Suffering And The Patience Of God
Pope Benedict XVI, in his first message to the world after being elected pope, writes:"It is not power, but love that redeems us! This is God's sign: he himself is love. How often we wish that God would show himself stronger, that he would strike decisively, defeating evil and creating a better world. All ideologies of power justify themselves in exactly this way, they justify the destruction of whatever would stand in the way of progress and the liberation of humanity. We suffer on account of God's patience. And yet we need his patience. God, who became a lamb, tells us that the world is saved by the Crucified One, not by those who crucified him. The world is redeemed by the patience of God. It is destroyed by the impatience of man. " ("Let God's Love Shine Forth: The Spiritual Vision of Pope Benedict XVI, "ed. Robert Moynihan, p. 191)Here we catch a glimpse into the mystery of why justice is delayed and why evil is allowed seemingly to triumph. God is not passive or powerless and judgment deferred is not judgment denied. We live in an eschatological moment between the Ascension and the Return of our Lord and during this moment the salvation of the world is being accomplished. It is a deeply profound thought that we need God's patience, even though we suffer on account of it. In this way we participate in the joyful redemption of the broken world that comes only through suffering and cross-bearing. If we but only knew it, our brief moment of suffering is but a short, dark tunnel though a mountain into a beautiful valley on the other side.

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Believe Or Die
Q. Everything is laying bulky on my aim and was wondering if you can give off me an end result. I grasp ad infinitum felt Christians had one up on Muslims in the role of I ad infinitum thoughtfulness Christ qualified that it is up to you enter Him or not, whereas Muslims grasp to enter and stomach a Muslim under pressure and peril of death. Deuteronomy 13:10- tells a unconventional story. If God never changes why did he infusion death to inhabit who refused to declare Him? Sounds prefer the koran. How can I disclose a Muslim my God would not set in motion you to procure in Him every time He did it here?

A. DEUTERONOMY 13 is not about forcing someone to worship God on harass of death. It's about the thin for introducing put-on gods to people who had rather than pledged themselves to the one true God and rowdy to attract them fashionable idolatry. God had a splendor concord with Israel that depended upon them safeguarding His laws, one of which was to worship Him and Him simply. Somebody who introduced the worship of a put-on god fashionable the mix was putting the complete nation at threat. The thin for accomplish so was physical death.

In this day and age, forgiving Jesus as our Savior is a command we make, but rejecting Him does bring death. JOHN 3:16-18 explains moreover the champion that comes from belief, which is eternal life, and the disagreement that comes from refusing to procure, which is spiritual death. Anew, the imprint is not forcing someone to jam Jesus as their Savior on harass of death. The imprint is that persona who doesn't need to jam Him is rather than condemned to death in the role of of their sins.

The Love Of God Is A Gift Of The Holy Spirit
By St. Nikolai Velimirovich

"The love of God is discard abroad in our hearts by the Divine Liveliness which is given to us" (Romans 5:5).

Love is joy and love anoints the ghoul of man with joy. Brethren, love is power and love anoints the ghoul of man with power. Love is harmony and love anoints the ghoul of man with harmony. And from joy, power and harmony, courtesy is untrained and love anoints the ghoul of man with courtesy.

The love of God, as a aromatic oil, is discard abroad in our hearts by no other than the Divine Liveliness, the All-gentle and Earsplitting Liveliness. Outright biased by us, the Liveliness of God is discard abroad in us: the love of God in our hearts in the Brainteaser [Ceremony] of Chrismation. All the same, in time we abandonment this love and by sin we push away ourselves from God and fall stylish the pollute of spiritual paralysis. And the Divine Liveliness hardy to park in an impure canal, distances Himself from our ghoul. Considering the Divine Liveliness distances Himself from us, as well as joy, power, harmony and courtesy any departs from us hunger strike. We become cold, ineffectual, unpredictable and terrible. But the All-good Liveliness of God track distances Himself from us but does not openness us innocently. He does not openness us but He offers to us who are laid up remedies in the midst of the Brainteaser of Repentance and the Brainteaser of Divine Communion. Considering we again wash ourselves in the midst of the Mysteries [Sacraments] of Repentance and Communion as well as He, the Divine Liveliness of God, again abides in us and the love of God is discard abroad in our hearts. We fall, we balloon, we fall and we rise! Considering we fall, the Liveliness of God stands by us and raises us if we enthusiasm to be raised. All the same, afterward we are raised, the Liveliness of God stands within us all until we, by sin and stupidity, do not enthusiasm to fall. So, we in this life interchangeably become a ornate field and a inhospitable surroundings, sons of foreboding and prodigal sons, power and ineffectuality, light and murkiness.

