Tuesday 3 April 2012

THE IMPORTANCE OF REPENTANCE AND FAITH TOWARDS GOD THROUGH CHRIST

THE IMPORTANCE OF REPENTANCE AND FAITH TOWARDS GOD

WITH OUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD FOR HE THAT COMETH TO GOD MUST FIRST BELIEVE THAT HE IS AND THAT HE IS A DILIGENT REWARDER OF THEM THAT SEEK HIM.
YOU WILL NEED TO BELIEVE BY FAITH THAT CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED, DIED AND ROSE AFTER THREE DAYS  FOR YOUR JUSTIFICATION

THE APOSTLE THOMAS WOULDN'T BELIEVED THAT JESUS HAD RISEN FROM THE DEAD UNLESS HE HAD SEEN HIS HANDS, PUT HIS FINGERS INTO THE NAIL PRINTS IN CHRIST HANDS AND THRUST IS HAND INTO JESUS SIDE.

BUT AFTER EIGHT DAYS JESUS APPEARED IN THE ROOM WHERE ALL THE APOSTLE EXCEPT JUDAS WERE GATHERED. (ST JOHN20 V27) THEN SAITH HE TO THOMAS, REACH HITHER THY FINGER, AND BEHOLD MY HANDS; AND REACH HITHER THY HAND AND THRUST IT INTO MY SIDE: AND BE NOT FAITHLESS BUT BELIEVING.

(ST JOHN 20 28) AND THOMAS ANSWER AND SAID UNTO HIM , MY LORD AND MY GOD .( ST JOHN20 29) JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, THOMAS BECAUSE THOU HAST SEEN ME, THOU HAST BELIEVED: BLESSED ARE THEY WHO HAVE NOT SEEN AND YET BELIEVED. SO YOU SEE  MY FRIEND THAT YOU WILL BE MORE BLESSED BY CHRIST IF YOU BELIEVE ON CHRIST WHOM  YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THAN THOMAS AND ESPECIALLY WHEN WE OBEY HIS COMMANDS.

REPENTANCE IS THE ACT OF CONFESSING AND TURNING AWAY FROM ALL SIN
BECAUSE SIN WILL BRING DEATH.(ETERNAL DAMNATION) GOD HATE SIN THAT IS WHY HE CAST SATAN OUT OF HEAVEN AND WHY HE THRUST ADAM AND EVE OUT OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN. THIS IS ALSO WHY HE MADE DEATH, HELL AND THE LAKE OF FIRE.
TO PUNISH ALL MEN AND TO EXECUTE JUDGEMENT ON THE DEVIL, HIS ANGELS AND  ALL SINNERS WHO FOLLOWED HIS PERNICIOUS WAYS.
ACTS 2 38

BUT CONFESSING YOUR SINS TO GOD THROUGH CHRIST AND ALLOWING THE MINISTRY OF THE  CHURCH TRUE BELIEVERS TO LAY HANDS AND PRAY  TO  GOD FOR YOU. BRINGS PARDON, REMISSION OF SINS AND JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.

 LIKE HOW ANANIAS PRAYED FOR (SAUL WHOSE NAME CHANGED TO PAUL) T0 RECEIVE HIS SIGHT  IN THE BOOK OF ACTS AFTER SAUL WAS BLINDED BY CHRIST ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS.

ALSO HOW CORNELIUS THE CENTURION RECEIVED SALVATION BY BEING OBEDIENT TO THE VISION OF A ANGEL OF GOD TO CALL FOR SIMON WHOSE SURNAME WAS PETER TO MINISTERED THE GOSPEL ONTO  CORNELIUS. WHICH HE OBEYED AND DID SENDING FOR PETER  WHO WAS AT JOPPA..

THEN WHEN PETER CAME. CORNELIUS CALLED TOGETHER ALL  HIS KINSMEN AND NEAR FRIENDS , WHO GATHERED AT CAESAREA TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD FROM  PETER.
SO THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVED THE GIFT OF THE THE HOLY GHOST, PROMISED BY JESUS IN THE BOOKS OF THE GOSPELS. THAT A COMFORTER WOULD COME . FOR HAS YET NO GENTILES HAD RECEIVED THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST, ONLY THE JEWISH DISCIPLES HAD, UP UNTIL THAT TIME.

SO YOU SEE MY FRIEND YOU LIKE THESE PEOPLE ALSO CAN BE SAVED, AND BE MADE,  RIGHTEOUS, HOLY AND PURE BEFORE GOD  BY FAITH AND REPENTANCE.  JESUS CHRIST DEATH ON THE CROSS WHICH GOD HAS ACCEPTED AS A SIN OFFERING FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD HAS MADE THIS POSSIBLE.  THANK GOD

FOR WITH THE HEART MAN BELIEVETH AND WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION.

Hebrew 12, Romans 4, Romans 5:1-2, Romans 10, Mark 16,15,16,17,18

 GOD BLESS YOU AND WATCH OUT FOR MORE!!!!

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