Salvation starts and ends with Jesus
Christ, firstly believing in Him and then
obeying Him. Jesus Christ commanded His
disciples, as we read in Matthew 28:19,
He said:"Go into all the
world and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and the Son, and the Holy Ghost and
teaching them to obey all that I
commanded you." Many people have been
taught that if they believe in Jesus and
they are baptized in water that they are
saved, but it is only after we have
repented and been baptized in water that
our true walk with Jesus starts, because
Jesus commanded His disciples to make
disciples and baptize them, and then to
teach them to obey everything that Jesus
commanded them. The commands and words of
Jesus are recorded in the gospels,
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Those are the
words of eternal life. Those are the
commands that we need to follow and obey
in order to be pleasing to Jesus. Most
believers think that once they are
baptized they are saved and then they
sit back and they wait for the rapture,
or the wait to die, and go to heaven. The
kingdom of God is not about waiting, it
is about following and obeying Jesus
Christ. It is about obeying His commands,
living according to His words. Go and
read the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John and apply those words. Obey them,
live by them, live your life to please
Jesus, seek Jesus Himself and He will
reveal Himself to you. If you obey His
words He promised His Holy Spirit to
come and dwell in us, to guide us and to
teach us. Jesus did not command His
disciples to build churches. He commanded
them to make disciples, people who know
and follow Jesus Christ, people who are
filled with the Holy Spirit, who are led
by the Holy Spirit. After the Apostle
Paul met Jesus on the Damascus Road he
was baptized in water and then he was
filled with the Holy Spirit and after
that he went to Arabia for three years,
where Jesus Christ revealed Himself to
him and taught him the gospel. Paul
learnt from Jesus as each of us must
learn from Jesus. Each of us must become
a disciple of Jesus, not a disciple of
the disciples, not a follower of Paul or
of any of the other apostles. We must be
followers of Jesus, who obey His words
and who are led by His Spirit, not by
other people and various teachings. We
need to obey the words of Jesus, receive
the Holy Spirit, and be led by the Holy
Spirit, as Paul also wrote in Romans 8:14
"Those who are
being led by the Spirit of God, they are
the children of God." We need to be
disciples, who follow Jesus. We need to be
children of God, sons of God who are led
by the Spirit of God. If we do not have
the Spirit of Christ and if we are not
led by the Spirit of Christ, the Holy
Spirit, then we do not belong to Him and
we cannot serve Him.
Once you are baptized your walk and your work
only starts. You have to obey the words
of Jesus, you have to seek Him and seek
the infilling with a Holy Spirit so that
you can be led by the Holy Spirit. Nobody
is saved yet, we have to endure with
Jesus, follow Him and obey Him, serve Him
until the very end, and those who endure
with Him until the very end, will be
saved. That is what Jesus commanded His
disciples to do. He said those who endure
until the end will be saved. We have to
follow Jesus after we have repented and
been baptized. We have to serve Him as
disciples and endure with Him until the
very end to enter the kingdom of
heaven. That is the full gospel of Jesus
Christ; repent and be baptized, live
according to His commands, be filled with
the Holy Spirit and be led by the Holy
Spirit of Christ dwelling in you.
May Jesus bless you.
Jesus Christ is alive
and hell is real. I am here to introduce
you to Jesus Christ so that you can know
Him and follow Him and have eternal life.
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