Abiding

ABIDING

Born again is the beginning of a new life. Then you must persevere and persevere in faith in Jesus Christ until the end to inherit Eternal Life. The way with the Lord God is different for each person, but the principles to be followed are similar.

WHAT HELPS IN ABIDING
Love for God
Reading the Bible
A warm heart for God, zeal, passion
Fear of God
Listening to God first
Verify the teachings you hear withthe Word of God and the Holy Spirit
Humility
Willingness to learn
Obedience to God
Discipline
Regular, sincere prayer
Eating the Lord's Supper
Living in a healthy community based on the full gospel, love, zeal
Relationship with God
Searching for God's Will in everyday life

OBSTACLES TO ABIDING IN GOD
Indulging sin, the flesh
Taking care of unnecessary things
World disputes, e.g. political
Listening to human authorities above God
Not verifying the teachings you hear against the Word of God and the Holy Spirit
Disregarding admonitions
Despising God's counsel and God's Will
Quenching the Holy Spirit
Excessive concern for mortal life
Broken world culture (bad movies, music, books)
Work (e.g. too much work, working in a bad atmosphere)
Bad, toxic relationships
Relationships between men and women not built on the Lord Jesus
Life arbitrariness
Going back to the old life
Intemperance of the tongue, gossip
Laziness
Staying in an unhealthy, toxic community that preaches an incomplete gospel
Unwillingness to leave anything for the Lord
Loneliness

VERSES ABOUT ABIDING IN JESUS IN THE BIBLE

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
[John 15:4-7 ESV]

whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
[1 John 2:6 ESV]

No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.
[1 John 3:6 ESV]

As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.
[Matthew 13:20-21 ESV]

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.
[Romans 11:17-23 ESV]

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
[Colossians 1:21-23 ESV]

But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
[Matthew 24:13 ESV]

and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
[Matthew 10:22 ESV]

not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
[Hebrews 8:9-10 ESV]

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son
[2 John 1:9 ESV]

but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
[Hebrews 3:6 ESV]

For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
[Hebrews 3:14 ESV]

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
[Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV]

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
[2 Peter 2:20-21 ESV]

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
[Hebrews 10:26-30 ESV]