Becoming a Christian is one of simplest steps in one's life and definitely the most wonderful moment. Jesus becomes truly our First Love.

Continuing as a Christian and walking in the will of God is difficult but not impossible for anyone, because Jesus helps us every step of the way. Moreover becoming a Christian and following Jesus is the only path that leads to true life.

MAT 7:13,14 " Enter by the narrow gate ; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life and there are few who find. "

We cannot earn the right to become a Christian by our works, or by our righteousness, because it is a free gift from God.

You do not need to be righteous first, before becoming a Christian. Rather, you become righteous by accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour.

Do not feel that you are not worthy to become a Christian, or that you have sinned to much, because above anything, Jesus loves you, and has come to save everyone even the very worst sinner. There is no sin to great that Jesus cannot help you overcome. He is the Mighty Deliverer and He has the complete victory over sin and death!

Briefly, in order to become a Christian, each one of us must personally humble ourselves and admit our wrongs before God in prayer, and ask Jesus Christ to come into our lives. The truth of the word of Jesus Christ has the power to set us free through the Holy Spirit and we can be saved by the grace of Jesus Christ through faith.

We should not make a decision to become a Christian just to please someone else or because it seems something nice to do at the moment. Understand that your eternal welfare is at stake. You should come freely to a place in your heart and mind that, Yes, you truly recognize that you need spiritual life through Jesus Christ and that you want His forgiveness and desire His Love and goodness to fill your heart forever.

Making the decision to follow Jesus Christ and to become a Christian is the most important decision of your entire life. You really have nothing to loose of any lasting value and you most certainly have everything to gain.

Every Christian receives abundant blessings now, including forgiveness, rest, protection, direction, love, joy, peace, provisions, and eternal life with the King of Kings, Jesus Christ, in heavenly places beyond compare.

It is God's love and truth which causes us to be drawn to God.

Absolutely, no one can come to know God unless God chooses to draw a person to Himself. God wants every person in the world to change and to come to know Him and live a life of true righteousness through Jesus Christ.

However God also has infinite insight and knows the intents of every person's heart and only draws and gives understanding to those who sincerely desire to learn and follow His truth. Jesus Christ reveals and teaches all truth, because He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. If any person chooses to continue to follow their own opinions and other false doctrines of man, and reject Jesus, they then will not be drawn by God.

God spiritually works around each person and gives us every opportunity to come to know Him in a personal way. Yet if God spiritually discerns that any particular person has no initial genuine intention wanting to understand and follow the will of God, then God will not yet draw that person to Himself as long as they still have self pride or a hardened heart.

God also blesses those who have a hardened heart with the hope that they can change, but He will not force Himself and His truth on anyone; God will continue to offer each man the opportunity to come to Him willingly. He will not always strive with any man, so if any man is set just to follow his own evil and shallow beliefs, then God will allow him to do so, and God will not draw that person to Himself.

If and when a person humbles themselves and begins to admit their past wrongs and truly seeks to know God, then God will begin to reveal Himself and His ways to that individual.

Everywhere that I turned before I was a Christian, God's love was drawing me to Himself. I didn't even realize just how much He was working on my behalf. Now as I reflect back I can see just how much He has loved Me.

Has someone in the past invited you to a truly Biblical Christian church ? Well that was God's love reaching out to you to draw you to Himself.

Has a Christian given you a Christian tract or shared some scriptures with you or demonstrate God's love towards you in word or deed in some way ?

Well, that was God's love drawing you to Himself.

JOHN 6:44 No one can come to Me, unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

JOHN 6:45 .... Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me ( Jesus ).

JOHN 6:46 Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by my Father.

Jesus Christ is the only Savior of mankind, who is able to save us from our sinful nature and from the penalty of our sins.

Jesus Christ was the only one who was truly sent by God the Father to save mankind from evil. There are many people who falsely claim to be Christ or the Messiah, who are deceptive impersonators and have no spiritual ability to truly cleanse any other person's spirit from evil.

Jesus, was the only one without sin, because He was conceived by the Holy Spirit by the power of God within a woman who was a virgin; Thereby Jesus was the only one born into the world without the sinful nature which was passed on from Adam to all other men and women at birth.

Jesus was God manifested in the flesh, and was pure in heart and full of the power of God's Holy Spirit.

