BEING BORN AGAIN IS OFTEN PRESENTED AS THE WAY TO ESCAPE HELL. I THINK PEOPLE THAT ARE BORN AGAIN WITH THIS KIND OF SALVATION LOOK AT JESUS AS THE ONE WHO WILL DELIVER THEM, BUT NOT THE ONE WITH WHOM THEY CAN HAVE AN INTIMATE, PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. SALVATION IS THE ONLY WAY OF GETTING INTO A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. WE LOST THE CLOSENESS WHEN ADAM SINNED. SIN SEPARATES US FROM GOD BUT THROUGH JESUS, THAT SIN WAS TAKEN AWAY AND NOW WE CAN GO DIRECTLY TO GOD. IT SAYS IN 1ST CORINTHIANS 15:22
Luke 10:2 - "Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest."
WHAT DO YOU DO TO KEEP YOUR BODY IN SHAPE? SOME PEOPLE WALK, JOG OR GO TO A GYM. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP OUR BODIES EXERCISED OR OUR MUSSELS WILL GET WEAK AND EVENTUALLY BE OF NO USE TO US. WHAT DO YOU DO TO KEEP YOUR FAITH IN SHAPE? SOME PEOPLE FELLOWSHIP WITH THE LORD OR STUDY THEIR BIBLE.
DO YOU THINK IT IS HARD TO LIVE A CHRISTIAN LIFE? IT IS IF YOU ARE NOT GIVING ENOUGH ATTENTION TO JESUS. I KNOW THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS OUT THERE THAT CAN TEMPT YOU. YOUR JOB IS TO SEE THAT THEY DO NOT DISTRACT YOU FROM JESUS
IN JOHN 9, WHERE JESUS HEALED THE MAN THAT WAS BORN BLIND, PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN THIS PASSAGE TO SAY THAT GOD HAD PUT THIS ON THIS MAN TO GET SOME KIND OF GLORY OUT OF IT. VERSES 3-4 IS WHERE THEY GET THIS FROM "Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.I must work the works of him that sent me," IN THE ORIGINAL...
John 10:10 "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
JOHN 10:7-10
The Greek word translated "life" here is "zoe" and it...
I TALK A LOT ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE SAVED AND THAT IS WHAT WE ALL SHOULD BE DOING WHENEVER WE CAN BUT WE CAN'T STOP THERE. YOU MIGHT ASK WHAT IS THERE AFTER BEING BORN AGAIN. NATURALLY YOU SHOULD START LIVING A GOOD CHRISTIAN LIFE BUT THAT IS JUST