“ACCEPT JESUS”  – NOT, NOT, NOT in the BIBLE ! God can accept us or what we do, but accepting Jesus is NOT Biblical.  Job 13:8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? We can receive Him.   John 1:12,13 " But as many as received him ( our part ), to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."

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We can believe Him, in Him.  

John 3:36 "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life (our part): and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."

We can confess Him. 

Rom 10:9, 10; 13 "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 (our part), thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation...... For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

I John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

 

Heb 5:9 "And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;"

We can be accepted by God:

II Corinthians 5

5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

5:5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

5:9 Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.