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FOLLOWING JESUS —  WHAT IS “SAVING FAITH”

MATTHEW 16:24-25 —  “If anyone wishes to comes after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.  For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it.”

When you made the decision to follow Jesus, you made the most important, crucial decision of your life.

But Jesus didn’t offer eternal life to you based on:

“saying the right words”

“Having a warm religious feeling’

“an emotional moment when you felt you ought to do something”

“or that walking the aisle seemed like the appropriate thing to do”

“or a need for assurance that you wouldn’t go to hell”

“or that someone told you to repeat this prayer after me”.

There is one, and only one, way to receive eternal life ( or to be “saved”)

And it…