Buddha, sinned; Mohammed, sinned; Joseph Smith, sinned; All the gurus of Hinduism and the new age, have sinned; None of these men have any power, nor truth, nor authority from God, to save or deliver any man from sin and evil. The sinless life of Jesus Christ was witnessed by thousands of people and they testify to that effect in the Bible;

Jesus Christ, who being without sin, became the perfect recompense or sacrifice for our sins in the sight of God the Father, by what He alone accomplished at the cross. When Jesus Christ laid down His life in Love for mankind, He thereby had victory over the power of sin and spiritual death. Jesus Christ was the only one who truly rose again from the dead and ascended into Heaven.

We can now be made free and saved from the bondage and penalty of sin and overcome evil through a sincere personal relationship with Jesus Christ alone. Jesus Christ Himself claimed and the Bible declares that there is no other way we can be saved, nor is there any other person who can save us.

Jesus Christ is the only mediator or spiritual bridge for man to cross over back to God. If we believe in Jesus by faith and through His provision of Grace, and by the washing of God's Word, then our minds and hearts are made pure by God. Moreover, if we keep His commandments, Jesus and God the Father will dwell in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

JOHN 14:6 Jesus said, " I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

JOHN 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me ( Jesus ) he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

ACTS 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

HEBREWS 5:9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.

1 TIMOTHY 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

1 JOHN 3:5 And you know that He appeared in order to take away sins; And in Him (Jesus) there is no sin.

2 CORIN 6:21 He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (Jesus)

It is very important that we recognize Jesus Christ as truly Divine, in order that we can be assured that He has the spiritual power to completely cleanse and forgive us of all sin and to reconcile us back to God.

" With man it is impossible, but with God all things are possible; " Therefore any problem that we face that seems impossible, Jesus Christ can supernaturally bring a perfect solution because He has the authority from God the Father and only Jesus has the power as God the Son.

Jesus is not God the Father, however He is the Son of God, and shares the Godhead with the Father and the Holy Spirit, sits at the right side of God the Father and rules and reigns with Him.

God the Father has given all authority unto His Son, therefore Jesus is to be worshipped and obeyed as God.

EPHES 1:19-23 And what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might,

1:20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,

1:21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the one to come.

1:22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet and gave Him as head over all things to the church,

1:23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

JOHN 1:1 In the beginning was the Word (Jesus), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

1:2 He was in the beginning with God.

1:3 All things came into being by Him and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.

1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

MATTHEW 1:23 Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which translated means, " God with us."

COLOSSIANS 2:9,10 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete and He is the head over all rule and authority.

COL 1:15 And He is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation.

1:16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities all things have been created by Him and for Him. 1:17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. 1:18 He is also head of the body, the church and He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; so that He Himself might come to have first place in everything. 1:19 For it is the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him.

God, manifested in the flesh 1 TIM 3:16

Jesus above the angels HEBREWS 1:4,5

I and My Father are one JOHN 10:30

God our Savior TITUS 3:4

Jesus Christ our Savior TITUS 3:6

All power is given unto Jesus MATTHEW 28:18

For unto us a Child is born...Mighty God ISAIAH 9:6; 40:3,9,10; MAT 3:3

Jesus was omnipresent JOHN 3:13; 14:20; MAT 18:20; 28:20

Jesus was called God by Paul TITUS 2:13; COL 1:15-19; COL 2:9,10

Every knee to bow PHIL 2:9-11

Let all the angels of God worship Him HEBREWS 1:6

The four living creatures and the 24 elders

fell down and worshipped Him (Jesus) REV 5:8-14

Hosanna JOHN 12:13-16; ZECH 9:9, MAT 21:1-9

Worshipped by the shepherds LUKE 2:15

Worshipped by the wise men MAT 2:11

Jesus' disciples worshipped Him MAT 14:33

A canaanite woman worshipped Jesus MAT 15:25

The sons of Zebedee worshipped Jesus MAT 20:20

Those in Jerusalem worshipped Jesus MAT 21:9,16

No one can be made righteous by just following the Old law because the law is completely inadequate to establish righteousness within a person, even though it was useful by showing man the difference between right and wrong.

Nor one has the spiritual strength to fulfill all of the law apart from Jesus Christ; Therefore if any person even breaks one law or commandment of God they are unrighteous and unholy. Neither can anyone become righteous by only their own good works.

True spiritual righteousness can only be obtained through a living relationship with Jesus Christ, who was the only perfect righteous one sent from God.

Having a sincere faith in Jesus Christ, we are made righteous, by the sacrificial act which He alone made at the cross, through His cleansing grace and words of truth which comes to us who believe, by the Holy Spirit.

