This document discusses five important concepts for new believers to understand about their faith: 1. That all their sins are forgiven and they have eternal life through Jesus. 2. They have been bought with a price and are no longer their own but belong to God as their Lord. 3. God has a unique plan for their life and wants to guide them through the Holy Spirit. 4. The Holy Spirit alone can reveal God's plan and teach them spiritual truths. 5. The Holy Spirit will train them to recognize and obey His guidance by following Jesus and dying to their old sinful nature.

1. Personal Discipleship 5
Five Important Concepts Every New Believer
Needs to Understand

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3. As your Savior - Jesus wants you to
know that all your sins have been
forgiven, and you now have eternal
life.
John 5:24, Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears
My word, and believe Him who sent Me, Has
eternal life, and does not come into judgment
(krisis - condemnation, separation), but has passed
out of death into life.

4. Death - thanatos
Our future would have been misery in hell.
Enveloped in the deepest darkness of ignorance
and sin.
The misery of the soul resulting from sin.
The loss of a life consecrated to and blessed by
God.

5. Life - Zoe
The absolute fulness of life - now and forever; real
and genuine - active and vigorous, devoted to
God, blessed to the level we put our trust in Christ.
After the resurrection, we will receive an
incorruptible body that will last for ever.

6. Rom. 4:7-8, “Blessed are those whose lawless
deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins have
been covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the
Lord will not take into account.”

7. Forgiven - Apheimi
1. to send away; to send forth, yield up, to expire
2. to disregard; not to discuss now, (a topic)
3. to omit, neglect; to let go, give up a debt, forgive,
to remit
4. to give up, keep no longer
5. to permit, allow, not to hinder, to give up a thing to
a person

8. Your account is
cleared
Isa. 43:25, “I, even I, am he who blots out your
transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers
your sins no more.”
Heb. 8:12, “For I will forgive their wickedness and
will remember their sins no more.”
Heb. 10:17, “Then he adds: ‘Their sins and lawless
acts I will remember no more.’”

9. As your Savior - Jesus wants you to
know that all your sins have been
forgiven, and you now have eternal
life.
Rom 8:1, “Therefore there is now no
condemnation (a sentence of damnation) for those
who are in Christ Jesus.”
vs 16, “The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit
(agrees to, partners with, assures us) that we are
children of God.”
vs 31, “If God is for us, who (or what) is against
(adversity; bring down) us?”

10. Rom 10:13, “For Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved (sozo - complete,
lacking no good thing).”
Phil. 2:12, “As you have always obeyed... continue
to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.”
1 John 3:24, “Those who obey his commands live in
him, and He in them. And this is how we know that
He lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.”

11. We are God’s
Children
Rom. 9:8, “It is not the natural children who are
God’s children but it is the children of the promise
who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.”
Acts 2:39, “The promise is for you and your
children and for all who are far off--for all whom
the Lord our God will call.”
Rom 8:16, The Spirit Himself gives testimony that
we are the children of God.

12. 1 Jn 5:11-13, “And this is the record, that God hath
given to us eternal (without beginning and end) life,
and this life is in his Son (the way, the truth, the life -
Jn 14:6). He that hath the Son hath life; and he that
hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things
have I written unto you that believe (have confidence;
to give credit to; to trust) on the name (very nature or
character) of the Son of God; that ye may know that
ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the
name of the Son of God.

13. As your Lord - Jesus wants you to
know that you have been bought
with a price, and you are no longer
your own.
1 Cor. 6:19-20, “Do you not know that your body
is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom
you have from God, and that you are not your
own? For you have been bought with a price:
therefore glorify God in your body.”
1 Cor. 7:23, “He who was called while free, is
Christ’s slave. You were bought with a price.”

14. Master - Servant
Rom 14:7-8, “For we don’t live for ourselves or die
for ourselves. If we live, it’s to honor the Lord. And
if we die, it’s to honor the Lord. So whether we live
or die, we belong to the Lord.” NLT
This could feel threatening if it were not for the
absolute truth that God loves us and will ALWAYS
do what is in your best interest. Re: Rom 8:28

15. You are very special and God has a
marvelous, unique design for your
entire life, and He want to manage His
plan for you.
Psalm 139:16, “Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the
days ordained for me were written in your book before one
of them came to be.”
Jer. 29:11, “I know the plans I have for you," declares the
LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to
give you hope and a future.”
Pro. 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not
lean on your own understanding. In all your ways
acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”

16. Acknowledge Him
I admit, I accept, I grant, I allow, I concede, I
confess, I own, I recognize... the LORD.

17. God wants you to know that the
Holy Spirit alone is capable of
guiding you and revealing God’s
plan to you.
Jer 10:23, “I know, O LORD, that a man's life is not his
own; it is not for man to direct his steps.”
Isa 55:8-9, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. As
the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts.
God knows what we do not. He sees what we cannot.

18. 1 Corinthians 2:9-12
However, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has
heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared
for those who love him”— but God has revealed it to
us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the
deep things of God. For who among men knows the
thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him?
In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God
except the Spirit of God. We have not received the
spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that
we may understand what God has freely given us.

19. Ps 32:8, “I will instruct you and teach you in the
way which you should go; I will counsel you with
My eye upon you.
Jn 14:26, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom
the Father will send in My name, He will teach you
all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I
said to you.

20. John 16:13-15
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you
into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will
tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about
the future. He will bring me glory by telling you
whatever he receives from me. All that belongs to
the Father is mine; this is why I said, ‘The Spirit will
tell you whatever he receives from me.’

21. God wants you to know that
the Holy Spirit will train you to
recognize, follow and obey His
guidance.
Lk 9:23-24, “If anyone wishes to come after Me,
he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily
and follow Me.
Jn 10:27, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know
them, and they follow Me.”

22. Crucified with Christ
Jn 12:24-26, “I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of
wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains
alone. But its death will produce many new kernels
—a plentiful harvest of new lives. Those who love
their life in this world will lose it. Those who care
nothing for their life in this world will keep it for
eternity. Anyone who wants to be my disciple must
follow me, because my servants must be where I
am. And the Father will honor anyone who serves
me.”

23. Handout... Crucify the
Flesh
Rom 12:1-2, “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in
view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living
sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your
spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer
to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able
to test and approve what God’s will is—his good,
pleasing and perfect will.”

24. Lessons 4 Life2Life
The Character of God
The Personality of the Holy Spirit
The Human Nature and the Divine Nature
The Sovereignty of God
Internal Transformation vs Behavior Modification