"The Gospel"
The gospel is the good news of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ that provides full and free deliverance from the power and penalty of sin according to the grace of God alone through faith in Jesus Christ alone. The bad news is that we have all been born with a fatal condition. This condition is called sin. God is Holy. We are sinful. By His very nature, God cannot have fellowship with us sinners. There is no amount of "good" that we can do to make up for our crimes against God. They must be punished. In spite of our wickedness and rebellion, God loves us and made a way for us to bypass damnation and obtain eternal life. He sent His only begotten Son, who is God, to die in our place. Remember that the wages of sin is death--that is why He died. Jesus Christ was our substitutionary sacrifice. The world's greatest love story is summed up in the following verse -- "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16) Once we understand this and admit that there is nothing we can do on our own to be reconciled to God, we should gladly embrace the good news of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus becomes your savior when you allow HIM to become your LORD! To make Jesus Christ your Lord means that you must put Him on the throne of your life, He must become first place in your life. If you would like to receive God's free gift of salvation, you can do this right now by asking God for it. Just say a simple prayer like the one below, sincerely, with all your heart:
"Father in heaven, I come to you confessing that I am a sinner, completely lost and without hope. I repent of my sinful ways and ask for Your forgiveness. I believe in my heart that Christ Jesus is the Son of God, that He completely paid for all of my sins by His death on the cross, and that You raised Him from the dead. I confess that Jesus is my Lord and Savior. I trust in Him, and Him alone, for my salvation. I believe that through His shed blood I have eternal life. Teach me to pray, study, meditate and live by Your Word the rest of my life. Father, I ask that You fill me with the Holy Spirit. Please come into my heart and save and sanctify my soul. I love you Lord, and offer myself to You completely and without reservation. In the precious name of Jesus I pray. Amen."
If you have called on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, by faith, believing and asking Him to save you, you are saved! Words mean nothing without belief! If you truly believe, you will humbly allow Christ to begin working in your life as a new believer so you can fulfill the plan He has for you. The Bible says in 1 John 2:3, "And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments". If we truly know Jesus Christ as our personal savior, we will KEEP His commandments and our hearts desire will be to SERVE Him in any way we can. God will place a new desire within your heart that seeks to turn from a lifestyle of sin to a life that is pleasing to Him.
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"Salvation Made Plain"
| Genesis 1:27 So God created man in
his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. |
God made you. |
| Colossians 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. | God sustains you. |
| Psalms 24:1 The earth is the
LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. |
God owns you. |
| Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed
unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: |
God judges you. |
| Romans 3:10-12 As it is written, There
is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. |
Sin
allows no good |
| Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an
unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. |
Sin makes
even your righteous acts filthy. |
| Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities
have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. |
Sin has separated you from God. |
| [Revelation 20:10-15] And I saw the
dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And whosoever was not foundwritten in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. |
Sin will
send you to the lake of fire. |
| John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and
receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. |
God will
judge you according to the Bible. |
"But"
| Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. | God loves you. |
| Matthew 26:28 For this is my
blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. |
Jesus
shed his blood for your sin. |
| Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are
by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. |
Jesus shed
his blood to meet God's requirement. |
| Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. | Jesus made
a perfect sacrifice to redeem you. |
| Hebrews 10:12, 14 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. | Jesus will
make you perfect forever. |
| John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am
the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. |
Jesus is your
only way to heaven. |
| Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is
death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. |
Jesus is
God's gift |
| John 1:12, 13 But as many as
received him, 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. |
You must
receive Jesus. |
| [John 3:1-7] Jesus answered, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. |
You must be born again. |
| [1 Corinthians 15:1-4]
...I declare unto you the gospel...By which also ye are saved,
if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have
believed in vain...Christ died for our sins according to the
scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: |
You must
believe the gospel. |
| John 8:24, 58 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. Jesus said unto them, Verily,verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. |
You must believe Jesus is God. |
| Luke 13:3, 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. I tell you, Nay: but,except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. |
You
must repent. (True Repentance) by J.C. Ryle |
| Romans 10:9-10 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, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. | You must confess. |
| Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. | You must call on the Lord to be saved. |
Jesus Christ is the Only Way to God
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