* Don’t believe anyone who says it’s easy to become a Christian. Salvation for sinners cost God His own Son; His life, and it’ll cost you the same thing. Salvation isn’t gained by reciting mere words. Saving faith transforms the heart, and that in turn transforms behavior. Faith’s fruit of repentance is seen in works, actions, not intentions. There’s no room for passive spectators: words without actions are empty and futile.
* Dead faith! Churches today are filled with people who hold to a faith that does not save. James referred to this as a “dead faith”-meaning a mere empty profession (James 2:17, 20, 26). Paul wrote to the people in the church at Corinth to test or examine themselves to see if they were truly in the faith (2 Corinthians 13:5). As important as it was in Paul’s day, how much more important it is for people in our churches today to put their faith to the test and to make sure they have not been deceived.
Je voudrais vous poser une question, en fait, le plus important de votre vie. Votre bonheur ou votre perte, pour l’éternité, dépend de votre réponse.
Voici la question : « êtes vous sauvé ? Êtes-vous sûr d’aller au ciel quand vous mourrez ? « Je ne vous demande si vous êtes un membre de l’église, mais si vous êtes sauvés. C’est ne pas de savoir si vous êtes bon, mais si vous êtes sauvés. En effet, personne ne peut obtenir les bénédictions de Dieu ou même aller au ciel sans être préalablement enregistré. Jésus dit à Nicodème dans l’Évangile selon Jean, chapitre 3 et le verset 7 :
« Ne sois donc pas surpris si je t’ai dit: Il vous faut renaître d’en haut:».
Alors, que dois-je faire pour être sauvé ?
Dites-moi le croire, mais cela je crois ?
* Croire et acceptez que vous êtes un pécheur.
* Croire et acceptez vous êtes aliéné de Dieu et devez vraiment se repentir et se détourner du votre péché.
* Croire et reconnaissez sont « déjà condamnée » et ont besoin d’un pardon.
* Croire et accepter que vous avez besoin de se repentir (tour du péché) et produisent des fruits de l’obéissance.
* Croire et acceptez que Jésus prit ton châtiment sur la Croix comme votre remplaçant et qu’il attend de vous pardonner.
* Croire et accepter que la justice de Dieu a été satisfaite par le fait que Dieu a ressuscité Jésus… d’entre les morts.
* Croire et reconnaissent que la preuve que vous êtes vraiment un croyant que vous produisez « fruit de l’obéissance. »
C’est ce que vous croyez. C’est l’Évangile. Et quand tu crois par la foi, tout simplement confiance en Dieu dans sa miséricorde prend la justice de Jésus-Christ et qu’il attribue à vous parce que vos péchés ont été crédités au Christ quand il est mort sur la Croix.
2 Corinthiens 05:21 parce que Dieu a fait Jésus pour être un péché pour les États-Unis, qui ne connaissait aucun péché ; que nous pourrions faire la justice de Dieu en lui.
Si vous avez un désir dans votre coeur à croire, le meilleur moyen de savoir comment est de prier tout simplement et discrètement dans votre cœur :
Dans actes 02:37-38, après avoir entendu l’Évangile au peuple pris conscient de leur culpabilité comme pécheurs et a dit : « Que ferons-nous ? » Et Peter leur dit : « Repentez-vous et soyez baptisés chacun d’entre vous au nom de Jésus-Christ pour le pardon de vos péchés et vous recevrez le don du Saint-Esprit.
Dans Luc 18:14, le pécheur repentant a dit : « Dieu soit miséricordieux envers moi, pécheur. »
Donc, si vous crier à Dieu dans la confiance de la foi, et vous repentez, Dieu vous entendra et votre vie sera transformée en un instant. Si votre foi est faible, demandez-lui de vous aider à croire. Si vous avez besoin de plus informations lire l’Évangile de Jean et demandez à Dieu de vous enseigner la vérité du Christ.
You’ve never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul.
That’s a well-worn cliché, but it still lands a punch. Our possessions cannot follow us.
The apostle Paul made that point abundantly clear in his first epistle to Timothy: “We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either” (1 Timothy 6:7).
We all die. Cars break down. Houses crumble. Jewelry fades and tarnishes. None of the possessions this world so desperately craves can last. What does last, what has eternal value, is what you believe.
Your faith, not your paycheck, is the ultimate test of eternal riches. No amount of money can buy your way into heaven. Neither can good works, rituals nor merely trying to be good! The good news is that Jesus is the only way to heaven. Jesus died on the cross and is calling on you to repent and believe. He is calling on you to confess Him as Lord and become His slave. Only through faith in Christ can anyone gain access to vast and eternal blessings of heaven.
