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When I first came into a relationship with Jesus Christ, I gave God most of my problems. I made a mistake of hanging on to some abuse problems that I experienced during childhood.
I grew up in the Southern part of the United States and most people identified as Christian. I do remember we had a large family Bible on a piece of furniture but I do not ever remember opening the Bible up and reading it as a child or young man.
I did grow up with the fundamental concept of a Supreme Being, Higher Power or God so I was not an atheist. When I graduated from high school, I left church and rarely set foot in another church until I was in my early 40’s.
In 2004, I had a major emotional and mental trauma that was a result of childhood abuse that was never resolved. God prompted me to begin reading the Bible everyday. I followed a simple reading plan that began in Genesis and ended in Revelation in a year.
Does Grace Alone Save Me ?
To answer the question, I need to qualify conditions. The Bible, which is the Word of God says in Ephesians 2:8:
Ephesians 2:8 New King James Version (NKJV)
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.
So according to the Bible, yes Grace alone saves me. My works can never be good enough to save me.
Isaiah 64:6:
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
The Apostle Paul writes in Romans 3:10:
As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one”.
A Born Christian goes through a 3 step process in the Christian Walk:
- Justification
- Sanctification
- Glorification
Justification
Justification begins the moment the human soul reaches out to Jesus Christ and acknowledges their need for forgiveness from sins. The process finally happened for me when I cried out to God in May 2016. I was miserable and very unhappy about bad decisions I had made in my life. In prayer that morning, I asked God to take my life. I felt peace come into my heart and mind right away and the chains of 50 years were broken instantly.
Sanctification
Sanctification is the process that began right after I had surrendered my life and will to Jesus Christ. My life is my actions and my will is my thinking. Every day I have been going through the cleansing process as God removes the impurities of my heart and life and replaces my character with the character of Jesus Christ. I will be going through this process until I die or Jesus Christ returns with HIS whole host of Angels.
The way I grow in Jesus Christ is through daily prayer and studying the Bible. When a person comes to Jesus Christ, they enter into the best relationship that human being can ever experience. When you love someone, you want to spend time with them. This is how the personal relationship with Jesus Christ should be. I make conscious contact with Jesus as soon as I wake up in the morning.
“Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.”
In my Christian walk, I have not been perfect. Jesus made provision for us. If we sin, we have an Advocate that waits to hear us repent and ask for Forgiveness.
1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
I attend worship services at church every week because I need to worship God on a regular basis. I get filled up by being in fellowship with other believers.
Glorification
The last stage of the Christian walk occurs when Jesus Christ returns. Jesus will first call the Righteous Dead who are sleeping in their graves. Then Jesus will gather the Righteous Living and we will meet the Lord Jesus in the air with His Whole Host of Angels. Read 1 Thessalonians 4 to understand how Jesus will call His People.
The Bible teaches that we will put on new bodies at His Second Coming. This is the Glorification process. I am looking forward to giving up this sin filled body with its scars, pains, and injuries.
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A born again Christian that has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ will turn from sin and understand what Jesus wrote in Matthew 7:21-23:
I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
Jesus made provision for people like the Thief on the Cross and for people that accept Jesus on their death beds. By Grace alone Jesus accepts these people because they do not have time to go through the Sanctification process. If you do come to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and do not develop that relationship, I feel that we risk hearing what Jesus preached in the paragraph above from Matthew 7. I was risking eternal life all the years that I said I was a Christian but still hung on to some sins that I did not want to stop doing.
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