BECOMING A CHRISTIAN 2: BEING CALLED BY GOD THE FATHER
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Becoming a Christian
a) What steps are involved in becoming a Christian? Are there particular steps involved in being born again? What comes first and what follows? This question has come up more than you might think.
2. Being Called by God the Father
a) Truly the first step of becoming a Christian is not even done by the person. People believe that they are seeking after God and finally found God. But God was not missing…we were! God does the initial calling as John 6:44 states, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
b) This is why Paul wrote, “There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God” (Romans 3:11). There is no one that really seeks after God but in fact God pursues them. We are drawn by the Father and the Father grants to us repentance first, before we even do anything. “Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 2:25). God then is the One that not only sends repentance to us (Acts 5:31, 11:17). There is no one that really is a seeker after God, for it is written.
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1. Becoming a Christiana) What steps are involved in becoming a Christian? Are there particular steps involved in being born again? What comes first and what follows? This question has come up more than you might think.
2. Being Called by God the Father
a) Truly the first step of becoming a Christian is not even done by the person. People believe that they are seeking after God and finally found God. But God was not missing…we were! God does the initial calling as John 6:44 states, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
b) This is why Paul wrote, “There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God” (Romans 3:11). There is no one that really seeks after God but in fact God pursues them. We are drawn by the Father and the Father grants to us repentance first, before we even do anything. “Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 2:25). God then is the One that not only sends repentance to us (Acts 5:31, 11:17). There is no one that really is a seeker after God, for it is written.
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