ARE YOU ONE OF THE “I SAID THE PRAYER” CROWD?

DID YOU MERELY REPEAT A PRAYER AND THEN CONTINUE AS USUAL, OR DID YOU TRULY REPENT AND BE TRULY CHANGED , CONVERTED AND TRANSFORMED?

Are you one who claims that you “SAID THE PRAYER” but you live like the unsaved. You know the term ‘born again,’ but what does this really mean?

It means that Satan has moved out of your life, and the Lord Jesus Christ has moved in and changed you and TRANSFORMED your life. God has taken out the rebellious heart that loves sin and hates God, and replaced it with the heart of Jesus which loves God and hates sin.

The transformed Christian has been buried with Jesus in his death and raised up with him in his resurrection so that he too can walk in newness of life. For those who are born again, everything changes.

If God has wrought this change in your life, then this new life in Jesus just flows. You want to love and honour God. You want to obey him, to do what he commands. It is no burden. You delight in doing so. This is what theologians call regeneration.

The glory, however, for the transformed Christian is that the Lord Jesus died in our place. He took the judgment you deserve for your own sin. His blood washes away the guilt and condemnation of sin. It appeases the just wrath of God, because Jesus took the wrath and condemnation for sin upon himself when he died on Calvary’s cross.

He can take your sin from you as far as the east is from the west. And because Jesus was raised from the dead Paul the apostle tells us that we can be justified, declared not guilty, given the very righteousness of Christ. The only way you can ever be pure before God is to be clothed in the righteousness of Christ. This is what theologians call justification.

Being transformed is not about perfection, No! It’s about the direction of your life. You no longer enjoy sin and run towards it, rather you hate sin an run from it. Unfortunately sin still chases the truly transformed and trips them up from time to time, and Require confession and repentance to restore fellowship.

My prayer is that if you are merely Part of the “ I SAID A PRAYER CROWD” and have not had your life truly transformed by the blood of Jesus Christ, that you will repent and be truly born again from above!