Can you tell me how you was place into the Body of Christ?
October 10 2007, 10:37 AM
The sole condition for entering into the Body of Christ is faith alone that Jesus Christ died a substitutionary death on the cross for our sins and rose bodily from the dead for our justification. (1 Cor 15: 1-4; Rom 4:25)
And of course faith is the conviction that something is true that we rely-on or trust-in. To believe in Jesus as savior is to be convinced that He guarantees everlasting life to all who simply believe in Him for it .
We know the bible teaches no act of obedience, preceding or following faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, such as commitment to obey, sorrow for sin, turning from one’s sin, baptism or submission to the Lordship of Christ, may be added to, or considered part of faith as a condition for receiving everlasting life (Rom 4:5; Gal 2:16; Titus 3:5). This saving transaction between God and the sinner is simply the giving and receiving of a free gift (Eph 2:8-9; Rom 6:23).
If someone were to says a believer would go to hell for sinning, then he would also be saying a believer must NOT sin in order to go to heaven--therefore he is being saved by what he does, not what Jesus did on the cross! And the Bible is clear: "Not by works"! (Eph. 2:8-9).
For by God's Grace were we saved in our own living room after listening to a fellow on TV named Les Feldick, who proved thru the Holy Bible that Paul is the apostle to us gentiles in the Age of Grace, that thru the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ - He Alone Paid our sin-debt in Full. We accepted the fact there wasn't one single thing we could do on our own worthy of Heaven and accepted by faith God's Free Gift and took God at His Word!!! God opened our eyes just as He did Lydia's when she heard Paul, Blessed is the Most High God!!! Blessed is the Lord Jesus Christ!!!
I too learned of right division by watching Through The Bible with Les Feldick.
Once Les, through the Holy Spirit, opened my eyes, the Bible became a whole new world for me. I study, read and understand. I have found others in my area with whom to study and we use all of THROUGH THE BIBLE books and DVDs.
The mechanics of being placed into Christ is accomplish by "The Holy Spirit" (1Cor 12:13) after a person simply trusts '"exclusively" in the shed blood of Jesus Christ (Death, Burial, Resurrection) as the total, sufficient complete payment for their sin (1Corth 15:1-4). FAITH is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true . Its primary idea is TRUST. A thing is true, and therefore worthy of TRUST