If you’re a Christian / follower of Jesus, don’t forget that you need to keep hearing/reading the gospel. Hearing is believing, and it keeps you out of trouble. It works for me. The gospel isn’t just for the unsaved. It’s for us, too. It’s good news and is encouraging. You need that kind of food in your soul.
The thief on the cross didn’t have time to repent: And he was saying, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!” And He said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”Luke 23:42-43 Right here, we see that repentance is not necessary for salvation. Jesus was…
God is just. That means he’s a perfect judge. He has to punish the murderer, right? If he doesn’t, he’s not a just judge. That’s why he just can’t let everyone into heaven. We ALL deserve to be separated from God because we can’t meet his holy standard of absolutely no sin. So we all…
Look at the definition of repent: re·pent /rəˈpent/ verbfeel or express sincere regret or remorse about one’s wrongdoing or sin. That’s turning to God. You’re sorry for your sin and you turn to God. It’s not work you have to do. It’s you regretting what you’ve done. That’s it. Of course you have to do…
I’m not fond of this phase as a part of salvation. Not that I don’t agree, but there’s the spirit behind it, and I think it could be more simply put. That sounds like works to me. Yes, you must turn and it must be real – the repentance part… regretting your sin. If you…
I heard snippets of this message on TikTok, but here’s the whole message. It’s a very simplified version of the Gospel (how to get saved by God) by Rick Warren. I guess some Christians have bones to pick with this guy, but I’m not going to judge. I really like how Rick uses the theif…
Here’s the scariest verse in the Bible: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into heaven’s kingdom. It is only those who persist in doing the will of my heavenly Father. On the day of judgment many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, don’t you remember us? Didn’t we prophesy in your…