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U Saved? Going to church does not make anyone a Christian anymore than parking a bicycle in a garage makes it a car.
A christian is one who gives his or her life to Jesus completely.
A christian is one who through faith in His death and resurrection believes that his or her sins (wrongdoings; wrongsayings; wrongliving; wrongthoughts) were also put to death on the cross with Jesus and forgiven there too.
God is without sin!
I sinned! Therefore the eternal part of me died, because if I go to heaven with sin - heaven now has sin in it - so heaven is no longer perfect!
But how do I get rid of my sin? It is bigger than me, beyond my power to cleanse myself. God set the standard in the beginning, so God comes to the rescue in time.
The plan is that God sends His only Son to earth as a human. This Son needs to be identified with me in every way including my frail body, but He must complete His days here without fault.
So a teenager called Mary is chosen to be a surrogate mother. She needs to be a woman who has never had the sperm of man in her and she needs to be a young woman of faith. One who will obey God's messenger and believe him. So by the Holy Spirit, God impregnates the chosen young lady with sperm and egg from heaven thus bypassing the sin-nature of mankind (that tendancy to do wrong) .
This provides a gateway for God's own Son to enter this fallen planet and live as one of us.
Jesus grows up in a carbon and water body just like we do. He eats and drinks and goes to the toilet just like we do. He laughs and cries just like we do.
He
is just like us except He is constanly in touch with His Father in heaven.
He is just like us except He never sins.
He is just like us so much that He identifies with and takes MY sin upon
Himself and bears the punishment of death that I am guilty of.
He dies on a cross at the hand of sinners like you and me and my sin dies with Him.
The Holy Spirit leaves Him dead and cuts Him off from His father (our Father in heaven)
Jesus is isolated, rejected, without hope, apparently lost - for 3 days and nights - and then the Spirit raises Him from the dead.
The price is paid. My sin is dealt with. He rises so I can too. He goes to the throne a conqueror of death and hell, so one day I can be in heaven too.
He
was rejected. I am accepted.
He died. I can have new life.
He paid the price. I am totally forgiven.
Yes! There is a catch! There is a bottom line. All credit in our account has to be paid sometime. None of this becomes yours unless you believe in Jesus and accept what He has done for you personally.
Face it! There is more historical evidence to prove that He came to earth than there is for any other person in history including you and me.
But as to evidence that He was who He said He was. You have to believe! I have to believe! No church can believe for you. Your parents can't do it for you. No priest can do it for you. You have to believe. Simple!
Through this divine forgiveness, a door is open to approach Jesus freely! There is a supernatural ladder between you and heaven. God is supernatural. We must have supernatural means to have access to Him.
Any distance between you and God is caused by you NOT God. Jesus longs for ALL people to come to Him to be saved and loved. But your sin is destructive and harmful to you, plus it creates a wall between you and the Super of All Supernaturals ... Jesus!
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Renewal Fellowship Trust-Use only with acknowledgement and unaltered
What
we believe
Scripture at this site taken
from the HOLY BIBLE,
King James Version (KJV) (Public Domain)
New International Version (NIV) Ó
1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society.
New American standard (NAS) Ó
1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977 by
the Lockman Foundation
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers,
Inc.) 1996.
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