“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. . . . I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” (John 14:1–6)
True eternal riches are only available through belief in Christ. If we take Him at His Word, we can be sure that He is preparing an everlasting place for us to dwell securely in His presence. By contrast, those who put their faith in wealth and possessions are tragically living their best life now—as their doomed philosophy can only usher them into the torment of hell.
The only things of lasting value—the only eternally secure riches—are found in heaven. We must join the apostle Paul and set our hearts on the future our Savior has prepared and secured for us.
“But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ.”(Philippians 3:7–9)
Adapted from gtyblog
We have today an absence of the fear factor in evangelism. I say that and I think of that stupid TV program where they create artificial fears.
I don’t need any artificial fears. Instead of people dealing with artificial fears, traumatizing themselves through contrived means, they really ought to find out what true fear is and that is to understand the judgment of God. Let me tell that FEAR is an Essential element of salvation.
Really there are four things that are necessary for a person to be saved. You could call this the science of salvation. One, fear…you have to be saved from something, from hell. I don’t think people would want to be saved from their sin if they could have their sin and have heaven too, agreed? Does that sound reasonable? If I could have my sin and go to heaven, that sounds like a deal.
But hell, that’s another matter. And I don’t think evangelism is done properly and I don’t think a heart is prepared properly if there isn’t a component of fear of eternal judgment, eternal hell. And in our evangelism we have to do that, even with our children we have to do that.
Second component, the second element is humility. Not only do you have to be afraid of eternal hell, but you have to also understand that you can do nothing to rescue yourself. You have to humble yourself and deny yourself and see your utter unworthiness and your utter nothingness and your utter bankruptcy. This is heart work in the matter of evangelism. This is the plowing of the soil.
And the third element is repentance. You have to come to the place where standing, as it were, looking into the yawning mouth of hell, fearing that you will spend forever there, understanding that you can do nothing to change that, understanding your utter wretchedness and sinfulness and unworthiness, and then coming to the point where you say, “I want to be delivered from this, I want to be rescued from this. I want You to forgive my sins. I acknowledge my sins.”
That’s all the heart work and only then do you come to the fourth element which is to believe the gospel. Most evangelism today is “Jesus died for your sins, believe that, join a church, get sprinkled, pray this prayer, and you’re in.” What about the first three? What about the heart preparation? You may have to put the fear factor back in the gospel. It’s all through Scripture.
We have today an absence of the fear factor in evangelism. I say that and I think of that stupid TV program where they create artificial fears.
I don’t need any artificial fears. Instead of people dealing with artificial fears, traumatizing themselves through contrived means, they really ought to find out what true fear is and that is to understand the judgment of God. Let me tell that FEAR is an Essential element of salvation.
Really there are four things that are necessary for a person to be saved. You could call this the science of salvation. One, fear…you have to be saved from something, from hell. I don’t think people would want to be saved from their sin if they could have their sin and have heaven too, agreed? Does that sound reasonable? If I could have my sin and go to heaven, that sounds like a deal.
But hell, that’s another matter. And I don’t think evangelism is done properly and I don’t think a heart is prepared properly if there isn’t a component of fear of eternal judgment, eternal hell. And in our evangelism we have to do that, even with our children we have to do that.
Second component, the second element is humility. Not only do you have to be afraid of eternal hell, but you have to also understand that you can do nothing to rescue yourself. You have to humble yourself and deny yourself and see your utter unworthiness and your utter nothingness and your utter bankruptcy. This is heart work in the matter of evangelism. This is the plowing of the soil.
And the third element is repentance. You have to come to the place where standing, as it were, looking into the yawning mouth of hell, fearing that you will spend forever there, understanding that you can do nothing to change that, understanding your utter wretchedness and sinfulness and unworthiness, and then coming to the point where you say, “I want to be delivered from this, I want to be rescued from this. I want You to forgive my sins. I acknowledge my sins.”
That’s all the heart work and only then do you come to the fourth element which is to believe the gospel. Most evangelism today is “Jesus died for your sins, believe that, join a church, get sprinkled, pray this prayer, and you’re in.” What about the first three? What about the heart preparation? You may have to put the fear factor back in the gospel. It’s all through Scripture.
Broad road christianity is found in Matt 7:13. “The gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction.”
You can come with the whole crowd.
You can come with all your baggage.
You can come without self-denial.
You can come with your own pride, & LGBTQPIA sin.
You can come with no repentance.
You just become religious.
