SALVATION
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.
WHY DID JESUS DIE?
Christ’s death on the cross accomplished what we could never accomplish on our own: payment for human sin. By what Jesus did on the cross, mankind is justified before God. Justification is God’s gracious and full acquittal upon principles of His righteousness of all sinners who repent and believe in Christ.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21, ESV
HOW DO I ACCEPT THIS GIFT OF SALVATION?
GOD’S LOVE FOR YOU IS SO GREAT
He has gone to great lengths to restore your relationship and bring you back to Him. The key to restoring this relationship and experiencing God’s redemption is not based on anything that you can do for yourself but rather by embracing what God has already done for you through the life, death, and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Walking in a right relationship with God and truly experiencing the life and salvation that only He can bring begins with the following.
ADMITTING
Admit that you are forever separated from a Holy God because of your sin. Understand that you are dead in your sin and unable to rescue yourself.
“There is no one righteous, not even one.”
Romans 3:10, ESV
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Romans 3:23, ESV
BELIEVING
Believe that Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God and through His death on the cross our sin was paid for, making a way for us to come to God. By believing in Jesus you receive His gift of forgiveness and grace.
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 5:8, ESV
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 6:23, ESV
COMMITTING
Confess your sin and turn to Jesus as both your Savior and Lord—recognizing that He alone is where life is found. Commit to His Lordship and leadership of your life by surrendering to Him.
“Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’”
John 14:6, ESV
By His grace, we turn from our sin and ourselves.
“Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.”
Acts 3:19, ESV
By His grace, we trust in Jesus as Savior and Lord.
“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.”
Romans 10:9-10, ESV
Take time right now to pray through these areas of your life admitting your need for Jesus, believing that He is who He says He is and submitting to His Lordship by confessing and surrendering your life to Him.
We would love the opportunity to walk alongside you as you pursue your Next Steps knowing that you were never meant to do this alone.