ROMANS 5:17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in the life through the One, Jesus Christ.

ROMANS 4:3-5 For what does the Scripture say? And Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him as righteousness." Now to the one who works, his wage is not reckoned as a favor, but as what is due. But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him (Jesus) who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

PHILIPPIANS 3:9 And may I be found in Him, ( Jesus ) not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith.

TITUS 3:5 He (Jesus) saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.

By sincerely praying the following prayer or similar prayer, Jesus Christ will spiritually come into your life and become your Lord and Savior and will give you a totally new life now and the gift of eternal life in His Kingdom of Heaven.

He is not waiting for you to become perfect first, before you would accept Him and become a Christian. He wants to come into your life when you need Him the most. As His word says, " While we were yet sinners Christ died for us "

Today is the day of salvation; if you want all your sins to be forgiven and have peace with God, then pray this prayer and mean it in your heart....

Anyone can have the assurance of their salvation, if they believe God's Word and His promise to us. Moreover, if they trust God's faithfulness and ask for God's Holy Spirit to come into their life.

Many Born Again Christians live in doubt, and cannot find satisfying peace about their personal salvation. Often they look back at their ' salvation experience ' for signs of assurance. They look for feelings and emotions that may have taken place at the time of receiving the Lord Jesus into their lives, and this is always a mistake.

Living by " experiences " whether past or present - does not only cause frustration, but is completely out of line with what the Bible teaches. Christians are to live by faith in what God has said and done in our lives, regardless if we feel anything.

The full assurance of salvation is essential for every Christian to understand and know without any doubt whatsoever; Then we may be used effectively as disciples of Jesus Christ. A Christ centered person who is assured of their salvation gives their fill attention to Jesus Christ, never wavering from fulfilling God's will, and never in doubt of the Lord's unfailing Love.

1 JOHN 5:11 And this is the testimony; that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

JOHN 11:25,26 Jesus said to her, " I am the resurrection and the Life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.

JOHN 14:6 I ( Jesus ) am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

JOHN 10:28 I ( Jesus ) give them eternal Life, and they shall never perish.

HEB 2:10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

HEB 5:9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.

1 THES 5:9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 TIM 1:15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

2 TIM 1:9 ( God ) Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began;....

JAMES 4:12 There is one Lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another ?

2 CORIN 5:18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ.

COL 1:12 The Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

PSALM 62:2 He only is my rock, my salvation and my stronghold...

ISAIAH 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid, For YAH, the Lord, is my strength and my song; He also has become my salvation.

JOHN 10:9 I ( Jesus ) am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

JOHN 10:10 ....I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.

JOHN 14:6 I ( Jesus ) am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

ACTS 4:12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

TITUS 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,...

2 TIM 1:9 ( God ) Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began;...

2 TIM 1:10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

ROMANS 5:8 But God demonstrates His Love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

ROM 5:9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

ROM 5:10 For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His Life.

ROM 5:11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

HEB 9:14,15 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God ?

And for this reason He is the mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

HEB 9:28 So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him, He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

HEB 10:10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

EPHES 1:6,7 To the praise of the glory of His Grace, by which He has made us accepted in the beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His Grace.

COL 1:14 ( Jesus ) in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

1 THES 5:9,10 To obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.

TITUS 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed, and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

EPHES 2:4 But God who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,...

EPHES 2:5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ

( By grace you have been saved ),

EPHES 2:6 and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

EPHES 2:7 That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

EPHES 2:8 For by Grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God.

TITUS 3:5 But according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

TITUS 3:6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.

TITUS 3:7 that having been justified by His Grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

2 THES 2:13 Because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit.

1 PET 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

EPHES 5:25-27 ...Just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of the water by the Word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be Holy and without blemish.

JOHN 6:57 He who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

2 PET 1:4 By which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

JOHN 3:3 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

JOHN 3:5,6 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God; that which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.

1 PET 3:2 There is also an antitype which now saves us, namely baptism ( not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God ) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

JOHN 6:44 No one can come to Me, unless the Father, who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

JOHN 6:45 .... Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me ( Jesus ).

JOHN 6:46 Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by my Father.

ROM 5:18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

ROM 11:11 ....But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the gentiles.

ROM 11:25,26 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that hardening in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

And so all Israel will be saved.....

HEB 5:9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.

