Adult Bible Study Guide

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Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide
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The Teachings of Jesus
Contents
1 Our Loving Heavenly Father
2 The Son
3 The Holy Spirit
4 Salvation
5 How to Be Saved
6 Growing in Christ
7 Living Like Christ
8 The Church
9 Our Mission
10 The Law of God
11 The Sabbath
12 Death and Resurrection
13 The Second Coming of Jesus
The Teachings of Jesus
Our Goal
Let us pray for spiritual discernment
to understand His message and to
grasp His unfathomable love
manifested on the cross.
And as we hear His tender voice
calling us to follow Him, let us renew
our commitment to walk daily with
Him by faith and in obedience.
The Teachings of Jesus
Lesson 5, August 2
How to Be Saved
How to Be Saved
Key Text
John 3:14, 15 NKJV
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.
How to Be Saved
Initial Words
By faith we can all look to Christ
lifted up on the cross and find a cure
from the deadly sting of the old
serpent, Satan. Otherwise, we are
fated to die in our sins.
As human beings, we are sinners in
need of grace. That grace has been
offered to us in Christ Jesus.
How to Be Saved
Quick Look
1. Recognize Your Need
(John 16:7, 8)
2. Believe in Jesus
(John 6:40)
3. Follow Jesus
(Luke 5:27, 28)
How to Be Saved
1. Recognize Your Need
John 16:7, 8 NKJV
I tell you the truth. It is to your
advantage that I go away, for if I di
not go away, the Helper will not come
to you; but if I depart, I will send Him
to you.
And when He has come, He will
convict the world of sin....
1. Recognize Your Need
Open Spiritual Eyes
Who, though, is truly spiritually
healthy? Of all human beings
there is none who does good, no,
not one (Ps. 14:3, NKJV);
nobody is righteous by themselves
(Rom. 3:10).
We may do some morally good
actions, but we cannot make
ourselves righteous before God.
1. Recognize Your Need
Open Spiritual Eyes
The first step, then, to receive the
cure from sin is to recognize our state
of sinfulness and our utter inability to
heal ourselves.
But how can we see our real need if we
are blind? How can we acknowledge
that we are sinners if it is precisely our
sins that are preventing us from
recognizing our true condition?
1. Recognize Your Need
Open Spiritual Eyes
The only eye salve that can make us
see our real spiritual status is the Holy
Spirit. Before any other work He may
do for us, He has to convict us of sin.
Persistently He calls to our
conscience in order to produce in us
an inescapable awareness of our sins
and a deep sense of guilt, which leads
us to long for a Savior.
Recognizing our sins is not enough; it
must be accompanied by repentance.
Three aspects:
acknowledgment of ones sin,
sorrow for having sinned, and
the desire not to sin any more.
If one is lacking, there is no true
repentance.
1. Recognize Your Need
Repent
Without repentance, redemption is
impossible, because the absence of
repentance demonstrates that people
refuse to surrender to the Lord.
The goodness of God leads you to
repentance (Rom. 2:4, NKJV).
We do not repent in order that God
may love us, but He reveals to us His
love in order that we may repent.COL 189.
1. Recognize Your Need
Repent
John 6:40 NKJV
And this the will
of Him who sent Me,
that everyone who
sees the Son and
believes in Him may
have everlasting life;
and I will raise him
up at the last day.
How to Be Saved
2. Believe in Jesus
2. Believe in Jesus
Faith is Essential
True repentance goes hand in hand
with faith in Jesus as our
only Savior.
Faith is essential if we are to be
saved. Satan knows that, which is
why he makes every effort to keep
us from believing (Luke 8:12).
2. Believe in Jesus
Faith is Essential
It is more than a vague feeling that
something will just happen. It is more
than a mental exercise. Faith has a
definite object: Jesus Christ.
Faith is trusting in Jesus and His death
for us. Believing in Jesus means
knowing Him, understanding who He
is (John 6:69), and receiving Him
personally (John 1:12)
2. Believe in Jesus
Faith is Essential
By believing in Him, we have
righteousness, we have assurance,
and we have the great promise that
He will raise us up at the last day
(John 6:40).
The power of faith does not come
from the person who believes but
from the God in whom that person
believes.
God made garments for Adam and
Eve and clothed them (Gen. 3:21), a
symbol of His righteousness covering
the sinner.
This robe is the righteousness of
Christ, His own unblemished
character, that through faith is
imparted to all who receive Him as
their personal Saviour.COL 310.
2. Believe in Jesus
The Wedding Garment
How to Be Saved
3. Follow Jesus
Luke 5:27, 28 NKJV
After these things He went out and
saw a tax collector named Levi
sitting at the tax office.


And He said Follow Me. So he left
all, rose up, and followed Him.
3. Follow Jesus
Becoming His Disciples
When in faith we recognize our
need, repent, confess our sins, and
claim Christs righteousness for
ourselves, we become His disciples.
Jesus called people, a call that
implied leaving everything in order
to follow Him (Matt. 4:20, 22). In the
Gospels the verb to follow practically
became a synonym for disciple.
3. Follow Jesus
Becoming His Disciples
A disciple of Jesus is committed to
His person, as well as to His words.
Though there is always the danger of
getting so caught up in doctrines and
forms of faith that we lose sight of
Jesus Himself, we must also be
aware of the danger of thinking that
all that matters in our walk with the
Lord is to believe in Jesus.
How to Be Saved
Final Words
As we behold the Lamb...upon...
Calvary, the mystery of redemption
begins to unfold...and the goodness
of God leads us to repentance.
In dying for sinners, Christ manifested
a love that is incomprehensible; and
as the sinner beholds this love, it
softens the heart, impresses the
mind, and inspires contrition in the
soul.STC 26, 27.