HOW TO BE SAVED:
Jesus Christ said the following important words
in John chapter three:
"3 Jesus answered and said unto him,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a
man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith
unto him, How can a man be born when
he is old? can he enter the second time
into his mother's womb, and be born?5
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. 6 That which
is born of the flesh is flesh; and that
which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye
must be born again. 8 The wind
bloweth where it listeth, and thou
hearest the sound thereof, but canst
not tell whence it cometh, and whither
it goeth: so is every one that is born of
the Spirit."
To go to heaven, you MUST be born again!
So, are you saved? Have you been born again
by the Spirit of God? If not, why not read the
following verses to see what God says about
how to be saved:
THE BAD NEWS
Psalm 9:17: "The wicked shall be
turned into Hell."
Whether you believe in Hell or not, it is still
true.
That's why you must be saved.
Saved from what?
Saved from HELL!
Revelation 20:15 "...whosoever was
not found written in the book of life
was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE."
Will you be one of those cast into the LAKE
OF FIRE?
You don't have to be.
Jesus Christ can save you.
But you must first realize that you are lost.
Luke 12:5 says, "But I will forewarn
you whom ye shall fear: Fear him,
which after he hath killed hath power
to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you,
Fear him."
Do you fear death? Are you afraid of dying?
Are you afraid of God?
The Bible says that death will pass upon all
of us. Hebrews 9:27 says, "...it is appointed unto
men once to die, but after this the judgment."
Are you prepared for death? How about
JUDGMENT?
According to the Bible, you will someday
stand before God and be judged.
Romans 14:12 dogmatically states:
"So then every one of us shall give
account of himself to God."
Are you ready to give account to God
almighty for your wickedness?
Matthew 12:36 tells us "But I say unto
you, That every idle word that men
shall speak, they shall give account
thereof in the day of judgment."
How many bad words have you used lately,
how many dirty jokes, how many cusswords?
Revelation 20:12-13 describes the
judgment thusly, "And I saw the dead,
small and great, stand before
God...and they were JUDGED every
man according to their WORKS."
How will you fare in that great and dreadful
day?
2 Peter 2:9 tells us "The Lord knoweth
how to deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the unjust
unto the day of judgment to be
PUNISHED."
The punishment is ETERNAL SUFFERING in
HELL. But why would God allow man to suffer in
Hell? The answer is simple. The Bible tells us
that we are all unjust sinners.
 Romans 3:23 tells us we have all
"sinned, and come short of the glory
of God."
And Romans 3:12 states, "They are all
gone out of the way, they are together
become unprofitable; there is none
that doeth good, no, not one."
According to the Bible, every lost person on
the face of the earth is a sinner bound for Hell.
SIN is utter and complete rebellion against God.
This is either by doing what God told us not to do
(the "Thou Shalt Not's), or not doing what God
told us to (not keeping his commandments).
Because of Sin, man has offended God and
separated himself from Him. This is why he
cannot enter into the pearly gates. Man must first
be saved. But to be saved, he must first realize
he's LOST, and on his way to HELL.
How about you? Have you realized you are
lost?
THE GOOD NEWS
Though man has offended God and is bound for
Hell at death, God loved him enough to give him
a way to heaven, if he's willing to take it. That
way is through the Lord Jesus Christ! The Bible
tells us that the Lord Jesus is "God manifest in
the flesh (1 Tim. 3:16). In other words, God
himself came down to the earth, was born of a
virgin, and walked among us. But the most
wonderful thing is that he gave his life for us in
our place for our sins.
1 Timothy 1:15 tells us "This is a
faithful saying, and worthy of all
acceptation, that Christ Jesus came
into the world to save sinners."
Hebrews 7:25 states of Jesus, "...he is
able also to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him, seeing he
ever liveth to make intercession for
them."
In the Old Testament, when a man sinned, God
demanded a blood sacrifice. So, to obtain
forgiveness, man had to sacrifice a lamb to God, for
Hebrews 9:22 tells us, "...without
shedding of blood is no remission."
