Switch Families Fast

You were born into a very bad family: the family of Adam.  The main trouble is that all men are born WRONG.  You need to make a family switch and change families.  You need to be adopted into a new family.  This is a crucial change.  Your physical ancestor is Adam who was created by God in Genesis 2, but then Adam fell into sin in Genesis 3.   You now have Adam and Eve's DNA in you.  But Adam's deadly sin nature has also been passed on to you from your parents (Psa 51:5).  Your very nature is polluted with the evil of sin.  Your relationship to Adam guarantees that your outcome will be eternal death (Romans 5:12; I Cor 15:21-22).  You need the NEW BIRTH, it is a miracle from God.  Your first birth came through the suffering, pain, blood shed of someone else, your mother.  Your SECOND BIRTH comes through the sufferings of Another, Jesus Christ.

The first birth also means, as a sinner, your 'spiritual ancestor' is Satan (John 8:44; I John 3:9-10).  When Adam yielded to Satan in the Garden of Eden and sinned against God's words, Adam's spirit and soul died, and he became a child of Satan and partook of Satan's evil nature.  If you are lost in your sin and without Christ today, you are kin to the devil.  Having the devil as a spiritual father means your inevitable outcome is eternal judgment.  All those souls in the devil's family, and not in the family of God will share in Satan's final outcome - the lake of fire.  What every sinner needs is a NEW BIRTH, a new Father, and a new family.  The only way to get a new father is to experience the NEW BIRTH of the Spirit of God.

The NEW BIRTH cannot be accomplished by human energy.  The best we can do will never suffice.  Jesus said, "Ye must be born again" (John 3:7).  When Jesus says "MUST," we had better listen very closely.  We must realize and acknowledge that we are sinners to the core, we must receive the work of the Spirit in our hearts.  Religious works and experiences can never bring the NEW BIRTH to pass in your soul.  Your religion or reformation can never eradicate your sinful nature.  Turn from your dead works and selfishness, let the Spirit of God wash you clean with God's blood and give you a NEW NATURE inside.  God's family is only entered by the NEW BIRTH (I John 5:1; I Peter 1:3-4; Eph 2:19; Eph 1:11,18).  Without the NEW BIRTH from the Spirit of God, you will never enter of see the Kingdom of God no matter kind of religion you believe.

The reason why the Bible cannot be tolerated is because it treats "man" as a fallen, depraved, degenerate, sinful rebel whom his Creator will not accept on the grounds of his "humanity"- his FIRST birth. In the Bible, the Lord God of Heaven and Earth demands a SECOND birth.  All humanists, atheists, evolutionists, and pragmatists believe that "man" ("mankind") is the "measure of all things."

The lost world thinks that "MAN" is the ABSOLUTE supreme authority when it comes to ethical and moral standards, conduct, motives, goal setting, progress, and knowledge-just as he "is"- without any New Birth. In short, this is why all eight major "religions" (Catholicism, Protestantism, Greek Orthodox, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Judaism) emphasize man's ability to get to "Heaven" or "Paradise" or "Samadhi" or "Nirvana" or "Prajna" or the "Happy Hunting Ground" or "Valhalla" or etc., blah, blah, blah) by self-effort with no "new birth" required. If you die without the NEW BIRTH, you will bust hell wide open.  "Religion" has always been the shortest shortcut any sinner could take to get to Hell; the road to the lake of fire is "paved with good intentions" (positive thinking about yourself) the whole way (Matt. 7:22; Prov. 14:12; Rom. 10:1-6; Ecc. 7:20; Psa. 39:5; Isa. 64:6).

Jesus Christ is NOT DEAD, He is alive.   Christ Jesus is GOD manifest in the flesh, He came into the world to die for your sins because you are lost in sin, and without Christ you don't have a chance of a snowball in hell of getting past the White Throne Judgment.  Without Jesus Christ' you're lost and going to hell, because He is the true and living God that died for you.  There is no salvation in any other name except Jesus Christ.  The best you can do will put you in the bottomless pit, because eternal salvation is in a living PERSON - CHRIST JESUS.  Salvation is not in you or in ANY religion on the face of this earth.  All religions in this world are FALSE because they teach a sinner can DO SOMETHING to get to heaven.  The NEW BIRTH is a heavenly thing, that when you receive you can't tell where it came from, you can't see or get your hands on the ONE that gives you the NEW BIRTH.  Nothing you can see or touch can give you the NEW BIRTH.  Regeneration is God's work - you must believe and receive Christ.  The moment you believe on Christ, the divine nature is planted in your soul by the Holy Ghost.  Why aren't you born again?   How are long are you going to wait till get your soul fixed up?  Born once, die twice; born twice, die ONCE.  You need two birthdays (physical and spiritual) in order to die safely and make it to heaven.  You must be born from on high - a child of the King of the Universe.  

