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O God, You are my God;
Early will I seek You;
My soul thirsts for You;
My flesh longs for You
In a dry and thirsty land
Where there is no water.
Psalms 63:1 (NKJV)

How to Become a Christian

*********************************** *********************************** ** Hear God's Word ** *********************************** "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Romans 10:17 *********************************** "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes" Romans 1:16 ********************************************************************** ** Believe ** *********************************** "And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness." Genesis 15:6 *********************************** "He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned." Mark 16:16 *********************************** "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16 *********************************** "He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” John 3:36 *********************************** "And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” John 6:40 *********************************** "Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” John 8:24 ********************************************************************** ** Repent of Sin ** *********************************** "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” Luke 5:32 *********************************** "I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish." Luke 13:3 *********************************** "Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things." Luke 24:46-48 *********************************** "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent" Acts 17:30 *********************************** *********************************** ** Confess Your Sins and Belief ** *********************************** "Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven. " Matthew 10:32,33 *********************************** "that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Romans 10:9,10 *********************************** "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9 *********************************** "Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God." 1 John 4:15 *********************************** *********************************** ** Be Baptized ** *********************************** "Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins" Acts 2:38 *********************************** "Then Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his household. And many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized." Acts 18:8 *********************************** "But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized." Acts 8:12 *********************************** "Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him. Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?” Then Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”" Acts 8:35-37 *********************************** "And immediately he and all his family were baptized." Acts 16:33 *********************************** "And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’" Acts 22:16 *********************************** "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ." Galatians 3:27 ********************************************************************** Continue in Faiththful Obedience to God and Overcome in this Life *********************************** "Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?" 1 John 5:5 *********************************** "“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.”’" Revelation 2:7 *********************************** "“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.”’" Revelation 2:11 *********************************** "“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.”’" Revelation 2:17 *********************************** "And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations—" Revelation 2:26 *********************************** "He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels." Revelation 3:5 *********************************** "He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name." Revelation 3:12 *********************************** "To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne." Revelation 3:21 *********************************** "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame." Hebrews 6:4-6 *********************************** "You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked;" 2 Peter 3: 17 *********************************** "Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent." Revelation 2:5 *********************************** *********************************** Why Worry? Why Bother? *********************************** "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Hebrews 10:31 *********************************** "Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?" Hebrews 2:1-4 *********************************** "There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out." Luke 13:28 *********************************** "And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’" Matthew 25:30 *********************************** "Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’" Matthew 22:13

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