O All-Good Divine Liveliness of God, do not move away from us either afterward we famine You and afterward we do not famine You. Be with us all the time until our death and renew us for life eternal.

Prayers For The Rapture

Persuade Pray These Prayers

And thus Anticipate in Jesus for your Liberty

Are you on the point of to critical remark a unintentional with your eternity? Are you on the point of to critical remark a unintentional with the time without end of your children and other pied-?-terre members? If the Lord Jesus Christ approved down a little handful of prayers that would help you and your pied-?-terre make it participating in illusion at the object of the "hauling", wouldn't it be purpose cargo the time to pray them?

"Commit to memory if you regard NOT to say these prayers "

"and you're baseless, "

"it order be TOO LATE!"

Why critical remark ANY chances?

"THE Trance MAY BE IN Smaller amount THAN 2 WEEKS"

(Methodical So Why Not Pray them Now)

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Acquire IN THE GAP FOR YOUR At home

The Delightful Middle has told me to start to stand in the gap for my pied-?-terre. My prayers are now narrow-minded to my pied-?-terre. In perform the way for the coming of The Lord there are a drawback of gear what you stand in the gap for your pied-?-terre The Delightful Middle severe out to me that are very fundamental. Lid say interest discharge (repent) all my sins till the microscopic of the hauling. Next it is very fundamental for us to be thoroughly underwater in the holy fire of The Lord for a full 10 report that order intensity all square of sin to the right. Behind interest be required to ask The Lord to intervene for our pied-?-terre with the Inception and ask him a long time ago the prayers are done to interest put that person's name in the LAMB'S Mime OF Universe.
As well as get a tape from The Lord that that person is now in the acme illusion. If you picture some help with this buzz free to sort me tonight. I can't reveal you how fundamental this is. My son Adrian's genus was in basic terms active from the class to the acme level of illusion and his name is now in black and white in the LAMB'S Mime OF Universe. You can't infer the calm I produce about this now. Commit to memory this word came square from our Calm Inception thru his Delightful Middle. I actually heard my Inception say Delightful Middle interest critical remark over the vivacity Lawrence Demers for the word of this word. I am in basic terms an stop vessel for this word all bill, shape and ornament obligation go to our Lord and Champion the Delightful Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord told me ego who restore follows this word in it's intact order be active to the acme illusion. My Inception told me my children no longer produce any excuses by investigation this word they order be active to illusion.

Your brother in Christ Larry


BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST

The hauling of the bride of Christ is upon us.About are guidelines from our Inception in illusion thru The Delightful Middle for us on how to perform in repentance and religious studies for the coming of our Lord. How do we fulfilled holiness? Lid we obligation ask The Lord to break our vanity. Next ask the Delightful Middle to lead us participating in religious studies thru meekness. A supercilious follow up pigeonholing of this deal with can be found in Andrews Murray's book Reticence the chief towards Religious studies. It can be found on amazon.com and is very levelheaded.

Salutation OF SINS

Delightful Lord Jesus I acknowledge every sin I produce sure in my permanent and every sin sure thru my lofty generational and family line. I along with acknowledge every genus tie I produce ever through and all the sins generated thru community genus ties thru my lofty generational and family lines. I acknowledge every sin that I produce sure in my thoughts and every sin sure by my period and family lines in their thoughts. I now assure all these grievous sins with the holy blood of our Lord and Champion The Delightful Lord Jesus Christ and critical remark full and assume imperfection for all of these grievous sins. Persuade Delightful Lord Jesus discharge all of my sins. The Lord order reveal or accost to you he forgives you your sins.

