1. Read the Bible or listen to a tape or cassette for six days in a row. Educational research has shown that you need to read or listen to a concept six to ten times to fully understand it (INTERNALIZE). As you apply the principles presented in this concept, the joy of experiencing clean living will become a way of life for you. A thorough understanding of this concept will allow you to communicate it more effectively to others.
2. Memorize the following verses and references; John 10: 10b ‘I came that they might have life and have it to the full’; 1 John 1: 9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Your memory work will be easier and more durable if you review it daily throughout the week rather than trying to complete it all in one day. Also, review memory verses with previous concepts.

3. Study the questions taught. Before answering any question, you must first understand the question.
4. Participate in a group discussion, using the questions taught. If you are not already part of a Bible study, or action group, that is studying transferable concepts, you can form your own group by inviting others to join you in this study program. As you discuss the thinking questions, share what God is teaching you about his love and forgiveness and share ideas about how you plan to apply this teaching in your life and how you plan to share it with others.
5. Finally, make this concept ‘How to experience God’s love and forgiveness’, a way of life through practicing the following
1. Set aside 20-30 minutes to be alone with God. Ask Him in prayer to reveal any sinful attitudes or actions in your life that you dislike and make a written list of them. Confess these sins (agree with God about them), according to His promise in 1 John 1: 9 on the whole list, write the verse; Thank you according to your promise. Then destroy the list.
2. Ask God every day to make you sensitive to anything in your life that you don’t like. Then throughout the day, when you become aware of such an area, immediately pray and claim God’s forgiveness, according to His promise.
3. Use the short sketch on the cover of the article, the expanded sketch in the other articles in a concept recording, to share this vital truth with others, share it as often as you can during the week. Provide a brochure, and perhaps a tape or cassette, for those with whom you share the concept, so that they too can study this material in depth and pass it on to others.

AMPLIFIED SCHEME

1. Knowing Jesus Christ personally is the greatest adventure that man can experience.
1. Jesus of Nazareth is the most remarkable, powerful and attractive personality of all centuries (Isaiah 7:14; 53: 4-6)
2. Jesus wanted the Christian life to be a rich and exciting adventure (John 10:10; Galatians 5: 22-23)
3. Unfortunately, most Christians are not experiencing a life of joy and victory as taught in the Bible by the Apostle Paul and our Lord (Romans 5: 3; 1 Thessalonians 5:18; John 15: 8).
1. The average Christian is not fruitful.
1. There is a great difference between New Testament Christianity and Christianity that is evident in the lives of many Christians today.
2. The church of the first century had a great impact for God in the world (Acts 17: 6) (BUT WHEN THEY DIDN’T FIND THEM, THEY DRAGED JASON AND SOME OTHER BROTHERS BEFORE CITY OFFICIALS SHOUTING: “THESE MEN WHO HAVE CAUSED TROUBLE EVERYWHERE THE “WILL HAVE ARRIVED HERE NOW”
1. They knew the reality of being filled with the Spirit.
2. They had met God’s requirements for supernatural cleansing of their sins (Psalms 51: 2, 3, 10, 12, and 13).
2. Today we face a great challenge as we face the most desperate hour in all of human history.
1. The whole world is full of anxiety, fear, and frustration.
2. Never before in recorded history has there been such an ideal opportunity to present the claims of Christ.
3. In the midst of these tremendous problems and opportunities, most Christians have become more part of the problem than part of the solution.

1. They do not show a quality of life, which makes others want to know our Lord.
2. They don’t know how to appropriate God’s power and resources to make an impact in the world.
3. The fact that many Christians are part of the problem rather than part of the solution can be better understood if we realize that there are three kinds of people in the world (1 Corinthians 2:14; 3: 3) Natural man Spiritual man Carnal man
1. There is the natural man who is not a Christian
1. It depends solely on its own resources.
2. Spiritually, he is dead to God, dead in trespasses and sins.
2. There is the spiritual man, who is Christian and is controlled and empowered by the Holy Spirit of God.
1. It continually relies on the limitless resources of God’s love and power.
2. Spiritually, he is alive to God, because the Son of God lives in and through him.
3. Bring glory to God for your fruitful life.
3. There is the carnal man, who, although Christian; he is trying to live on his own strength (1 Corinthians 3).
1. He is a defeated and fruitless Christian
2. He never allows the Holy Spirit to mold him into the kind of person God created for him.
3. Live in endless frustration
4. Unfortunately, he is often a person who does not realize that he belongs to the carnal category (Romans 7: 14-19).
5. Live in bondage to sin (Romans 7: 20-25)
4. God has provided the solution for the carnal Christian through the power of the Holy Spirit, who can deliver him from the vicious power of sin and death (Romans 7:25; 8: 3).
1. Self-imposed religious disciplines only lead to defeat and frustration.
2. By faith, we can experience the power and life of Christ’s resurrection in and through us (Colossians 3:10, 1Peter 1: 7, Hebrews 11: 6)
1. Faith is another word for trust, but trust must have an object.
2. The object of the Christian’s faith is God and his word (John 14:14).
3. It is tragic that the average Christian is a practical atheist, who professes to believe in God but acts as if God does not exist or is unwilling to help him.