The Truth About the Sinner’s Prayer

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Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Bible Study, Spiritual

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¹⁹Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, immersing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Ruach ha-Kodesh, ²⁰teaching them to observe all I have commanded you. And remember! I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” ~ Matthew 28:19-20, TLV

¹⁵He told them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the Good News to every creature. ¹⁶He who believes and is immersed shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be condemned. ~ Mark 16:15-16, TLV

No sinner’s prayer is biblical. Since no sinner’s prayer has ever saved lost souls, telling someone he or she can repeat a sinner’s prayer and be saved means no sinner’s prayer is factual.

Yeshua never told His Disciples to use a sinner’s prayer to lead people to Him because He knew that only the preached unadulterated Word – the Good News – has the power to lead lost souls to Him. Everything He knew about the Gospel was why Yeshua commanded His Followers to preach it to every creature. This Gospel was, and still is, the Good News about Yeshua – the One who came into the world to save this world from the death penalty.

Moreover, there is an uncomfortable truth, which is that there are far too many Christians who have used their churches’ versions of the sinner’s prayer primarily so that their pastors could keep track of the number of sinners their church members have led to Yeshua. Missionaries have been asked: How many lost souls repeated the sinner’s prayer with you? This practice also is neither biblical nor factual.

What is biblical is Yeshua’s Followers helping lost souls to be saved by grace through faith by preaching the Word to them. Another uncomfortable truth is that neither spiritual rebirth nor eternal salvation can take place without someone first planting the seed. That is why having faith in the One who came to save lost souls can only come after they have heard the preached Word and received the planted Word seed. That is why Yeshua teaches yet another uncomfortable truth via parables. This uncomfortable truth is that the Word is to the Kingdom of YeHoVaH what a natural seed is to a harvest.

Yeshua will have His Harvests of souls because His Word seed was planted via the preaching of the Gospel. This Word seed will produce YeHoVaH’s kind of Faith, His kind of Grace, and His Ruach (Spirit) in them. Faith, Grace, and the Ruach – when accepted – will move lost souls to repent their sins so that they can confess YeHoVaH anointed Yeshua to be the one and only Savior of this world. Only then can the gifts of regeneration and salvation be received.

The last uncomfortable truth mentioned here is that without repentance, there is no forgiveness of sin. That is why the Power of YeHoVaH’s Promises is in His Word seed, and those Promises include His Forgiveness, Regeneration, Salvation, Justification, Sanctification, Glorification, and Eternal Life spiritual gifts.

In summary, when we do what we are commanded to do, which is to preach the Gospel, YeHoVaH, His Grace (Yeshua), and His Ruach (Spirit) will take it from there. If we don’t follow the proper salvation process, we will be guilty of deceiving ourselves into thinking WE led people to Yeshua via a sinner’s prayer, as well as guilty of deceiving lost souls into believing they will be included in Yeshua’s Harvests of souls. Shalom!

More Than Fire Insurance (Amended)

01 Saturday Dec 2018

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Devotional

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“by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.” ~ Ephesians 2:15-16, ESV

It is sad to say, but so many Christians become Christians only because they want to qualify for God’s Fire Insurance Policy—Jesus Christ. If we are true believers in Christ, then it needs to be apparent to us that Christ wants to be more to us than the One who is our Ark of safety (the One who saves us from the fire damage the Tribulation Period’s trumpet and bowl judgments and the Lake of Fire cause).

That’s right! Christ wants to be more to us than someone who saves us from the end-time Wrath of God, as well as saves us from the Lake of Fire’s eternal punishment. He wants us to recognize Him not only as our Savior but also as our Brother, Advocate, Healer, Lord, and so much more. In other words, Christ not only wants us to have an eternal life with God but also an abundant life right here on Earth. He wants us to live an incredibly wealthy life—a life full of God’s Favor, Love, and kindness, as well as a life full of the Oneness and the Peace that are in the Godhead.

This spiritual truth is why Christ’s Death does not just reconcile and restore us back to a right relationship with God—does not just provide our Ark of safety that saves us from any fire damage. Incontestably, by sacrificing His Life, Christ also succeeds in destroying the whole system of the Jewish Law—that system which establishes the wall of hostility that separates Gentiles and Hebrews. By breaking down the wall that separates us—Hebrews and Gentiles—Christ also creates peace between us, by making ALL nations and ethnicities One Body of believers.

Now, we who are Gentiles are no longer outsiders by birth. We no longer live in this lost world without God and without hope. Indeed, we now are members of God’s Household of Faith and joint-heirs with Christ. As such, we not only have access to the Fullness of Christ, which is the Fullness of the Godhead, but also Christ wants us to use this Fullness in this life.

Let us come into God’s Presence to thank Him for all that He already has done for us, and let us thank Him for everything He is going to do for us. Let us also begin to use the fullness of the Godhead that is available to us because of Christ’s Finished Work on the Cross. Shalom.

Keep it real…Live it out…Watch it work!

~ This slightly modified devotion is from my Keeping It Real: Daily Renewing The Mind 2015 one-year devotional.

Yokefellows

26 Monday Jun 2017

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Devotional

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VERSE:

Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Philippians 4:3

COUPLET:

Christ’s co-laborers: sisters and brothers;
Fellow workers meeting needs of others.

PRAYER:

Holy Spirit, remind us that all men and women believers in Christ are “fellow workers.” Also remind us that Christ’s co-laborers should assist one another, especially in the ministry of helps (a loving, giving, caring, service-oriented ministry). In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.

~ a page from my manuscript, “Daily Manna: Bible Verse, Couplet & Prayer for Each Day of the Year”