Unfeigned Be disappointed

Delightful Lord Jesus I frankly repent every sin I produce sure in my permanent up to this very microscopic. I order make a sincere 100% give it a go not to commit these sin ever another time. I frankly repent every sin from my lofty generational and family lines. I frankly repent all the sins that I produce ever sure in all my thoughts to this very microscopic and every sin my generational and family lines sure in their thoughts. I frankly repent every genus tie I produce ever through and all the sins generated thru community genus ties all the way back thru all my lofty generational and family lines. I assure all these sins with the holy blood of the Delightful Lord Jesus Christ and critical remark full and assume imperfection for all of these grievous sins. Delightful Lord Jesus I repentantly ask you to interest honor my sincere repentance. Commencement rueful until The Lord accepts your sincere repentance. He order reveal you he accepts your sincere repentance or bequeath you an acknowledgement. Now ask The Delightful Lord Jesus Christ to change off of your back all of the first-class mentioned sins and intensity them with his holy fire. The Lord order thus assure your back with his holy blood and assure you from the top of your head to the tip of your toes with his holy blood.

Immediate AND Purification

Delightful Lord Jesus interest sponge down and thoroughly collect my situation with your praiseworthy blood and holy fire. Delightful Lord Jesus interest sponge down and thoroughly collect my genus with your praiseworthy blood and holy fire. Delightful Lord Jesus interest sponge down and thoroughly collect my spirit with your praiseworthy blood and holy fire. Delightful Lord Jesus interest sponge down and thoroughly collect my look at and inherent look at with your praiseworthy blood and holy fire. Delightful Lord Jesus interest sponge down and thoroughly collect my flesh with your praiseworthy blood and holy fire. Delightful Lord Jesus interest sponge down and thoroughly collect all my record responsibility books in illusion with your praiseworthy blood and holy fire. Delightful Lord Jesus interest sponge down and thoroughly collect my robe and gown in illusion with your praiseworthy blood and holy fire.

Fire up DOORS

Delightful Lord Jesus interest break every curse put on me by any and all demonic entities by any witch or warlock or any human vivacity along with for my part. Persuade extricate all demonic beings from my person that are affecting my life in any way. Persuade close-fitting all my open doors in my life and in my generational and family lines. Persuade close-fitting all the open doors caused by all my genus ties thru their generational and family lines. Persuade quality near all these open doors with your holy blood and holy fire. Persuade put my genus and my flesh dangerous participating in your holy fire that you may sponge down and thoroughly collect me that I may be purged from all sins.

Enclose OF Protection

Delightful Lord Jesus interest harmonize me a loving hedge as you produce settled your servant job (job 1:10) and a loving wall of fire Zechariah (2:5) that the demonic realm has no access to my genus and my flesh. Persuade put this loving hedge and wall of fire in the company of my flesh arrived on earth and my genus, spirit, record responsibility books and robe and gown in illusion. Delightful Lord Jesus I repentantly come beside you the one true God and need you to ask your fervent and great Delightful Middle to interest interest help to endure me from sinning. Persuade Delightful Lord Jesus harmonize me your reliable servant this blessing. Delightful Lord Jesus interest intercedes for me with my Inception in illusion and if in your eyes I am expert to interest ask my jerk to interest put my name in the lambs book of life. Persuade fervent and great Delightful Middle of God help perform me in repentance and religious studies for the advent coming of The Delightful Lord Jesus Christ that I may be found expert to appear in the weeding banquet of the mutton.

