Your New Life Eternal
Welcome back, my brothers and sisters. For those of you who have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, you’ve begun a wonderful new life in Christ, and this final lesson in the “Who Am I Really?” series is for you. While accepting Jesus may have been an exciting moment for some of you, others may not have experienced that same emotion. Regardless of how you felt at that moment, let me assure you that if you believed in your heart that your prayer for salvation was genuine, you were saved. Accepting God’s gift by His Grace is that simple.
Look at the wonderful promise of 2 Corinthians 5:17:
17This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! (NLT)
You learned in Lesson 1 that you are God’s very own special creation. He knitted you together in your mother’s womb with His own hands, and He wrote down His plan for your life before you were born. Then Satan came along, and through sin, stole the special creation that God had made. But by accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you have taken back the life that God planned for you. You have to start getting excited about that, friend!
The Holy Spirit now lives inside of you and will begin to work in your life, replacing your old sinful nature with your new spirit-filled nature.
22But the fruit that the Spirit produces in a person’s life is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these kinds of things. Galatians 5:22-23 (ERV)
7The Spirit God gave us does not make us afraid. His Spirit is a source of power and love and self-control. 2 Timothy 1:7