1 JOHN 5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot, also loves him who is begotten of Him.

1 JOHN 5:10 He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself;

1 JOHN 5:11 ....And this is the testimony; that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

1 JOHN 5:12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

1 JOHN 5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

ROM 10:13 For whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

1 JOHN 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

HEB 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

EPHESIANS 2:8 For by Grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God, not as a result of works, that no one can boast.

( We are saved by the Grace of Jesus Christ, and that grace is not by our works, however, we must have faith in God's Grace in order to be saved. )

1 PET 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

PHIL 2:12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your our salvation with fear and trembling.

HEBREWS 4:1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.

EPHES 1:13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

EPHES 1:14 Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

ROMANS 10:9 That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

ROM 10:10 For with the heart one believes to righteousness and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.

MAT 10:32 Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.

But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.

2 THES 2:13 ... Because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

JOHN 3:3 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

JOHN 3:5,6 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God; that which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.

MATTHEW 19:16 Now behold, one came and said to Him, " Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life ? "

MAT 19:17 So He said to him, " Why do you call Me good ? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.

MAT 19:18 He said to Him, " Which ones ? " Jesus said, You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

MAT 16:24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, " If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, follow Me,

MAT 16:25 For whoever desires to save his life, will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

MAT 10:38 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.

MAT 10:39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

MAT 18:3 Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

MAT 18:4 Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

ROM 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

MAT 7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

Confession is used in two primary ways in scripture. Both are essential to learn and to continually apply in our every day lives.

1) Confession of our sins

2) Confession of our faith in Jesus Christ to others

1 JOHN 1:9 If we confess our sins to God, He will be faithful and just to forgive us of our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

PSALM 32:5 I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden, I said, " I will confess my transgressions to the Lord," and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.

Confession of our known sins to God in prayer throughout our lives as Christians is imperative for us to be forgiven. However if we forget to confess certain sins we still are forgiven.

Confession is an open sincere admittance to God of our wrong doings. God already knows what we have done wrong. However, God still desires us to openly confess our sins to Him. When we attempt to hide our sins or harbor our sins in our heart, this just reveals to God that we are trying to be deceitful, and that we really don't want to change, or that we really don't believe or trust Him for forgiveness.

Confession is the first step which shows to God a our sincerity to repent, or to change. Confession also helps a person to consciencely understand and remember that which he was doing was evil and wrong. This is so that he won't try to justify himself and keep repeating that sin again.

If we bring our dark deeds into the light of God by confession, then the spiritual darkness can no longer remain.

LUKE 12:8,9 Also I say to you, whoever confesses Me ( Jesus ) before men, him the Son of Man ( Jesus ) also will confess before the angels of God. But he who denies Me before men, will be denied before the angels of God.

ROMANS 10:9 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;

10:10 For with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

Are you truly sorrowful for any sin that you've committed ?; sincerely sorry that you offended God and hurt another person ?

Then true Godly sorrow will produce a genuine repentance within your heart or have a life changing result in your life, concerning a particular sin;

Worldly sorrow is just sorrow which comes from the repercussions and sufferings that we might experience caused by our own sin; Worldly sorrow does not produce lasting repentance.

We should not allow ourselves to feel condemnation for our sins, because Jesus did not come to condemn the world , but rather to save the world, therefore, we should allow the conviction of the Holy Spirit to produce Godly sorrow in our lives so that we can effectually turn from evil.

God will come and comfort us, when we are confronted by various tribulations and suffer various trials, and when we have sorrow and sadness.

We are then able and equipped to comfort others who are in any trouble, with the same comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

2 Cor 1:3-5

Godly sorrow = Produces repentance

Worldly sorrow = Death

2 Cor 7:10

SORROW

Jer 31:10-14

Isaiah 60:19-22

Isaiah 51:11

Ps 30:5

John 16:19-24

WARNING Ps 16:4

Sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god

2 CORN 7:9-10 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing.

For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted, but the sorrow of the world produces death.

PSALM 51:1-4 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness; according to the multitude of your tender mercies, take away my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me. Against You, and You only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight.

PSALM 51:9-11 Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God and renew within me a right spirit.

PSALM 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

REPENT - ( Metanoeo ) Greek Metanoia

The Word " REPENT " means " To change one's mind, " To regret and change direction, to turn away from evil towards good.

MATTHEW 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, " Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand. '

LUKE 13:3 ...Unless you repent, you too will all perish.

Indeed, God's love is merciful towards all those who have sinned and who also sincerely constantly repent and desire to deny themselves and take up their cross daily to overcome their sinful ways, through Jesus.

