God wants you to believe his Word.

Jesus said "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

You can believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, be baptized in his Name, and live a Christian life: with the reward of eternal life and friendship with God.

Or, you can deny that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, refuse to be baptized in his Name, and disobey God's commandments: with the reward of judgement.

So what does God want from you?

He only wants you to believe.

If you believe, He will take care of the rest. He will handle your problems, fears, and guide your life with peace and assurance, and reward you with Eternal Life.

At the time of your birth, two things happened: you were separated from your mother, and took your first breath.

Every person lives by the filling and refilling of natural air, which is a type of the Spirit.

Being born again means you are filled with the Spirit of Christ Jesus.

Every person that is born again lives by the filling and refilling of the Holy Spirit (also called the Holy Ghost), which is the breath of eternal life.

This is what it means to be born again: you leave behind all the things that used to satisfy your soul, and you become dependant on the Holy Spirit alone.

Jesus said, "If you love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:15) When asked, "What is the greatest commandment?" He responded:

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Steps to Take in order to become a true Christian, to be Saved & Have a real relationship & genuine experience with the real God (Jesus)

Read, understand, accept and believe the following verses from the Bible:

All men are sinners and fall short of God's perfect standard

Romans 3: 23 states that
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Sin - which is imperfection in our lives - denies us eternal life with God. But God sent his son Jesus Christ as a gift to give us freely Eternal Life by believing on Jesus Christ.

Romans 6: 23 states
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

You can be saved, and you are saved by Faith in Jesus Christ. You cannot be saved by your good works, because they are not "good enough". But God's good work of sending Jesus Christ to save us, and our response of believing - of having faith - in Jesus Christ, that is what saves each of us.

Ephesians 2: 8-9 states
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.

God did not wait for us to become perfect in order to accept or unconditionally love us. He sent Jesus Christ to save us, even though we are sinners. So Jesus Christ died to save us from our sins, and to save us from eternal separation from God.

Romans 10:9-10 states
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Romans 5:8 states
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

God loved the world so much that He sent his one and only Son to die, so that by believing in Jesus Christ, we obtain Eternal Life.

John 3:16 states
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

If you believe in Jesus Christ, and in what he did on the Cross for us, by dying there for us, you know for a fact that you have been given Eternal Life.

I John 5:13 states
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

If you confess your sins to God, he hears you take this step, and you can know for sure that He does hear you, and his response to you is to forgive you of those sins, so that they are not remembered against you, and not attributed to you ever again.

I John 1: 9 states
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If you believe these verses, or want to believe these verses, pray the following:

" Lord Jesus, I need you. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and ask you to save me from my sins and give me eternal life. Thank you for forgiving me of my sins and giving me eternal life. I receive you as my Savior and Lord. Please take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person you want me to be. Help me to understand you, and to know you and to learn how to follow you. Free me from all of the things in my life that prevent me from following you. In the name of the one and only and true Jesus Christ I ask all these things now, Amen".

Does this prayer express your desire to know God and to want to know His love ? If you are sincere in praying this prayer, Jesus Christ comes into your heart and your life, just as He said he would.

It often takes courage to decide to become a Christian. It is the right decision to make, but It is difficult to fight against part of ourselves that wants to hang on, or to find against that part of our selves that has trouble changing. The good news is that you do not need to change yourself. Just Cry out to God, pray and he will begin to change you. God does not expect you to become perfect before you come to Him. Not at all...this is why He sent Jesus...so that we would not have to become perfect before being able to know God.

Steps to take once you have asked Jesus to come into your life

1 Corinthians 15:1
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

So now that you are saved you must hold on that that you have been given and not return to your old ways because you don't want to risk losing what you have found.

Find the following passages in the Bible and begin to read them:

Here is a link to a website with lots of good Bible studies, you can visit it at: Sunday School Materials & Helpful Bible Studies

Here is a link to a free online Bible you can visit it at: : Bible Gateway Free Online Bible

For the person who is not yet saved, their understanding of their state of sin and God's personal love and care for them, and His desire and ability to save them.... is what enables anyone to become saved.

So yes, the "being saved" process works only for those who believe in Jesus Christ and Him only, and place their faith in Him and in His work done on the Cross.

...and if so , then how does believing save a person?

Believing saves a person because of what it allows God to do in the Heart and Soul of that person. But it is not simply the fact of a "belief". The issue is not having "belief" but rather what we have a belief about.

IF a person believes in Salvation by Faith Alone in Jesus Christ, then That belief saves them. Why? because they are magical?

No, because of the sovereignty of God, because of what God does to them, when they ask him into their heart and life. When a person decides to place their faith in Jesus Christ and ask Him to forgive them of their sins and invite Jesus Christ into their life & heart, this is what saves them - because of what God does for them at that moment in time.

At that moment in time when they sincerely believe and ask God to save them (as described above), God takes the life of that person, and in accordance with the will of that human, having requested God to save them from their sins through Jesus Christ - God takes that person's life and sins (all sins past, present but NOT future sins), and allocates them to the category: of "one of those people who Accepted the Free Gift of Eternal Salvation that God offers".

From that point forward, their past sins are no longer counted against them, because that is an account that is paid by the shed blood of Jesus Christ. And there is no person that could ever sin so much, that God's love would not be good enough for them, or that would somehow not be able to be covered by the penalty of death that Jesus Christ paid the price for. (otherwise, sin would be more powerful than Jesus Christ - which is not true).

Sometimes, People have trouble believing in Jesus Christ because of two extremes:

First the extreme that they are not sinners (usually, this means that a person has not committed a "serious" sin, such as "murder", but God says that all sins separates us from God, even supposedly-small sins. We - as humans - tend to evaluate sin into more serious and less serious categories, because we do not understand just how serious "small" sin is). Since we are all sinners, we all have a need for God, in order to have eternal salvation.

Sin is sin in the eyes of God, be at a lie or murder it's still sin.

Second the extreme that they are not good enough for Jesus Christ to save them. This is basically done by those who reject the Free offer of Salvation by Christ Jesus because those people are -literally - unwilling to believe. After death, they will believe, but they can only chose Eternal Life BEFORE they die.

The fact is that all of us, are not good enough for Jesus Christ to save them. That is why Paul wrote in the Bible "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). Thankfully, that is not the end of the story, because he also wrote " For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."(Romans 6: 23)

That Free offer of salvation is clarified in the following passage:

John 3: 16-17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

I would be very glad if you could let me know that you have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ, so I can rejoice with you and help you along the way on your new life.

May God Bless you my new Brother or Sister in Christ.

Rev. JR Seabolt

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