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We Are Saved
by Taking
Three Simple Steps
Step 1. Ask Christ to deal
with the sin in your life. 
What is our part in getting rid of our sinful life?
REPENT,
then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out.
Acts 3:19.
What leads a person to repent?
Do
you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience,
not realizing that GODS KINDNESS LEADS YOU TOWARDS REPENTANCE?
Romans
2:4.
Yet
now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because YOUR SORROW
LED YOU TO REPENTANCE.
2 Corinthians
7:9.
Repentance is simply being sorry for our sins and then turning away from
them, making a break with the old habits, practices, and attitudes. It's
not sorrow just because we fear punishment, but a response to "God's kindness"
that led Jesus to die in our place for our sinfulness. We reject sin because
it hurts God.
He
who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever CONFESSES AND RENOUNCES
them finds mercy.
Proverbs 28:13.
In addition to acknowledging and getting rid of the old life of sin,
what else is necessary for the repentant sinner?
If
he [the wicked man] gives back what he took in pledge for a loan, returns
what he has stolen, follows the decrees that give life, and does no
evil, he will surely live; he will not die.
Ezekiel 33:15.
 
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