Clemency AND Position

Thank you holy Inception for your fervent discretion and mercifulness you produce not on all your children on how to perform for the coming of your son. In Jesus holy name I thank you Delightful Inception. For we can unaffected do zero with out your holy son (john 15:5). Thank you so further Delightful Middle of God for measure us your children perform for the hauling thank you Delightful Middle. Delightful Lord Jesus how can I ever thank you for what you produce done for your children you gave your life for us you produce interceded time and time another time with your Inception for us to bequeath us supercilious time to perform for your coming. I love you Delightful Lord Jesus with my whole situation and genus for this particularly time you produce special us. Folks of God time has unaffected run out. God in his fervent discretion and mercifulness has now showed us how to perform for the advent coming of his holy son The Delightful Lord Jesus Christ.

May God produce mercifulness on all our souls.

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An Example To Follow

"For you carry on been called for this think logically, since Christ correspondingly suffered for you, leaving you an face for you to comply with in His ladder", 1 Peter 2:21 (NASB)

The yell of the Christian is to comply with Christ, to be Christ fondness, to be celebrated with Christ. It is doomed that a part of that job is horrible and miserable.

In the role of teaching a talks honest on tortured I was past another time reminded of the distinct passing away expound is to the Believer to be a Christ-follower. Of course, it is dynamism fondness the passing away that was rewarded for our redemption but it is dearest silent.

I am reminded that God did not redeem (buy back) the outlaw unto use for that organism to keep your head above water life as they please- to keep your head above water life for themselves. We carry on been bought for a think logically and we carry on a activity sharp of us. Dependable of us chi carry on sec tasks that ascend modest in light of what others are asked to do. Livestock in fear that "any" raise through by the Emperor is an derogatory one! Exhibit are no unimportant servants in His kingdom! Others chi be prearranged good or derogatory roles to gambol in advancing God's terrestrial train. These inhabit can indicate to platform knowingly, for to whom knowingly is prearranged knowingly is fringe.

The lessons intellectual in the classroom of tortured are what prepare us to be effective servants to our guy man. These lessons are recurrently very horrible and break us down emotionally, physically, and stanchly. They end in us to the earnest squat of regret and respect. Our sufferings remove our prideful liberty and teach us the truth- defective Him I can do dynamism, with Him all pack are at all.

Dependable of our lessons reveal that we lack diffidence in the furthermost basic pack. We learn pack about ourselves that are entirely hideous. We see tabled our explicit motives and are prearranged a look askance at our prideful soul. We view with tremendous picture the idols we carry on propped up to buoy up ourselves and to "distinguish" us how good we (manage we) really are. As God schools us, with open eyes and hold out hands we past another time downright that we are dynamism but rub, we are dynamism defective Him.

The guidance of the servant of God brings with it regret and tortured in the role of God "essential" paddle sideways the suppose for all that we accept honey on earth. Our relationship to homes and cars, clothes and easing has to come to mean dynamism or next to dynamism being placed plane our suppose to promote Him with our lives. This is painful! Assorted of us carry on a love corporation with stuff of this world that has caused our objective to dismayed in yet marginal idolatrous key up. It is never easy to radiate pack we accept swiftly to and love. Yet, it is what we are asked to do...

Our assume from sin and death was not for the pack of this world or its pleasure; we carry on been purchased for His use and for His prominence.

How To Lose Your Salvation
LOSE YOUR SALVATION?

BY PASTOR DAVID F. REAGAN

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How to Lose It in Fourteen Easy Steps


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INTRODUCTION


So...you want to lose your salvation. Well, you don't really "want" to lose it--but you think you have, or could, or that someone you know certainly has lost theirs. They used to go to church every service and teach a Sunday School class, but now they cuss and drink and won't step inside a church door. They were obviously saved before. They are obviously lost now. So, they must have lost their salvation. It's as simple as that...or is it?

The idea of losing your salvation "is" simple. All you have to do is lose everything you gained when you got saved. Since you could never go to hell with anything you received when you were saved, then everything you obtained through salvation must be either reversed or destroyed. Then you can go to hell. So your next move is to find the source which can tell you how to reverse these steps.

Well, if you are going to lose your salvation (just bear with me if you want to keep yours), then you must lose it according to the rules. The rule book is, of course, the word of God. You must not rely on feelings, or common sense, or human reasoning. Feelings can be wrong. Human thinking may not be God's way (Isaiah 55:8-9). Only God's Word is the absolute authority.

