Preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Philadelphia
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Understanding the Gospel:
The burden of sin was bore upon the cross by the Lord Jesus Christ. Anyone who places the burden of sin upon a sinner to be saved is propagating a false gospel of self-righteousness. Jesus paid it all... and He died in our place taking the punishment we all deserve...
Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through repentance and faith. God will not save anyone who is trying to be saved of themselves, He will only save those who know they need a savior and are trusting Him to be saved. The only requirement to be saved is to admit that you are a guilty sinner in God's sight (Romans 3:19-26) and to turn to Jesus Christ in faith trusting in His death burrial and Ressurection (Romans 10:9-13). You must come as an ungodly sinner to be saved. No one has ever been saved except the UNGODLY (Romans 4:5-8). God doesn't save the self-righteous, who are going about to establish their own righteousness (Matthew 7:21-23). We can only be saved by God's righteousness, which is through faith in Christ. Philippians 3:9 says, “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.”
Repentance is turning to the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved from one's sins (Acts 3:19). Salvation is receiving NOT giving (Romans 4:5). Eternal life is the free gift of God (Romans 5:15;6:23), paid for by Jesus' precious literal blood (1st Peter 1:18,19). To be saved we simply need to come as a guilty sinner to Jesus Christ to have our sins washed away by His redeeming blood (1st John 1:7). Salvation is turning to Jesus to be forgiven of one's sins NOT turning from one's sins in order to be forgiven by Jesus.
The Holy Spirit and the grace of God will begin to work on the born-again believer to guide them and grow them as children of God and each one of us as individuals will all reach different places of spiritual maturity before we die. There is a judgement seat of Christ for our life and service unto God but this is not a judgment for heaven or hell as even the most spiritually immature believers will still be saved as by fire according to the word of God.