By Dr. James. A McBean D.Th., MCC
Copyright © 2008 Library of Congress
Washington.D.C.20559
W hat child does not look into the darkness of the night and ask, where does light come from? What man does not look into Northern skies and ask, where does life come from? What man does not look into their won heart, soul, and wishes they could be save from their won passion and pride? Who does not want to be set free from the nagging voice of our past sins?
Well! Jesus invites us to come to him, please let me show you how. His forgiveness will set you free from the nagging voice of your past sins, and fill you with a joy unspeakable.
Proverbs 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
HOW CAN ONE BECOMES A CHRISTIAN?
You must admit that you are a sinner, and need God's salvation. God says that you are a sinner and you know it also.
Romans 3:23 (KJV) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Acts 4:12 (KJV)Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Romans 5:6 (KJV) For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 5:7 (KJV) For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. Romans 5:8 (KJV) But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:9 (KJV) Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Romans 5:10 (KJV) For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Romans 5:11 (KJV) And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Matthew 6:33-AV But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Isaiah 55:6-AV Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Isaiah 55:7-AV Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
YOU WILL NEVER KNOW GOD BY DEBATING HIS WORD.
But these things are spiritual, and moreover, people are not getting any teaching from their religious leaders, and they cannot understand these things since they do not have the necessary knowledge to understand them. One cannot truly understand things of faith until one is brought into saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
1 Cor. 2:14 (KJV) But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Cor. 2:14 (Living) But the man who isn't a Christian can't understand and can't accept these thoughts from God, which the Holy Spirit teaches us. They sound foolish to him because only those who have the Holy Spirit within them can understand what the Holy Spirit means. Others just cannot take it in.
YOU CANNOT FIND IT OUT BY HUMAN MAGNETISM.
Job 11:7 (KJV) Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
Job 11:7 (Living) "Do you know the mind and purposes of God? Will long searching make them known to you? Are you qualified to judge the Almighty?
SEEK HIM BY PRAYERS AND NOT BY STUDYING.
Jeremiah 29:13 (KJV) And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
GOD GAVE YOU A MEASURE OF BELIEVING FAITH AND HE EXPECTS YOU TO USE THAT IN LOCATING HIM.
Romans 12:3 (KJV) For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
DO NOT BE ACTING SCENTLESS
Psalm 32:9 (KJV) Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
WITHOUT THIS MEASURE OF FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COME TO GOD.
Therefore, God already went ahead and made it possible for you and I to come to him.
Hebrews 11:6 (KJV) But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Hebrews 4:16 (KJV) Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
GOD SAYS YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE.
Romans 1:20 (KJV) For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Romans 1:20 (Living) Since earliest times men have seen the earth and sky and all God made, and have known of his existence and great eternal power. So they will have no excuse [when they stand before God at Judgment Day].
Romans 10:9 (KJV) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Romans 10:10 (KJV) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
1 Cor. 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1 Cor. 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Isaiah 53:5-6 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. [6] All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
WHOSOEVER, SHALL CALL.
Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Rev. 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
THERE IS WITNESS TO CHRIST RESURRECTION.
1 Cor. 15:5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: 1 Cor. 15:6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. 1 Cor. 15:7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. 1 Cor. 15:8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Acts 26:26 (KJV) For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
1 John 5:8-AV And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in agree.
Acts 26:26 (KJV) For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
Acts 26:27 (KJV) King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest. Acts 26:28 (KJV) Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Acts 26:29 (KJV) And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Matthew 6:33-AV But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Isaiah 55:6-AV Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Isaiah 55:7-AV Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
THE SPIRIT CALLS YOU TO COME.
Revelation 22:17-AV And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is a thirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Romans 10:13-AV For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
MAN MUST BELIEVE
1 John 5:13-AV These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Isaiah 45:22-AV Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else.
MAN MUST COME AND RECEIVE.
Matthew 11:28-AV Come unto me, all [ye] that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:29-AV Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Isaiah 1:18-AV Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Hosea 6:1-AV Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. Hosea 6:2-AV After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Hosea 6:3-AV Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.
John 1:12-AV But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:
THERE IS NO OTHER THAT CAN GIVE SALVATION.
Acts 4:12-AV Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Luke 19:10-AV For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
GOD WILL FORGIVE.
Lamentations 3:33-AV For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. Psalms 103:13-AV Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him. Psalms 103:14-AV For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.
PRAY THIS PRAYER AND ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOR TODAY.
Lord Jesus I believe that you are the son of God, and the only way to God, and that you died on the cross for my sins and rose again from the dead. I accept you as my savior and lord today. The moment you made this confession, God is committed to save and change you.
We can sing with the song writer" I am coming to the cross, I am poor and week and blind, I am counting all but dross, I shall full salvation finds. I am coming lord to thee blessed lamb of Calvary, humble at thy cross I bow, save me Jesus, save me now"
IMPORTANT THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW RIGHT AFTER MAKING YOUR COMMITMENT TO SERVE GOD.
Now the first thing that you will need to do after getting save, is search your home and life. Any talisman, guard, any thing that you have in your possession that represents the occult; you will need to get rid of it.
Any clothing that you have that you use to wear to Satan worship, if you were going to Satan church, you need to burn it. Any books on the occult, you need to renounce all that belong to Satan.
You might ask why? Why the occult? Because this sin can have your trap so deep that you will never came out of it. You will reach a stage in it where you think it is the Holy Spirit talking to you. The experience that a person gets when they are in the occults is contrasted with the experience you get when you are converted.
