“As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in Him”

When we come to Christ for salvation we come by placing our faith in Him and what He did on the cross for us to be reconciled to God and we must always keep our faith in Him as we go on in our walk with the Lord, if we look to anything else that we do or rules we keep we have moved the object of faith away from Christ and back to us or something else and in so doing we have then turned away from Christ and if we continue in that direction we will eventually loose our way and be lost. Gods way of salvation centers up on Christ and His work on the cross and our faith must always remain there and only there.

1-A person must first recognize he is a sinner that cannot save himself. Romans 3:23, 23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.2-A person needs to know that he is facing eternal death. Rm 6:23, 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

3-A person needs to know that Christ died so that the repentant sinner can live eternally. Rm 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

4–A person needs to know that Christ died for him personally. Rm 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

5–A person needs to know that Christ saves the one who calls upon Him, and remains faithful to Him. Rm 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

This is the beginning of the Christian life. We need to grow in grace and the knowledge of God. 2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ….

We grow in grace by praying; by studying the Bible; by doing all the things the Bible tells us to do; by telling others what Christ has done for us. By beholding (observing and studying the life of Christ and imitating it) we become changed into His image.

2 Cor 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

We also need to confess our sins and stop doing them.

Proverbs 28:13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Jesus said that eternal life is in knowing Him and His Father.

Jn 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. When a person gives in to sin they must repent.

Sanctification (becoming like Jesus) is the work of a lifetime.