Call On Jesus ONCE

For all those who are afraid of repetition. Here is how you can call effectively on the resurrected and available Jesus Christ ONE TIME.

I think you can get to know Him even if you call out to Him one time.

Call and confess that you are a guilty and helplessly entangled sinner in need of the forgiveness of God.

One time callers. Call on Jesus like this:

"O Lord Jesus, I am just a sinner in need of Your forgiveness."

without risky repetition you have admitted to God what He needs to hear from your heart and from your own mouth. That is that Jesus is Lord. That is that you believe the Lord Jesus is alive. And that you confess your need for His coming to die on the cross for you that you would be totally cleansed of your sins.

One effective time - ONE calling to turn your heart over to the living God and the resurrected and available Lord Jesus His Son.

There is something that the NT calls the veil that lies over the inner spiritual eyes. It prevents a person from seeing that God is in Christ.

Whenever the heart turns to the Lord the veil is taken away. Actually the covering, the blinding veil is the heart turned AWAY from the Lord Jesus.

When the heart turns to the Lord the covering preventing men from perceiving the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, is taken away.

"But whenever their heart turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away." (2 Cor. 3:15)

Reality could be so close. Yet a man cannot perceive reality because his heart is hardened and turned away from the Lord Jesus. The turned away heart causes the thoughts to be hardened against the Lord.

"But their thoughts were hardened; for until the present day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant, it not being unveiled to them that the veil is being done away in Christ." (v.14)

In this case Paul was talking about the Jews who listened to the law of Moses but were hardened in their hearts to the incarnation of the Son of God in Jesus Christ.

A covering, like the mask over the mouth these days because of Covid, remains over their spiritual eyes. The truth could be so close, right before their face. Yet they cannot perceive it because the heart is turned and the thoughts are hardened.

Calling to the Lord Jesus with all your heart is a good way to have the veil of darkness removed from your heart to see the glory of God in Jesus Christ.

@sonship said
For all those who are afraid of repetition.

@divegeester said
You mean this thread is just for the 2 or 3 people who called out your instruction to paganisitic chanting and numerology?

Maybe nobody is reading anyway.

This was a good little talk with philosopher Alvin Plantinga

Arguments About God? Alvin Plantinga, Templeton Prize 2017
YouTube&ab_channel=TempletonPrize

@sonship said
1.) Divegeester, whether either once or more than once or not at all - how has calling on the Lord Jesus effected your spiritual life?

2.) Have you ever called on the Lord reaching out to One whom you believe in raised from the dead, alive, available, and real ?

3.) What has been your experience with calling on Jesus?
Some or maybe no experience at all?

@divegeester

I doubt it just a little bit.

You are likely to twist it into something like this:

You mean this thread is just for the 2 or 3 people who called out your instruction to paganisitic chanting and numerology?

@sonship said
@divegeester
I doubt it just a little bit.
You are likely to twist it into something like this:

You mean this thread is just for the 2 or 3 people who called out your instruction to paganisitic chanting and numerology?

@divegeester

Your opening sentence:

”For all those who are afraid of repetition. Here is how you can call effectively on the resurrected and available Jesus Christ ONE TIME.”

There is no “twisting”, I simply responded to how you set the thread up.

So someone objects that the NT speaks of Christ abiding but not of Jesus flowing.

Well, one of the main portions of the NT speaking of Christ abides is John 15. There we read about the branches (the believers) abiding in the True Vine - Jesus.

Now this abiding involves the life of the vine flowing from the vine INTO the abiding branches.

"Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit if itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me." (John 15:4)

So this is about Christ abiding. Now think about it a little bit. The branches can be living and fruit bearing because life of the vine is flowing from the vine INTO the branches.

If you're able to hear it, that is certainly Jesus FLOWING into the believers.
Without Jesus the True Vine flowing His life into the branches of His disciples they cannot be fruit bearing or healthy.

The chapter on Christ ABIDING strongly implies the life of Christ FLOWING into and through the believers in Christ attached TO Him.

@sonship said
So someone objects that the NT speaks of Christ abiding but not of Jesus flowing.

Well, one of the main portions of the NT speaking of Christ abides is John 15. There we read about the branches (the believers) abiding in the True Vine - Jesus.

Now this abiding involves the life of the vine flowing from the vine INTO the abiding branches.
...[text shortened]... trongly implies the life of Christ FLOWING into and through the believers in Christ attached TO Him.

I believe it is important to extract the correct meaning from the various similes and metaphors.

Argue further with you?
a waste of time.

@sonship said
Argue further with you?
a waste of time.

@fmf said
I am a waste of your time. divegeester is a waste of your time. Ghost of a Duke is a waste of your time. Rajk999 is a waste of your time. Do you get hundreds of PMs from non-posting readers who assure you that YOU are not a waste of everyone's time?