Entering God's Kingdom: The Four Essential Steps

The right view is that it's the reward we get by following Jesus. And that's because he was the very first person to defeat death forever. Now, other people miraculously were healed. They were brought back to life. But every single one of them had to die again. Jesus, when he came back to life, that was permanent. Permanent resurrection. [00:04:55] (24 seconds)  #PermanentResurrectionHope

Repentance is a requirement because everyone naturally wants to go in this direction. It's easier. You repent, you go this direction. It's more of a challenge. But the reward is so much greater. [00:14:47] (16 seconds)  #LeavingOldLifeBehind

If we don't repent, then what is it that we're being saved from? You cannot point to being saved from something if you're still in that position, can you? There's no old life that we've left behind. We have to have changed from this direction to this direction in order to say we have benefited from being in the kingdom of God, from claiming that Jesus is our saviour. [00:15:05] (34 seconds)  #TrustingJesusLord

Because Jesus is the only way that we can be saved. You can decide your life's going in the wrong direction. But unless you put your faith in Jesus, it's not going to go in the right direction. It's just going to go in a different direction. [00:17:10] (16 seconds)  #MeaningfulBaptism

And when we go through those four steps, we have a relationship with the whole trinity of God. We repent to God the Father, we believe in Jesus, God the Son, and we receive God the Holy Spirit. [00:29:25] (18 seconds)  #GraceAndActionPartnership

When a baby is born, that is not the end of that baby's life, is it? Just the start. They've been growing for nine months, it's true, but actually we don't say, ha, new baby, excellent, that's it. No, we're saying, what can this baby achieve? I wonder where this baby will be in 25 years' time, if you even think that far ahead when you've just had a new one. So when we receive the Holy Spirit, we too are just at the start. Who knows what we can achieve in partnership with God. [00:34:00] (42 seconds)  #AlignHabitsWithFaith

If your practice and your habits don't line up to being a Christian, choose to change. You can do that any time. Even if you fall back, you can do it. If you truly repent, you will be forgiven each time. The important thing is not to keep going back to exactly the same place. [00:35:51] (22 seconds)  #OpenToHolySpirit