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What has God said about Salvation? What does He say – as opposed to what mere men are saying?
What are His parameters for salvation? God has so clearly told us. His Words are absolute.
What is holding you back from accepting all that Jesus Christ is and does, and what He has said?
Here is a list of
References about Salvation:
Salvation in Jesus – His Way: In one link or: James 4:8, 1 Timothy 2:3-4 Luke 9:23, Matthew 16:24, Romans 10:10, Romans 10:9-13, Matthew 10:32, Luke 12:8, 2 Peter 1:1, 2 Corinthians 3:5, 2 Corinthians 4:7, John 3:3, John 3:5, John 3:7, 1 Corinthians 9:24. Don’t try Salvation Lite.
See: ** The Kingdom of God is very exclusive, very luxurious – very special ** Repentance in the Bible ** Psalm 51 type repentance and salvation. ** Being receptive
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God makes it very clear — exactly what He expects of us in order to “get saved“. His salvation requires followance. Jesus said “Follow Me“.
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How to accept Jesus Excerpt: When you “receive” Jesus. Receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior means …you consciously join your self Paralambano to Jesus. You make a lifelong commitment to not withhold obedience. With that attitude of yielding your will to Him – you repent of your sins, and ask Him to forgive you. Confessing with your mouth that you want Jesus as your Savior — you accept by faith that He has saved you, and you then endeavor to follow Him in His Way.
What “being saved” means…what is needed to “get saved”
The message of salvation spoken by Jesus to Paul
What was it like – your confession to Jesus?
Accepting all that Jesus is and does Excerpt: To accept anything less than “all that Jesus Christ is and does“… is to stop short of getting saved. God requires all, not just pieces of us. Are you holding-back on God? Or: Are you 100% sold-out to the true Jesus? Are you one of those that says one thing and does another?
One thing you lack…we cannot give Him merely bits and pieces of our soul, and expect to be saved
Specific salvation parameters to get saved…what is needed for salvation
Specific salvation parameters Jesus absolutely requires…salvation requirements Jesus told us
Jesus saved me…why not you?
Following…followance
If you follow me…then you show you are saved
The Godman Jesus Said “Follow Me”
Practicing sin – not following Christ…truly follow all of who Jesus is and does
Following the Jesus who was not God
The Kingdom of God is very exclusive, very luxurious – very special
Psalm 51 type repentance and salvation
Receive the Kingdom like a child
Salvation in Christ is beyond huge…more than huge. Excerpt: What is it, this salvation of God?
According to this one verse, Romans 5:2, amongst many in the Bible:
- It is through Jesus
- We access it by faith
- It is a remarkable state of grace
- In it we now stand “firmly, safely and securely”
- We rejoice in this new hope
- We rejoice in our new “confident assurance”
- We are confident of “experiencing and enjoying” God’s glory
- We are confident of what He did to us
- We begin “experiencing and enjoying” – “the manifestation of His excellence and power“
8 Steps for Real Repentance from Psalm 51
Practicing Sin – Not Following Christ
God – The Holy Spirit Excerpt: As born-again believers, followers of Christ… we have God Himself in us. The Holy Spirit, God in the form of a Spirit, was promised by Jesus as he left the earth after His resurrection from the dead. What does…
Teachings – About the Holy Spirit…What does the Bible teach us about the Holy Spirit?
Salvation and Receiving the Gift of the Holy Spirit Excerpt: So: What happens at the exact moment of salvation in Christ? 1 We are made brand new! And salvation starts with the Holy Spirit coming inside us – to permanently reside in the born again. He makes your spirit alive.
References about the Holy Spirit…Four lists of passages – All in one link or individually. (Links take you away to BibleGateway… leaving this window open.)
All in one link or: 1 Corinthians 3:16; Ephesians 2:5; Revelation 2:7; Revelation 2:11; Revelation 2:17; 1 John 3:9; 1 John 4:2; 1 John 4:3; 1 John 4:6; 1 John 5:1; 2 Peter 1:21; 1 Peter 1:3; 1 Peter 1:23; 1 Peter 1:2; 2 Peter 1:3; 2 Timothy 1:7; Ephesians 4:30; Ephesians 6:17; Philippians 3:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:13;
All in one link or: Philippians 2:12-16; Hebrews 9:8; Hebrews 10:29; James 4:6; Ephesians 2:10; Ephesians 2:22; Ephesians 3:8; Ephesians 4:13; Ephesians 1:14; Ephesians 1:18; Galatians 3:26; Galatians 4:6; Galatians 5:16; Ephesians 1:3; 2 Corinthians 5:5; 1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 2 Corinthians 3:3;
All in one link or: Romans 8:14; Romans 15:13; Ephesians 5:18; Luke 2:40; Colossians 1:9; Acts 2:39; Acts 4:31; Acts 5:32; Acts 6:3; Acts 7:55; Acts 10:38; Acts 11:24; Acts 20:28; Romans 2:29; Romans 7:6; Romans 8:6; Romans 8:9; Romans 8:16; Romans 14:17; Romans 15:16; Romans 15:30;
All in one link or: 1 Corinthians 2:10; 1 Corinthians 2:11;1 Corinthians 2:12; 1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 7:40; 1 Corinthians 12:3; 2 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 12:4-31; 1 Corinthians 14:3; Hebrews 2:4; 1 Corinthians 14:16; Ephesians 4; 1 Peter 4:10; 2 Corinthians 13:14; 1 Peter 4:14.
