I had a thought about the modern fundamental soul-winning method.
In order to get saved we tell people to pray a simple little prayer asking Jesus to come into your heart. Interesting that man has developed this idea for getting saved that involves Jesus coming into your heart.. 1, 2, 3, repeat after me, that's it you're done. You're saved now!
HOWEVER!
The bible says in Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? So, when we are going to God with 'worldly' sorrow, and not godly sorrow with a heart that has been prepared by the Holy Ghost for biblical repentance (which is absolutely agreeing with God about yourself no holds barred) and faith in Jesus Christ, we tend to wind up with the world's salvation to go with it.
What are you agreeing with God about?
What is biblical repentance?
I find it even more interesting that Paul, Peter, and even Jesus Christ himself NEVER preached this to people. It is not written anywhere in the bible, come sinners and pray this 5 second prayer and ask Jesus to come into your heart.
But it is written, REPENT and BELEIVE! Why do we find it necessary to develop a gospel that Jesus never taught?? Because we live in a world with watered down Christians who prefer a watered down gospel because our flesh doesn't naturally want to change.
We prefer to live with a false gospel that produces a false salvation with no change on the inward parts, so that we can go on living the way WE want to. We ought not to live in such a way as doing whatever we want, however we want, seeking to satisfy the flesh while we live in this world, because we can not lose our salvation so we still get to go to heaven when we die. If that is how you live your Christian life, I would do a serious evaluation because that is not the life that God called us to. Every tree that does not bear fruit is cast into the fire. I have a serious problem with someone who is "born again" and finds absolutely nothing wrong with carrying on with drinking, and drugs, and fornication, etc. These are just some of the most obvious sins, the ones that everyone else can see. But if you're hiding them in your heart and there is no change or evidence of the inward parts of salvation, you may be able to hide that and fool everyone else.. but you are not fooling God. We will all stand before him, would to God that we would hear the words, "well done thou good and faithful servant."
In order to get saved we tell people to pray a simple little prayer asking Jesus to come into your heart. Interesting that man has developed this idea for getting saved that involves Jesus coming into your heart.. 1, 2, 3, repeat after me, that's it you're done. You're saved now!
HOWEVER!
The bible says in Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? So, when we are going to God with 'worldly' sorrow, and not godly sorrow with a heart that has been prepared by the Holy Ghost for biblical repentance (which is absolutely agreeing with God about yourself no holds barred) and faith in Jesus Christ, we tend to wind up with the world's salvation to go with it.
What are you agreeing with God about?
What is biblical repentance?
I find it even more interesting that Paul, Peter, and even Jesus Christ himself NEVER preached this to people. It is not written anywhere in the bible, come sinners and pray this 5 second prayer and ask Jesus to come into your heart.
But it is written, REPENT and BELEIVE! Why do we find it necessary to develop a gospel that Jesus never taught?? Because we live in a world with watered down Christians who prefer a watered down gospel because our flesh doesn't naturally want to change.
We prefer to live with a false gospel that produces a false salvation with no change on the inward parts, so that we can go on living the way WE want to. We ought not to live in such a way as doing whatever we want, however we want, seeking to satisfy the flesh while we live in this world, because we can not lose our salvation so we still get to go to heaven when we die. If that is how you live your Christian life, I would do a serious evaluation because that is not the life that God called us to. Every tree that does not bear fruit is cast into the fire. I have a serious problem with someone who is "born again" and finds absolutely nothing wrong with carrying on with drinking, and drugs, and fornication, etc. These are just some of the most obvious sins, the ones that everyone else can see. But if you're hiding them in your heart and there is no change or evidence of the inward parts of salvation, you may be able to hide that and fool everyone else.. but you are not fooling God. We will all stand before him, would to God that we would hear the words, "well done thou good and faithful servant."
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