Does God Accept Me Just As I Am

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Does God Accept MeJust As I Am?
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Conversation With God For Teenagers

• Who are you?
• Who am I not?

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Conversation With God For Teenagers

• I dont understand what that means.
• It means there is no one, and nothing,
  that I am not.

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Conversation With God For Teenagers

• You mean, you are everything, and everyone?
• Thats what I mean, yes.

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Conversation With God For Teenagers

• Even bad people, and bad things?       
• There are no bad people and no bad
  things, only people and things that you
  have called bad.

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Conversation With God For Teenagers

•  Thats the same thing.
• To you, it is. To me, it isnt.

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Conversation With God For Teenagers

• Now what does that mean?
• It means that we have different values. It
  means that we have different understandings.
  It means that you have made judgments, and
  I dont make judgments.

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Conversation With God For Teenagers

• God Does not make judgments? I thought that's
  what God did.
• Well, the human race has been thinking
  that for a long time, but its not true.

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• Proverbs 1412 (page 571)
  There is a way that seems right to a man,
  But its end is the way of death.
• Proverbs 212 (page 577) Every way
  of a man is right in his own eyes, But the LORD
  weighs the hearts.

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Was Cornelius Saved Just the Way He Was?

• Acts 102 (page 975)
  a devout man and one who feared God with all
  his household, who gave alms generously to the
  people, and prayed to God always.

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Not If You Refuse To Believe In Jesus

• Only those who believe are forgiven.
• Acts 1043 (page 977)
  To Him all the prophets witness that,
  through His name, whoever believes in Him will
  receive remission of sins."

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Not If You Refuse To Believe In Jesus

• Only those who believe are forgiven.

• John 824 (page 948)
  "Therefore I said to you that you will die in
  your sins for if you do not believe that I am
  He, you will die in your sins."

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Not If You Refuse to Repent
Not Those Who Continue in sin

• Luke 135 (page 922)
  "I tell you, no but unless you repent you
  will all likewise perish."

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Not If You Refuse to Repent
Not Those Who Continue in sin

• Paul Preached Repentance
• Acts 2620 (page 994)
  ... to the Gentiles, that they should repent,
  turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.

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Idolaters
Stop Worshiping false idols
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Sorcerers
Stop Practicing Sorcery
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Hatred
Stop Being Hateful
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Contentions
Stop Being Argumentative
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Jealousies
Stop Being Jealous
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Outbursts of Wrath
Stop Exploding In Anger
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Selfish Ambitions
Stop Being Selfishly Motivated
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Fornication
Stop engaging in illegal sexual activity
Any Relationship Outside of a Lawful
Marriage GODS LAW!
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Baptism Doesnt Change Law
That Which Is Illegal Before Baptism
Is Illegal After Baptism
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Baptism Forgives Sin
Cannot Continue In Sin!
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Not If You Refuse to Confess Your Faith in Christ

• Romans 109-10 (page 1007)
  that if you confess with your mouth the Lord
  Jesus and believe in your heart that God has
  raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For
  with the heart one believes unto righteousness,
  and with the mouth confession is made unto
  salvation.

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Not If You Refuse to Be Baptized

• Mark 1616 (page 902)
  "He who believes and is baptized will be saved"

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Not If You Refuse to Be Faithful

• Luke 646 (page 911)
  "But why do you call Me "Lord, Lord," and do not
  do the things which I say"?

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Not If You Refuse to Be Faithful

• James 217 (page 1072)
  Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have
  works, is dead.

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Some Who Did Not Accepted The Way They Were

• Naaman, Commander of the Syrian Army, 2 Kings 5
  (page 333)
• Disciples of John Acts 193-5 (page 986)
• Cornelius Acts 10 (page 975)

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Will God Accept You "Just As You Are"?