In this page we outline all basic principle about being a disciple of Jesus Christ, Basic teachings about being a believer, starts here!
A believer is someone who is in a journey to conquer to world (1 John 5:4). The elementary thing needed to become a believer is only to trust and rely on Jesus Christ alone. This does not require human efforts like some cultures, traditions and religions do. A believer is someone who is born through the Spirit of God (John 1: 12; 3:6). This same Spirit of God circumcise us from the all worldly lust, this doesn't come from our human efforts, all our lives depend on what Christ Jesus has done for us, we put no confidence in the flesh. The below process outlines what happens in our Body, Spirit and Soul after being a believer. We only need to confess the Lordship and confess that we accept Him as your personal savior (Rom 10:9).
Below is the process of being a believer.
Body: We know that the body cannot inherit the Kingdom of God (1 Cor. 15:50). However, our bodies even though its desires are of this world but not of God. If our belief is based on the flesh, the righteousness that God desires will not manifest in our lives. Nevertheless, we only benefit health in our body from salvation. When Jesus Christ was in the Cross the word of God says "He was whipped so we could be healed" sicknesses get their opportunity in the flesh. When a person is born again to be a believer. God heal us from every diseases. Even though we feel pain and symptoms of certain sicknesses, the Spirit of God in us together with the Word of God inspires us to speak the opposite of what we see through faith in Jesus Christ Mighty name.
Our body are just containers that contain the Glory of God inside us. After being Born again not much of change happens in our body apart from being separated from serving the worldly desires but not they become the instruments of righteousness. After all we are created in the image of God and after the likeness of God. Our bodies resembles his image as much as Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God (Col. 1:15). The Word of God states it clearly that we are the temple of the Living God and the Spirit of God dwells in us (1 Cor. 3:16). We benefit health and wholeness of our bodies when we are believers. We should always declare that we are healed, as much as Jesus Christ is always in the business of healing where ever He went. When we are believers we must always declare healing (Isa 33:24).
Spirit: The Spirit of God is what keeps the body alive, as much as James used the allegory that just a body without spirit it is like faith without work (Jas. 2:26). The spirit it what gives life to the body. After God has made man he breathed the breath of life into his nostril and the man became a living being. The same spirit that we breathe in and out it is the same spirit that God has given a man. This Spirit after Adam and Eve fell into sin became dead and man no longer had the conscious of God in them. Even God distanced himself from Humans because they were now dead in the Spirit. Nevertheless, God being rich in his Grace He made a ways to rebirth His Spirit that was dead by sin in human being by becoming a sin offering to us.
It was by grace that we got the rebirth of our spirit that was dead within us. We never did anything good, but we did everything bad that made us not to receive this grace. Nevertheless, this grace overlooked the wrongs we did but through God's kindness He saved us through his mercy by the washing of new birth (Titus 3:4-7). Being a believer it comes with the awakening of our Spiritual being, the only spirituality that man experience is being born again. As much as our spirits where in darkness, dead and sinful, we were dead in our trespasses and sins but He made us alive in our spirit. Anyone who claims to be Enlighted and spiritual they must've been born again believers, other than that it is philosophies and illusions. Hence, God is our spiritual Father (Matt. 23: 9) He gave us the re-birth of our spirit by trusting and relying upon Jesus Christ.
Soul: We can not talk about the process of being a believer and exclude our souls, because the soul is what the human being is! The character is positioned in the soul, after God giving the man his Spirit, the man became a Living being, some translations says a "Living soul". The process of being a believer in our lives it brought salvation to our souls. A soul without hope and belief in Christ becomes hopeless, it is a soul that doesn't have a resting place. the soul is also an image of God. Because all senses lies within the soul. The sense of sight, taste, smell, touch and hearing are all in the soul. God through saved our souls from condemnation and hell. Without Christ we would be sick in our bodies, dead in our spirit and our souls we going to be condemned.
Lastly, our souls lives forever, we mostly hear unbelievers saying "We only live once", Wrong! we only die one but we live every day. Nevertheless, if we are not born again we shall die twice, we will die by separating from our bodies and we shall die by being condemned separated and spend our after life in the lake of fire, which is the second death (Rev.21:8). A Soul is the essence of life, because when we die in this world we separate from our bodies and spirits, our bodies they return to dust and our spirit goes back to God (Ecc.12:7). This verse didn't mention our souls because a soul doesn't die it lives eternally. When we die without believing in Christ our souls goes straight to Hades to a waiting area where the rich man was ( Luke 16:19-31). However, if we believed in Christ while we are still alive in this world we will escape condemnation of hades and second death and live with the Lord forever.
When we talk about what Christ did for us we only run to what he did to our souls rather than our spirit and bodies. However, God in the process of us being believers He healed our bodies, He re-birthed our spirit, and He saved our souls from condemnation.
If you want to accept JESUS CHRIST as your personal savior say this prayer like you mean it below:
LORD JESUS TODAY I ACCEPT YOU AS MY PERSONAL SAVIOR AND MY LORD. I CONFESS WITH MY MOUTH THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD AND I BELIEVE IN MY HEART THAT GOD RISED HIM FROM THE DEAD. ERASE MY NAME IN THE BOOK OF DARKNESS AND WRITE MY NAME IN THE BOOK OF LIFE. TODAY I AM YOUR CHILD, I AM BORN AGAIN, MY BODY IS HEALED AND MY SOUL SAVED AND MY SINS ARE FORGIVEN.
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