New to the Faith?
If you recently told Jesus that you were sorry for your sins and
You believed in Him enough to invite Him into your heart, then you are truly saved or born again. Congratulations!
So, what does it mean to be saved?
In a nutshell, you have been rescued from the punishment for breaking God’s law. Any sin that is on your record in heaven has been wiped totally clean.
If you read Romans 3:23 you will see that all of us have broken God’s law and have fallen short of His expectation for us. In God’s eyes there is a consequence for breaking His law. Somebody has to shed blood and die. Fortunately for us God allowed His Son Jesus to shed His blood and die on the cross to save us from having to die for our sins. That is what the scripture in John 3:16 is all about. It says God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish (die) but have everlasting life. If we invite the Son into our hearts we get the everlasting or eternal life. (1 John 5:11,12) Eternal life means we get to live with Jesus forever.
You Are Saved By Faith
.(Ephesians 2:8)
When You Are Saved
You Become A
New Creature
In the Bible in John 3:3, Jesus said “you must be born again”. Being born again means you let your old sinful self die just like Jesus died on the cross and you allow Jesus to rise up in you just like he rose up from the grave. Jesus rose from the grave with all power and when he moves into your heart at your request, He moves in with changing power.
The change from the old you to the new you begins the moment you invite Christ in and continues to happen as you believe and obey God’s word. For me the Lord miraculously took the taste for alcohol out of my mouth the moment He came into my heart and has since then been working on the other issues of my life one day at a time.