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Jesus for Life

WHAT NOW?

 

 

As we have moved through these pages,

we have learnt a number of things.

A summary of these discoveries might be:

 

Sin

is the failure by mankind (the created) to truly seek

our Creator’s rule over our lives.

 

To repent

is to turn around from trying to run our own lives,

to asking Jesus, rightfully, to rule our life.

 

To be righteous

is to be in a right relationship with God our Holy Creator

through the one way God has provided—

through the sin-free life and death of

Jesus and His resurrection from the dead.

 

Salvation

is deliverance from eternal condemnation to

the sure faith in our eternal life.

 

Mercy

is not receiving what we deserve.

 

Grace

is receiving what we don't deserve.

 

Christ came to Earth

to pay a debt

He didn't owe

because we owed a debt

we couldn't pay.

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Why should any of you consider it incredible that

God raises the dead?

Acts 26:7-8 (NIV)

 

We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we

told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus

Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

For he received honour and glory from God the Father

when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory,

saying,

"This is my Son, whom I love;

with him I am well pleased."

We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven

when we were with him on the sacred mountain.

2 Peter 1:16-18 (NIV)

 

"Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth;

for I am God, and there is no other."

Isaiah 45:22 (NIV)

 

What other nation is so great as to have their gods near

them the way the LORD our God is near us

whenever we pray to him?

Deuteronomy 4:7-8 (NIV)

 

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying:

"I have loved you with an everlasting love;

I have drawn you with loving-kindness."

Jeremiah 31:3 (NIV)

 

Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one

another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be

compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil

or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this

you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.

For,

"Whoever would love life

and see good days

must keep his tongue from evil

and his lips from deceitful speech.

He must turn from evil and do good;

he must seek peace and pursue it.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous

and his ears are attentive to their prayer,

but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."

1 Peter 3:8-12 (NIV)

 

Do not be anxious about anything,

but in everything, by prayer and petition,

with thanksgiving,

present your requests to God.

And the peace of God,

which transcends all understanding,

will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:5-7 (NIV)

 

Jesus prayed to God for His disciples:

"My prayer is not for them alone.

I pray also for those who will believe in me

through their message, that all of them may be one,

Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.

John 17:20 (NIV)

 

That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord,"

and believe in your heart that God raised him from the

dead, you will be saved.

For it is with your heart that you believe

and are justified,

and it is with your mouth that you confess

and are saved.

As the Scripture says,

"Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame."

Romans 10:9-11 (NIV)

 

"Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the

truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw

yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart

 but believes that what he says will happen,

it will be done for him.

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer,

believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

And when you stand praying,

if you hold anything against anyone,

forgive him,

so that your Father in heaven may

forgive you your sins."

Mark 11:22-25 (NIV)  

 
Turn, O LORD, and deliver me;
save me because of your unfailing love.
Psalm 6:4 (NIV)  
 
Hear my voice when I call, O LORD;
be merciful to me and answer me. 
Psalm 27:7 (NIV)  
 
Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion 
blot out my transgressions. 
Wash away all my iniquity 
and cleanse me from my sin.
Psalm 51:1-2 (NIV)  
 
Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed;
save me and I will be saved,
for you are the one I praise. 
Jeremiah 17:14 (NIV)  
 
'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' 
Luke 18:13 (NIV)  

 

If you have read and understood this message of salvation, and understand that God wants to forgive your sins and He wants to govern your life, why not ask HIM to?

 

Who will go to heaven?  Good people?

 

No.

 

Bad people, who have asked God for forgiveness and

who hold Jesus in the centre of their lives, worshipping only Him -

these are the people who will go to heaven.

 

Read God's message to us in Luke chapter 18 verses 9 to 14

and Luke chapter 5 verses 31 and 32.

 


 Don't let anything whatever keep you from turning to Jesus, here and now, immediately, wholeheartedly, even now as you read these words.

In fact, God invites you to do so. 

We suggest that you pray to God, asking Him 

to call you to be one of his children.

 

If God has shown you your need, and you do want to be saved, then you "must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus" (Acts 20:21). 

 

You must repent, and you must have faith in Jesus Christ. 

 

This means that you accept that Jesus is "the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:16) and that 'Christ died for the ungodly' (Romans 5:6) - and that YOU are one of these ungodly !  It means that you believe that in his power and love Christ is able and willing to save you. And it means that you actually do put your trust in Jesus, relying upon him and him alone to make you right with God. 

 

Your proud sinful nature will fight against abandoning trust in your own 'goodness' or religion.  Yet you have no alternative.  You must stop trusting in anything else and trust only in Christ, who is "able to save completely those who come to God through him" (Hebrews 7:25).

 

You need to talk to God. Ideally,  pray aloud to him. Confess that you are a guilty, lost and helpless sinner, and with all your heart ask Jesus to save you, and to take his rightful place as Lord of your life, 

enabling you to turn from sin and to live for him.    

 

Such a prayer might be -

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Dear God,

I have failed to honour you and failed to live your way. 

 Please have mercy on me, a sinner.  

Thank you for sending your Son to die for me,

so I can be forgiven. 

 Please help me to live as a follower of Jesus

for the rest of my life. Amen.

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We encourage you join a Bible-based Christian group and carefully study God's word to the world, which is the Bible. Continue to pray to God, your heavenly Father. You will hear him answering your prayers through his word the Bible, as you read it day by day.

 

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 (NIV)

 

You will find a new sensitivity to sin in your life and the power to resist this sin - this is God's Holy Spirit working in you. Work with the Holy Spirit in destroying the evil in your life. This battle will take the rest of your lifetime.

 

Finally, keep trusting in Jesus. It's only because of Jesus (and his death and resurrection) that you can be forgiven and put right with God. You'll need to keep returning to this again and again, because as you begin 

to live God's new way,

you will still fail and do the wrong thing.

We all do. 

We all need to keep looking to the death of Jesus on the cross as the only grounds for our forgiveness. We must never stop relying on Jesus - and Jesus alone - as the means by which we are forgiven and granted eternal life, and this totally by God's grace.

 

Let the wicked forsake his way 
and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon. 
Isaiah 55:7 (NIV)  

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV)  

All that the Father gives me will come to me, 

and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
John 6:37 (NIV)  

I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.
John 6:47 (NIV)  

If you don't yet own a modern translation of the Bible, we recommend that you obtain of a copy of the New International Version of the Bible (NIV), and read one of the Gospels - say Mark, or John.

 

After that, we suggest that you read another Gospel and then read the Acts of the Apostles, Galatians and Romans. Then Genesis, Exodus, and Deuteronomy.

 

Why did Jesus come?

 

Remember that God warns us against the dangers of delay:


Do not boast about tomorrow,
for you do not know what a day may bring forth. 
Proverbs 27:1 (NIV)  

Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near. 
Isaiah 55:6 (NIV)  

 

I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation. 
2 Corinthians 6:2 (NIV)  

"Today, if you hear his voice, 
do not harden your hearts 
as you did in the rebellion." 
Hebrews 3:15 (NIV)  


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If you know full well that you have not yet taken these

steps, and that you are still an unforgiven rebel,

then you need to do something about it.

 

You are at a fork in the road.

 

It's the choice that we all face.

 

There are only two ways to live  

 

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