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I have more scripture references in regards to Jesus and salvation. Ref: I John Chapter 1: verse 7(not St. John),"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Ref; Romans 10: verse 9 ," That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Verse 10-"For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Those scriptures explain the basic actions of becoming born again. Also Ref: St.John 14:6, Jesus saith unto them, " I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the father but by me."Ref; St. Mark 2:5-"When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, son, thy sins be forgiven thee." Ref; St.John 10:30 - Jesus said, "I and my father are one." Ref; St.john 7:28, "Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. Verse 29; "But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me." Ref; St.John 8: verse 18," I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me."
Okay basically, after all those references, I want to make some life altering points to everybody. First, I want everyone to see the diety of Jesus. In turn, he has the power to forgive sins. So, very important for those who do not know God or Jesus. When you "first" pray for forgiveness of sins, you ask Jesus. Once you have accepted Jesus, then it is appropriate to pray to the Father, in Jesus name. When you are praying for salvation, it is Jesus that saves you, point blank. before this occurs, you can not come before the father, because he God is not your Father. He only becomes your father that you can pray to after you accept Jesus, and he spiritually see the blood covering of Jesus on you, spiritually. A person who has not accepted Jesus is none of the Heavenly Father's. that person's father is Satan, the Devil. Jesus said this. Jesus as I referenced said no man can come to the Father but by Him(Jesus), not by no other person. You can not get to Heaven and survive judgement, and stay in Heaven, without Jesus. This is God's plan. Yahweh God is everybody's God, but he is not everybody's Father. You have to be adopted. Once you are saved, or born-again, it is a daily relationship, where you do pray to the Father for everything, even for forgiveness, in Jesus name, but this is different from before you are saved. You must go through Jesus only. period. If you do not except Jesus by choice you have no everlasting life, but everlasting torment, damnation or total seperation from God, love, peace and happiness. There is so much more I can say about Jesus. I will cover more on Chapter 10 of St. John down the road, because it involves another topic in relation to Jesus later on. However, it is critical that every person alive, find out about this Jesus guy, and make the "choice' to accept him. I told you all, God has given me alot to say, and taught me how to really explain stuff, and get down and set the record straight. I have had many supernatural encounters with God. I have left my physical body, and travelled in the spirit. So, for those who doubt there is a God, Heaven, Hell, or life beyond the physical material world, believe me, I personally experienced the spirit world. in addition, for things I have not experienced, I have researched, and found that there is an unending and no escaping Hellish place of torment. This Hellish place is where those who reject Jesus go, and they are seperate from God, love, joy, peace and happiness forever. All of the physical or material riches, and things we possess, see, touch, smell; i.e. houses, food, money, jewelry, clothes, cars we drive around in, will not last forever, nor save any of us. If you have a church, and you are online, or you just have regular visitors that come into your building, it is critically important that you, either on your website or in the building, make sure that Jesus Christ is emphasized more than anything or any other person. The Lord spoke to me and said alot of churches talk about their works or ministries. They discuss gobbly-gook to the masses. they talk about sacriments, holy water, candles, building projects, the prayer of the father. All of that is fine, but you in the churches need to ask people if they know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. The Lord said if you, the church, are with Jesus, you need to act like it, and make him the focus to win souls. The Lord said woe unto the churches that have lost souls coming in and out of your mist, and you do not explain, and offer them God's plan of salvation through Jesus. Jesus should be emphasized on all church websites, that is, those who "claim" to know Jesus.
I am going to say something general here, and will come back to this statement on a later post. The only true God specifically, does have a only begotten Son, who is also God, who was born of a virgin, the only person ever to live a "sinless life", died, was buried, rose again all for the sins of man, and is called Jesus/Word. If you are in any religion or church and your God does not have that relation with a Divine Son, then you serve a false god, and you need to get out of that church or religion. Jesus came to save all mankind, and many churches and religions do not teach this. They teach other ways to salvation, but according to God's plan there is no other way, not suicide bombing, baptism, being a good person, giving money, obeying the law, etc. God's plan of salvation is a free gift. It is not burdensome. God requires mercy, or a contrite heart, not a sacrifice. Ref; Matthew 11 verse28 Jesus said-, "Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Verse29-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. Verse 30-For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." There is a song that says, "Jesus is the answer for the "World' today, above him there's no other, Jesus is the way."