Was the famous question of the jailer of Philippi, who stripped and guarded the apostle Paul and Silas in prison where they were locked up with the accusation he answer was “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved”. How many times do we ask what must we do to be saved and acquire Jesus salvation from the cruel bondage of sin and it’s last punishment and the answer is you must not do anything but believe only.
What must I do to inherit eternal life?
Was the question of the Jewish ruler who was rich and very intellectual to the Lord Jesus Christ:
What must I do to inherit eternal life? (Luke18:18)
Now what draws our attention is that he is asking “What must I do to inherit” and the answer is there is nothing you must do to inherit, all what you must do is to accept the inheritance that became your lot and your part.Inheritance is neither bought nor sold and you do not need to do anything in order to enjoy it, you just enjoy it and use it.
Notice that this young man’s social position and his wealthy background did not fill the void in his heart but led him to a life full of worries without peace or security or guarantee wondering about his everlasting life (or his life after death) When the Lord Jesus saw that he wanted to do something in order to inherit eternal life he told him to live “Moses 10 commandments”
You shall not commit adultery you shall not murder you shall not steal you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor honor your father and your mother, etc …
All these I have kept since I was a boy, he said (Luke18 :20-21)
Although no one on earth could really live the 10 commandments not even Moses who received the tablets of laws. Jesus at that point didn’t comment at the matter but he asked the rich man to do something else which did appear much more difficult for him than following the 10 commandments, he said to him:
“Sell everything you have and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come follow me” (Luke 18 :22)
Now what was the young man’s reaction? Remember he was ready to do anything in order to inherit the everlasting life but when Jesus asked him to sell everything and follow him we read “He was very sorrowful for he was very rich” (Luke 18:22-23)
My beloved there are two things that hinder our salvation: First: We think most of the times like this young man that we are following God’s commands and we are saved and that we’re going to heavens because we’re better than who are surrounding us. Second: We do not repent and follow the Lord’s voice when he says “follow me” but we sustain to our ways and keep our attitude. Money is not a sin by itself but: “The love of money is the root of all evil” (1 Timothy 6 :10) As the love of the world will lead you to live for the world and “If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John2 :15)
And now what do you intend to do?
The Lord Jesus has paid on Calvary the price for each and everyone he became obedient to death and despite so that to become the redeemer and the savior and consequently he asked us to receive him and to accept his redemption for us. Listen to him saying: “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name” (John 1 :12 )
Now you need to stop and think for a while?
Think about your eternity Your present life and your life after death Think about the Lord Jesus who is coming again not as the crucified redeemer but as the judge of the universe to every single soul each according to his or her works Think about your life, is it filled with peace and joy or filled with fear sadness and oppression? Are you happy from within or you feel an inside void? Do not convince yourself by saying that life is bitter and this is what life is all about. Simply because it is not so. The reason of a miserable life is the absence of Jesus Christ from it. So let him come into your life now to have a true living relationship with him through his Holy Spirit. Hence, the second truth is: you must not do anything but receive what the Lord had done already for you.
Confess Your Sins
Regretting and repenting without confessing by mouth will not lead you to acquire the salvation and the total freedom from your sins and the bondage of your past life. We have to confess our sins with our mouth after a real regret and a real repentance that comes from the heart. We read according to the Scriptures : “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” which means he’s a living God who could save you and help you. (Romans 10:9)
“If we confess our sins he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John1:9)
“He who conceals his sins does not prosper but whoever confess and renounces them finds mercy” (Proverb 28:13)
“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective” (James 5:16)
Our best example for the life of repentance and confession is the life of the prophet David who confesses in Psalm 51 after falling in his sin by saying:
“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. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.. hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.. create in me a pure heart, O God ,and renew a steadfast spirit within me” (Psalm51:1-10)
Here are two examples from thescriptures:
1) The Lost Son
After Being submerged in sins and wild living far from his father’s home the scriptures says: “He came to his senses and said Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son” (Luke 15:7-19) So the key to the Heavenly Father’s acceptance is to confess the Lord’s right to be our Lord and Sovereign and the confession of our sins before him.
2) The prophet David
After falling in his terrible sin said before Nathan the prophet: “I have sinned against the Lord” Nathan replied: “The Lord has taken away your sin, you are not going to die” (2Samuel 12:13) Just believe now that God accepts our confessions in accordance of Jesus death on our behalf and his precious blood the price of the sins of all human kind.
Let’s bow our head together and pray from all our hearts:
HEAVENLY FATHER I come to you with all my sins I confess I am a sinner I have done what is evil in your sight and you did put up with my wickedness I come back to you and repent with all my heart. LORD JESUS I come to you my redeemer who died for me on the cross have control of my life Lord and accept me as your son. HOLY GHOST Fill me now Oh Spirit of strength and love so that I may hate the world and love the Heavenly Father. MY GOD I love you and follow you change me oh Lord for I have put my trust in you In Jesus name and in the full intercession I trust that you did heard and did answer my prayers Amen.
