What Happens After You Say "I Believe In Jesus Christ"

By Linda Marie Richardson

A New Creature In Christ

Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; and old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (2 Corinthians 5:17)

We who become ambassadors are His representation in this world of total rebellion. Many in the world need to hear again that God loves them and has reconciled them u

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Nov 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781640885608

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The Comforter

Father, Son, Holy Spirit

Many people come to a conclusion that they need a personal relationship with Jesus, but after they say, " I believe ," they wonder what is going to happen.

Let’s read about the Comforter, whom we receive after we have turned our life over to Jesus, after you say, I Believe in Jesus Christ.

The Comforter has several names in the Bible: Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, or Comforter.

My favorite name is comforter. Comforter is a word that turns my focus to the following: love, warmth, trust, faith, being watched over or guided, giving help, relief, protection, security, contentment, well-being, and knowing that you are saved and will someday be taken to your eternal home with Jesus to live forever and ever. You want to go there because you know that is where Jesus anxiously waits for your arrival. He is your creator. His love is above all others. You are His child.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you." (John 16:7)

Jesus is telling the disciples that He must depart (die on the cross) or the Comforter will not come unto them.

The comforter for a baby is always the child’s mother. If the mother is a believer, the baby has the extra bonus of having a mother who is praying constantly for this special gift from God. She carries the child in her very body for nine months and nourishes the baby inside of herself. It is a miracle indeed of how the mother’s body nourishes the child before the baby is born. She protects the baby by having excellent medical care, eating as she should to nourish this little one, exercising so that she will be strong throughout her pregnancy, probably singing and talking to the baby, and rubbing her tummy just as if she is actually touching this precious gift. In that time frame, she is also anxiously preparing a home filled with beautiful bedding, clothing, and love for the child. When the child is birthed, it needs to have comfort, love, nourishment, guidance, and protection, and the mother and father are there to take care of this beautiful gift from God.

The same is with each of us as we become one with Jesus. We are just babes to begin our knowledge about faith, trust, belief, and true love when we start walking with the Lord. Age makes no difference. Many meet Him at a much earlier age than others. Others know about Jesus for a long time before they actually turn their complete life over to Him, and they become one with Him.

My brother Duke was a Marine for twenty years, and I am sure that in his mind and heart, he is still a Marine. All he ever wanted to do was to join the Marines, and at the age of seventeen, my parents signed the consent papers for him. He served two times in Vietnam, and I know that his greatest line of defense was not his gun; it was the Comforter within him. How many men die on the battlefield of war and do not know the Lord? We were fortunate to know that Duke was full of God’s protection. If he would have been mortally wounded, he would not have been alone.

When you truly tell Jesus that you believe in the gospel (His death, burial, and resurrection), you are just beginning a new life in His light, and you receive protection by His leadership. Your body becomes a temple, and that temple houses the Comforter.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. (Corinthians 2:12–16)

Salvation makes the difference!

For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (2 Corinthians 6:16a)

You were not filled with God’s Spirit until you were saved, for you were an unspiritual person and unreceptive. The difference between the natural man and the spiritual man is primarily that the spiritual man has founded his faith on what Jesus has done for him. Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection (the gospel). Jesus’s blood was shed for us that we might be forgiven of all sin, yesterday’s sin, today’s sin, and tomorrow’s sin forever and ever. Once saved, always saved!

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of