In the Lord’s prayer, Jesus gives us a guideline as to how to pray. Now, you can just repeat the words and you know we pray the prayer at the beginning of the service. That’s good! It’s done to remind us of what God has taught us to pray. However, the words are, in one sense, a pattern prayer. They tell us how to approach God and what’s needful when we pray. They can also...
They had to repent and believe, be baptized on confession of their faith.
So, being baptized, they were acknowledging that they believed that Jesus died for their sins and rose from the dead and therefore they would receive the Holy Spirit to a new life.
There had to be a response. And that response is important.
It's important that each one of us, individually, makes a response to Jesus Christ.
What is the sin against the Holy Spirit, the unforgivable sin? It’s a big question. I tell you it’s something serious and if you commit this sin, you can’t be forgiven in this age or in the age to come. Now there are two possibilities about how we understand this. That it is a sin which can be committed by anyone at any time and therefore it’s relevant to us now or,That...
Demon possession is real. Jesus has the answer, but it was real in His time, it's real in our time, and it's something which we must be aware of and to know that in the name of Jesus we do have the victory over the powers of darkness and over every force of evil.
We know what happens: the man then rises up, and takes up his bed and walks, which proves that Jesus does have the power to forgive sins. If He has the power to forgive sins, then, He is God. Therefore, this is another sign that Jesus is more than a prophet, He's more than an ordinary man, He is Emmanuel, God with us. Therefore, He is the Messiah. Therefore, He should be accepted as such, and the...
If I reject Him, then, I am rejecting the one who can bring me to eternal life.
If you have called upon the name of the Lord and you believe in Jesus: that He died for your sins and rose from the dead, you have NOT committed the unforgivable sin, because your sins are forgiven through faith in Jesus.
Last week somebody asked me after the service: ‘Have I committed the unforgivable sin? A question which was concerning them not me. Had they committed the unforgivable sin? And it’s a legitimate, big question. What Is the Unforgivable Sin? | Desiring God If it is a concern and, if you have committed the unforgivable sin then, as far as the Bible is concerned, you’re lost, you’re...