hi billymac, I appreciate your comment. This is first try at a blog. Please bear with me. the reason I am doing this is to get more people to read the word for their salvation and not go by what people say(even preachers), so I am glad that you are baseing your salvation on the bible. The one thing that I find in my ministry in going into the streets for several years now is that a lot of people think that they are going to heaven because they have been good. The word says in Ephesians that "1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Eph 2:1-10 (NIV)" It also says that must chage our direction(repent)John 3:3 says that we must be reborn. So many people think they ask for forgiveness and just keep on living the same old life. I pray that people will open their bibles and read the word and discover the power and authority that it gives us to live by. Thanks for your comment. In Christ's Love111 Wayne
I believe I'll be with Jesus and I base this on the word of God - the Bible.
ReplyDeletehi billymac, I appreciate your comment. This is first try at a blog. Please bear with me. the reason I am doing this is to get more people to read the word for their salvation and not go by what people say(even preachers), so I am glad that you are baseing your salvation on the bible. The one thing that I find in my ministry in going into the streets for several years now is that a lot of people think that they are going to heaven because they have been good. The word says in Ephesians that "1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
ReplyDeleteEph 2:1-10 (NIV)" It also says that must chage our direction(repent)John 3:3 says that we must be reborn. So many people think they ask for forgiveness and just keep on living the same old life. I pray that people will open their bibles and read the word and discover the power and authority that it gives us to live by. Thanks for your comment. In Christ's Love111 Wayne