I assure you,unless you turn from your sins and become as little children,you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. -Matthew 18:3.
But if wicked people turn away from all their sins and begin to obey my laws and do what is just and right,they will surely live and not die. -Ezekiel 18:21.
I will go home to my father and say,"Father,I have sinned against both heaven and you, -Luke 15:18.
Conversion-turning to God
The Bible explains to us that man's condition after the fall of Adam is the very opposite of his original state.Day has become night for him,his sense of morality has been blacked out.He now regards his enemies as friends,and his friends as enemies.He calls good bad,and bad good.He considers himself free and upright;in fact he is enslaved and wicked.
The only thing that,according to the words of the Bible,can help him,namely redemption through faith in Jesus Christ,seems to him totally unnecessary.He thinks of God as his enemy instead of accepting Him as his best friend.This is the result of an inner evil impulse that man cannot conquer by himself.It makes him blind and turns his will into a wrong direction that leads to destruction.
So it is necessary for man to allow God to work on his heart and reform him completely.Whoever wishes to be freed from the power of sin and saved from eternal condemnation must acknowledge himself to be morally bankrupt and surrender to God.
That is conversion,declairing oneself powerless before God,changing one's sinful way and entrusting oneself to God,so that all can be made new.The fallen creature must return to the Creator,the lost child to the Father's house.Conversion opens the way to salvation.God responds to this confession of guilt and weakness by forgiving the believer his sins and making him His child.
We have gone in the wrong direction and find ourselves at a dead end.We are lost;the quicker we turn back ,the less time is wasted.
Turning back:that is the meaning of the word "conversion".This is not a mere theory,no external restoration,but a total inward change.Anyone who manages to improve his outward conduct is by no means converted.Conversion is a radical cure dnf our moral ways.It has,of course,an effect on the way we lead our lives.
Conversion does not consist in changing one's religion,but accepting a fresh standard of values,becoming what one previously was not,having a new source of energy and different hopes and friends.It means choosing another pathway,setting one's sights on other goals,and working for a new Master.Formaly I lived for myself,now I live for God.I used to be satisfied with myself,now I have recognized my old sad moral state.Yesterday God had to condemn me;today He sees me as justified by Christ's work of redemption on the cross.
Conversion is a total change in one's thinking and living.A new convert put it like this:"Until now I thought I lived:now I really live."
Conversion makes one a completely new person like a newly born baby,it makes you view and experience life in a whole new way."What this means is that those who become Christians become new persons.They are not the same anymore,for the old life is gone.A new life has begun!" -2 Corinthians 5:17.This new life brings joy,peace,comfort and hope,it brings fulfilment and total satisfaction.In fact,those who think they're comfortable with their lives as it is,it's simply because they have no idea of what true satisfaction,love,joy,peace,hope and comfort's all about.You can't get this anywhere,except in Jesus.He is waiting for you,but time is short!
But if wicked people turn away from all their sins and begin to obey my laws and do what is just and right,they will surely live and not die. -Ezekiel 18:21.
I will go home to my father and say,"Father,I have sinned against both heaven and you, -Luke 15:18.
Conversion-turning to God
The Bible explains to us that man's condition after the fall of Adam is the very opposite of his original state.Day has become night for him,his sense of morality has been blacked out.He now regards his enemies as friends,and his friends as enemies.He calls good bad,and bad good.He considers himself free and upright;in fact he is enslaved and wicked.
The only thing that,according to the words of the Bible,can help him,namely redemption through faith in Jesus Christ,seems to him totally unnecessary.He thinks of God as his enemy instead of accepting Him as his best friend.This is the result of an inner evil impulse that man cannot conquer by himself.It makes him blind and turns his will into a wrong direction that leads to destruction.
So it is necessary for man to allow God to work on his heart and reform him completely.Whoever wishes to be freed from the power of sin and saved from eternal condemnation must acknowledge himself to be morally bankrupt and surrender to God.
That is conversion,declairing oneself powerless before God,changing one's sinful way and entrusting oneself to God,so that all can be made new.The fallen creature must return to the Creator,the lost child to the Father's house.Conversion opens the way to salvation.God responds to this confession of guilt and weakness by forgiving the believer his sins and making him His child.
We have gone in the wrong direction and find ourselves at a dead end.We are lost;the quicker we turn back ,the less time is wasted.
Turning back:that is the meaning of the word "conversion".This is not a mere theory,no external restoration,but a total inward change.Anyone who manages to improve his outward conduct is by no means converted.Conversion is a radical cure dnf our moral ways.It has,of course,an effect on the way we lead our lives.
Conversion does not consist in changing one's religion,but accepting a fresh standard of values,becoming what one previously was not,having a new source of energy and different hopes and friends.It means choosing another pathway,setting one's sights on other goals,and working for a new Master.Formaly I lived for myself,now I live for God.I used to be satisfied with myself,now I have recognized my old sad moral state.Yesterday God had to condemn me;today He sees me as justified by Christ's work of redemption on the cross.
Conversion is a total change in one's thinking and living.A new convert put it like this:"Until now I thought I lived:now I really live."
Conversion makes one a completely new person like a newly born baby,it makes you view and experience life in a whole new way."What this means is that those who become Christians become new persons.They are not the same anymore,for the old life is gone.A new life has begun!" -2 Corinthians 5:17.This new life brings joy,peace,comfort and hope,it brings fulfilment and total satisfaction.In fact,those who think they're comfortable with their lives as it is,it's simply because they have no idea of what true satisfaction,love,joy,peace,hope and comfort's all about.You can't get this anywhere,except in Jesus.He is waiting for you,but time is short!
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