Then you also need to forgive others, and ask for fogginess of some. If you were sleeping with Jx wife, only stop. Do not go confess it to her husband, to go confessing it will only bring more trouble, some thing better leaves bury. You will find the Christians life rewarding and challenging. Let others see the change in you gradually. Christianity by mouth only, is not too good, others must see it naturally. If you were a Muslim, do not go boast it off or show it off. Do not force you newfound religions, nor try to brake up the following of your Muslim brethren. Your newfound faith must be revealed to them in love, and in mercy, also do not leave your original group, if they did not drive you out. But at the same time find time to fellowship with other Christians. The lord did not save you for you to get kills carelessly. He wants you to live so he can work you in the gospel.
HOW TO CONTINUE IN THE FAITH.
Hosea 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
As you and I walk with the lord from day to day we will just walk right into his will, as we yield to his Holy Spirit. His will, will be unfolded to us.
Titus 3:2-AV To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-AV And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
Romans 13:8-AV Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
DROPS ALL PRE-CONCEIVE IDEAS OF CHRISTIANITY.
Drop all preconceived ideas of Christianity because these conflict with the reality of Christianity. The lord will live the life through you day by day. You do not drop things from your life on your own. The spirit of God will walk you out of sins in his own time.
FIRST HUMBLING YOU.
Ephes. 2:8-9 (KJV)For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: [9] Not of works, lest any man should boast.
If you stop sins and get holy before God’s timing you will begin to boast how it is your own magnetism got you so far, then you became a source of discouragement to others. Therefore, you are going to stick upon a sin or two. The sin always getting the better of you. This will push you to always accept God’s grace, and to see your own frailness.
1 John 1:8 (KJV) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
TO CONTINUE GROWING IN GOD.
1 Peter 2:2 (KJV) As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
2 Peter 1:5-10 (NKJV) But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. 10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble.
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FINDING OUT YOUR CALLING
When I was newly save, the believers always, ask me if I know the will of God for my life! I never really know what they were talking about. Every person that was saved had a mission and a gift. However, because you are just a babe in Christ, you do not know any of these. As you go on with the lord his will for you will unfold day bay day. Do not run off and make any big commitment. Your mate has to be tailors made for you by God. You are now a citizen of heaven. Heaven does not rule by democracy. You cannot serve God with democratic mind set.
WHAT YOU MUST DROP OFF.
Hebrews 12:1 (Living Bible) Since we have such a huge crowd of men of faith watching us from the grandstands, let us strip off anything that slows us down or holds us back, and especially those sins that wrap themselves so tightly around our feet and trip us up; and let us run with patience the particular race that God has set before us.
Ephes. 4:31 (Living Bible) Stop being mean, bad-tempered, and angry. Quarreling, harsh words, and dislike of others should have no place in your lives.
Col. 3:8 (Living Bible) but now is the time to cast off and throw away all these rotten garments of anger, hatred, cursing, and dirty language.
GET A GOOD BIBLE, FIND A GOOD CHURCH.
One of the best Bibles out there is the New King James Version. Dake’s annotated Bible is very good. Next, you need a living bible to make some thing simple.
Hebrews 10:25 (Living Bible) Let us not neglect our church meetings, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near.
DROP THE BAD HABITS.
Drop the smoking, even though we cannot prove it to be a sin. You are going to be sitting down beside other church going people; they do not want to be smelling the odor from smoking on you.
PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM BEING SPOILED BY MAN.
Col. 2:8 (KJV)Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Hebrews 13:9 (KJV) Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Seven Ways that People Can Spoil Christians:
1. Through philosophy (Col. 2:8)
2. Through vain deceit (Col. 2:4,8,18-19)
3. Through human traditions (Col. 2:8)
4. Through human religion and world principles contrary to the gospel (Col. 2:8,14-23; note, §Galatians 4:3)
5. Through circumcision (Col. 2:11-13; Acts 15:1; Romans 4:9-16; Galatians 5:1-11)
6. Through the law of Moses, demanding observance of the laws on meats, drinks, holy days, new moons, feasts, and sabbaths (Col. 2:14-17)
7. Through cults that puff up and imitate the gospel (Col. 2:18-23)
By all these means, unsuspecting souls are being carried off as plunder and booty by false teachers. The founders of false religions and human philosophies which pamper the flesh and give their victims elated feelings of importance makes an appeal to them.
Christianity is loaded down with some false concept. Some little believe system, which are spread by false believers. One of such teaching is that you must “Look like Christians” How does Christian look? Genuine Christianity is not an external thing but of the heart and spirit.
Micah 6:8 (KJV)He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
When cults capture a newly converted Christians, the cult first job on that new believer is to close their mind. Preventing the new believer from reading any material from other churches. So that new believers will never get out of their trap.
YOUR HORMONE DOES NOT STOP WORKING WITH CHRISTIANITY.
Philip. 3:20-21 (KJV)For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the SAVIOR, the Lord Jesus Christ: [21] Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Romans 8:23 (KJV) And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Our bodies were not save at conversion. The work of redemption took place in your spirit man. Our body will be redeemed at the return of our lord. We are still waiting for the redemption of our body.
According to Philip 3:20-21 and Romans 8:23. You are still going to have urges. You have to present your body to the lord as a living sacrifice. Not dead one. Living sacrifice give trouble, you will have trouble keeping that body tied to the altar. However, as you and I grow in the lord what seem impossible will be quite possible.
The Bearers Of The Mind Sword