Yet true Godly love does not condone any evil to remain within ourselves; The provision of grace is given not so we can sin, but rather so we can progressively overcome our sinful nature through a true communion with Jesus Christ and thereby as we confess our sin, and turn away, He is faithful and just to forgive us.

God's Grace, Spirit, Truth and Love are never given to encourage evil nor to permit us the carnal freedom to sin; Grace is not a license to commit sin; But instead God's Spirit and truth are given to convict our hearts of sin and of the judgment to come, in order to set us free from sin so that we will truly be at liberty in His spirit and have new life.

Any individual is in error who assumes that they can remain in any particular sin and still be forgiven without turning away from doing that evil; For unless they eventually repent, they will not be forgiven, neither are they walking in Love.

If we desire to demonstrate God's Love, we must not purpose to deliberately sin nor to continue in any evil way.

Let us first always examine ourselves within and not harden our heart against the voice of God, who will reveal our sin, so that we can lay it aside, and walk in the light of love.

Love also does not perpetually accept evil to continue within the lives of the body of Christ.

Love calls for a repentance that fully transforms a person's inner nature, from their carnal ways of death into the new nature of Christ.

Love instructs, corrects, reproofs, rebukes and warns others according to the truth, but only by the Spirit in a Christlike manner with the hope and sincere efforts of reconciliation, through patience, encouragement, and lovingkindness.

The truth of God's love and the wisdom to hate evil, should be proclaimed, not with the intent of judgment or condemnation, but should be preached in hope of edification and salvation to the hearers. For Christ came not to judge, but to save, so we must do also, now, doing everything to maintain the unity within the Body of Christ. The judgment of Christ will come in it's proper time.

Sincere repentance brings the righteousness of Jesus Christ by faith into our lives. Our obligation to God is not to eliminate evil from the whole world now nor to destroy evil persons; Christ at His coming will do this;

Rather our obligation to God and our commission in Christ, is for each one of us to personally repent first and always, then to declare the Gospel of love, truth, repentance, and salvation through grace, so that those who would choose to believe, would then be able to turn from sin and destruction and obtain eternal life.

All those who choose not to believe because they love their evil ways, consequently, have the vengeance and wrath of God upon them.

Again if we want to earnestly love others and most of all to love God with all of our heart, mind and strength as He commanded, then we will not allow sin like leaven to grow within us or our brethren;

Rather we must persevere to lay aside all evil as God enables us. And then after we have taken the log of pride and sin from our own eye, then we can see more clearly to encourage and to instruct others in the church and beyond to do the same.

Love is intended to be pure and holy without hypocrisy. Any deed that we hope to do in love must at that time be without evil and sinless or else it cannot be true love. As we die to our selfish life and turn away from sin, then the fullness of Christ and the Father's love can coincidentally grow up, unhindered within us, as we partake of His Word and of His Grace.

Love is what signifies a true follower of Christ. God's love will be established within us , if we humble ourselves and receive the truth and Spirit of Jesus Christ in our life.

Further as we constantly repent from evil and deny our self and abide in grace, then through us, true Godly love and spiritual fruit will come forth, by God.

Anyone can repent and turn away from any sin with the power of God working on their behalf, and if you sincerely want to change, God will certainly be with you now and forevermore.

LUKE 15:4-7 " What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture, and go after the one which is lost, until he finds it?

15:5 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

15:6 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, " Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost."

15:7 I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven, over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

PSALM 34:14 Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

MATTHEW 9:13 But go and learn what this means; ' I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.

THE LOST COIN

LUKE 15:8-10 Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it ? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ' Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin. ' In the same way, I tell you, there is a rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

THE PRODIGAL SON

LUKE 15:11-32

LUKE 24:46-49 And He said to them, " Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead on the third day; and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.'

ISAIAH 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to the Lord.

2 PETER 3:9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

GRACE - Undeserving or Unmerited favor from God

GRACE - ( Charis )

Grace is God's unmerited favor and clemency for the evil deeds which we each have done.

Grace is God's divine lovingkindness and compassion for the offenses of mankind.

The perfect grace is made available to us by what Jesus Christ accomplished at the cross, by giving His sinless life to be sacrificed for the penalty of our sins.

" While we were yet sinners Christ died for us " Romans 5:8

God's amazing grace releases us from His wrathful judgment.

Grace from God is made available to anyone who accepts, and believes in Jesus Christ. The provision of God's Grace, while intended for anyone in the world, still needs to be appropriated on a individual basis.

