Wednesday, April 17, 2019

HAVE YOU FOUND JESUS?


Many people believe in Jesus but they
have never found Him. Many believe in a false gospel, a gospel that
says that you only need to believe in Jesus to have eternal life.
They confess to believe in Jesus and think they are saved, but they
are deceived, because they never met Jesus and they do not know Him.
Neither does He know them. Many of those are professing
Christians,  even preachers and church leaders. Jesus warned:
“Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not
prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your
name perform many miracles?’ 23“And then I will declare to them,
‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’
Matthew 7:22-23.
Salvation is not just an intellectual exercise,
or a ritual where you go through a series of steps and then you are
guaranteed eternal life. The unrighteous, sinners,  cannot enter
the kingdom of God. Only saints can enter. You need to be born again
to enter the kingdom of God. You must first become a saint.
Only
Jesus can make you new. "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is
a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have
come." 2 Corinthians 5:17. To be in Christ you need to accept
Jesus,  to be your Lord and Master submit yourself to Him, obey
and serve  Him.
In order for  you to be born
again, you must die first. You must die to sin through being baptized
in water. We read in Romans 6:3-11. "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."
You must be born again of water,
through baptism,  and of the Spirit, by being baptized in the
Holy Spirit,  by Jesus; after being baptized in water.
John
the Baptist said:“I baptized you with water; but He will baptize
you with the Holy Spirit.” Mark  1:8.
That is why on the
day of Pentecost Peter said : “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.”Acts 2:38,39.
Jesus gives
eternal life to those who are born again, those who have become His
sheep, who hear His voice and follow Him. They are led by the Holy
Spirit. "Those who are being led by the Spirit of God,
they are the sons of God. "Romans 8:14. They are the children of
God.
Jesus  reveals Himself to those who accept Him and
obey Him, those who repent and are baptized. He baptizes them in the
Holy Spirit. They are born again, they are His sheep, who hear His
voice and follow Him. He gives them eternal life, if they follow Him
until the very end.
Have you found Jesus? Have you been born again
of water and the Spirit? Are you one of His sheep? Do you HEAR His
voice and do you follow  Him?
May Jesus bless you.

2 comments:

  1. As a Christian for the last 24 years, and my wife for 20 years, we were always told that the law(Torah) was nailed to the cross, meaning we don't follow it. The Torah(instruction) was given by Yehovah at Mt.Sinai, he said it was forever. This has been explained away by Dispensationalism, but forever is forever. It came to out hearts about 2 years ago. Some people call it the Hebrew Roots Movement, we just call ourselves Torah Christians. We are only saved by Yeshua's sacrifice, but are required to follow the Torah, except for the things that only pertain to when the Israelites were in the land. When we give our lives to Yeshua, we are grafted into Israel. We aren't following Judaism, Rabbis, or the Talmud. We believe in the whole Bible including the other books such as Enoch. They are found together in their most original form in the Cepher. When Yeshua says you who practice lawlessness, the original translation is, Depart from Me, you transgressors of the Torah. You might want to look into this. Thanks.

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  2. Dear friend, Jesus Himself said:"16The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. Luke 16:16. Believing and following Jesus does not make us Jews, it makes us part of the kingdom of God. Salvation is by obeying the commandments and teachings of Jesus, and being led by the Holy Spirit, that he gives in those who obey Him. May Jesus bless you.

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