How to Be a Born-Again Christian
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Amazing Grace
Abundant grace has been provided that the believing soul may be
kept free from sin; for all heaven, with its limitless resources, has been
placed at our command. We are to draw from the well of salvation.
Christ is the end of law for righteousness to everyone who believeth.
In ourselves we are sinners; but in Christ we are righteous. Having
made us righteous through the imputed righteousness of Christ, God
pronounces us just, and treats us as just. He looks upon us as His
dear children. Christ works against the power of sin, and where sin
abounded, grace much more abounds. “Therefore being justified by
faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by
whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand,
and rejoice in hope of the glory of God” (
Romans 5:1, 2
).
“Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through
faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of
sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at
this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of
him which believeth in Jesus” (
Romans 3:24-26
). “For by grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God”
(
Ephesians 2:8
). [
John 1:14-16
quoted.]
Fit to Be Saved
The Lord would have His people sound in the faith—not ignorant
of the great salvation so abundantly provided for them. They are not
to look forward, thinking that at some future time a great work is to
be done for them; for the work is now complete. The believer is not
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called upon to make his peace with God; he never has nor ever can
do this. He is to accept Christ as his peace, for with Christ is God
and peace. Christ made an end of sin, bearing its heavy curse in His
own body on the tree, and He hath taken away the curse from all those
who believe in Him as a personal Saviour. He makes an end of the
controlling power of sin in the heart, and the life and character of the
believer testify to the genuine character of the grace of Christ.
To those that ask Him, Jesus imparts the Holy Spirit; for it is
necessary that every believer should be delivered from pollution, as