Born Again! Pt. 5

33. BUT THANK GOD, "THEY THAT BELIEVE HAVE ENTERED INTO REST!" (Heb.4:3) We can have rest & peace of mind, knowing that we don't have to worry about whether we're good enough or if we've been too bad or if we're going to make it or not, every day wondering whether we're going to be saved or not. I wonder what such doubtful Christians think Jesus died for, anyhow? If you could save yourself, the Lord wouldn't have had to give His life for you!

34. TRUE, YOU CAN KEEP YOURSELF IN HIS WILL & IN LINE WITH HIS BLESSINGS by obeying the Lord, doing His work, being fruitful & so on. But you can't keep yourself saved! Jesus did that once & forever, & His gift is eternal life!--Not a sometime thing, saved & lost ten thousand times a day, there's no such thing! If you haven't got eternal Salvation, you haven't got Salvation! If you're not saved forever, you're not saved!

35. GRACE PLUS FAITH PLUS NOTHING!--THAT'S SALVATION! You don't have to be good to get saved & you don't have to be good to stay saved! But this does not mean that you can just live as you please once you are saved. If you are really a Christian you will always be saved, but if you commit sins against the Lord & others which are unconfessed, unrepented of & not made right, you will suffer for them in some way, "for whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth, & scourgeth every son whom He receiveth." (Heb.12:6) But even if you are disobedient, rebellious & chastened of the Lord for your sins, if you are saved, you'll always be saved!

36. WHEN, AS A YOUNG CHRISTIAN, I READ JOHN 3:36, THAT ENDED ALL MY WORRIES!--I didn't worry about it anymore! "He that hath the Son hath everlasting life!" That was it! I knew I had Jesus, & I knew He didn't keep popping in & out of my heart! He was there all the time. He says, "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the World!" (Mat.28:20) He says, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." (Heb.13:5) & "I give unto them eternal life; & they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand." (John 10:28)

37. SO THANK THE LORD THAT WE CAN BE SAVED & KNOW IT! And of course, if you really are, you'll show it too. You'll no longer be like everybody else in the rest of the World, you'll be different! You'll be a "new creature in Christ Jesus, old things will be passed away, behold all things will become new!" (2Cor.5:17)--There'll be a change, a real change!

38. WHEN YOU RECEIVE JESUS, YOUR WHOLE LIFE WILL BE CHANGED LIKE A NEWBORN BABY BORN INTO A WHOLE NEW WORLD with a new spirit as a new child of God! So don't be surprised if you actually feel different & even think differently & are happier than you have ever been before! Jesus said it is like being born again, becoming a new person, & the old "bad you" with all your old sins is gone forever & there is a whole "new you," much better & happier than ever before! (John 3:3; 2Cor.5:17)

39. HIS COMING INTO YOUR LIFE NOT ONLY RENEWS & PURIFIES & REGENERATES YOUR SPIRIT, but it also renews your mind, literally breaking old connections & reflexes & gradually rebuilding & rewiring you into a whole new computer system with an utterly different outlook on life, a new way of looking at the World, & with new reactions to nearly everything around you.

40. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR MEN TO REALLY CHANGE THEMSELVES, BUT IT'S POSSIBLE FOR GOD TO CHANGE ANYONE! It's never possible for us to change our hearts, it's only possible for us to ask. And when Jesus comes into your heart, everything is changed--everything! You are a new person! And if you're not changed, you don't have Jesus, because He changes people.--No matter how good you are, He'll make you better!

41. IF YOU ARE GENUINELY SAVED, BORN AGAIN, A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST JESUS, OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY & ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW.





TFI [Video Posted - "Secret Love" by Nicos]