Wednesday, September 30, 2015

The REQUIREMENTS for SALVATION



Most
churches want to make salvation easier than it is to attract
membership but all that they are doing is LYING and selling FALSE
SECURITY. They are deceiving the people.


If
you have heard or read the gospel of Jesus Christ and you BELIEVE He
is Lord, God manifested in the flesh, and you WANT to be part of His
eternal kingdom, have forgiveness of past sin and the benefits of
eternal life with Jesus Christ in Heaven, then you have to ACCEPT Him
as YOUR Lord and Master and COMPLY with His REQUIREMENTS.
His
requirements are His words as recorded in the gospels, Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John.
Read
the words of Jesus Christ and count the COST of salvation before
making up your mind whether you want to attempt it. Do not be
mistaken, if you do not KEEP ON COMPLYING with Jesus' requirements
UNTIL THE END, you WILL NOT have salvation and you will have wasted
your time and effort.


If
you really want salvation, this is what you have to do, in short:
Take
ACTION:
ACCEPT
Jesus Christ as your Lord and Master. Bow before Him in PRAYER.
HUMBLE yourself before Him. Ask Him to ACCEPT you and to forgive your
PAST SIN.


REPENT
– Turn away from SIN and UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
Clean
up your life. Get rid of the filth. Clean out your house, get rid of
those things that will prevent and distract you from OBEYING the
words of Jesus Christ.
Forgive
those who sinned against you or else Jesus will not forgive you.
Make
right with those whom, you have sinned against. Give back what you
have stolen. Ask forgiveness from those whom you harmed.
Get
rid of your idols, your TV, booze, videos, media, pornography and
wrong books.
Stop
doing those worldly activities that are sinful and that will distract
you from OBEYING Jesus.
BREAK
bonds of iniquity, fornication, adultery, homosexuality and wrong
relationships.
DEMONSTRATE
by your DEEDS that you are READY to FOLLOW Jesus Christ.
Show
FRUIT of REPENTANCE, SIN NO MORE.
then
BE
BAPTIZED IN WATER as Jesus commanded.
What
is the meaning of Baptism?
The
apostle Paul describes it in Romans 6
“ 1What
shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may
increase? 2May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still
live in it? 3Or do you not know that all of us who have been
baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His
death? 4Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism
into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the
glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5For
if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His
death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His
resurrection, 6knowing this, that our old self was crucified
with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away
with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7for he who
has died is freed from sin.
      8Now
if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with
Him, 9knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is
never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. 10For
the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life
that He lives, He lives to God. 11Even so consider yourselves to
be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.


      12Therefore
do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its
lusts, 13and do not go on presenting the members of your body to
sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present
yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your
members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14For
sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under
grace.”


Water baptism is senseless if
we did not REPENT and do not show FRUIT OF REPENTANCE.


DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME TO GET
BAPTIZED IF YOU ARE STILL LIVING IN WILLFUL SIN.


Through our OBEDIENCE to
Jesus Christ we DEMONSTRATE that we are READY to FOLLOW Him and to
RECEIVE the Holy Spirit that He promised to those who OBEY Him. We
NEED the Holy Spirit in order to follow Jesus Christ and DO His will.


Jesus
Christ is not present here on earth in a PHYSICAL BODY. He is present
by HIS SPIRIT, the Holy Spirit that was first given on the day of
Pentecost. The Holy Spirit will guide us into all TRUTH as Jesus
promised in John 16:12-16
I
have many more things to say to you, but you cannot
bear them now. 13“But when He, the Spirit of truth,
comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on
His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will
disclose to you what is to come. 14“He will glorify Me, for He
will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. 15“All
things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes
of Mine and will disclose it to you.”


We
CANNOT follow Jesus Christ and DO what is pleasing to Him WITHOUT
the Holy Spirit that was promised to ALL who OBEY Him, who REPENT and
are BAPTIZED. We read the words of Peter in Acts 2:38.
38Peter said to
them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus
Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the
gift of the Holy Spirit. 39“For the promise is for you and
your children and for ALL who are far off, as many as the Lord our
God will call to Himself.”


Once
we have been baptized in water we are ready to SEEK the BAPTISM IN
THE HOLY SPIRIT. All those who receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit
receive a HEAVENLY TONGUE, they have the ABILITY TO SPEAK IN TONGUES
immediately and until the end of their lives. Go and read the book of
Acts. ALL those who believed, repented and were baptized received the
baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues.


It
was only AFTER the disciples received the Holy Spirit that they went
out and preached the gospel of Jesus Christ WITH POWER, under
GUIDANCE OF the Holy Spirit. They went where the Holy Spirit GUIDED
them. Go and read the book of Acts and you will see that it is true.


The
first believers PRAYED and WAITED on the Lord Jesus. They PREPARED
themselves, EMPTIED themselves of SIN and CLEANSED their MINDS and
their BODIES to be SUITABLE VESSELS for the Holy Spirit to dwell in.
The Holy Spirit does not dwell in a filthy vessel.


PREPARE
yourself, then SEEK the INFILLING with the Holy Spirit, be FILLED
with the Spirit of Christ until it OVERFLOWS through your mouth in
HEAVENLY TONGUES and PRAISES to Jesus.


Only
then are you READY to start FOLLOWING Jesus Christ and be GUIDED by
His Spirit in you. You can only be guided by the Holy Spirit if you
KEEP ON SEEKING HIS guidance THROUGH PRAYER, NOT THROUGH BIBLE STUDY
AND THROUGH LISTENING TO OTHER PEOPLE.
We
do not receive Holy Spirit guidance through church attendance,
studies, religious exercises and fellowship with other believers. It
is through PRAYER and HEARING FROM JESUS. We have to follow HIM,
under guidance of the Holy Spirit. It is only when we are SUBMITTED
and OBEDIENTLY DOING what He TELLS us to do that we can SERVE Him and
BEAR FRUIT, DO the WORK that He prepared for us to do in His Kingdom.
Only then can we SERVE Jesus Christ in His kingdom. We then
EXPERIENCE the kingdom of God that the world cannot see because we
SERVE the King, Jesus Christ under DIRECT GUIDANCE of His Spirit, The
Holy Spirit. If we do not OBEY Jesus and keep on obeying Him until
the end we SEPARATE ourselves from Him and His kingdom and we will
PERISH. Salvation is through OBEYING and SERVING the King, Jesus
Christ until the very end. Those who withdraw before the end are not
worthy of Him.
Have
you counted the COST of Salvation? Are you READY to SERVE and OBEY
Jesus Christ until the very end?


May
Jesus bless you.




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