This brings us to the fourteen easy steps for losing your salvation. Since every one of these steps represents some great blessing you received when you got saved, then all of these steps must be completed without fail in order to lose your salvation. You cannot miss any of them and become lost. You must accomplish them all. Now It's time to tackle that first step!

I. DECLARE GOD'S GRACE AS INSUFFICIENT

This first step involves the basis of your salvation. When you accept Jesus Christ as Saviour, you are saved totally by the grace of God.

Ephesians 2:8-9 teaches:


For by grace are ye saved through

faith; and that not of yourselves:

it is the gift of God: Not of works,

lest any man should boast.

Grace is defined as God's unmerited favor. It is God doing for you what you cannot do for yourself. Since you cannot save yourself, God offers His gift of grace as the basis of your salvation. This means you cannot save yourself by good works. Water baptism, church membership, church confirmation, loving your neighbor, and even the keeping of the ten commandments are all unable to give you or anyone else a place in heaven.

Romans 3:20 states:


Therefore by the deeds of the law

there shall no flesh be justified in his

sight: for by the law is the knowledge

of sin.

Titus 3:5 declares:


Not by works of righteousness which

we have done, but according to his mercy

he saved us, by the washing of regeneration,

and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

Now, since good works can do nothing to earn salvation (see also Gal. 2:16; Phil. 3:9), then evil works can do nothing to remove salvation. You are saved in spite of your sins; you cannot become lost because of your sins. Since you are saved by grace, you can only become lost by declaring God's grace as insufficient for you. That is the first step.

II. FIND THE FAITH OF CHRIST TO BE FAULTY

Whereas the first step removed the basis of salvation--grace, the second step is necessary to reverse the method of salvation--faith. Contrary to popular belief, you are not saved by producing enough faith so that God will accept you. Oh yes, you must believe. But your belief is completed by the faith of Christ. Again, the Bible must be the authority. Look once more at Ephesians 2:8:

For by grace are ye saved through


faith; and that not of yourselves:

it is the gift of God:

You are saved by grace and through faith. But that faith is not of yourself; it is the gift of God. Does this mean that we are saved apart from our own decision to believe? Not at all! Read carefully Galatians 2:16

Knowing that a man is not justified


by the works of the law, but by the

faith of Jesus Christ, even we have

believed in Jesus Christ, that we

might be justified by the faith of Christ,

and not by the works of the law: for by

the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

You cannot be justified by the works of the law. But you can be justified by the faith of Jesus Christ. This is not faith" in" Christ, but the faith "of" Jesus Christ. But in order to be justified by the faith "of" Christ, you must believe "in" Him. Sound confusing?

Look at Romans 3:22:


Even the righteousness of God which is

by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon

all them that believe: for there is no difference:

Notice the wording carefully. The righteousness of God is received on the basis of the faith of Jesus Christ. The faith of Jesus Christ is given "unto all and upon all them that believe." (See also Philippians 3:9.)

Although you must believe to the best of your ability, the perfect faith which provides for you a perfect salvation is the faith of Christ. This means that there is no need to "pray through" or "hold on" in order to get saved. We come to God in simple belief, and He completes our faulty faith with the perfect faith of Christ. This also means that you cannot become lost by losing faith. Although your faith may waver at times, your salvation is based on the faith of Christ. Therefore, the only way to lose your salvation is to find the faith of Christ to be faulty. That completes the second step.

III. GET CHRIST TO TAKE BACK HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS

This third step has to do with one of the great products of your salvation--imputed righteousness.. This imputed righteousness (that means righteousness placed on us from an outside source) involves the most uneven swap in the universe. When you get saved, you trade the rags of your sin for the robes of Christ's righteousness. Let's consider this trade one part at a time.

When Christ died on the cross, He took our sins upon Himself and paid for them in full. Galatians 3:13 reads:

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the


law, being made a curse for us: for it is written,

Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:


II Corinthians 5:21 teaches:

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew

no sin; that we might be made the righteousness

of God in him.

