Results of True Christian Conversion

Religion is not Salvation or a way to Eternal Life; true Christianity is.

What God hates in our churches:

R --   ritual

E --   earnestness for superficiality

L --   legalism and manipulation

I --   ignorant of a lot of what is God-pleasing

G --   going on with un-Biblical tradition

 I --   “I” problem especially in pride and selfishness

O --   obnoxious

N --   nasty, hypocritical, and condemnatory like the Pharisees of old

Barely saved?

Matthew 5:19

“Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments,

          and shall teach men (and women) so,

                 he [or she] shall be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven;

   but whosoever shall do and teach them,

        the same shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.”

1 Corinthians 3:13-15

“Everyone's work shall be made manifest;

        for the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire;

             and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

                   If one's work survives which he [or she] has built upon,

                        he [or she] shall receive a reward.

                  If one's work shall be burned, he [or she] shall suffer loss;

                        but he [or she] shall be saved, yet so as by fire.”

What is the saving faith?  It can be summarized by the following anagram:

F --   fear not

A --   assurance from God's Word

I --    in God's love

T --   trust in God and the Bible

H --   holiness with Holy Spirit and Bible help

True Christian conversion results in what the following indicates:

C --   Christ, confession

H --   Holy Spirit help

A --   attitudes and actions

N --   needs

G --   good works  (Ephesians 2:10)

E --   everywhere for eternity

C --   commitment to God's truth

O --   obedience to the Holy Spirit

U --   understanding God's desires

R --   revival spiritually

A --   attentiveness for opportunities to minister

G --   gratefulness to God, especially for His protection

E --   enduring in faith of our Lord Jesus Christ

John 14:15 & 21

Jesus Christ said,

“If you love Me,

      keep My commandments.

  He [or she] who has My commandments and keeps them,

        he [or she] it is who loves Me;

             and he [or she] who loves Me shall be loved of My Father,

                   and I will love him [or her], and will manifest Myself to him [or her].”

Hebrews 3:6 & 10:23

“but Christ as a Son over His own house,

        whose house we are

               if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.”

“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering,

        for He who promised is faithful.”

Colossians 1:21-23

“And you, who were sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works,

         yet now has He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death,

              to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight,

                    if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast,

                    and are not moved away from the hope of the Gospel which you heard,

                           which was preached to every creature under Heaven,

                                 of which I, Paul, became a minister.”

Ephesians 1:4-6

“According as He has chosen us in Him

        before the foundation of the world,

             that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love;”

                  having predestinated us to the adoption of children

                        by Jesus Christ to Himself,

                        according to the good pleasure of His will,

                              to the praise of the glory of His grace,

                                   wherein He has made us accepted in The Beloved.”

Ephesians 2:10

“For we are His workmanship,

        created in Christ Jesus for good works,

             which God prepared beforehand

                    so that we would walk in them.”

1 Peter 1:13-15

“Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober,

       and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you

             at the revelation of Jesus Christ, as obedient children,

                  not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;

                  but as He Who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,

                      because it is written, ‘Be holy, for I am holy.’”

If there were arrests and court trials for Christians, how much evidence would the detectives find of God-pleasing actions would they find for the prosecutor to use against you?  Who are you living for most of the time?  Yourself or God?  Every sin is because of selfishness.  Now carefully read Romans 8, Galatians 5, and Proverbs 3:5-6.  I hope that you will become a better ambassadors for Christ.  He is coming back for a purified Bride.