| Please Search the Book Again: Jimmy Sanders |
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Ever get a song stuck in your head and the words jump out at you like a fiery sermon? This song titled "please search the book again" probably came from a sermon, most good songs do. I dreamed that I had died and gone to heaven, I stood just outside the eastern gate. The man from within said, have you been born again and is your name written in the book of life? Please search the book again, I thought my name was there. I went go to church on Sunday, though I never knelt in prayer. Please search the book again, it's too late, now I know, please search the book again, before you make me go.I told God all the things that I had done, I told him of all the trophies, I had won.The voice from within said have you been born again and is your name written in the book of life. Please search the book again, It's too late now,I know. Please search the book again, before you make me go. The sad truth is too many folks associate church attendance and good works with being a christian. Jesus instructions to Nicodemus was you must be born again. Being a highly religious man and being a Pharisee still did not qualify as being born again. Paul's instructions to the Romans best qualifies being born again.
10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10:10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:
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