Commission to Christian Workers

New Converts

Scripture: 1 John 4:13-21
Conversion - Steps to a Christian Life

Repent

Turn around. Change your mind. "I tell you, nay: but, except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish." Luke 13:3

Receive Him

You need the Savior. Accept Him. "But as many received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name.: John 1:12

Be Born Again

This is what God does for you. This is the New Birth - a miracle of spiritual life performed by the Holy Spirit. "Which were born, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." John 1:13 and John 11:25.

Rejoice Publicly

Make your testimony for Christ. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:9, 10 and Matthew 10:32,33.

Request Water Baptism

Read the Word

The word is the source of your faith. “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” 1 John 5:13, Romans 10:17, Psalm 119:105.

Reach God in Prayer

Prayer is conversation with God. Life is sustained by union and communion (Ephesians 6:18 and James 4:2) “and this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” 1 John 5:14, 15.

Relate Your Experience to Others

You maintain strength by exercise. “Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?” Ezekiel 33:9,10.

Resist the Devil

Temptation is not sin. It is the yielding to temptation that is sin. “That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 1:7.
“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” Hebrews 4:15

Restitution

Your guilt is gone, and you can convert your influence for good. “And Zacchaeus stood and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.” Acts 24:16

“Render.. Unto God the Things That are God’s”

Start tithing your income immediately. “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee. In tithes and offerings. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith saith the Lord of host, if I will not open up the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” Malachi 3:8, 10. See also 1 Corinthians 16:2.

Regularly Attend Church and Sunday School

Associate yourself immediately with God’s people. Become a church member. Hebrews 10:25 “And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.” Luke 4:16.
“According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue.” 2 Peter 1:3