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To receive the Holy Spirit one needs only believe that Christ died and rose from the dead.
The Holy Spirit does the personal work of salvation in a believers life.
The Bible is true, God did reach out to us while we were still sinners. None of us “proved” our worthiness through living the way God wanted on our own. It is only under God’s direction that we can live righteous. But it is untrue that God just “chose” certain wicked ones to make righteous and left everyone else in a state of sin.One of the most disappointing things about religion these days, that goes in the name of Christianity, and claims to believe in Christ, and what He accomplished on the Cross by suffering and dying for sin, is that it didn't guarantee no ones salvation. Im going to show that scripture declares without a shadow of doubt that Christs death, burial and resurrection saves a person even while they are unbelievers, and enemies. Even then that God himself is reconciled to them.
The first scripture is Rom 5:10
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Thats being saved from Gods penalty of sin and received into His favor even while an enemy to God !
For peace was made for Paul, as well as other elect persons by the blood /death of Christ's cross Col 1:20-22
20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
God has no wrath for a rebellious unbelieving sinner for whom Christ died lest His death was to God of no effect, God forbid !
But it is untrue that God just “chose” certain wicked ones to make righteous and left everyone else in a state of sin.
- to make perfect, complete
to complete (perfect)
- to carry through completely, to accomplish, finish, bring to an end
to bring to the end (goal) proposed
- add what is yet wanting in order to render a thing full
[to be found perfect- to accomplish
- bring to a close or fulfilment by event
- of the prophecies of the scriptures
and washed us from our sins in his own blood; which shows that these persons were loved before washed; they were not first washed, and then loved, but first loved, and then washed. Love was the cause of washing, and not washing the cause of love; hence it appears that they were in themselves filthy, and unclean through sin; and that they could not cleanse themselves by anything they could do; and that such was the love of Christ to them, that he shed his precious blood for them, which is a fountain opened, to wash in for sin, and which cleanses from all sin. This is to be understood, not of the sanctification of their natures, which is the work of the Spirit, but of atonement for their sins, and justification from them by the blood of Christ, whereby they are so removed, that they are all fair, and without spot
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