The Devil's Family and God's Family

Your Decision to trust Jesus Christ as your personal Savior is the greatest. decision you could ever make but... it is unlikely that you understand the true significance of what has happened in your life.

I'll try to explain briefly how your decision has affected your basic relationship with God.

There are two spiritual families in the World.

The Devil's family and God's family.

Everyone is born into the devil's family at birth because their earthly father is a mortal man and a descendant of sinful Adam. Adam's first child was Seth. Genesis 5:3 says, "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth."

You inherited your sin nature from your father Adam. Romans 5:12 says, "Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned."

As a result of being born into this sinful family of the devil, you will die.
Romans 6:23 says, "The wages of sin is death." and I Corinthians says, In Adam all die."

The Bible clearly points out this family of the devil in John 8:44, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do."

A verse that shows a distinction between the two families is John 8:38 where it says, "I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which ye have seen with your father."

How do we get into God's family?

By birth also. But a different kind of birth. It's a spiritual birth by God the Father. John 3:3 says, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

So how does one be born again?

John 1:12-13 says, "But as many as received him (which is the decision to trust Jesus Christ as your Savior), to them gave he power to become the sons of God (your entrance into God's family), even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man (it is not a physical birth), but of God."

You see then... that it is a "spiritual" birth.

This new spiritual birth puts you into God's family just as your physical birth put you into your earthly father's family.

Once you are in God's family, you are separated from the Devil's family.

Your body is now the temple of the Holy Ghost. God's Holy Spirit lives inside you.

I Corinthians 6:19, says, "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"

After a person becomes born again and has the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of them, they will usually want to give up drinking and smoking. They will be careful where they go and will not go into bars any more. They will stop wasting their time watching hours and hours of useless television shows.

A born again child of God will begin to seek God's will and not his own. His desires, goals, and purpose for living will change. If you are not seeking a new life in Christ, perhaps you weren't sincere when you asked God to save you. Or...
it could be that you are hanging out with the wrong crowd and need to pull away.

Your new life is summarized perfectly in II Corinthians 5:17-18 where it says,
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ..."

That's why when you get saved, most of your old friends don't want to be around you any more because you aren't like them. You have changed. You stop doing the things you used to do when you belonged to the Devil's family.

If your friends and family don't get saved and don't want to belong to God's family, they won't be willing to make the changes God asks. Instead of making changes and continuing to be your friend, they will either stop hanging out with you or they will try to pull you down with them. They might not be doing it on purpose but never the less, it can happen if you don't consciously make a decision to go to God for help during times of temptation.

If you find yourself being pulled back into your old life, the Bible says to, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh unto God, and he will draw nigh unto you." James 4:7-8.

So you see, God will help you leave your old life with it's sinful activities behind.
You belong to God's family now and he will help you make new friends who want to please God.

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