A huge crowd of the religious people have come in the broad gate and are on the broad road, and it’s broad enough for you to live any way you want. You can bounce from side to side, it doesn’t require anything. This can be a LGBTQ, same sex, transgender form of Christianity that we’re hearing about these days. It can be anything. And huge crowds of people are on this road thinking it goes to heaven when it goes to hell. So there are two gates.
The wide gate leads to a broad way verse 13 – “that leads to destruction.”
Room for diverse doctrine, room for tolerance of sin.
No curbs, no boundaries.
All the desires of your fallen heart are tolerated – the prosperity gospel fits into this. It is a broad road religion. Whatever you want, whatever your desires hunger for, this is acceptable. This is what Psalm 1:6 calls the way of the ungodly, and it says, “The way of the ungodly will perish, will perish.”
Dear Nancy the most loving thing I can ever do is tell you that if you are not a believer in, and follower of the Lord Jesus, that you are a lost sinner on the road to hell.
However, the good news is that Jesus died on the cross and paid for your sins, making it possible for you to be reconciled to God, and be assured of a home in heaven one day. I am calling on you to repent and believe!
So, what am I supposed to believe to become a Christian! BELIEVE WHAT?
*Believe,Admit, and Agree you are a sinner.
*Believe, Admit, and agree you are alienated from God, and must truly repent and turn from your sin.
*Believe, Admit and Agree that you are “condemned already” and need a pardon.
*Believe, Admit and Agree that you need to repent (turn your back from sin) and produce fruits of obedience.
*Believe, Admit and Agree that Jesus took your punishment on the cross as your substitute, and is waiting to pardon you.
*Believe, Admit, and Agree that God’s justice was satisfied by the fact that God raised Jesus…from the dead. And when God raised Him from the dead He was saying, “I am satisfied.”
*Believe, Admit and Agree, that the evidence that you are truly a believer is that you produce “fruits of obedience.”
That’s what you BELIEVE! That’s the gospel. And when you believe that by faith, and REPENT, simply trusting God, He, in His mercy takes the righteousness of Jesus Christ and credits it to you because your sins were credited to Christ when He died on the cross. In 2 Corinthians 5:21 we read
“GOD made JESUS who did not know sin to be sin for US, so that WE might become the righteousness of GOD in Him. “
In Acts 2:37-38, after hearing the gospel the people became aware of their guilt as sinners and said, “What shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
In Luke 18:14, the repentant sinner said, “God be merciful to me a sinner.”
So, if you cry out to God in faith trusting, God will hear you and your life will be transformed in a moment. If your faith is weak ask Him to help you to believe. If you need more information read the Gospel of John, and ask God to teach you the truth of Christ.
Praying for you at this time,
Brian Henry
Dear Mr. Trump, the most loving thing I can ever do is tell you that if you are not a believer in, and follower of the Lord Jesus, that you are a lost sinner on the road to hell.
However, the good news is that Jesus died on the cross and paid for your sins, making it possible for you to be reconciled to God, and be assured of a home in heaven one day. I am calling on you to repent and believe!
So, what am I supposed to believe to become a Christian! BELIEVE WHAT?
*Believe,Admit, and Agree you are a sinner.
*Believe, Admit, and agree you are alienated from God, and must truly repent and turn from your sin.
*Believe, Admit and Agree that you are “condemned already” and need a pardon.
*Believe, Admit and Agree that you need to repent (turn your back from sin) and produce fruits of obedience.
*Believe, Admit and Agree that Jesus took your punishment on the cross as your substitute, and is waiting to pardon you.
*Believe, Admit, and Agree that God’s justice was satisfied by the fact that God raised Jesus…from the dead. And when God raised Him from the dead He was saying, “I am satisfied.”
*Believe, Admit and Agree, that the evidence that you are truly a believer is that you produce “fruits of obedience.”
That’s what you BELIEVE! That’s the gospel. And when you believe that by faith, and REPENT, simply trusting God, He, in His mercy takes the righteousness of Jesus Christ and credits it to you because your sins were credited to Christ when He died on the cross. In 2 Corinthians 5:21 we read
“GOD made JESUS who did not know sin to be sin for US, so that WE might become the righteousness of GOD in Him. “
In Acts 2:37-38, after hearing the gospel the people became aware of their guilt as sinners and said, “What shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
In Luke 18:14, the repentant sinner said, “God be merciful to me a sinner.”
So, if you cry out to God in faith trusting, God will hear you and your life will be transformed in a moment. If your faith is weak ask Him to help you to believe. If you need more information read the Gospel of John, and ask God to teach you the truth of Christ.
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