In this course, we will walk you through the journey that a believer makes, as they navigate following God, while living in a fallen and sinful world.
First, we must realize that all of humanity is born into sin, in a fallen state, needing the salvation that Jesus purchased with His blood. Although we are alive and breathing, before we come to Christ, every person on the planet is spiritually dead, needing the One who is the give of all life to make them truly alive.
Then, just as Jesus spoke to Lazarus and called him by name, causing his body to be brought back from death to life, so God calls us to be resurrected from our own personal graves of spiritual death, to be made alive by the power of the Holy Spirit, through belief in the finished work of Jesus on the cross. At this moment, we are born again, never again to suffer death of our spirit, which is separation from God, but we are made a new creature in Christ Jesus our Lord.
We need to repent, be baptized, receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, renew our minds daily in His Word, and learn to live a victorious life, walking by the Spirit, and not gratifying the ways of the flesh. We are to walk by faith and not by sight, and please God with our lives of surrender to His will as we proclaim Him until, one day, we are transformed into His image and likeness and translated to our heavenly home.