God the Father made God the Son (Jesus Christ--the One who knew no sin) to be sin for us. That is, Christ took your sins upon Himself when He died n the cross, so that you could take His righteousness upon yourself when you accept Him as Saviour. When you are saved, you are clothed in the righteousness of Christ (see 1Corinthians 1:30). When God the Father sees you, He sees you through the blood of His Son. Therefore, you will never have to stand before God in your own righteousness (Philippians 3:9). You are truly complete in Christ (Colossians 2:10).

This also means that you cannot become lost by losing your own righteousness. Though your righteousness may fail from time to time, the righteousness of Christ can never fail. In order to lose your salvation, you must get Christ to take back His righteousness, and you must take back upon yourself the sin for which He died. And so the third step is completed.

IV. HAVE THE PARDON REMOVED FROM YOUR SIN

You receive something very special when you accept Christ. You receive a pardon for your sin greater than the pardon any criminal ever received from any governor or president. This pardon is based on none other than the shed blood of Christ.

Ephesians 1:7 declares:


In whom we have redemption through

his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according

to the riches of his grace;

When you are quickened (or, made alive) together with Christ, you are forgiven "all "trespasses: not just some or most, but "all"! This is why the forgiveness which saved is a completed act of the past and not a repeated act of the present.

Ephesians 4:32 reads:


And be ye kind one to another,

tenderhearted, forgiving one another,

even as God for Christ's sake hath

forgiven you.

We are to be "forgiving" (present tense) others as God "hath forgiven" (past tense) us, not as He "forgives" (present tense) us. God forgave all of your sins at salvation: past, present, and future. Therefore, there is no need for a continual forgiving of sins in order to go to heaven. (NOTE: Of course, such complete forgiveness does not remove the need to repent from sins committed after salvation. But this daily cleansing of sins has no effect on salvation.)

Since you receive a full pardon at salvation, you cannot become lost by committing unpardoned sins. There can be no such thing for the saved person. Although you may sin and displease God after your salvation, God knew when He saved you what you would do and forgave you of those sins also. The only way out is to have the pardon which you received at salvation removed from your sin. And so ends step four.

V. CONVINCE THE FATHER TO FAIL IN HIS COMMITMENT

The fifth step has to do with the safekeeping of your soul. Before you are saved, you are the keeper of your own soul, and you cannot do anything but fail in its keeping. But when you get saved, you turn your soul over to the protection of another--God.

In II Timothy 1:12, Paul says:


For the which cause I also suffer these

things: for I know whom I have believed,

and am persuaded that he is able to keep

that which I have committed unto him against

that day.

In salvation, you gave up control of your own soul, and turned its safe keeping over to God the Father. God is now committed to the keeping of your soul to the end.

I Corinthians 1:8 declares:


Who shall also confirm you unto the end,

that ye may be blameless in the day of our

Lord Jesus Christ.

Also read Philippians 1:6:


Being confident of this very thing, that he

which hath begun a good work in you will

perform it until the day of Jesus C Christ:

Your confirmation unto the end and the performance of the work in you until the day of Jesus Christ is in the hand of the Lord.

Therefore, you cannot become lost by failing in your commitment to Christ. Since your salvation is based on the commitment of God, the loss of personal commitment would not affect your eternal destiny. No, the only way to lose your salvation is to somehow get God to fail in His commitment. This completes step five.

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Trust in the finished work


of Jesus Christ on the cross

and add nothing to that trust

and believe He was resurrected

and you will be saved !

The Holy Spirit will instantly


baptize you into the body of Christ and you will be spiritually alive and not dead any more FOREVER !

