What Part Of Our Life Change At Conversion
By J. A McBean, Dr.Th., MCC
Copyright © 2008 Library of Congress
Washington.D.C.20559
E ven though the Christian’s life is a learning experience one does not learn to be save, one does not learn to be a Christian or learn to be born again. Living the Christian’s life, God has to help us most of the way. When a person is converted to Christianity, it is a new life. It is not necessarily something you learn to be, it is something you become, you do not learn to be born again. You do not try, and try harder to do well, it is not turning over a new leaf. You do not try to stop smoking are tries to stop taking illegal drugs. When the lord save you all of that garbage suddenly fall of you, you do not know where that need went. The urges to kill, the urges to hate, the urges to be happy when bad things happen to some people. All that suddenly fall off you like a chain drop off.
The lord has to make you know that you are save, that you are accepted into the family of God. And the ways he is going to let you know, is to bring about a change in your life. A change that you will see and others will see also.
2 Cor. 5:17 (KJV)Therefore if any men be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Old things are become passed away and all things become new. How early does the old things passed away and how early does the new things come in effect? Does it come in effect instantaneously or progressively?
THE SINNERS PRAYER.
Lord I am a sinner, I have hurt others, I sin against others and sin against you, cleanse me from all of my sins and save me now in Jesus name Amen.
After you say the sinner’s prayer aloud with your mouth and if you do not feel like a flood burst loose in your soul that make you want to burst out crying, that mean you did not mean the prayer you pray. If you do not feel something drop in your soul, if you do not feel different that very moment something is wrong.
Acts 9:18 (KJV) And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
IF YOU DO NOT FEEL A LOVE SUCH AS YOU HAVE NEVER KNOW SINCE YOU WERE BORN, YOU ARE NOT SAVE YET.
Galatians 5:22 (KJV) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Galatians 5:23 (KJV) Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Ephes. 5:9 (KJV) (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
When sinners accept Jesus as their lord, what arias of that sinner life changes at conversion? The person received an immediate peace, that flooded their soul like a mighty river.
IF YOU FEEL NO PEACE, YOU ARE NOT SAVE YET.
Philip. 4:7 (KJV) And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 13:20 (KJV) Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
IF YOU ARE NOT BROUGHT BACK TO YOUR RIGHT MIND YOU ARE NOT SAVE YET.
2 Tim. 1:7 (KJV) For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Luke 8:35 (KJV) Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
IF SOMEBODY HAD TO TEACH YOU TO COME OFF DRUGS THEN YOU ARE NOT SAVE.
John 8:36 (KJV) If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Galatians 5:1 (KJV) Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
1 Thes. 4:9 (KJV) But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
WHERE DOES THE CHANGE TAKE PLACE?
The change or the works of salvation taken place in out inner man. The inward man is the soul & spirit. The outward man is the body. The outward man our body was not save the times we got save. The outward man will be save at the revelation of our lord. Our job now is to present our body as a living sacrifice. A living sacrifice is not a dead one, living sacrifice give trouble, it tries to crawl off the altar, we must constantly wash it and put it back on the altar. It is a reasonable service but not an effortless one.
Ephes. 3:16 (KJV) That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
2 Cor. 4:16 (KJV) For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. The body is call the outward man. Our soul and spirit is call the inner man, when it is being brought in saving knowledge of Jesus Christ is call the new man, or the spiritual man.
NONE OF OUR INSTINCTIVE QUALITIES CHANGE AT CONVERSION.
If you were a big eater before getting converted to Christianity chances are you will continue to be a big eater. If you have strong sex drive before it is even going to get better after due to your change life style. Getting save not going to stop you from eating and from going to the toilet.
“The soul lives its natural life through what, for want of a better term, we may describe as the instincts. These instincts are the driving forces of the personality, with which the Creator has endowed man in order to fit him for an earthly existence). We call them instincts because they are inborn impulses implanted within the creature to enable it to do instinctively what is necessary for the origination and preservation of natural life. Writes Dr. Leander Keyser: “If the human infant did not have certain instincts to begin with, it could not survive even with the best of parental and medical care” let us notice the five most important instincts.
THE SELF-PRESERVATION
The first is the instinct of the self-preservation, which warns us of danger and enable us to care for ourselves.
THE ACQUISITIVE INSTINCTS.
Second, the acquisitive (getting) instinct, which leads us to acquire the necessities for self-support.
THE FOOD SEEKING INSTINCTS
. Third, the food-seeking instinct, an impulse that leads to the satisfying of natural hunger.
THE REPRODUCTIVE INSTINCTS.
Forth, the reproductive instinct which brings about the perpetuation of the race.
THE INSTINCTS OF DOMINANCE.
Fifth, the instinct of dominance, which leads to the exercise of that self-assertion necessitated by one’s calling and responsibilities.”
