He Did It All For You

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He Did It All for You

A compilation of five previously published books:

Welcome to the Family
God’s Will Is the Holy Spirit
Now Are We in Christ Jesus
The Force of Righteousness
Love—The Secret to Your Success

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by Kenneth Copeland

Welcome to the Family

God loves you and cares for you

...so much that He sent His only Son, Jesus, to be a sacrifice for you.

...so much that He sent His precious Holy Spirit into the earth to be your comforter and teacher.

...so much that He has provided for you to live free from sickness and disease.

God desires the very best for you! You can begin today to receive His best in your life.

God’s Word says it’s yours, so get ready to receive!

How to Become a Christian

Do you know where you stand with God?

If you have never made Jesus the Lord of your life, then you are separated from God by sin. You are the reason God sent Jesus to the cross. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” God loved you so much that He gave His only begotten Son for you.

Second Corinthians 5:21 says that God made Jesus, who knew no sin, to be sin for us. Jesus was the spotless Son of God. Sin was the reason He came to earth. He died on the Cross and went to hell for one reason: to pay the price for sin. Once that price was paid, Jesus was raised from the dead, triumphant over Satan, and the sin problem was taken care of.

God does not hold your sin against you. The only thing keeping you from becoming a child of God is failure to turn from your present world and your present god—Satan—and make Jesus the Lord over your life.

When Jesus paid the sin price for you, He became your substitute. Heaven has it recorded that you died on that cross over 2,000 years ago. You have been set free. But that doesn’t mean you will automatically go to heaven. Even though God sent Jesus to pay for your sin—even though He holds nothing against you—you can still go straight to hell. Why? Because you have not made the choice to receive Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior—to accept His sacrifice as yours.

You have a free will—the right to choose your own destiny. God will not force you to receive salvation. The choice is yours. You can go straight to hell and God will not lift a finger to stop you. He did all He is going to do when He sent Jesus into the world.

The choice is set before you.

If you do choose to make Jesus your Lord, God will receive you as His very own child. You will become a part of His family. He will be your Father and you will be His child. This is not just a theological idea. It is a fact. It actually happens.

Jesus actually walked the earth as a man, went to the cross, died there, was raised from the dead, and is alive today. He is seated at the right hand of God in heaven.

When you become a Christian—or born again—you take on His nature, the nature of God, your heavenly Father. The nature of sin and Satan is death but the nature of God is life. Jesus spoke to the people of His day saying, “Ye are of your father the devil...” (John 8:44). When you accept Jesus as your Lord, you are turning your back on your father the devil, or on “the god of this world,” as Satan is called (2 Corinthians 4:4). You take on a new Father, a heavenly Father, and you are born again—not physically, but spiritually. Your spirit is reborn in the likeness of God.

You see, you are a threefold being: You are a spirit, you have a soul (mind, will, emotions), and you live in a body. Jesus referred to this in a conversation with Nicodemus (John 3:3-7). Jesus said to him, “You must be born again.”

Nicodemus replied, “What do you mean? Do I have to go back again into my mother’s womb?” Jesus answered, “No. What is born of the flesh is flesh. What is born of the Spirit is spirit.”

Being born again is a spiritual rebirth. You are born of the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit was sent into the earth to carry out this new birth. When you make Jesus the Lord of your life, the Holy Spirit comes to indwell you and causes your own spirit to be re-created. According to 2 Corinthians 5:17, when you accept Jesus as your Lord, you become a new creature, or new creation—old things pass away and all things become new. As far as God is concerned, at that moment you stand before Him as a brand new person. You are reborn from sin and death to righteousness and new life. First John 5:1, 4 says, “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.... For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”

I want you to realize what happens the moment you make Jesus Christ the Lord of your life. In the eyes of God, you become a world overcomer. Sin no longer reigns over your life. It is no longer your lord. Jesus is your Lord, and you can live above the satanic forces in the world.

After Jesus was raised from the dead, He stood before His disciples and said, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” (Matthew 28:18). Then He delegated that power to His people, saying, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). What is the gospel? The good news that God is no longer holding your sins and trespasses against you.