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How you can know you are a Christian…So you think that you’re a Christian
The Seed of the Word was sown. What happened to yours…you thought your sinful soul was saved
Is your life fruit – agape love?
Love and Agape Love in the Greek and in the New Testament
Mark 4:14-20
14 The sower sows the word [of God, the good news regarding the way of salvation]….
Limited Thinking Excerpt: My unauthorized paraphrase of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10:
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9 Don’t you know this!? …that those who live their own way will not actually get into God’s Kingdom? They won’t have even the slightest share in it!
“Don’t fool yourself by your limited thinking. Not one person who lives their life their own way will ever inherit the Kingdom of God or share in any part of it….” –Swift’s Amped-up Paraphrase of the Passage (AMPED-UP) – 1 Corinthians 6:9-10
From an eternal perspective, the kind God has, my thoughts are quite puny and limited. What on earth would make me think that I know eternal things! I’ll return to the dust from which I came!
The Sweetest Thing to grace your town bench…how we live and think
2 Corinthians 13:5 and James 2:14-26
This does not save you
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Continued…
What clearly saves and what obviously does not save
- Jesus warned us not to be dishonest with Him
- Running with the Enemies of our soul
- Having a dichotomous heart
- Tolerating evil
- Loving Jesus less
- Leaving Jesus
- Following the Jesus who was not God
- Accepting Jesus – Plus Some Other
- Contradicting Jesus
- Double-minded means both loving Jesus AND loving a different gospel
- Living between two opinions
- Caught up in a practice God has said not to practice?
The Birth of the Christian Church
Excerpt from Salvation and Receiving the Gift of the Holy Spirit
With the birth of the Christian Church era, God began His New Covenant. What God had said in the Old Testament, through His prophets, was fulfilled in Jesus. “God has fulfilled what He foretold by the mouth of all the prophets” (v18).
His Early Church followers, both Jews and Gentiles, were no longer under the Judaic Law. The Judaic system looked toward the coming Messiah – and now the Messiah had finally come! They were, and we are now – under the age of grace. The OT Judaic atonement through animal sacrifices – was replaced, fulfilled, by the sacrifice once for all of The Perfect Lamb of God, Jesus (Acts 3:17-26).
We are no longer under obligation to obey the Law (to obey Judaic laws for salvation). Yahooo! Yip-yip yippee! We are saved by His amazing grace. 2
God spoke audibly
References recorded of God speaking audibly: Mattthew 17:5, Mark 1:11; 9:7, Luke 3:22, Luke 9:35, John 12:28.
Footnotes
- “There is a certain moment in time when everything changes, when a mere human is transformed by God into a completely different type of human. It is that life changing moment when a sinner accepts God’s free gift of forgiveness, bowing before God in repentance, acknowledging Christ as Lord of all.
That moment changes everything for that person. Nothing is the same anymore. A new creature has been born – really and truly “born again” into new life in Christ. This magic moment!” – Source: That Moment in Time.
- Now without excuse, no longer ignorant: Acts 3:17-26 – “times of refreshing”
17 “Now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance [not fully aware of what you were doing], just as your rulers did also.
18 And so God has fulfilled what He foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ (Messiah, Anointed) would suffer.
19 So repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, regret past sins] and return [to God—seek His purpose for your life], so that your sins may be wiped away [blotted out, completely erased], so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord [restoring you like a cool wind on a hot day]; 20 and that He may send [to you] Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you, 21 whom heaven must keep until the time for the [complete] restoration of all things about which God promised through the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.
22 Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a Prophet [b]like me from your countrymen; you shall listen to Him and obey everything He tells you. 23 And it will be that every person that does not listen to and heed that Prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
24 Indeed, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also announced these days. 25 You are the sons (descendants) of the prophets and [heirs] of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed (descendant) all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ 26 It was for you first of all that God raised up His Servant and Son [Jesus], and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways. – Acts 3:17-26.”
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