Are
you saved?
This topic will seem a
bit elementary to some of you, but none of us
should ever take for granted that everyone
around us has experienced the new birth. In the
Bible, God makes it clear that salvation is
needed, provided, and must be accepted.
First, salvation is needed because of the
fact and consequences of sin.
• Romans 3:10 “ There is none righteous, no, not
one.”
• Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God.”
• Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ
Jesus our Lord.”
Second, salvation is provided in spite of
our sinfulness.
• John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have
everlasting life.”
• Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love
toward us, in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.”
Third,
salvation must be accepted. A person can know
all the above and still not have salvation.
• Acts 20:20-21 “How I kept back nothing that
was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and
taught you publicly and from house to house,
testifying to
Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God
and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”
• John 3:3 “Jesus answered and said to him,
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is
born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
• John 14-18 “And as Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man
be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have eternal life. For God
so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have everlasting life. For
God did not send His Son into the world to
condemn the world, but that the world through
Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is
not condemned; but he who does not believe is
condemned already, because he has not believed
in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
• Romans 10:9-10 “That if you confess with your
mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart
that God has raised Him from the dead, you will
be saved. For with the heart one believes unto
righteousness, and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation.”
It is clear from the verses above that
repentance (turning from self-rule or sin) is on
“the other side of the coin” from faith.
• Luke 13:3 “I tell you, no; but unless you
repent you will all likewise perish.”
Have you repented? Have you been saved,
converted, born from above?
Eternally grateful
for Salvation,