This precious grace from God allows the believer of Jesus Christ not to be held accountable for his past, present, or future sins, if he ongoingly sincerely confesses and turns away from every sin.

Anyone who does not accept Jesus Christ's payment of their sins, will be held accountable for their own sins and will be judged by God.

As Christians, God wants us to come boldly to His throne of grace any time we sin so we can be forgiven, but God also does not want us to abuse His grace either.

We abuse God's Grace when we keep on sinning and do not desire to overcome a sin through Jesus Christ. If we continue deliberately committing a particular sin or sins without repenting, then this is abusing God's grace or favor.

God's Grace is a free gift from God to the humble in heart and is completely undeserved by any one of us.

When any Christian experiences the grace of God, we are overwhelmed by God's lovingkindness, and set free; then we are able to serve God acceptably with reverence and Godly fear.

EPHESIANS 2:8,9 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.

ISAIAH 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, And our God will have compassion on him; For He will abundantly pardon.

HEBREWS 4:16 Let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in a time of need.

Rom 3:22-24 ...even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe.; for there is no distinction, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

being justified as a gift by His Grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus.

Ephes 6:24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

Rom 1:6,7 Among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ to all who are in Rome be loved of God called to be saints, Grace to you...

Rom 4:16 To all descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham

Ephes 2:5 Even when we were dead in trespasses, ...

James 4:6 God gives Grace to the humble

Prov 3:34

1 Peter 5:5

Rom 3:24 Being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Rom 3:25 Whom God set forth to be a propitiation (mercy seat) by His blood, through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God, He passed over the sins previously committed,

Gal 1:3,4 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us out of this present evil age.

Rom 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all who believe.

Ephes 3:7 According to the gift of the Grace of God given to me, by the effective working of His power.

Ephes 4:7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift.

Rom 5:1,2 ...(Our Lord Jesus Christ) through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Rom 5:15 The gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

1 Corin 1:4 ...for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus

Col 1:5,6 Because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, ...since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth

1 Tim 1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

Acts 14:3 Who was bearing, witness to the word of His grace...

Rom 1:4,5 And declared to be the son of God with power, according to the Spirit of Holiness, by the resurrection from the dead through whom we have received grace...

Rom 1:7 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Rom 4:16 Therefore, it is of faith that it might be according to grace...

Rom 15:5 Because of the grace given to me by God.

2 Corin 9:8 God is able to make all grace abound toward you...

Ephes 2:8,9 For by grace you have been saved through faith and not of yourselves, it is the gift of God not of works, lest anyone boast.

Rom 4:4 (Through works of the old law) now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.

Rom 3:24 Being justified freely by His Grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Rom 5:1,2 Justified...in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Rom 5:16 Justification

Rom 5:17 Gift of righteousness

Rom 5:18 Justification of life

Rom 5:21 Grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Rom 12:6-8 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us...

Rom 5:15-18 Free gift

Rom 11:5,6 No longer of works

Ephes 2:8,9 For by Grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God not of works lest anyone should boast.

Ephes 4:7 Christ's gift

1 Corin 15:10 By the Grace of God I am what I am and His Grace toward me was not in vain but I labored more abundantly that they all, yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.

SALVATION

Acts 15:11 But we believe that through the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved...

Heb 12:28 Therefore since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken let us have Grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and Godly fear.

Heb 13:9 For it is good that the heart be established by Grace.

Acts 20:32 ...to the word of His Grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Ephes 2:4 But God, who is rich in Mercy

Titus 3:5-7 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, who He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ...

Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

Heb 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.

Heb 4:16 ... Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of Grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find Grace to help in time of need

James 5:11 The Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

1 Peter 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy...

Salvation

Titus 3:5 According to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.

2 Corin 4:1 Therefore since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.

James 2:13 Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Condition: If you confess your sin ( 1 John 1:9 )

God's forgiveness is His divine pardon for the sins that we have committed; God's word says, if we confess our sins to God in prayer with sincere Godly sorrow, He will be faithful and just to forgive us.

God desires for us to believe and to have the faith for His forgiveness, regardless what evil we've done.

We can have the full assurance that most definitely, God has forgiven us if we simply ask for forgiveness, and turn away from the sin that we've committed. He doesn't want us to doubt His kindness or the greatest of His Love nor does He want us to carry the guilt of condemnation.

MAT 6:12, 14,15 ...And forgive us our depts., as we also have forgiven our debtors,...

