A New Life In Christ
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- The Epistles
- Published
- Sun 18 May 2025
- Episode Link
- https://www.livebehindtheveil.com/episode/a-new-life-in-christ
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INTRODUCTION:
Starting a relationship with God is very simple. It's simply a matter of opening your heart to talk to Him and listening for Him to speak to you. The Holy Spirit will show you your need in how to relate to the Lord. It starts with the awareness that the Lord loves you; He has given Himself as a sacrifice so that you may know Him.
SHOW NOTES:
Starting in a new life in Christ can begin by you simply asking Him to know Him.
This is not about performance, where you try to “do things” to please the Lord.
Ways to open the door for His presence can include praying, or talking to Him, reading the Scriptures, reaching into a teaching from someone who has a walk with God.
Surround yourself with people who love you and have a walk with God.
Realize that you grow in a progression as you expose yourself to Him, but you start simply like a child.
When you come across things that you don't understand, let Him know. Ask Him to reveal to you someone that can help you to understand.
QUOTATIONS:
When a person starts out in their walk with God, they need to know that their sins are forgiven. They need to know that the Lord loves them and He gave Himself for them.
Just express your heart--”Here I am, Lord, take me, use me, show me.”
Always keep in front of your mind that He's the potter and you're the clay.
Talk to the Lord about all the things that you're concerned about. Talk to Him openly about it, but keep an open heart.
Entering into the whole concept of really knowing the Lord—make it so very simple. The more you add to it, the more complicated it gets.
Start with the Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Starting there you get the basics of what a walk with God is.
When you open your heart for the first time to the Lord, you are totally dependent upon Him.
Connecting in with people that love the Lord, that have a mature relationship with the Lord and that you trust is important.
The whole idea is getting a person who accepts the Lord to realize that now you have a relationship and in that relationship you can talk to God.
REFERENCES:
“Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. '”
“Do not worry then, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or “What will we wear for clothing?' For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things ; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” Jesus answered them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.
And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
“Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.”
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.”
TAKE AWAY:
Coming into a relationship with the Lord is simply a matter of exposing your heart and asking him. A new life in Christ starts by being aware He is knocking on you door. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.” (Rev 3:20)