Lay aside your guilt and rejoice in Jesus redemption for you
In order to grow, to improve and to go on in your life you have to lay aside your guilt feelings and leave behind your past memories, forget completely your past from now on. One of the major things that hinders your continuity in your way of salvation and prevent you from enjoying the freedom from sins is your very past that chases you wherever you go. That’s why there’s a very important step to make through our way of salvation which is to have the evidence and the blind faith that when you came to the Lord in prayers through the previous. truth he did fully accept you, blots out your transgressions and will remember your sins no more.
Here are some of the verses uttered by God to encourage you get the assurance in your heart that God through Jesus redemption and atonement will remember not your past transgressions any more.
“I even Iam he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake and remembers your sins no more” (Isaiah 43:25)
“I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you” (Isaiah 44:22)
“Who is a God like you, who pardons sins and forgives the transgression you do not stay angry for ever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us, you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.” (Micah7:18-19)
Now that God has forgiven your sins and blotted out your iniquities and promised he will remember them no more why do you still remember them? If God has promised to forget them you should forget them to yourself and if Satan wants to remind you of your sins tell him Jesus has forgiven me and pardoned my iniquities. He died for me because he loves me and I love him too. Cast the burden of your sins, mistakes on the Lord at once and trust on him he is your redeemer, your representative, and your substitute, he said:
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28)
Now you did engage yourself in a true living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ the source of all strength. Also he will provide a spiritual strength on every day basis to enable you to live a new life with him in accordance to the scriptures:
“Therefore, if any man be in Christ he is a new creation, old things are passed away, behold all things are become new” (2 Corinth 5:17)
Here are two examples from thescriptures:
1) The Lost Son
After Being submerged in sins and wild living far from his father’s home the scriptures says: “He came to his senses and said Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son” (Luke 15:7-19) So the key to the Heavenly Father’s acceptance is to confess the Lord’s right to be our Lord and Sovereign and the confession of our sins before him.
2) The prophet David
After falling in his terrible sin said before Nathan the prophet: “I have sinned against the Lord” Nathan replied: “The Lord has taken away your sin, you are not going to die” (2Samuel 12:13) Just believe now that God accepts our confessions in accordance of Jesus death on our behalf and his precious blood the price of the sins of all human kind.
Let’s bow our head together and pray from all our hearts:
OUR HEAVENLY FATHER I come to you with all my sins I confess I am a sinner I have done what is evil in your sight and you did put up with my wickedness I come back to you and repent with all my heart.
LORD JESUS I come to you my redeemer who died for me on the cross have control of my life Lord and accept me as your son.
HOLY GHOST Fill me now Oh Spirit of strength and love so that I may hate the world and love the Heavenly Father.
MY GOD I love you and follow you change me oh Lord for I have put my trust in you In Jesus name and in the full intercession I trust that you did heard and did answer my prayers Amen.
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Lay aside your guilt and rejoice in Jesus redemption for you
In order to grow, to improve and to go on in your life you have to lay aside your guilt feelings and leave behind your past memories, forget completely your past from now on. One of the major things that hinders your continuity in your way of salvation and prevent you from enjoying the freedom from sins is your very past that chases you wherever you go. That’s why there’s a very important step to make through our way of salvation which is to have the evidence and the blind faith that when you came to the Lord in prayers through the previous. truth he did fully accept you, blots out your transgressions and will remember your sins no more.
Here are some of the verses uttered by God to encourage you get the assurance in your heart that God through Jesus redemption and atonement will remember not your past transgressions any more.
“I even Iam he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake and remembers your sins no more” (Isaiah 43:25)
“I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you” (Isaiah 44:22)
“Who is a God like you, who pardons sins and forgives the transgression you do not stay angry for ever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us, you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.” (Micah7:18-19)
Now that God has forgiven your sins and blotted out your iniquities and promised he will remember them no more why do you still remember them? If God has promised to forget them you should forget them to yourself and if Satan wants to remind you of your sins tell him Jesus has forgiven me and pardoned my iniquities. He died for me because he loves me and I love him too. Cast the burden of your sins, mistakes on the Lord at once and trust on him he is your redeemer, your representative, and your substitute, he said:
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28)
Now you did engage yourself in a true living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ the source of all strength. Also he will provide a spiritual strength on every day basis to enable you to live a new life with him in accordance to the scriptures:
“Therefore, if any man be in Christ he is a new creation, old things are passed away, behold all things are become new” (2 Corinth 5:17)
Summary of the four essential truths of salvation
1- The first truth: “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved” Which on other words means believe that Jesus is the savior who came not to give you a”salvation certificate” but to let you enjoy a true salvation from the power and the bondage of sins, and to set you free from sickness and from Satanic warfare.
2- The second truth: “Sell everything you have then come follow me” which also means that you have to repent from your sins and from the love of the world and from your worldly style of life retreat from your past and follow the Lord with those who wants to live a holy life and always remember to keep faith in Jesus, he is God Almighty who could fully save you.
3- The third truth: “Confess the Lord Confess your sins” Regret and repentance without the confession of the mouth will never lead you to acquire salvation or set you free from the power and bondage of your past life. You have to confess your sins with your mouth.
4- The Fourth Truth: Lay aside your guilt feeling and rejoice right now in Jesus redemption for you.