In order to go to Heaven we must be reborn Jesus tells us, “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:33”. When Jesus died on the cross all of our past, and old life was destroyed on the cross. \u201cDo you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? (Romans 6:3).\u201d \u201c\u2026Christ was raised from the dead\u2026(Romans 6:4)\u201d What does all that mean? It, means that in Christ we have become a new person. It uses the metaphor of death and being baptized into his death to represent a death to our sinful desires and a \u201cborn again\u201d soul that it being shaped into the image of the Creator; God. By, keeping God\u2019s commands we show that we love Him as Jesus put it, \u201cIf ye love me, keep my commandments. (John 14:15).\u201d That then means we are not, \u201c\u2026under law but under grace\u2026(Romans 6:15).\u201d We, see that we are not judged by the law of God, we are free in Him. Does this give us a license to sin? The Bible says, \u201c\u2026By no means!,..(Romans 6:15)\u2026\u201d There is a fine balance between justification by faith and good works. The moment we put our trust in ourselves rather than God we have given ourselves over to our sinful nature. We can not be justified without faith, as the Bible puts it, \u201cAnd without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)\u201d The Bible teaches that we are rewarded for our good works, and that God will not forget them. It teaches that when we put our trust in Christ as the Creator of our faith we are forgiven. When, we do good works God smiles upon us as it is evidence that He is actively working in our lives and that we have surrendered to Him. May, we always remember that the, \u201c\u2026free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23).\u201d Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In order to go to Heaven we must be reborn Jesus tells us, “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:33”. When Jesus died on the cross all of our past, and old life was destroyed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}