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Receiving Jesus Christ as Your Lord and Savior
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reputation automatically goes to 1 after a certain number of posts.
this dude does have a reputation though, a poor one.
How about humbly confessing your sins to the Lord. Repenting and believing, allowing him to change your life. Believing that he rose from the dead, believing he died for your sins. "What must I do to be saved"? Believe upon the name of the Lord and you shall be saved. Another wind of doctrine destroyed.
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Romans 10:9-10
[SUP]9 [/SUP] that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
[SUP]10 [/SUP] For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Ephesians 2:8-9
[SUP]8 [/SUP] For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
[SUP]9 [/SUP] not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Faith and Grace is how we receive Salvation.
Keeping the Commandments is Works.
Romans 3:27-28
[SUP]27 [/SUP] Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.
[SUP]28 [/SUP] Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
Its by Faith we receive Salvation, not by keeping the Law like you teach.
[SUP]9 [/SUP] that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
[SUP]10 [/SUP] For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Ephesians 2:8-9
[SUP]8 [/SUP] For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
[SUP]9 [/SUP] not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Faith and Grace is how we receive Salvation.
Keeping the Commandments is Works.
Romans 3:27-28
[SUP]27 [/SUP] Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.
[SUP]28 [/SUP] Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
Its by Faith we receive Salvation, not by keeping the Law like you teach.
"And this is the testimony: God has given us Eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son, has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." 1 John 5:11-12. What you think matters not, what I think matters not, what will matter is what God thinks about Jesus. Not what Jesus left behind in commands, but what He Himself is in relationship to the Scriptures concerning your Salvation.. To have the commands of Jesus is of Him but to have Him is more than the commands, and God says without Him you are without Salvation. Based on the Scriptures, what then, say you as you put it.? The Pharisees were much better at the pompous piety than you are. And they wasted their time, what makes you think you can out perform the results God gave them? For without the Jesus Connection of the person, how can you be in a different context to God over this issue of Salvation?
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Regarding the topic of this thread:
...there must be a point in your life when you make a personal commitment to trust Jesus as your Savior and Lord. It’s one thing—a vital part of being a Christian—to give intellectual assent to the truth claims or doctrines of Christianity, but it’s not the whole thing. Intellectual assent now needs to be followed up by trust. Trusting Jesus as Savior means trusting God to forgive your sins solely on the basis of Christ’s sacrificial death. It means that we are not trusting in any way in our good works to save us or make us acceptable to God. Salvation is by grace alone. There’s nothing we can do to earn God’s pardon; we can only humbly and gratefully receive it. Trusting Christ as Lord means that you are giving your whole life to Christ to follow and obey him. Trusting in Christ is not just some sort of fire insurance. It is a commitment of all that you are and have to him. This is no more than his due, for he is God incarnate, and God alone is worthy of worship.
If you want to make that commitment, I’d encourage you make the following prayer your own:
...God, I really need You. I’ve wandered in darkness long enough. I’ve thought and said and done things that are wrong. I believe that You exist and that you sent Jesus to die for my sins. So right now, in the best way I know how, I commit myself to him as my Lord and Savior. Come into my life, forgive my sins, cleanse me, and make into the person you want me to be. Thank you for hearing this prayer. Amen....
...there must be a point in your life when you make a personal commitment to trust Jesus as your Savior and Lord. It’s one thing—a vital part of being a Christian—to give intellectual assent to the truth claims or doctrines of Christianity, but it’s not the whole thing. Intellectual assent now needs to be followed up by trust. Trusting Jesus as Savior means trusting God to forgive your sins solely on the basis of Christ’s sacrificial death. It means that we are not trusting in any way in our good works to save us or make us acceptable to God. Salvation is by grace alone. There’s nothing we can do to earn God’s pardon; we can only humbly and gratefully receive it. Trusting Christ as Lord means that you are giving your whole life to Christ to follow and obey him. Trusting in Christ is not just some sort of fire insurance. It is a commitment of all that you are and have to him. This is no more than his due, for he is God incarnate, and God alone is worthy of worship.
If you want to make that commitment, I’d encourage you make the following prayer your own:
...God, I really need You. I’ve wandered in darkness long enough. I’ve thought and said and done things that are wrong. I believe that You exist and that you sent Jesus to die for my sins. So right now, in the best way I know how, I commit myself to him as my Lord and Savior. Come into my life, forgive my sins, cleanse me, and make into the person you want me to be. Thank you for hearing this prayer. Amen....