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FAQ # 2
QUESTION 2 : Okay, so what if I receive him as my personal savior?
St.
John 1:12, states, “...as many as received him, to them gave he power
to become the sons of God.” The verse states that when one receives Jesus
Christ, he gives you power to
become the Son of God. It did not imply one is the Son of God
by merely receiving him; one has to be born again. The operative phrase
is “gave he power to become...” He gives one the revelatory knowledge
how to be saved or become the Son of God. For “you shall know the truth
and truth shall set you free” (John 8:2). In other words, receiving him
(faith), must produce action (works).
“God himself alluded to this duality when he gave the
Torah, Due 30:15-18 ‘See, I have set before thee this day life and good,
and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy
God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes
and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy
God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But
if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn
away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this
day, that ye shall surely perish.’”
Notice in those verses that ‘faith’ comes before, and is tied
directly to obedience. First, God says he commands his people to ‘love
the Lord’ (trust/faith), and then walk in his ways. Next, he says if their
hearts turn away (lack of faith), they will perish. God’s view of faith
is not void of action on our part. It is not a matter of ‘just believing’
in certain facts. As mentioned,
the Hebrew view of faith is not just ‘believing’ in God, as some teach.
Even devils believe in him (James 2:19) and know who Yahoshua is (Matt
8:29)” – Yashanet.com
Hence,
when you receive him (that is, believe), obey what he says you must do
to be saved (John 3:5, Acts 2:38), and then you are saved.
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