"Religion" is a set of WORKS that sinners do to make themselves feel comfortable when they have a bad conscience (see Gen. 3:10).  The Bible defines it as "the FIG LEAF factor" (Gen. 3:7; Matt. 21:19).  Religions will teach that you can EARN immortality by WORKING your head off serving their church or temple, and being a good little boy or girl, good enough to EARN eternal life, so you can reject Christ and His FREE GIFT of salvation (Romans 5:15,18; 6:23).  Religion thinks that it can makes its own rules and assumes that God will one say to them, "That's OK, you're just human, come on in." But remember this, all religions do lead to the same place - the eternal lake of fire.  That is why there are so many religions and why so many people follow them instead of 'scriptural truth.'  "Religion is the quickest way to HELL on which you can travel.  It is an 10-lane paved slick highway, 'fully-lit' at night, and marked all the way without one curve, bump, or stop sign on it.  Religion is a set of WORKS that guilty sinners continually do to try and win favor with God and get past the White Throne Judgment of Jesus Christ.

All the world religions are different so they can give a self-righteous sinner something 'special' which he can hold over the head of someone else, they appreciate their own 'belief.'  By studying your religion, you raise your own self-esteem because you convince yourself that YOUR religion is better than theirs, and THIS gives you self-confidence, this self-confidence is satanic and will end up damning you.  Every man has a conscience (Romans 2:15) with or without "religion," and every man has defiled his conscience or disobeyed it a number of times (Titus 1:15; Romans 9:1; Acts 9:5; 1 Timothy 4:2).  When a man defiles his conscience, he then invents a set of "beliefs" and "teachings" by which he professes to live; he may or may not live up to them, according to how big a liar or hypocrite he is.  Ridiculous religious beliefs are a dime a dozen, new ones come out every month.

Eternal damnation will be the sentence a sinner get who has sinned against an Eternal Being - God Almighty.  Your punishment will be permanent and eternal because your sin has been against an unseen Person who lives forever.  If you die in your sins without Christ as your personal Savior, you will be tormented in flames as long as God lives (Heb 12:28-29; Matt 13:30, 40-42).  You are going to run into the eternal, infinite, holy God Almighty after death.  God is perfect, absolute, all powerful, sinless, holy perfection; He will not tolerate SIN in any form; Christ's atoning death for shows what God thinks of "SIN."  If you are 'only' religious, you are headed for pure fire without any protection (Psa 9:17; 139:8; Matt 23:33).

Religions such as Church of Christ, Catholicism, JWs, 7th Day Adventism, Taoism, Humanism, Greek Orthodox, Islam, Atheism, Buddhism, Christian Scientists, Baha'i, Hinduism, Judaism, Shintoism, Agnostics, Protestants, Scientology, and Mormonism all have the same thing in common:  they are all working their way to heaven in some way or fashion - they are all different road maps to the Lake of Fire that Satan has drawn out for self-righteous sinners that love themselves and reject Christ Jesus.  All man-made religions teach that no sinner can know absolutely 'for certain where he is going to wind up after death.

All religions are based on guilty consciences and self-righteousness no matter what 'beliefs' or 'teachings' they invent (I feel guilty, so I better go do better).  Religion teaches you can trust your own righteousness to gain Heaven, and depraved man can take 'some' credit for 'earning' eternal salvation.  You will wind up in the lake of fire with your father Satan, if you miss the NEW BIRTH (I Peter 1:23; John 3:3; John 1:12-13; Col 2:11-13; II Cor 5:17), and don't have your name written in the Lamb's book of life (Rev 20:16).  In order to get into God's heaven, you must trust God's righteousness (Romans 3:21-27; 10:1-4; Rom 4:5; Eph 2:8-9), instead of your OWN righteousness.

The purpose of all world religions and higher education is to destroy belief in 'absolute truth.' They will try to teach you this, all truths are 'relative,' and you are your own final authority, in other words, believe in yourself, you are God (Genesis 3:5).  Man's sinful nature always tries to sidestep, duck, and dodge the truth of scripture, he loves 'relative' truths, he will avoid finding 'THE TRUTH' at any cost.  Their alibi for sidestepping the truth is always "love" and "concern for others" or "being sensitive to others" or "a willingness to reach out and touch others" or "a meaningful exchange of ideas" or "doing good to your fellow man" or "making the world a better place to live in," "improving relations" or "building bridges" instead of "fences."

