You would think knowing this would make me clean up my act but it feels a lot harder than it sounds, sure i ask for forgiveness but whats the point if i just go out and do the same thing again?..
Any advice on living like i am supposed to?Question for christians- How do i live a christian life? what is your advice?
All of us sin until the day we die. That is why we need the salvation of Jesus. Remember you are a work in progress. You will continue to be refined until you are how God needs you to be. Submit to His will, listen to your heart, pray for guidance, and do your best to live a righteuos life. When you find yourself doing something you feel is wrong, pray about it and strive to be better. Don't be discouraged by moments of weakness, learn from them and pray about them. Don't think that God does not care if you have some problems you can't shake right away. Even the Apostle Paul had a ';thorn in his side'; that God refused to remove. Paul had to learn to live with this affliction (whatever it was) and continue down the right path.Question for christians- How do i live a christian life? what is your advice?
Pray everyday, read the bible, limit your sin.
Live everyday as if Jesus were coming
read what Jesus taught .. His actual words, and apply them ... love yor enemies, dont return evil for evil, dont judge .. so on .. i like the limit your sin idea Captain haha ((((hugs)))
But, it is true that simply believing in Jesus is what gets you into heaven. Salvation is a free gift. You cannot add your works or efforts to Jesus's PERFECT salvation. If you try to add works, then you have a false gospel of works that cannot save you (Galatians 1:6-9).
You're not saved yet.
All saved believers are still sinners. Stop fighting it.
Jesus paid for ALL SINS past, present, and future. Jesus paid for them all on the cross
Jesus loves you so very much! :D
Salvation is a FREE GIFT that happens in a split second when you believe in Jesus alone to save you! It is impossible to lose or ';leave'; salvation (John 6:39-40, 1 John 5:13).
The truth about Jesus is that the only way to be saved and to get into heaven and avoid being sent to eternal hell, is by believing in faith alone that Jesus, who is God, died for our sins on the cross as FULL PAYMENT for all our sins, and then Jesus rose from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Believe this and you will be in heaven, no matter what!
Please pray now: ';Jesus, please forgive me of my sins. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins and You rose from the dead. Thank You for eternal life!'; You will be in heaven with Him forever when you die. :)
This is from someone still renewing their mind to understand God's salvation, I haven't yet fully moved into these things, but am beginning to understand.
';Justification by faith'; was a truth somewhat neglected that Luther and other protestant reformers brought forward.
But that's just Romans 3.
The Romans letter according to Paul was about salvation, which was by faith from first to last.
Romans 5-8 are about sanctification by faith.
*Romans 5 gives us what we have positionally been given. The ability to ';reign in life'; by being in ';Christ';(new humanity) as opposed to being in ';Adam'; (fallen humanity).
*Romans 6 is about us needing to reckon that our old self died with Christ, and that we were given new life in identification with Christ. If we have faith in that we get sanctified by the Holy Spirit. But by leanring what is right we become more like Christ as time passes.
*Romans 7 gives what is often our experience, in that we can see the ';justification by faith'; idea easily after conversion, but not usually the sanctification by faith. Its also a true comment on noble people striving to do good in other religions.
*Romans 8 declares the triumph as we live according to the law of the Spirit of life as opposed to the law of sin and death. Basically by grace we are given victory over the recalcitrant tendencies of our souls (our spirits get born again, but our souls need the ongoing help of the Holy Spirit to attain to a truly good life). This is through faith as said in Romans 6.
There is also something called the baptism in the Holy Spirit. I've been very close to the Spirit at times, but haven't yet received this, I now think. Basically you get supercharged with God's power to do ministry to other believers and the lost world, and get to experience the fullness of God's love and grace.
As to good teaching on these things, here's some:
On the full faith meaning and baptism in the Holy Spirit I've learnt a lot from some early pentecostals, reading some articles in copies of Latter Rain Evangel magazine (free to view http://ifphc.org) from about 1910 ! Also John G. Lake's writings. The chinese christians Watchman Nee and Witness Lee also teach about this, but I didn't like their presentation. Also this site is good - www.bible-knowledge.com
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