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KNOWING JESUS
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Steps to Having a Personal Relationship With Jesus
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Know that God Loves You and Has a Plan
for Your Life
God loves you and desires for your life to
be fulfilled! He longs for you to be in a
personal relationship with Him.
Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the
plans I have for you," declares the LORD,
"plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
plans to give you hope and a future.”
God even sent His Son to the world that we
might have everlasting life,
"For God so loved the world that He gave
His only begotten Son, that whoever believes
in Him should not perish, but have eternal
life"
-John 3:16
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We are Imperfect and
Separated from God.
Unfortunately, we sin against God. A sin is
anything that we do which against the will
of God. The result of our sin is that we are
separated from God who has no part of sin.
Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned
and fallen short of the glory of God.”
The result of our sin is death
– Romans 6:23.
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Jesus Christ is the Only Way to a
Relationship with God
Jesus died in our place on the cross. In
other words, Jesus traded places with us. He
took our sins and gave us his life as a
substitution: “But God demonstrates his
own love for us in this: While we were still
sinners, Christ died for us”
– Romans 5:8.
The Good News is that Jesus did not stay
dead! Because Jesus never sinned himself, he
did not deserve to die so he was raised from
the dead: "Christ died for our sins... He
was buried... He was raised on the third
day, according to the Scriptures... He
appeared to Peter, then to the twelve. After
that He appeared to more than five hundred..."
-I Corinthians 15:3-6.
Jesus is the ONLY way to salvation and a
renewed relationship with God. Jesus said,
“I am the Way the Truth and the Life. No
one comes to the Father but through me”
– John 14:6.
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Receiving Jesus as Your Personal Savior
When we ask Jesus into our lives, we become
the children of God!
"But as many as received Him, to them He
gave the right to become children of God,
even to those who believe in His name" –
John 1:12.
Jesus wants to be a part of our life and
even makes the effort to come to us!
"Behold, I stand at the door and
knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens
the door, I will come in to him"
(Revelation 3:20).
We have salvation by believing in Jesus and
not by what we do:
"For by grace you have been saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the
gift of God; not as a result of works, that
no one should boast" -Ephesians 2:8-9.
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How Can I pray to Be Saved?
If you want to ask Christ into your life,
here is a simple prayer:
Dear Father in heaven,
I admit that I am not perfect and that I
have sinned against you.
Please forgive me for my sins. I believe and
accept that Jesus is the Son of God and that
he suffered and died on the cross, paying
the punishment for my sins.
Jesus, I accept you as my Lord and risen
Savior.
I believe that I have the Spirit of Jesus
living inside of me, that I am forgiven, and
that I am now a Christian
I know that I have salvation and everlasting
life and when I die, I will live eternally
with Jesus.
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