God will not and cannot forgive man based
on his goodness. Man must have a blood
sacrifice, something or someone dying in his
place for his sins.
Today our sacrifice is Jesus Christ, who died
on the cross for our sins!
When he came, John the Baptist called him,
"...the Lamb of God, which taketh away the
sin of the world!"
Jesus came to die for the sins of the whole
world! He was our lamb, or sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:10 says "Herein is love, not
that we loved God, but that he loved
us, and sent his Son to be the
propitiation for our sins."
What great love God showed in giving us his
son to die for us!
John 3:16 states: "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."
God gave us Jesus so that we could have
everlasting life! Even Jesus himself stated in
John 6:47, "Verily, verily, I say unto
you, He that believeth on me hath
everlasting life."
John 11:25 Jesus said ... I am the
resurrection, and the life: he that
believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth
and believeth in me shall never die..."
And again in John 11:26 Jesus said, "...I am
the resurrection, and the life:
Clearly, salvation, or eternal life, is only
through Jesus Christ!
The Gospel, or Good News of Christ's blood
sacrifice, is found in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. There it
states:
"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto
you the gospel which I preached unto
you, which also ye have received, and
wherein ye stand; by which also ye are
SAVED, if ye keep in memory what I
preached unto you, unless ye have
believed in vain. For I delivered unto
you first of all that which I also
 received, how that 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:
The Good News is that you, too, can be
SAVED.
How? By FAITH in the blood atonement of
the Lord Jesus Christ!
In Ephesians 2:8-9 the apostle Paul
says, "For by GRACE are ye SAVED
through FAITH; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of
works, lest any man should boast."
Salvation cannot be earned by your WORKS,
or what you do, but rather by FAITH. But the
question arises: Faith in What?
The answer is simple – by faith in the shed
blood and finished work of Christ Jesus on the
cross when He died in your place for your sins!
Romans 3:25-28 tell us: "Whom God
hath set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in his blood, to declare
his righteousness for the remission of
sins that are past, through the
forbearance of God; To declare, I say,
at this time his righteousness: that he
might be just, and the justifier of him
which believeth in Jesus. Where is
boasting then? It is excluded. By what
law? of works? Nay: but by the law of
faith. Therefore we conclude that a
man is justified by faith without the
deeds of the law."
To be saved, a person must TRUST THE
BLOOD of Jesus Christ, which He shed at the
cross, as sufficient to SAVE his SOUL. God will
not accept our works, he will only accept those
who receive his gift of love by faith. God is the
JUSTIFIER, we cannot justify ourselves. We
must come to God and trust him to be saved.
Romans 6:23 says, "For the wages of
sin is death; but the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord."
You have a choice.
You can try to earn your way to HEAVEN by
rejecting the blood sacrifice of Jesus, or you can
take God's free gift of eternal life by FAITH.
What will it be?
Let's look at three more verses to make this
as clear as possible:
Rom 3:24 Being justified freely by his
GRACE through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus:
Rom 5:1 Therefore being justified by
FAITH, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now
justified by his BLOOD, we shall be
SAVED from wrath through him.
According to the Bible, salvation or
JUSTIFICATION, is by GRACE through FAITH
in the BLOOD of Jesus Christ, like it says about
in Romans 3:25! In other words, when your faith
is solely in the Blood, you are SAVED!
How about it? Won't you trust the blood of
Jesus Christ today to save your soul from a
Devil's Hell?
God wants to save you.
1 Timothy 2:4 says he will, "have all
men to be saved, and to come unto the
knowledge of the truth."
Romans 10:17 states, "So then faith
cometh by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God."
If you've read this, you've heard the word of
God, the Gospel of truth. Now will you receive it?
Will you accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour
with a repentant heart by simple childlike faith,
trust only in his shed blood to save your soul
from hell?
Wherefore he [Jesus] is able also to
save them to the uttermost that come
unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth
to make intercession for them. -
Hebrews 7:25
Neither is there salvation in any other:
for there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we
must be saved. - Acts 4:12