What is the word conversion | Christian message points | sermons outlines

 

61. How often is this word found in the Bible? Once (Acts 15:3). 

62. What importance does Christ attach to conversion? 

“Except ye be converted . . . ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3). 

63. What has the Lord to do in our conversion? 

“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him” (John 6:44). 

64. What are some of the results of conversion? Sins blotted out (Acts 3:19); times of refreshing (Acts 3:19); 

power in service (Luke 22:32); a pure 

life (Romans 6:2); love of brethren (1 John 3:14); obedience (Luke 6:46). 

65. What is changed in Conversion? 

Heart and spirit (Ezekiel 36:26); life (Romans 6:2, 4); affection (Colossians 3:2, 3); service (Romans 6:6). 

66. What are some essentials in conversion? 

Faith (Acts 16:31); repentance (Acts 3:19); obedience (Matthew 7:21-27); childlike simplicity (Matthew

18:3). 

67. Does conversion change a man’s traits of character? 

Only so far as these traits of character have been perverted by sin. It does not take away temper, but makes 

us the masters rather than the slaves of our temper. It does not take away weaknesses, but God gives us 

grace and power to overcome them. It does not change our talents, but the use of these talents is changed 

from instruments of darkness to instruments of light. In the case of Paul, for example, it was the same Saul 

of Tarsus, changed from a servant of Satan to a soldier of Jesus Christ. 

68. What is God’s invitation to the unsaved? 

“Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die?” (Ezekiel 33:11). 

69. What encouragement does the Bible give to those who labor for the salvation of the lost? 

“He that converteth the sinner from the error his way shall save a soul from death” (James 5:20). 

70. What about the man who frequently has a new “experience,” each time claiming that had never been 

converted before? 

The chances are that he needs it again. 

71. Is it not true that some people are taken into the church unsaved, and are afterwards converted? 

There is no doubt about it. But their “conversion” is not liable to Happen quite so often. The cases are very 

rare where a man is soundly converted and doesn’t know it. 

72. What about those who profess conversion and continue to live in sin as before? 

“How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein” (Romans 6:2)? “Like as Christ was raised from 

the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:4).