How to Become a Christian & Basic Scriptural Understanding

A Story by Silencer

Part of the Training Program.

How to Become a Christian:

Believe in GOD.

One night when I was 11, on a campout, I decided to think about every single thought in my head, and determine if there was a GOD or not. After exhausting my mind, and becoming very tired, I reached the conclusion, that there was no GOD. This thought made me sad, but it is what I believed, and then I went to sleep. When I woke-up, I remembered my previous night's thoughts, and then I also remembered an additional thought that I had forgotten about, that when added in, made me certain that there was a GOD. And I've been certain ever since.

When I look at the lost, I am certain that not one of them has ever done this. They're too shallow. And, if you've never done this, you need to.

I actually believed in Jesus since age 7. But I didn't think it through critically, until that time.

Who is Jesus?

Jesus is one of the three Persons of God, Who has lived eternally with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. He came to Earth as a Man a little over 2,000 years ago, and He preached throughout Israel from around age 29 to 33. He is Lord of the Earth, and He loves all of us tremendously. He especially loves children. He suffered more than anyone ever, and died and rose from the dead three days later, in order to pay for all of our sins. He decides who goes to Heaven or not. He says all you have to do to go to Heaven is believe in Him. Religious leaders rejected Him, but His teachings were well-received by the public. He did many miracles and fulfilled many prophecies (predictions) that only God could do. He taught us to love God and to love one another. He healed people, saved people's lives, fed thousands more than once, calmed the weather, walked on water, floated up into the air, made fish jump into a net, and more. There are also many more very-important things to know about Him, that are in the Bible. He will return to Earth to rule it for 1,000 years, very, very, soon.

[See: "H - Looking Forward." In TRIALS.]

Some scholars say Jesus fulfilled well in excess of 1,000 prophecies. Jesus' prophetic fulfillments are the proof that HE is GOD, and the reason why you should believe in HIM. Whoever you are. Faith, isn't required here.

Get Saved.

We have ONE GOD, WHO expresses HIMSELF, in THREE PERSONS.

You don't have to say these words. You just need to tell GOD (you pray To, By, and Through,) that you believe in JESUS, and that you would like to start YOUR relationship, (with The HOLY TRINITY,) and mean it.

This prayer only works, if you mean these words, (in your heart,) when you say them.

I would suggest something like this....

Dear GOD, Please save me. I receive Jesus' payment for my sins, and make Him my Lord. Please fill my life with Your presence, and begin Our eternal relationship. I love You. Amen. *

Now, if you've prayed that, try to be aware of HIS (GOD'S) directions. In your life. In your thoughts, and all of your circumstances and issues. In every detail. What's on your mind? What are you thinking? What are you noticing? What is coming into your life? ETC.

Next Steps.

After you say the Sinner's Prayer, there are several things you should do.

Pray without ceasing. Converse with GOD from now on, and never stop. Also, pay attention and be receptive to messages from GOD to you. HE will often guide your attention to areas where HE would like it to be. Both in your mind, and in your surroundings.

Get a NKJV Bible, and read it, focusing more on the New Testament. ALSO; Consider adding a Concordance, and an Amplified Bible, to further assist your studies.

Watch sermons on TV from at least 10 different preachers. Then choose 2 or more to continue learning from regularly, and do so.

Seek to get Born Again by The Holy Spirit. All true believers are given The Holy Spirit before they draw their last breaths. And some will have to wait that long. He will come to you when GOD thinks the time is right. You must never blaspheme Him, that is the only unforgivable sin. Read my Companion Notes entitled "More About How I Got Born Again", for information about how to encourage Him to come to you. The sooner He does, the sooner He can begin guiding and comforting and helping and loving you.

Luke 11:13 - To receive the Holy Spirit, you ask FATHER for HIM.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

Seek other believers in Jesus to socialize with, and support each other.

Think about life from now on in terms of eternity, not just a lifetime.

Prepare yourself, for a more challenging and difficult, but also rewarding, life.

Set your mind, to live your life for GOD, and to be rewarded by HIM, when you see HIM.

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Optimum Success.

The greatest success you can possibly achieve in life, occurs as a direct result, of loving GOD, as intensely as you can. Sincerely and passionately loving GOD all that you can, automatically aligns your words, thoughts and deeds in the most ideal way possible, for you to achieve this.

When you love GOD, you will suffer more than other people. But, if you persist through the suffering, with your positive attitude, in the end, you will reap great spiritual growth, and also, tremendous tangible rewards. The suffering process will occur between several, to many, times, and could also possibly cost you your physical life. Whether you live or die, you will achieve the greatest amount of true success, that you possibly can. This is the life, that GOD intends for you to live.

