So, the other day I shared about the word MUST. With further searching I was incorrect. I stated you must confess with your mouth the name of Jesus to be save. The scripture verse states, "IF you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you will be saved." Romans 10:9. I was in error technically because I stated you MUST do this. I, inside of me see the urgency that one must do this in their lives because that is the evangelist popping out from inside of me seeing the importance of this. In reality and scripture wise the word is IF because we have to take into consideration free will in which each of us is given. God cannot force one or anyone else for that matter to pray a sinner's prayer. This is a heart issue, and I am warning you in advance that there are only 2 main choices in life that matter, eternal life forever living in either heaven or hell. There is no limbo or purgatory either. Search out the word of God and you will see for yourself.
I remember being the Catholic woman that got born again and even while reading my Catholic bible Holy Spirit highlighted this truth to me while reading scripture, I was beside myself like I had this secret and whom do I share it with in a safe setting too. I got the idea of going to confession with my little Catholic bible in hand. Back then I chose to go face-to-face confession with Father Steve in Vermilion, Ohio. I thought because of the years of training in the Catholic ways I was safe sharing this insight within the walls of the confessional and priests cannot tell others what was confessed in the confessional. I shared and showed him the scripture verse too. I even said to him that I have concern because purgatory was a major doctrine of the Catholic church. It was not much longer after that experience I began to attend the Pentecostal, non -denominational church where I learned about the bible and evangelism too.
See, God has a plan in all of this, He really does. I am not opposed to stating I am wrong for all the world to read when I am wrong. This is humbling to be able to say I was wrong and move on. So, with further research I found out Jesus used the word MUST in scripture 29 times from the search results. Those are the things I would pay attention to when Jesus tells you that you must do something.
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