By Myer Pearlman. Knowing the Doctrines Of The Bible. Page 108. It was the food seeking instincts that Satan appeal to that causes Adam and Eve to sin. It was the reproductive instinct that Satan appeal to when he causes David to commit adultery.
Human beings find it difficult to ignored their instincts. The instincts will always win. Regardless of what our religious training says. To disobey the sex instincts completely is only possible if that particular person was not born with it. Not only that. But the organs of the reproductive systems would suffer retardation for lack of uses, Knowing as “Atrophy”
THE SINFUL NATURE OF OUR BODY WILL CHANGE AT OUR LORD’S RETURN.
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.
Philip. 3:20 (KJV) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: Philip. 3:21 (KJV) 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.
RIGHT NOW WE MUST KEEP OUR BODY UNDER CONTROL.
Our vile body refuses to remain on the altar, and if our bodies have its way it will cause us to suffer reproaches, and fall into condemnation by the hands of sinners. It will also cause us to be disapproved for ministries.
A PREACHER USING THIS VERSE, CUT THE WHOLE CHURCH DOWN.
1 Cor. 9:27 (NASB-U) but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
These verses of scripture were not talking about being rejected for eternal salvation. A person can serve as a bishop in this life and lose their reward for doing so in the other life, because we were given over to the indulgence of the body. If the body has it way it will dive into all kind of irresponsible behavior.
A REASONABLE SERVICE BUT NOT AN EFFORTLESS ONE.
Romans 12:1-2 (Living Bible) And so, dear brothers, I plead with you to give your bodies to God. Let them be a living sacrifice, holy--the kind he can accept. When you think of what he has done for you, is this too much to ask? [2] Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how his ways will really satisfy you.
HATEFUL BELIEVERS ARE DECEIVED BELIEVERS.
Gal 2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
1 John 4:20 (KJV) If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
The Message Bible. 1Jo 4:20. If anyone boasts, "I love God," and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won't love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can't see?
The Message Bible. 1Jo 4:8. The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love--so you can't know him if you don't love.
Pro 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren
WHY THE SPIRIT OF GOD DEPARTS FROM KING SAUL.
1 Samuel 16:14 (KJV) But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. 1 Samuel 18:12 (KJV) And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul. 1 Samuel 18:11 (KJV)And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
Twenty-one Attempts of Saul to Kill David
1. An attempt by a javelin (1 Samuel 18:11) 2. Second attempt by javelin (1 Samuel 18:11) 3. By scheming to have him killed by the Philistines (1 Samuel 18:17-19) 4. Through Michal and the Philistines (1 Samuel 18:20-30) 5. Trying to get Jonathan and all his own servants to kill him (1 Samuel 19:1-7) 6. Third personal attempt to kill him by javelin (1 Samuel 19:8-10) 7. By messengers to his house (1 Samuel 19:11-14) 8. Messengers to his house (1 Samuel 19:15-16) 9. Messengers to Ramah (1 Samuel 19:17-20) 10. Messengers to Ramah (1 Samuel 19:21) 11. Messengers again to Ramah (1 Samuel 19:21) 12. By personally going to Ramah (1 Samuel 19:22-24) 13. Planning to kill him the first day of the feast (1 Samuel 20:24-26) 14. Planning to kill him the second day of the feast (1 Samuel 20:27-30) 15. Commanding that he be brought from home to die (1 Samuel 20:31-42) 16. Making war on Keilah to kill David (1 Samuel 23:8-13) 17. Seeking him in the wilderness of Ziph (1 Samuel 23:14-18) 18. Sending spies to find him (1 Samuel 23:19-24) 19. Sending his army after him (1 Samuel 23:25-29) 20. Again going after David with 3,000 selected men, but falling into his hands and being spared (1 Samuel 24:1-22) 21. Still again going after David with a selected army, but falling into his hands a second time and being spared (1 Samuel 26:1-25)
Ten Personal Gospel Blessings
1.It brings one into Christ (2 Cor. 5:17). See doctrine of interpenetrating (Luke 22:3). 2.One is a new creature (2 Cor. 5:17). 3.Old things are passed away (2 Cor. 5:17). The Greek word for "old" is archaios , ancient, original, old. Such things are no more in one. 4.All things are new (2 Cor. 5:17). The life is just the opposite of the old life. 5.All things are of God (2 Cor. 5:18). The true Christian does not permit anything in his life which is ungodly and unchristlike (Romans 6:14-23; Romans 8:1-13; Galatians 5:16-26). 6.One is reconciled to God (2 Cor. 5:18; Romans 5:10; Ephes. 2:14-18; Col. 1:20-21). 7.He has part in the ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18-20; 2 Cor. 1:18-24). 8.He has been trusted with the Word of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:19; Mark 16:15-20). 9.He is an ambassador of God in Christ's stead (2 Cor. 5:20; Proverbs 13:17). 10.He is the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Cor. 5:21; Romans 3:21-31; Romans 8:4).
SOMETIME ONLY JESUS CAN HELP US
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.
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