The first thing is: God is real!!
The second thing is: A man can talk to God face to face, as one man talks to another, as one friend talks to another!
But, How do we do that?
Which brings us to the third thing: We need to cleanse ourselves from all unrighteousness! This means that we need to repent of all our sins, and keep the commandments. We need to get all that filthiness out of us!!
Fourth: We need to covenant before God that we will serve Him. In other words, we need to get baptized with that covenant that we will serve him, at all times, in all things, and in all places, whatsoever we shall find ourselves in! That He may more abundantly pour out His Spirit upon us!!
And when He pours out His Spirit more abundantly upon us, we can move to the Fifth step: We are follow that Holy Spirit and keep serving Him, and keep getting ourselves cleansed, more and more, keep getting the wickedness out of ourselves, deeper and deeper, drawing nearer and nearer to God, Until we find that Great Day when we are baptized, for real, with Fire and the Holy Ghost, and our sins are actually remitted at that time!!
And of course, we need to still keep going forward after that!!
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