For if you forgive men for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.

PSALM 32:5 I acknowledge my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide; I said, ' I will confess my transgressions to the Lord;' And You did forgive the guilt of my sin.'

MICAH 7:18 Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession ?

ACTS 26:18 To open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, in order that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.

COL 1:13 For He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

1:14 In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

God's forgiveness is the dismissal or divine release of the bondage and penalties of sin. We should express our thankfulness to God for the forgiveness of all our sins.

It is God's will and essential for every Christian to have forgiveness in their minds and hearts towards everyone, regardless the wrong or injustice that someone has done to you. As God has forgiven you, so you must also forgive others or neither are you forgiven by God.

You must not choose to have anger or hate towards anyone.

Now this does not mean that we condone the evil done to us or others. However God does not want us to hold on to any resentment, bitterness, or revenge towards anyone. In fact God asks that we pray a blessing upon our enemies so that they might overcome the evil of their lives and be established in God's Righteousness.

MAT 6:12 And forgive us our debts., as we also have forgiven our debtors.

6:14 For if you forgive men for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

6:15 But if you do not forgive men, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.

LUKE 6:35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

6:36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

6:37 And do not judge and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

MAT 5:43-48 You have heard that it was said, " You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy."

5:44 But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.

5:46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you ? Do not even the tax-gatherers do the same ?

MARK 11:25 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your transgressions.

11:26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven, forgive your transgressions.

MAT 18:21,22 Then Peter came and said to Him, " Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him ? Up to seven times ?

18:22 Jesus said to him, " I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven."

ROMANS 12:14,17-21 Bless those who persecute you; bless and curse not;

12:17 Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.

12:18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.

12:19 Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

LUKE 17:3 Be on your guard ! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

17:4 And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, " I repent, " forgive him.

REDEEM, REDEMPTION- EXAGORAZO ( VERB )

It is used metaphorically, as the purchasing of a slave to give freedom;

LUTROO ( VERB ) To release a person by paying a ransom price

We were held spiritually captive under the bondage of our own sin till Jesus Christ figuratively purchased us with His own blood; His Love for us was so great, He paid the highest price for us by laying down His own life for the penalty that each of us deserved for our own sins.

Jesus becomes our ' Redeemer ' when we individually ask God in prayer to forgive us and further ask Jesus Christ to come into our heart by the Holy Spirit, and become our Savior.

We get the use of the word " Redeemer " as a name for Christ in the Bible, from the ancient Jewish custom by which kinsman redeemed the property of one of his family who happened to be in destitute circumstances.

As we were likewise once destitute of spiritual things, then If we accept Jesus as our Lord , we are then redeemed and are adopted back into God's family.

1 PETER 1:18 Knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver and gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,

1:19 But with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

GAL 4:4, But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

4:5 in order that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

EPHES 1:5-7 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He ( God the Father ) freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. ( Jesus ) In Him (Jesus) we have redemption through His blood , the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.

TITUS 2:13,14 Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus; who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good works.

ISAIAH 35:8-10 And a highway will be there, a roadway, And it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, But it will be for him who walks that way, and fools will not wander on it.

35:9 No lion will be there, Nor will any vicious beast go up on it; These will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk there,

35:10 And the ransomed of the Lord will return, And come with joyful shouting to Zion, with everlasting joy upon their heads, They will find gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

RECONCILIATION - To settle any difference or restore fellowship between...

Our sinful nature brought division between God and man, yet the precious grace of Jesus Christ divinely resolves the spiritual differences so that God can dwell in a person's heart by the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is the only way anyone can be reconciled back to God.

Jesus Christ restored the friendship and harmony between God and man. His steadfast Love and reconciliation is available to anyone who chooses to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

Reconciliation allows us to spiritually enter the presence of God, and entitles us to receive many eternal spiritual blessings.

We are brought into God's family through the reconciliation work of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. We are accepted before God the Father, through the spiritual reconciliation power of Christ's grace, and thereby spiritually obtain His righteousness and further be granted full and eternal reconciliation to God.

ROMANS 5:10,11 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

COLOSSIANS 1:20 And through Him (Jesus) reconciled all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

1:21 And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,

1:22 Yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach.

2 CORIN 5:18 Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

5:19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

5:20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Everyone is born into this world with a corrupted spiritual nature caused by the original sin of Adam and Eve. It is for this reason, every person needs to be spiritually " born again " inorder to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Any person can be spiritually born again, if they humble themselves, and ask God in prayer to forgive them of their sins and sincerely ask for Jesus Christ to come into their life.

