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Jesus Loves You
“Do you ever feel like nobody really cares?
Well, God cares!
He knows all about you and He sends you this message.
What is a Christian?
Are you a Christian?
After you have answered this question, read the next four Bible verses. Then you will know whether you really are a Christian as taught by the World of God.
The Bible says,
“For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”
~Roman 3: 23 ~
Have you ever lied or taken anything that belonged to someone else? Then you have sinned, haven’t you?
The Bible says,
“For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
~ Romans 6:23 ~
That’s right, sin separates us from God.
If we die in our sins, we are eternally lost and forever separated from God. But God offers another way. Since you now admit your sin, and Jesus as the only way, we can have eternal life free as a gift. This means we can’t earn it by being good, or by going to church, or by baptism, or anything else. We simply receive it as a free gift through Jesus Christ, God’s Son.
The Bible says,
“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God. . .”
~ John 1:12 ~
Suppose you had an incurable disease, and one day you read of a doctor who had discovered the cure for that disease. Let’s suppose he offered to give this cure free.
What would your answer be – receive it and be cured, or refuse it and be lost?
You can have faith that the doctor’s medicine will cure you, but unless you receive it personally, you are still lost.
Have you taken the step of faith to receive Jesus Christ personally, as your savior?
Jesus said,
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him. . . .”
~ Revelation 3:20 ~
When the Lord says, “behold, I stand at the door,” He is speaking about the very door of your heart.
If your best friend knocked at the door of your house, what would you say to him?
You would say ‘come in,’ wouldn’t you?
Friends, the Lord Jesus is knocking at your heart’s door right now.
Will you receive Him? Will you invite Him into your heart and life?
What will your answer be?
You can receive Jesus right now if this prayer expresses the desires of your heart.
Lord Jesus, believing I am lost and separated from you by my sins, and you are the only way to eternal life. I receive you as the Savior and Lord of my life. Thank you, Jesus, for coming into my heart and life as you promised. Amen.
Which choice did you make?
Jesus Christ as my personal savor
I received
I rejected
Jesus said,
“He that is not with me is against me.”
~ Matthew 12:30 ~
Who is a Christian?
You are a Christian if you saw your need of help and accepted Jesus as the only way, and personally invited Jesus Christ to become Lord of your life.
Now that you have prayed and received Jesus, where is He right now?
Answer: He is in your heart and life.
How do you know?
Jesus said,
“I will come in.”
~ Revelations 3:20 ~
~ 1st John 5: 11-13 ~
God can now accept you into His family because all of your sins-past, present, and future – have been place on His Son, Jesus Christ. The Bible says that God was in Christ no longer counting men’s sins against them but blotting them out.
For God took the sinless Christ and laid on Him our sins. Then, in exchange, He gives God’s goodness to us!
Read these verses in your Bible:
1 John 1:9
Ephesians 2: 8-9
II Corinthians 5: 17
Romans 10: 9-10
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“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
~1 John 1:9 ~
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.”
~Ephesians 2: 8-9 ~
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
~ II Corinthians 5: 17 ~
“If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.”
~ Romans 10: 9-10 ~
The four Bible Verses quoted, at the end, are courtesy of Biblegateway.com
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