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"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God." Ephesians 2:8 "People are not born again when they are in bed and asleep, so that they do not know it. They FEEL it; they EXPERIENCE it. Galvanism, or the power of electricity, may be mysterious; BUT THEY PRODUCE A FEELING, A SENSATION. SO DOES THE NEW BIRTH." C. H. Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volume I, The Victory Of Faith |
You claim you're born again... Then I have three questions for you...
WHERE did you get your faith? WHEN did you get your faith? WHAT did your faith consist of?
If you are genuinely born again, your faith was SUPERNATURAL, you received it UPON the PERSONAL INTRODUCTION of Jesus Christ to YOURSELF, and it was WHOLLY a GIFT that came FROM Jesus Christ HIMSELF.
Do you remember such an EXPERIENCE?
If
not, then never think of going to heaven, for you are not born again, and
if you think you are, you are the most deluded person on the face of this
earth, bar none.
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"WHEN I FIRST DISCOVERED WHAT FAITH REALLY WAS, AND EXERCISED IT -- for with me these two things came together, I BELIEVED AS SOON AS EVER I KNEW WHAT BELIEVING MEANT -- then I thought I had never before heard that truth preached." C. H. Spurgeon, Autobiography -- The Great Change - Conversion |
Was that YOUR experience? If not, then never think of going to heaven, for you are not born again, and if you think you are, you are the most deluded person on the face of this earth, bar none.
True
faith, SAVING FAITH, is SUPERNATURAL and is WHOLLY a GIFT from
God, which EVERY man who is GENUINELY born of the Spirit can
REMEMBER RECEIVING, and any man who teaches otherwise is the
mouthpiece of Satan, nor did Jesus die for those who's father is the
devil.
John 8:44
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"Why, if thou art born again, then thou knowest that thou wast not born a Christian at first. Thou knowest that once thou hadst no faith in the Lord Jesus; and wert convinced of sin because thou didst not believe in the Son of Mary... THOU KNOWEST THAT GOD HATH GIVEN THEE THY FAITH... Thou thinkest that thou art a Christian... But when did God shew thee that thou wert no Christian? When didst thou see that: AND IN THE LIGHT OF THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, SEE THAT THOU WERT UNDER THE WRATH OF GOD BECAUSE OF ORIGINAL SIN? NAY, DOST THOU KNOW WHAT ORIGINAL SIN MEANS? Is it not the least in thy thoughts?... WHEN DID THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD JESUS SHEW THEE THAT THOU HADST NO FAITH IN THEE BY NATURE? And when did the Spirit of Christ convince thee of sin because thou didst not believe in him? IT MAY BE THOU HAST BEEN CONVINCED OF SINS AGAINST THE LAW, BY THE LAW, AND THINE OWN CONSCIENCE, as the Pharisees were. AY, BUT WHEN DIDST THOU SEE THYSELF A LOST CREATURE FOR WANT OF FAITH IN THE SON OF MARY? IF NOT, THOU HAST NOT YET BEEN SAVINGLY CONVINCED BY THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST; for that, when it convinceth effectually of sin, it convinceth of unbelief; THOUGH THOU HAST BEEN NEVER SO MUCH CONVINCED OF SINS AGAINST THE LAW, IF THOU HAST NOT SEEN THYSELF UNDER THE POWER AND DOMINION, GUILT AND PUNISHMENT OF SIN BECAUSE THOU DIDST NOT BELIEVE IN CHRIST, THOU HAST NOT YET BEEN SAVINGLY CONVINCED; that that is one work of the Spirit to convince of sin... ART THOU BORN AGAIN?... Then thou seest that thy great sin was want of faith in the Son of Mary... THEN THOU KNOWEST THAT GOD HAS GIVEN THEE THY FAITH that thou hast in his Son: Then thou art to say through grace that there was a time in which I had no faith; there was a time in which I could not believe in the Son of God for eternal life." John Bunyan, Some Gospel Truths Opened |
If
the Holy Spirit never came upon you and showed you that your OWN
NATURAL FAITH was nothing but a DAMNING FAITH, that your
OWN NATURAL FAITH was useless, I say, if the Holy Spirit
never came upon you and showed you this truth (and much more besides), and
did not give
you in place SUPERNATURAL FAITH instead, then you are not born
again, and if you think you are, you are the most deluded person on the
face of this earth, bar none.
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"NONE OF US BELIEVE BY NATURE: but after the Holy Ghost has convinced us of the sin of our natures, and the sin of our lives and duties, in order to convince us of our utter inability to save ourselves, AND THAT WE MUST BE BEHOLDEN TO GOD, AS FOR EVERYTHING ELSE, SO FOR FAITH (without which it is impossible to please, or be saved by Christ) HE CONVINCES US ALSO, THAT WE HAVE NO FAITH." George Whitefield, Sermon, The Holy Spirit Convincing The World Of Sin, Righteousness, And Judgment |
Was that YOUR experience? If not, then never think of going to heaven, for you are not born again, and if you think you are, you are the most deluded person on the face of this earth, bar none.
Would you be born again? GENUINELY born again?
Then take wise counsel -- pick up a Bible based on the Traditional Text -- in English, the ONLY VALID Bible based on the Traditional Text is the King James Bible -- and then read with SOLEMNITY, beginning in the Gospels preferably, and beg Jesus Christ to reveal himself to you, and give him no rest until he does, for if you read the TRUE written Word of God, you will find the Lord of Glory, even Jesus Christ, moving upon the face of the waters in its pages, just as he moved upon the face of the waters when he walked across the Sea of Galilee, and if you follow the advice just given, and if you persist, Jesus Christ HIMSELF will verily MANIFEST HIMSELF to you (for he HIMSELF promises to do this for those who truly heed this advice), just as he MANIFESTED HIMSELF to his disciples when he moved upon the face of the waters as he walked across the stormy sea some two thousand years ago, and just as he did with ME not too many years ago, and just as he has done with a FEW others from day to day since that time, in this very generation, and just as he will do for YOU if -- IF -- you heed my advice, and if -- IF -- you persist therein, for he who promised is FAITHFUL. John 14:21, Matthew 14:25-27
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