The very moment you pray for Jesus Christ to come into your life, this is the moment that you are truly " born again ", even if you didn't feel anything still you are spiritually born again.

When you are Born Again, God fully cleanses and forgives you of all your past sins and evil ways; you receive a fresh new beginning, a totally new life. You are no longer the same person.

When you pray a prayer for salvation, God is faithful, you become a new creation; old things have passed away and behold He makes all things new in your life. You are re-born into the family of God.

You become as a babe in Christ Jesus learning How to walk in the spirit and live according to the will of God.

As a babe in Christ, you will have difficulty understanding and conveying the spiritual truths of God; but as you continue growing in Jesus Christ, God will give you wisdom and perception to understand His ways.

After being Born Again God desires for a person to grow up into the fullness of Jesus Christ. As we daily let go of each of our old selfish and sinful ways, then the living attributes of God or spiritual fruit will be produced in our minds and hearts.

As we grow up into the very nature of Jesus Christ, we may fail many times, however only be strong and of good courage because you are now under God's grace to help you to overcome all your weaknesses and spiritual immaturity.

When you are Born Again you become a Christian and a child of God; Therefore God will care for you and love you as His very own.

When you become spiritually born again you can only feed on the milk of the word of God, which are the basic righteous principles of God.

JOHN 3:3-6 Jesus answered and said to him, " Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God."

Nicodemus said to Him, " How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mothers womb and be born, can he?"

Jesus answered, " Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God; That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

1 PETER 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

JOHN 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

1 JOHN 5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him.

1 PETER 1:23 For you have been born again not of seed which is perishable, but rather, through the living and abiding word of God.

1 PETER 2:2 Like newborn babes long for the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow in respect to salvation.

As a Christian, you have become the temple of God's Holy Spirit and you have the honor to also have God the Father and Jesus Christ dwell spiritually in your heart.

It is Jesus Christ in you that is your hope to receive a glorified eternal body.

Only individuals who have sincerely confessed their sins and asked for Jesus Christ to come into their life, actually do have Christ within. This is contrary to false New Age beliefs, that imply everyone has Christ within them.

God wants us to know Jesus Christ more than just intellectually. We all need Jesus Christ to rule and reign in our heart spiritually in order to overcome sin and to be filled with His Love.

What a privileged and a blessing that God who created the universe and Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, would want to dwell in your heart.

When Jesus, Who is God, enters your heart this is the greatest miracle of all and then His light can shine through you to others. As we decrease, Jesus can increase His very nature within our lives.

COL 1:27 To whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

GAL 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me.

JOHN 15:4 Abide in Me ( Jesus ), and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

ROMANS 8:9,10 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

JOHN 17:20 I do not ask in behalf of those alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;

17:21 that they all may be one; even as You, Father are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that You did send Me.

17:22 And the glory which You have given Me I have given to them; that they may be one, just as We are one;

17:23 I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, that the world may know that You did send Me, and did love them, even as You did love Me.

17:24 " Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, in order that they may behold My glory, which You have given Me; for You did love Me before the foundation of the world.

17:25 O righteous Father, although the world has not You; Yet I have known You; and these have known that You did send Me.

17:26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known; that the love wherewith You did love Me may be in them, and I in them. "

Water Baptism is an outward proclamation of the inner working of God in a Christian's life, by a person who has already accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

When a Christian is baptized in water that individual is declaring that he wants his old sinful life to be buried and as he rises from the water, that he would likewise want to rise spiritually to the newness of life in Jesus Christ, totally washed clean of his past sinful nature and refreshed.

Even though a person may have been baptized as a baby, still that person as a adult should be baptized again, by their own choice or decision.

Water Baptism is not a requirement for salvation, however God instructs us to do so, as a spiritual reminder and a turning point.

Water Baptism is a divine ordinance presented by Jesus in the great Commission.

MATTHEW 28:18-20 And Jesus came up and spoke to them saying, " All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.'

ACTS 2:38 And Peter said to them, ' Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.'

For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call to Himself.'

And with many other words He solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them saying, 'Be saved from this perverse generation!' So the, those who had received his word were baptized and there were added that day about three thousand.

ROMANS 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in the newness of life.

For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection.

COLOSSIANS 2:12 Having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

1 PETER 3:21 And corresponding to that baptism now saves you- not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.