Sinner's prayer?

 What is the sinners prayer?

Most versions of the prayer focus on four key spiritual steps:

• Admit: Recognizing you are a sinner and fall short.

• Believe: Trusting that Jesus Christ died for your sins and rose from the dead.

• Confess: Declaring that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.

• Surrender: Inviting Him into your heart and committing to follow Him.

 

Admit Believe Confess Surrender.

Believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Yes that is Scriptural.

Confess with thy mouth. Also Scriptural.

Admitting you are a sinner and unable to save yourself from the impending wrath of God. Scriptural.

Surrender. Here is a problem for many, probably most.

Surrender your life to Christ, He makes your Will, your Schedule, your plans and your Goals. Your overriding desire is to spread His name, Live for Him openly. All you do is in relation to His Kingdom.

There is a problem there for most. Surrender is hard.

Yet the biggest part I have an issue with is the ask Jesus into your heart thing. Too simple, too vague, too over and done with.

We surrender our lives to Him, as we confess He is God and His authority and Word is absolute.

We believe He is the only way that we can get out of the debt we owe due to our sin. What debt? The sin of disobedience, the sin of rebellion and rebelling against a good perfect pure Just God.

For that sin there is death and that death is the second death which is being away from God sent from His presence into outer darkness, where there is gnashing of teeth, flames, and the worm dieth not.

How then do we escape this “death” this casting out? We accept the free gift of God, Jesus died on the cross, for our sins, that we might not have to die.

I say might not have to - for if you believe on the name of Christ, If you call on Him, confess He is Lord, Savior, Master and surrender your life then you accept His gift to you and will not need to pay the ultimate price that He has already paid for you.

We no longer teach this, we teach the easy part but not the surrender part. Christ wants to be Lord and Savior. Not just a part time safety net.

He told me all that ever I did.

 Joh 4:25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

Joh 4:26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

She and her town identify this trait as one that the Messiah would have that He would tell them all things.

She believed in Him. Her own testimony and words prove she thought Jesus was the Messiah and she told the whole town.

Joh 4:39  And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. 
Joh 4:40  So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. 
Joh 4:41  And many more believed because of his own word;

Her words to the town folk were the very words they needed to hear to know that the Messiah had come.
Such a simple thing to overlook but a very powerful one when you consider Jesus portrayed Himself as she was told the Messiah would. She was ready to hear and see Him, Her faith was placed in the coming Messiah and how strong that faith must have been for He did come just as she was told, in the same manner and at a time when she needed Him most.

Perhaps a lesson is in there for us?