Everybody wants to save us from something. Teachers want to save us from
ignorance, doctors want to save us from disease and financial advisors want to
save us from money mis-management. All good and all praiseworthy. But sometimes
we hunger for something deeper than that. Down inside us we know there's a need
for a profounder salvation. That's the business Jesus Christ is in. What follows
is the absolute bare bones of how you come to him but maybe you can begin there
and move in closer.
From the scriptures, we see a pattern that answers the question:
"What must I do to be saved?"
- Hear the Gospel. "How, then, can they call on the one they have not
believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?
And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?" (Romans 10:14).
- Believe. " And without faith it is impossible to please God,
because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he
rewards those who earnestly seek him." (Hebrews 11:6).
- Repent of past sins. " In the past God overlooked such ignorance,
but now he commands all people everywhere to repent." (Acts 17:30).
- Confess Jesus as Lord. "Behold here is water; What doth hinder me
to be baptized? And Philip said, if thou believeth with all thy heart thou
mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of
God" (Acts 8:36-37).(King James Version}
- Be baptized for the remission of sins. "Peter replied, "Repent and
be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness
of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." (Acts 2:38).
- Live a Christian life. "But you are a chosen people, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the
praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." (1
Peter 2:9).
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