Understanding Your Relationship With Jesus Christ Knowing Jesus Christ is the most exciting relationship you can have. It is the beginning of a life of adventure with an all-loving, all-powerful God. If you have sincerely asked Christ to come into your life, you can be sure that your relationship with God is secure. As a result of Christ’s death on the cross, the only sufficient provision for a relationship with God, you have been completely forgiven and accepted by Him.There are many exciting things that are true in your relationship with Christ. Understanding these truths will help you build a firm foundation on which to grow. My feelings about God keep changing You might have expectations about how you should feel after placing your trust in Christ. While feelings are important, they are unreliable indicators of your sincerity or the trustworthiness of God’s promise. Our feelings change easily, but God’s Word and His character remain constant. This illustration shows the relationship between fact (God and His Word), faith (our trust in God and His Word) and our feelings. What is Faith? The moment you received Christ by faith, as an act of your will, many things happened, including the following: Christ came into your life – Revelation 3:20, Colossians 1:27 Your sins were forgiven – Colossians 1:14 You became a child of God – John 1:12 You received eternal life – John 5:24 You began the great adventure for which God created you – John 10:10, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Dealing with doubts Even though feelings are important, your relationship with Christ is based on facts, not on feelings that can change daily. Doubts, questions and varying emotions are common parts of everyone’s life, but they are very unreliable gauges of anyone’s relationship with Christ. The Christian lives by faith in the trustworthiness of God and His Word. But what if you don’t feel like a Christian tomorrow? Place your faith in the faithfulness of God Himself and the trustworthiness of His Word. The more you learn, the more you will be able to answer any doubts with solid facts. Your feelings will begin to respond to the truth of God’s Word and not to your circumstances. Summary Since you have trusted in Christ’s payment for your sin, understood the basis of your relationship with God and have learned five truths about your relationship, you can be confident in your relationship with Christ. Further growth: Take one truth each day and reflect on it. Read the accompanying verses and thank God that this is now true to you. Tell someone this week that you have a relationship with Christ. 1. Christ forgave your sins. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of Gods grace... (Ephesians 1:7). What difference do you think it makes to know that all of your sins have been forgiven? When you trusted Christ for the forgiveness of your sin, all your sins were forgiven - past, present and future. 2. Christ made you a child of God. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name -- children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husbands will, but born of God. (John 1:12,13). 3. Christ came into your life and He will never leave you. (Christ speaking) Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him. (Revelation 3:20) 4. According to John 6:37, how many times is it necessary to receive Christ? 5. Christ gave you eternal life. And this is the testimony; God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. (1 John 5:11-13).
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