11.10.2013 WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?

-what must i do to be saved?

believe on the Lord Jesus Christ

-what does it mean to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ?

it means knowing oneself to be a sinner
and Christ to have died for sinners
abandoning all self-righteousness and self confidence
and casting oneself wholly upon Him for pardon and peace
and exchanging one's natural enmity and rebellion against God
for a spirit of grateful submission to the will of Christ
through the renewing of one's heart by the Holy Ghost.

-how am i to go about believing on Christ and repenting,
if i have no natural ability to do these things?

look to Christ
speak to Christ
cry to Christ, just as you are.
confess your sin,
your inpenitence (lack of pain/sorrow over your sin)
your unbelief
and cast yourself on His mercy

ask Him to give you a new heart
working in you true repentance (regret/sorrow over sin and turning away from it)
ask Him to take away your evil heart of unbelief
and to write His law within you
that you may never henceforth stray from Him.
turn to Him
and trust Him
AS BEST YOU CAN.
AND PRAY FOR GRACE TO TURN AND TRUST MORE THOROUGHLY
use the MEANS OF GRACE expectantly
looking to Christ to draw near to you as you draw near to Him
WATCH (note: monitor the thoughts of your heart asking God to help you to see yourself as you really are.)
PRAY (note: ask God to help you to ask-seek-knock matthew 7.7...don't let Him alone morning, noon or night until He comes in and makes you a new person)
READ AND HEAR GOD'S WORD,
WORSHIP (note: GOD with His people) and
COMMUNE (note: BE as much as possible) WITH GOD'S PEOPLE (note: especially the one's who
know themselves to be wretches apart from Christ, who are agonizing to do the will of God in their daily
lives, luke 13.24)
AND SO CONTINUE TILL YOU KNOW IN YOURSELF
BEYOND DOUBT
THAT YOU ARE INDEED A CHANGED BEING,
a penitent (sorrowing over your sin) believer
and THE NEW HEART which you desired HAS BEEN PUT WITHIN YOU.

the emphasis in this advice is on the need to CALL UPON CHRIST DIRECTLY,
AS THE VERY FIRST STEP
'let not conscience make you linger
nor of fitness fondly dream
all the fitness He requireth
is to feel your need of Him'
so do not postpone action till you think you are better,
but honestly confess your badness
and give yourself up here and now to Christ
who alone can make you better;
and wait on Him till His light rises in your soul,
as the scripture promises that it shall do.
..i believe, help Thou my unbelief' (mark 9.24) must become your cry.