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 - Recognize that you're a sinner

First, you must admit your spiritual need: "There is none righteous, no, not one" (Romans 3:10). We can't make excuses or blame others and our circumstances for our actions. "For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God" (Romans 3:23).

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 - Recognize that Jesus Christ died on the cross for you

 "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God..." (I Peter 3:18). Jesus paid the price for your sin. The Apostle Paul said, "...the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me" (Galatians 2:20).

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 - Repent of your sins

  The word "repent" means "to change your direction." The Bible tells us, "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord" (Acts 3:19). God commands us to repent. You must be willing to turn away from the things that displease God.

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 - Accept Jesus as your Saviour

 Jesus said, "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). It is essential that you come to Jesus as you are. Don't try to "clean up your life" before you come to God. Instead, receive Him and allow Him to do the "cleansing." Jesus said, "All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out" (John 6:37).

  5 - Baptizm in Water

 - Baptism in Water

The ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded by the Scriptures. All who repent and believe on Christ as Saviour and Lord are to be baptized. Thus they declare to the world that they have died with Christ and that they also have been raised with Him to walk in newness of life.

  • -Matthew 28:19  
  • -Mark 16:16  
  • -Acts 10:47,48  
  • -Romans 6:4

  6 - The Baptism with The Holy Spirit

 - The Baptism in the Holy Spirit

All believers are entitled to and should ardently expect and earnestly seek the promise of the Father, the baptism in the Holy Spirit and fire, according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian Church. With it comes the power for life and service, the bestowal of the gifts and their uses in the work of the ministry.

  • -Luke 24:49  
  • -Acts 1:4  
  • -Acts 1:8  
  • -1 Corinthians 12:1-31

 
This experience is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of the new birth.

  • -Acts 8:12-17  
  • -Acts 10:44-46  
  • -Acts 11:14-16  
  • -Acts 15:7-9

With the baptism in the Holy Spirit come such experiences as:

  • -an overflowing fullness of the Spirit, John 7:37-39, Acts 4:8
  • -a deepened reverence for God, Acts 2:43, Hebrews 12:28
  • -an intensified consecration to God and dedication to His work, Acts 2:42
  • -and a more active love for Christ, for His Word and for the lost, Mark 16:20