you, telling you that you have a sin nature and that you are a sinner and need the truth of The Saviour” . (…. Who, by the way, IS THE TRUTH !! )
The Apostle Paul too dealt with this type of pluralistic society in the 1st centrury, Athens, Greece. He brought them from the many accepted “truths” to the One and Only Truth Jesus Christ. In Acts 17:21-34 “(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
22Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
23For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 27That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 29Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. 30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: 31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man [Jesus Christ=The Truth] whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. 33So Paul departed from among them. 34Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them”
You see the Bible promises anyone who really wants to know the TRUTH, will seek after it and will find it the Bible and Jesus Christ; and of course, trust in the Lord Jesus and be saved! “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13. This is what Christ meant when He stated, “Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:31-32
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BORN OF GOD
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John 1:12-13 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
The Gospel of John goes to great lengths to spell it out loud and clear again and again how a person can GET SAVED and hence BE SAVED FOREVER. There, the verb “believe” occurs 101 times. Believing is the very key to obtaining the only salvation ever offered to mankind and that only through Jesus Christ-God the Son. JESUS, great God and Saviour, has already paid for it in full on Calvary’s Cross and offers it to all but gives it only to “whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Some important facts one needs to know about God’s genuine salvation are as follows: #1) “should not perish” You are SAVED FROM something-eternal Hell. #2) “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” You are SAVED BY something – the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. #3) “In my Father’s house are many mansions … I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” Finally, you are SAVED TO something – God’s perfect Heaven.
#4) As the opening verses state, you receive salvation by receiving Jesus Christ and that by simply by believing on His Name! “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” To believe means to “accept as true and trust fully”.
Hence, true salvation is by simple faith=believing in Jesus Christ alone, plus nothing. #5) “Which were born … of God. ” The instant we place our faith (believing, fully trusting) in the Lord Jesus as our personal Saviour, God’s power “births” us into His Family and Kingdom! A) We are NOT BORN OF of blood; that is, we can not inherit it through or because of our family. B) We are NOT BORN of the will of the flesh; that is, not by any personal works or self-effort, or good deeds, etc. C) We are NOT BORN of the will of man; that is, any collective effort through any type of religious organization, church, denomination that requires rituals or rules, sacraments, pilgrimages, and so forth.
It IS being BORN of God, spiritually, according to God’s prepared plan and through God’s power. Jesus said 3 times in John 3, “Ye must be born again” and Christ explained it “.. that which is born of the flesh is flesh (the one time physical birth) and which is born of the Spirit is spirit” (the once for all spiritual birth).
So, BELIEVE ON JESUS CHRIST AND BE SAVED FOREVER !!!