If you feel that you still
have questions about your state before God (salvation), we would first
of all encourage you to get on your knees before Him with a
Bible. Open up your heart to the Lord and allow the Holy Spirit
to reveal what is in your heart..."God is not willing that any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance"
Below are some great tools
that can be of help to you as well:
NOTE: Read this
booklet for the joy of "True Biblical Christianity" and answer What is
it to truly "Follow Christ".
Quotes
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“There is no justification
without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no
real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.”
--- Martin Luther
"A Christian is not somebody who stays away from all the wicked
things he loves and clings to all the righteous things he hates so
that he can go to heaven. The fear of the Christian is not going to
hell. The fear of the Christian is being separated from Christ."
--- Paul Washer, HeartCry Missionary Society
"I want you to know that the greatest heresy in the American
evangelical and protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus
to come into your heart, He will definitely come in. You will not
find that in any place in Scripture."
--- Paul Washer, HeartCry Missionary Society
“Everyone wants to go to Heaven. They just don’t want God to be
there, when they get there.”
--- Paul Washer, HeartCry Missionary Society
“It is my opinion that tens of thousands of people, if not millions,
have been brought into some kind of religious experience by
accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.”
--- A.W. Tozer
“Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image, but idolatry is
any concept of God that reduces God to less than who He really is”.
--- A.W. Tozer
"The scriptures are given not to increase our knowledge, but to
change our lives."
--- Dwight L. Moody
``Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning
is not biblical grace ... whosoever therefore will be a friend of
the world is the enemy of God. James 4:4"
--- SB
"If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of hell. If
you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so,
you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of
conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no
throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never
feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done
evil, you are no child of God."
--- Charles Spurgeon
"You cannot use a method that is fundamentally self-centered to
invite people into a moral universe that is fundamentally
God-centered."
--- Dwight L. Moody
“If you're a genuine Christian, worldly pleasures are no longer
pleasures to you and the very tasting of them makes you feel sick
since the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit has caused you to be
Born Again as a new creation with new appetites that desire to live
a life that is pleasing to God. God causes you to go from being dead
to alive. Is Jesus Christ the born again passion of your heart? Have
you had a supernatural change of life or was it merely a new destiny
you were looking for? The question is not do you desire to go to
heaven, the question is do you desire Jesus Christ?
You will never know the worthiness of Christ until you know the
unworthiness of your own heart.”
--- MV
"To swim in one's sins while claiming God's grace, reveals one's
lostness while despising Him to His face."
--- MV
No Assurance While Intent
On Sin
"The Bible makes it plain, I
believe, that people who persistently refuse the command of Jesus’
lordship have no warrant for believing that they are saved. Such
people should not be comforted that they are saved simply because
there was a time when they “believed” gospel facts or walked an
aisle or signed a card or prayed a prayer. In fact, Jesus seems far
more eager to explode the assurance of false “professions of faith”
than he is to give assurance to people who are intent on living in
sin. Where does he ever bolster the “eternal security” of a person
unwilling to forsake sin?
I am not saying that only perfect people are saved. There are no
perfect people on this earth. We sin every day and every good work
we do is tainted with sinful remnants of corruption. I am saying
that a person who goes on willfully rejecting the commands of Jesus
for his life has no warrant for salvation."
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