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mind as your idol. If you are saved by and only then can he believe and repent
God’s will which is by sovereign grace, with a broken heart over his sins.
then the Lord Jesus Christ becomes Tell me frien, have you been born
your Lord and Saviour. again? Have you been awakened to the
Now, let me ask you this one question fact that you are a miserable, wicked
– is a sinner saved by his own will or sinner, lost without hope, world without
by the will of God? Ephesians 2:1 says end?
that sinners are dead in trespasses If you haven’t, you may want to ask
and sins. Can a dead man have a will the one crucial question,
of his own? “Brother Lee, what must I do to be
Can a dead person believe? saved?”
Did you come into existence as a And I ask, saved from what?
result of your own free will or through What is it you wish to be saved from?
God’s will? What I mean is, did you Hell? Sickness? Poverty? Curses?
request God to be given existence? Then you are still blinded. Your
The same is true with your spiritual priorities are still wrong.
birth, did you initiate your salvation You see, it is SIN that created hell,
by saying you want to be saved, got sicknesses, curses, poverty etc., thus it
somebody to pray for you and then would be thus pointless were you to be
declared saved? delivered from hell and not from SIN.
John 5:40 says, “you will not come Why? Because Revelation 21:27 says,
to me that you may have life.” Do “there shall in no wise enter into it [that
you know why? Because man loves is, the New Jerusalem] any thing that
darkness rather than light. God has defileth, neither whatsoever worketh
to change him; God has to give him abomination, or maketh a lie…”
another nature, another disposition In other words, no one in his sinful
before he or she can long to come to nature can even enter the new city of
Christ. God.
No one in his natural condition Consequently, the issue between
wants to be saved from sin. Yes, all God and man is SIN.
want to be saved but certainly not from Now, do you wish to be saved from
SIN. Man wants to be saved from hell, it?
sicknesses, poverty, curses etc. but Many take comfort in the fact that
NOT FROM SIN. they tithe, give and sow their money
You see friend, the salvation that into various ministries. These have
God offers to the fallen race of Adam is been deceived into thinking that their
DELIVERANCE FROM SIN. Do you want money is what does the trick in that
to be delivered from it? once they give, they think they are now
Friend, have you been regenerated? justified before God.
You see, a man cannot believe, he But let me put you into a little secret,
cannot repent, he cannot be converted though those who are conversant with
until he has been quick-ened or made God’s Word, it’s no secret: the primary
alive toward God by the Holy Spirit, objective of salvation, is deliverance
resurrected from the grave of sin (Eph. from SIN.
2:1), and given a new heart (Eze 36:26) Do you know why?
and a new nature in the new birth. Then Because according to the Bible,

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