Suffering.

When I am suffering, there are two things that help me get through it more than anything else.

The first one, is thinking of the suffering of others. Remembering that others are suffering, and have suffered, (think of Jesus,) more than I am, comforts me. The second, is counting my blessings. Doing that helps me to focus my mind on good thoughts.

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Basic Scriptural Understanding:

Some Highlights From Matthew.

These will strengthen your understanding.

While reading these, consider how each one relates to 'faithfulness'.

5:3-12 - (Beatitudes.) - Notice the lost are the opposites of these things.

Blessed are the poor in spirit,

For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are those who mourn,

For they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek,

For they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,

For they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful,

For they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart,

For they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers,

For they shall be called sons of God.

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake,

For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

5:20 - Sufficient righteousness (for Heaven.)

For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

5:48 - Be perfect (as GOD.)

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

6:9-13 - Perfect [Prayer.]

In this manner, therefore, pray:

Our Father in heaven,

Hallowed be Your name.

Your kingdom come.

Your will be done

On earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts,

As we forgive our debtors.

And do not lead us into temptation,

But deliver us from the evil one.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

18:18-20 - Justice. - (Binding and loosing, using agreement.) - [Prayer]

“Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

“Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”

21:22 - Answered prayers. (Whatever you ask, believing.) - [Prayer]

And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Mark 5:36 - Believing.

Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”

Mark 9:23 - Believing.

“‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”

Mark 11:22-26 - Believing.

“Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”

7:1 - [Judging.] - You judge yourself when you judge others. - See Correct and Incorrect.

“Judge not, that you be not judged.

7:20 - Fruits. - Are how you know who's good or evil. - Correct judging.

Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

23:28 - Phonies. - (You cannot trust outward appearances of righteousness.) - Incorrect judging.

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

7:12 - The Golden Rule - It encompasses the law. - [1 of 2]

Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

22:37-40 - New Commandments. - (Love GOD and your neighbor. Encompasses the law.) - [2 of 2]

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Mark 12:29-31 - New Commandments.

“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

7:21 - Who is saved (is whoever does GOD's will.) - [A of B]

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

12:50 - Eternal family (is whoever does GOD's will.) - [B of B]

For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

11:16-19 - (Marketplace.) - The world. See worldly news, talk shows, congress.

“But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their companions, and saying:

‘We played the flute for you,

And you did not dance;

We mourned to you,

And you did not lament.’

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

Luke 7:31-35 - (Marketplace.)

And the Lord said, “To what then shall I liken the men of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, saying:

‘We played the flute for you,

And you did not dance;

We mourned to you,

And you did not weep.’

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by all her children.”

12:35-37 - Words. - Justify or condemn you. - [Words 1 of 3]

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

15:8-9 - Lip service. - (People teaching men's commands rather than GOD's.) - [Words 2 of 3]

‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth,

And honor Me with their lips,

But their heart is far from Me.

And in vain they worship Me,

Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”

15:18-19 - Bad words. - (Can come from your heart and defile you.) - [Words 3 of 3]

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

19:4 - Male and female.

And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’

Mark 10:6 - Male and female.

“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’

12:30 - Productivity. - Hell uses some of those who aren't actively for Jesus, against Him.

He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.

Mark 9:40 -

for whoever is not against us is for us.

23:11 - The greatest (is the servant of all.)

But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.

Mark 10:44 -

and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.

6:14-15 - Forgive others, to be forgiven.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

6:21 - Loved ones. (And, love given.)

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

6:24 - GOD and money. - It's hate GOD and love money, or hold to GOD and despise money.

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

7:13-14 - The ways. - Many are lost, few are saved.

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

9:13 - Mercy, from sinning less. Not arrogant, but humble.

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

9:38 - Labor. Minister to all you can.

Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”

10:16 - Be wise and harmless, sheep among wolves.

Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

10:30 - Your hairs are numbered. GOD's attention to detail.

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

10:34 - Jesus brings a sword, not peace. The Gospel brings division.

“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.

16:24 - Following Jesus. (Forsaking yourself.)

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

28:18 - Jesus' power. (All power in Heaven and Earth.)

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

John 3:18 - Believers are not condemned for any sins. Think about that. (Non-believers, are condemned for all sins.)

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they [have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.]

Mark 7:7,9,13 - Traditions.

They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’

And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!

Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

Mark 10:15 - Entering the Kingdom.

Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

Mark 16:16 - Who is saved. - (Baptized = Believe in Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit.)

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

The Bible says, that to receive the Holy Spirit, you ask FATHER for HIM.

(In prayer.)

GOD bless and be with you.

-Steve