Conversion: What Does it Mean ?

Silver Surfer · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:35 am Post subject: Conversion: What Does it Mean ?

Psalms 19:7 The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.

IF....this is true, then the reverse is also true.....
that without the Law of God, there is no such thing as conversion.

What does 'conversion' mean ?

Conversion Leads On to Obedience.--The conversion of the human soul is of no little consequence.

It is the greatest miracle performed by divine power. Actual results are to be reached through a belief in Christ as a personal Saviour.

Purified by obedience to the law of God, sanctified by a perfect observance of His holy Sabbath, 20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I [am] the LORD your God. trusting, believing, patiently waiting, and earnestly working out our own salvation with fear and trembling, we shall learn that it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of His good pleasure.

Sanctification Only Through Practicing the Truth. --Man must not only read the Word of God, supposing that a casual knowledge of this Word will bring about in him a reformation of character.

This work only the One who is the way, the truth, and the life can accomplish. Firmly may certain doctrines of truth be held.

Again and again they may be reiterated, till the holders come to think that they are indeed in possession of the great blessings which these doctrines represent.

But the greatest, most powerful truths may be held, and yet kept in the outer court, exerting little influence to make the daily life wholesome and fragrant.
The soul is not sanctified through the truth that is not practiced.

Doctrines or Church Membership Do Not Take Place of Conversion.
All, high or low, if they are unconverted, are on one common platform. Men may turn from one doctrine to another. This is being done, and will be done. Papists may change from Catholicism to Protestantism; yet they may know nothing of the meaning of the words, "A new heart also will I give you."

Accepting new theories, and uniting with a church, do not bring new life to anyone, even though the church with which he unites may be established on the true foundation.

Connection with a church does not take the place of conversion.

To subscribe the name to a church creed is not of the least value to anyone if the heart is not truly changed. . . .

We must have more than an intellectual belief in the truth.
Many of the Jews were convinced that Jesus was the Son of God, but they were too proud and ambitious to surrender.
They decided to resist the truth, and they maintained their opposition.

They did not receive into the heart the truth as it is in Jesus.
When truth is held as truth only by the conscience, when the heart is not stimulated and made receptive, only the mind is affected.

But when the truth is received as truth by the heart, it has passed through the conscience, and has captivated the soul with its pure principles.

It is placed in the heart by the Holy Spirit, who reveals its beauty to the mind, that its transforming power may be seen in the character.

SealedEternal · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:29 am Post subject:

Conversion is the first step to salvation, but it only starts the process of the Holy Spirit doing His work in ones heart and mind. One is not a child of God and able to practice righteousness until God's Spirit is finished with this process.

SealedEternal