Prerequisite to salvation, to heaven—a relationship with Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prerequisite to a relationship with Jesus—forgiveness for sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prerequisite to forgiveness for sin—repentance for sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prerequisite to repentance for sin—regret for sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prerequisite to regret for sin—conviction of sin by preaching of God’s law against sin and the consequences of sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And what makes all this work, step by step, in order ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God’s love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prerequisite to salvation, to heaven—a relationship with Jesus. Prerequisite to a relationship with Jesus—forgiveness for sin. Prerequisite to forgiveness for sin—repentance for sin. Prerequisite to repentance for sin—regret for sin. Prerequisite to regret for sin—conviction of sin by preaching of God’s law against sin and the consequences of sin. – – – And what makes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5279,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions\/5279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}