FORTY ANSWERED QUESTIONS

FROM THE WORD OF GOD

     
  1. Must I forgive my enemies in becoming a Christian?

    Matthew 5
    23   Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
    24   Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

    Matthew 6
    12   And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
    14   For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
    15   But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

    Ephesians 4
    31   Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
    32   And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.








     
  2. Must I make restitution?

    Mark 12
    31   And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

    Romans 12
    17   Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

    Luke 19
    8   And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

    2 Corinthians 8
    21   Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.








     
  3. Must I not wait until I understand the Bible better before I become a Christian?

    Acts 8
    12   But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
    35   Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
    36   And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
    37   And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

    Acts 16
    30   And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
    31   And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
    32   And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
    33   And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.

    1 Corinthians 2
    1   And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
    2   For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
    3   And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
    4   And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
    5   That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.








     
  4. Must I not become a better man before I become a Christian?

    Matthew 9
    12   But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
    13   But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

    Matthew 17
    15   Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
    16   And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
    17   Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
    18   And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.

    Romans 7
    23   But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
    24   O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
    25   I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

    Galatians 2
    16   Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.








     
  5. When I try to pray it seems unreal to me.  How can I overcome this?

    Luke 11
    1   And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
    2   And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. 3   Give us day by day our daily bread.
    4   And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

    John 1
    18   No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of theFather, he hath declared him.

    John 17
    6   I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
    25   O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
    26   And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.








     
  6. Are you sure so great a sinner as I am can be saved?

    Isaiah 55
    6   Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
    7   Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
    8   For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
    9   For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

    Isaiah 43
    24   Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
    25   I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
    26   Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

    1 Timothy 1
    15   This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
    16   Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.








     
  7. Should I make any start to confess that I want to be a Christian while I have no feeling?

    Matthew 12
    10   And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
    11   And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
    12   How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
    13   Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.

    Ezekiel 36
    26   A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
    27   And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

    Ephesians 2
    4   But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
    5   Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
    6   And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:








     
  8. What is the greatest sin?

    1 John 5
    10   He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself:  he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

    John 5
    38   And ye have not his word abiding in you:  for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

    Numbers 23
    19   God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?







     
  9. If I become a Christian, what ought I to seek for most earnestly?

    John 14
    16   And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
    17   Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
    18   I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.


    John 20
    22   And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:


    Acts 1
    8   But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.


    Acts 2
    39   For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.


    Ephesians 5
    17   Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
    18   And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
    19   Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
    20   Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
    21   Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.









     
  10. What will be my greatest difficulty in the Christian life?

    Philippians 2
    3   Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
    4   Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
    5   Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:


    Romans 12
    3   For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
    16   Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.


    John 13
    12   So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
    13   Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
    14   If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
    15   For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
    16   Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
    17   If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.









     
  11. How can I be sure of holding out?

    Isaiah 41
    10   Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

    1 Corinthians 10
    13   There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

    2 Corinthians 9
    8   And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

    2 Corinthians 12
    9   And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

    Hebrews 7
    25   Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

    Jude
    24   Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

    John 10
    27   My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
    28   And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
    29   My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.








     
  12. I do not feel like becoming a Christian now; can I not put this off until some other time?

    2 Corinthians 6
    2   (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

    Hebrews 3
    7   Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
    8   Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

    Hebrews 4
    7   Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

    James 4
    13   Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
    14   Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
    15   For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
    16   But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
    17   Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.





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