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Finding Life

The wrong way to find life Perhaps you have been taught that man can do anything, if he only puts his mind to it. To a degree this may be true. However, take a closer look at the matter: 1. Communism, a system based on man's innate abilities, failed tragically. 2. Naziism, another system based on man's ideas, failed as it turned on its own population and tried to subdue the whole world, again tragically. 2. The United States, however imperfect, was from the beginning founded and built upon God's Word as the source of instruction and law. The newfound humanistic orientation currently in the United States has brought about an ever-expanding need for prisons even while murders and thefts multiply at an increasing rate. For over a hundred years these rates were more or less related to the growth in population, but have increasingly outpaced population growth since prayer was taken out of our schools. Economically, the middle class, characteristic of our nation from its beginning, is evaporating into poverty as public sector costs go up and taxes escalate. God's ideas found in His Holy Word worked for the people. Man's ideas, without regard to God, are eroding the very institutions which made this country great. Where do we find life?
God's Word teaches that we should not lean to our own understanding, but go to the Creator to find the way to life. See Proverbs 3:5-6
In fact, God's Word also informs us that we have been especially created in the image of God, meaning we are created both belonging to God and with a definite place for God to be in and a part of our lives. See Genesis 1:27
God's Word tells us that every one of us have missed the way that God created us to go. See Romans 3:23, Isaiah 53:6, Isaiah 64:6
God's Word also tells us that we are not capable of finding our way in the darkness of this world. See John 6:44
But God's Word tells us that He, in His merciful love, has provided a way for us to come to Him and be a part of His family, His kingdom. See Romans 6:23

The way to life Very simply, God has lovingly and mercifully provided a way for his creation to come back to Him and find true life and dignity. See John 3:16, John 1:12
Many people have great ideas about life. Jesus Christ, the annointed Messiah, is unique in that He has conquered death. See Romans 14:8-9, Romans 1:4
Jesus Christ fulfills hundreds of prophecies penned hundreds and even thousands of years before. See Micah 5:2, Isaiah 53:4-5, Isaiah 7:14, Acts 10:39-43, Psalm 22 (especially verses 1, 7-8, 16, 18, 26), Genesis 3:15
Jesus Christ offers us life and peace, and that more abundantly. See John 10:10, John 10:28, Philippians 4:7, Psalm 23
Jesus Christ offers to us the gift of being his honored children for eternity. See Romans 8:17, Galatians 3:26, Galatians 4:7, Revelation 3:21, John 1:12, John 3:16
Jesus Christ is the way to life, the only way to the God who created us. See John 14:6, 1 Timothy 2:5

Entering this New Life Jesus Christ is knocking at the door of your heart today. He wants to come in and live in your life, giving you eternal life in His Kingdom. Are you willing to let Him in? See Revelation 3:20
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and He will change your life now, heal your spiritual life, and give you eternal life. Romans 10:9-13, Acts 2:38,

And then what.... Jesus Christ asks people to spread the Good News about His Salvation. And you will want to tell others about the change in your life, too. See Acts 4:20, Matthew 28:18-20, Acts 1:8, Romans 10:9-13
God's people join together in a congregation called a church, meaning the "ones called out" by our Lord Jesus Christ. After the resurrection of Jesus, the disciples regularly met on the first day of the week--Sunday. Followers of Christ are admonished to meet together. See Hebrews 10:25, Isaiah 58:13-14
Find a church that both considers the Bible the Word of God and studies the Bible as their authority for life. Continue studying God's Word. Twice the Congress of the United States saw a shortage of Bibles and had Bibles published for the people because of its importance. Do not neglect reading God's Word to us. See II Timothy 3:16-17
Jesus Christ himself was baptized. You will want to be baptized, also. The word "baptize" is from the Greek language and is like the Anglo-Saxon word "dunk". To baptize is to place under water. This can be seen as two pictures. One picture is of Jesus Christ washing away our sins. See Acts 22:16, Psalm 51:7, Isaiah 1:18 The other picture is of putting our old, sinful way of life, on the cross with Jesus where He paid the price for our sins. The lowering into the water is a picture of our burial of our old way of life with Jesus Christ. And the rising from the water pictures God's resurrection of us to new life in Jesus Christ. See Romans 6:3-11
This action on our part of giving ourselves over to the care and direction of our Lord Jesus Christ, and having faith that He is the Son of God and our Saviour is basic. It is proper to be baptized to fulfill all righteousness. See Matthew 3:16, Acts 8:36-38, Acts 16:30-34
In your fellowship with other people directed by the Word of God, you will find a new and happy way of life, under the leadership of Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit. See John 14:16-20 You will want to pray, or talk, to God a lot, just as all great people in Scripture did. See the Model Prayer Luke 11:1-4, Matthew 6:7-15, and also I Thessalonians 5:17-18, James 5:16

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