The Bible gives some specific instructions you are to follow to become a Christian, or in order to be born again. Look at Romans 10:8-11:

The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Jesus said, “...Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). No matter what kind of sinner you are, no matter what you have done, you can come to Jesus and He will accept you. He will cause you to be born again—to be re-created. And that sin which has been plaguing you will be a thing of the past—gone. You’ll be accepted before God as if you had never sinned!

To be born again, you must use your mouth and your heart. First, believe in your heart that God’s Word is true. Then confess it with your mouth because you believe it (see Romans 10:9-10).

I want you to realize one very important fact: You don’t confess you’re saved because you feel saved. Feelings have absolutely nothing to do with salvation. Let me give you an example.

Suppose someone says to you, “I went to the bank this morning and deposited $1,000 in your account.” How do you know they actually did what they said? You don’t believe they did it because you feel $1,000 richer, and you don’t doubt them just because you don’t feel any different. Your feelings really have nothing to do with it. If that person’s word is good, you’ll believe him. If his word is bad, you won’t.

When your salvation is involved, you are relying on God’s Word—and He doesn’t lie. He means what He says. If He said it, then you can believe it. He has said that if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, you will be saved. You don’t base your salvation on the way you feel. You base it on the pure, unadulterated Word of Almighty God.

God’s Word is the only evidence you have that you are saved, but that’s all the evidence you need!

Several days or weeks from now, you may not feel very saved. You may begin to wonder if you were ever really saved to start with. You will have doubts—Satan will see to that! But when those thoughts and feelings come, just go back to the Word of God. You’ll see that it still says the same thing. God never changes and His Word never changes. It is just as true today as when it was first spoken. People may try to convince you that it didn’t work. Temptations may come to convince you that it didn’t work. Doubts may come to your mind. But none of those things alter the fact that God’s Word is true.

Jesus said, “...I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). The moment you make Jesus the Lord of your life will be the moment you have a desire to live and not die.

I can testify to that fact in my own life. Before I accepted Jesus as my Lord, I was headed straight for hell. Everything I liked to do was bad for me. The habits I had formed for 25 years were destructive to my body and my mind. But when I made Jesus the Lord of my life, all those desires changed. I suddenly had a desire to get rid of my filthy habits. I wanted to get rid of tobacco, alcohol, immoral thoughts and behavior, profanity, etc. Why? Because I was changed. The real me, my spirit, was reborn. The change in my spirit brought changes to my mind and body.

These changes are available to you, too. God is right there, ready to accept and change you. You don’t have to live in sin any longer. You don’t have to live a defeated life any longer. You don’t have to be anything except God’s child. You can walk the road of life victoriously with Jesus as your Lord and Savior. You don’t have to take a back seat to Satan ever again. You can be the head and not the tail!

I want you to join me now in praying this prayer for salvation. Don’t just read it. Make a conscious effort to speak these words from the very depths of your being. When you finish this prayer, you will be born again:

Heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus, I present myself to You. I pray and ask Jesus to be Lord over my life. I believe it in my heart, so I say it with my mouth: “Jesus has been raised from the dead.” This moment, I make Him the Lord over my life. Jesus, come into my heart. I believe this moment that I am saved. I say it now: “I am reborn. I am a Christian. I am a child of Almighty God.”

Now, thank God for making you His child. Colossians 1:12 says, “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.” You have just been made a partaker of an inheritance from God.
You have just inherited the kingdom of God!

You don’t have to wait until you die to receive your inheritance. You are a child of God right this very moment, and you can receive all that belongs to you right now! First John 3:2 says, “Beloved,
now
are we the sons of God.” You have been delivered from darkness into the kingdom of God.

Jesus said, “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32).

I welcome you into the family of God!

Now as part of the family, you’ll need to know more about your Father—the One who has changed you and made you new through the power of His Spirit. You’ll want to find out what’s yours and how to walk in it.

In the next chapter, Gloria will show you how you can receive one of His greatest blessings, the same power and anointing that was on Jesus Himself, to empower you to be a success in your new life. You’ll be full of His joy and overcoming power—victorious in all you set your hand to do.