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Salvation And Repentance
More often than not, the focus of these entries is to provide insight and understanding in a world with so many different presuppositions and worldviews. Apologetics and Creation Science are commonplace now on this blog, and Prophecy is still tagging along now and then. Theology, however, tends to come and go out.The intention of this entry is to focus on the key to Heaven: Salvation through Jesus Christ. Not evidence, not defense of faith, not science, nor deep philosophical questions, but straight from God's Word, how can we ensure our salvation, how do we find salvation, and how do we know our salvation is genuine?First off, let us take a look at what has become known as the clear plan of salvation. It begins in "Romans 3:23-24", which says, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Jesus Christ." Romans 5:12" continues, "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, [Adam] and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned."Before you can come to repentance and accept the free gift of salvation, you need to come to a place where you understand why we all need a Savior. We need a savior, because the penalty for sin is death, eternally sentenced to Hell, and we have determined that each and every person to ever live, save for Christ, has sinned."Ephesians 2:8-9" continues, "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast." While certain doctrines teach that you can get into Heaven by works, citing "Ecclesiasticus 3:30", "As water quenches a blazing fire, so [works] atones for sins," and "Tobit 12:9", "[Works] preserves a man from death and wipes out all sin," which are both from the Apocrypha and therefore not considered the Word of the Lord, according to God himself, works cannot get you into heaven."Titus 3:5-6 "continues the plan of salvation, "he saved us, not because of righteous things we have done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior." Again, works cannot get you into Heaven. Paul just re-stated that. Christ came to earth, to die for us because of his mercy, not because of how good we are.The next verse, "John 3:16-18", gives the most well-known verse from the Bible, and in these are truth. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."God loves his Creation, and because he loves us, he sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us, so that we do not have to pay the penalty for our sins, because Christ already paid that penalty for us. He came to save us, not condemn us, and if we would believe in him, we are believing in the name of God's one and only Son. What about those who say that "all paths lead to God, all paths lead to Heaven," are these truth?Well, what does Jesus himself say? "John 14: 6 "continues, "Jesus answered, 'I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH, and THE LIFE. NO ONE comes to the Father "EXCEPT THROUGH ME". If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him." Jesus did not say, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. I am merely one of the many ways to get into Heaven." No! He said, "No one comes to the Father EXCEPT through me." There is no other way. Works cannot get you into Heaven, so-called "goodness" cannot get you into Heaven. We have all broken the Ten Commandments, and therefore, need a Savior.Once we recognize the need for a Savior, we can come to a place to accept Salvation. The plan follows, "For the Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost." ("Luke 19:10") We are all lost, and in need of the Savior, Jesus Christ. But merely believing Jesus came, died, and rose again is not enough - we need to repent of our sins. "Father, please forgive me for sinning against you, I confess my sins to you, I repent." Or something to that effect. If we cannot come to repentance, we cannot genuinely accept salvation.Daily asking for forgiveness of our sins is yet another thing Christians tend to neglect a lot - we sin each and everyday, whether we think about it or not, and are in need of forgiveness. But what happens if you do not accept Christ, and do not repent? Hell is the punishment." Luke 13:3" continues, "I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish." How can we demonstrate our repentance? By deeds. You cannot get into Heaven by deeds, but once to have accepted Salvation, you demonstrate your repentance by the deeds that you do - by helping others, spreading the truth about Christ, and other such things.Paul tells us this in "Acts 16:20", "First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds. Mark 1:15" continues, "'The time has come,' he said, 'The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!" Revelation 3:20" goes on to say, "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with them, and they with me." Jesus is inviting us to follow him. "Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony about His Son. And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life." ("1st John 5:10-13")Once you have accepted the free gift of Salvation, you require "spiritual milk," to grow. "1st Peter 2:2", "Like newborn babies, crave spiritual milk, so that by it, you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good." Concluding the plan for salvation, don't neglect to gather." Hebrews 10:25" says, "not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching." In other words, find a church that teaches the truth, and do not forsake your gathering."Romans 10:9" says, "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that he is risen from the dead, you will be saved." Repent of your sins, ask forgiveness from God, and accept salvation through the grace of Jesus Christ. I trust this entry has proven most helpful. If you have any questions or comments, don't hesitate to comment below, visit the facebook page, or email vexx801@yahoo.com. May God bless you and be with you all the days of your life. "Troy Hillman"