The need for deliverance brings people to Christ. Not only their current misery in a sinful life 

but the dread of an eternal punishment causes people to seek for a remedy. Faith in Jesus is the remedy. Jesus himself saves us from sin's power and spiritual death. Through faith in Jesus they are alive to God.

 

Whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. 

Romans 10:13 NKJV

 

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

I John 1:9 NKJV

 

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

John 3:16 NKJV

 

When they repent and turn from their sin they are made a child of God. Through the Spirit's indwelling they love him in spirit and in truth. They receive a new and cleansed inner man. Love is now a choice and a command. The Spirit leads them to love God with all of their heart, mind, and body and to not love the world and it’s ways.

 

“We love Him because He first loved us.”

I John 4:19 NKJV

 

Loving God means to obey him. Loving others means to treat them as we want to be treated. 

 

“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”

John 15:9-12 NKJV

 

Those who receive a spiritual mind have spiritual thoughts that are guided by the Holy Spirit. 

 

“For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.””

Romans 8:5-15 NKJV

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“These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.”

I John 5:13 NKJV