They say, "Don't rock the boat, just believe whatever you think is right, just don't upset anyone.  Let's get everyone to love each other at the expense of the absolute truth of scripture."  But remember, Jesus Christ IS 'absolute truth' (See John 14:6).  Modern man cannot tolerate truth; he must have his own opinions, delusion, deceit, equivocation, and counterfeit religion in order to carry out his purpose driven life in a seek for hope and change.  Your first birth isn't right, and you do absolutely nothing to fix it.  You can spend 50 years trying to be a good and upright person, you'll still go to Hell in your self-righteousness.  You were born wrong!  Except a man be 'born again' he cannot enter or see the kingdom of God.

At conversion, Christ Jesus comes to where you are, and takes you where you couldn't go.  He takes you as you are, and makes you what you couldn't have been, and takes your sins away, and gives you His priceless and infinite righteousness and make you acceptable in God's sight.  Have you been born again?  Some people blame their rotten sins on being born that way.  By this admission, they testify that have not been born again.  This is why Christ said, "ye must be born again."  A man that is born again is not the way he was born.  He has a New Birth.

Your GREATEST NEED in this temporal life is to get out of your old family (Adam/Satan) and be 'born again' into a new family (Jesus Christ/God) through the NEW BIRTH.  You need to switch families as soon as possible.  Christ Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, left His majestic throne in Heaven, so free, so infinite His grace, He emptied Himself of all but love, and bled for Adam's helpless race (See Romans 5:8-9; 8:3; II Cor 5:21; Galatians 3:13).  Jesus Christ bore our infected sinful nature, our rotten sins, in His own body on the tree, so that we could freely be given His sinless nature (righteousness) freely by faith in His precious blood.  Jesus became SIN and was cursed of God in your place.

You need the only cure for sin - the NEW BIRTH.  The NEW BIRTH comes only through the Holy Ghost when you take a simple look of faith at the Bleeding Lamb of God on Calvary's tree (John 3:14-16).  Bring your sin burden to the foot of the Cross, and look and live.  The Cross is the way to New Jerusalem.  You don't want to die with your first birth, and die in your sins.  Without Christ your youth is a blunder, your adulthood is a struggle, and your old age is a regret.  But with Christ as your Savior and Lord, when it comes time for you to die, there will be no regrets.

Sacraments, religion, sincerity, setting a new standard or morals for yourself, or reformation cannot help your sin-sick soul at all.  You're not born right, ye must be born again.  You can't work up this faith - it is a gift of God - not of works, lest any man should boast.  Don't look at your faith - look to Christ, He will give you faith and repentance freely.  Believe in Christ alone, looking only to the Cross.  Dump all your sins at the Cross.  Jesus said, Look unto ME and be ye saved.  Give up your dependence on yourself, your cleverness, your self-improvement, your plans of doing better or becoming religious - just look to Christ and receive the NEW BIRTH and everlasting life.

The 'good life' is eternal life, and a life that God approves of, that's the GOOD LIFE.  God will show His goodness and grace to the ungodly sinners that trust His Son, but God will show His severity and wrath to those wicked sinners who reject His dear Son.  Count on Jesus' blood and righteousness ALONE to keep you out of hell and get you into heaven.  If you're tired of eating out of the devil's garbage can, repent towards God and trust His Son with your soul.  Christ dying in your place, count on Him alone to keep you out of the lake of fire.  Put all your reliance on the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ on Calvary's Cross to save your soul from hell fire (Acts 13:38-39; John 1:12; Heb 7:25; I Corinthians 15:1-4; Matt 11:28; I Timothy 1:15).

Instead of just memorizing your SSN, address, cell phone number, zip code, passwords, you need to memorize, believe, and keep these eternal promises:  See John 5:24; John 3:3,7; Romans 3:10,13,23-27; Romans 5:8-9; Romans 10:3,13,17; Romans 5:12; 6:23;  John 1:12; Phil 1:6; Eph 4:30; Heb 13:5-6; Isa 26:3; I Cor 10:12-13; I John 3:16; Romans 8:28-29; Rev 20:15; Phil 4:13, 19; Romans 8:38-39; I John 5:13, 20.

New Birth brings New Activity, Appetite, Awareness -
* New Activity - thinking about God, learning about God, fearing God, trusting God's Son, loving God, doing something for God, longing for God...
* New Appetite - for the Bible, for prayer, for the Holy Spirit, bread of life, water of life, fellowship with the saints, teaching and preaching, winning souls, yoke of Christ
* New Awareness - of your sinful state, the law of God, imminent danger, rejection of Christ, judgment to come, Satan, hell, fear of God, grace of God, the Cross, blood of God, the Lord Jesus, heaven, eternity