You can be saved and know it
First,
you must accept that you are a sinner.
(Romans
3:23) “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”
(Romans
3:10) “As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one.”
No
one is perfect. No one has lived up to God’s perfect standard.
Second,
you must accept that as a sinner you owe a penalty.
(Romans
6:23)”For the wages of sin is death…”
(Ezekiel
18:4) “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.”
This
death is described in the Bible as the second death, the lake of fire.
(Revelation
20:14) “Death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second
death.”
If
we pay what we owe as sinners, we must spend an eternity in the lake of fire
(Hell).
Third,
you must accept that Jesus Christ has already paid our sin debt
(Romans
5:6) “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the
ungodly.”
(Hebrews
2:9b) “…that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.”
Christ,
was not a sinner, and the Bible teaches that God took all or our sin and placed
it on Christ.
While
Christ was bearing all of our sins in His own body, God punished Him in
our place to pay the debt we owe.
This
is not something God promised to do. It
is something God has already done.
(John
3:16) “ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son, that
whosoever believeth in him should
perish,
but have everlasting life.”
(2
Corinthians 5:21) “He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we
might be made the righteousness of God in Him”
It
is a fact, Jesus Christ has already paid your sin debt.
Fourth,
you must accept by faith what Jesus Christ did for you.
Ninety
times in the Gospel of John the Bible says, “Believe”
(John 3:36) “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life;
but
the wrath of God abideth
on him.”
believing on the Son. Those who
believe
have everlasting life, and those who believe not shall not see life.
The
word believe means to trust, to depend on, to rely on. To believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ means that you accept the fact that you
are
a sinner, that as a sinner you own the sin penalty, and that Jesus Christ died
on the cross to pay the debt you owe. But it means going
one
step further. It means that you will completely trust Christ to get you to
Heaven – that you will put the matter of your salvation in
His
hands and depend on Him for everlasting life.
Now
the moment you do this, God promises you are not condemned but have everlasting
life and that you shall never perish.
(John
5:24) “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth
on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not
come
into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
Why wait? Why don't you put your faith in Christ and accept the free gift He offers - Eternal Life?
Would you pray right now and ask the Lord Jesus to save you?
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