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Chapter 6—Faith and Acceptance
As God’s Holy Spirit brings to life the spiritual powers of your
mind, you begin to see how evil and strong sin is. You feel the guilt
and sorrow it brings, and you hate it. You feel that sin has separated
you from God. Its power has made you a slave. The more you try
to escape, the more you know that you cannot help yourself. You
see that your life has been filled with selfishness and sin. Your heart
is unclean and your desires are not pure. You want to be forgiven,
to be clean, to be set free. But what can you do to be one with God
and to be like Him?
You need peace—Heaven’s forgiveness and peace and love.
Money cannot buy that peace. Study will not give it. The mind
cannot find it. Being wise will not provide it. You can never hope to
receive this peace by your own work and power.
God offers His peace to you as a gift. “It will cost you nothing!”
Isaiah 55:1
. It is yours if you will reach out your hands and take it.
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The Lord says, “You are stained red with sin, but I will wash you
as clean as snow. Although your stains are deep red, you will be as
white as wool.”
Isaiah 1:18
. “I will give you a new heart and a new
mind.”
Ezekiel 36:26
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You have confessed your sins and chosen to put them out of your
life. You have decided to give yourself to God. Now go to Him and
ask Him to wash away your sins. Ask Him to give you a new heart, a
new mind. Then believe that He does this,
because He has promised
.
Jesus taught this lesson when He was on the earth. You must believe
that you receive the gift God promises and that it is yours.
Jesus healed the sick people who had faith in His power. Healing
them made them able to see that He could help them in other ways.
It led them to believe in His power to forgive sin. Jesus explained
this when He was healing a man who was too sick to get out of his
bed. He said, “I will prove to you, then, that the Son of Man has
authority on earth to forgive sins.” Jesus then spoke to the sick man,
“Get up, pick up your bed, and go home!”
Matthew 9:6
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