It's funny how a conversation can quickly go from one thing to another. My favorite types of conversations are those that start out very surface and then turn into a wonderful conversation that ends up being church! I love to talk about God and my faith, the day I was saved, the trials that I have been through, mistakes I've made and the blood that covered them, God's grace...I could go on and on! I love to learn and ask questions. Although I was raised in church it is as if I'm hearing Bible stories for the first time and I get so excited.
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Next weekend our church is hosting a Beth Moore simulcast and I'm so excited! I went last year but I wasn't saved and I am so excited about going and hearing her now that I get it! I was telling someone that the other night and they looked at me sort of funny but it's okay...I know what I mean! haha
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Anyway, last weekend my parents came to spend the weekend with us and we got to talking and just messed around and had a little church right there in my living room! Our topic turned to salvation. My Momma was saying how that she was married to my Daddy, pregnant with me, was teaching Sunday School and had a head knowledge of Christ as her Savior but wasn't saved. She said she had been baptised so many times that she knew every tadpole in the pond by name! haha (I love my Momma...lol). As our discussion deepened I shared about the day that I was saved. As I took Bro. John's hand, I told him that I didn't think I was saved. I told him that I had been baptised but I just wasn't sure. That's when he said words that I will never forget. He told me that if I had only spoken the words asking Jesus Christ to save me but I had never actually truly believed that he died to save me and that he forgives me then I had done nothing more than speak words.
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As I stood there listening to Bro. John talk it all became very clear to me. Speaking the words was only a part of it...actually believing is the key! "I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life." John 5:24. Do you believe today or do you just have that knowledge that you spoke some words? Let me tell you friend if you don't believe with everything in your soul that Jesus Christ died on that cross for your wretched old sorry self then you don't have your eternity sealed! Remember the plan of salvation is ABC! A-Admit B-Believe C-Confess! There is no time like the present!
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