The Gospel Truth
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“Read the Truth. Ponder it deeply. Scroll for more. Share it boldly.
Do not ignore it or suppress it.
It is God’s will for you to be saved!
“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” (John 3:17)
“God our Savior… desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Timothy 2:3-4)
“The Lord… is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)
A clear presentation of the gospel message must precede genuine repentance and saving faith. True faith always has content— the revealed Word of God.
The Holy Spirit uses the Word to produce life.
“Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of Christ.” (Romans 10:17)
You are saved by God’s grace, His unmerited favor for you where He gives you what you need— a Savior, and not what you deserve— death, separation from God and eternal punishment in the lake of fire.
You are saved through genuine repentance— forsaking sin and turning to God for salvation, and saving faith in Jesus Christ— your belief, trust and complete confidence that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, the one true sovereign God with all authority in heaven and on the earth and that He died on the cross to pay the penalty for your sin and was raised from the dead to grant you eternal life.
This is the ONE way, the ONLY way to be saved.
Link: What Jesus Did For You
How to Get Saved!
God commands people to hear the gospel message and also requires a response. It is more than just words— it is the supernatural power of God.
Our responsibility is to be confronted with the truth of the gospel and not ignore it or suppress it when it is heard and trust the Holy Spirit to do what only He can do.
No one can be saved without the gracious work of the the Holy Spirit, the divine messenger who enables your conversion by leading you to repentance and takes your belief in Jesus and applies it as saving faith, making you alive in Christ, transforming you into a spiritual rebirth where you are born again as a new creation in Christ. He indwells your heart and assures you that you belong to God. (Romans 8:16)
Nobody else can save you and you certainly cannot save yourself.
You cannot truly be saved and remain the same.
Link: The Work of the Holy Spirit in Your Salvation
This is the Good News of Jesus Christ!
Hear the truth of the gospel and do not ignore it or suppress it. Trust the Holy Spirit to do what only He can do and respond to His conviction as He leads you.
God, the Creator of the universe and everything in it, the one true, sovereign and only living God is holy— perfectly righteous and pure, and you and I are not. (Genesis 1:1)
That’s a serious problem because one day you will stand before this holy God and in your sin, you are completely unprepared to face His perfect justice and will be judged and found guilty. And the wages of sin, the price that sin pays, is death, separation from God and eternal punishment in the lake of fire (hell). (Romans 6:23); but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The lake of fire—the second death— is where all who reject the saving grace of Jesus Christ will be consciously tormented day and night, without rest and without reprieve, forever and ever. This is the holy and just judgment of God against sin and evil.
“And these (who reject Jesus Christ) will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” (Matthew 25:46)
And forever and ever is a long, long time to be wrong!
It is important to understand that because of the curse and consequences of Adam’s sin, we are all born spiritually dead, separated from God, lost, condemned and without hope. (Romans 5:12; Ephesians 2:1-3)
How can we stand before the Lord Jesus Christ on the last day and expect anything but condemnation?
We can’t!
We are all sinners, without exception, and have fallen short of God’s glory— His perfect standard of holiness and righteousness. (Romans 3:23)
Sin is missing the mark of God’s perfection by the things that you control— your thoughts, your attitudes and your actions— what you think and say and do. Are they Christlike, pleasing to God and do they bring Him glory? That’s the mark.
But God by His grace and because of His mercy and love for us, gave us exactly what we needed—a Savior. (from Romans 5:8)
God’s plan to redeem fallen mankind was established before the foundation of the world. The problem that sin created has had a solution for almost 2000 years through the finished redemptive work of Jesus Christ and it is available to “whosoever” calls on the name of the Lord. (Romans 10:13)
God did what only He could do. He added humanity to his deity and God himself through His Son Jesus Christ became the sinless human substitute His justice required.
Jesus lived the perfect life we could never live, died the death we deserved and rose again on the third day— conquering sin, death, hell, Satan and all the powers of darkness, and grants eternal life to all those who genuinely repent and put their faith and trust in Him.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
Yes— it is sin that separates you from God, but Jesus died to pay the penalty of sin for you. You are without excuse. But to be forgiven you must be convicted of your sin, repent, believe the facts of the gospel and be born again.
So the real issue was articulated by Jesus who said, “He who believes in Him (Jesus) is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18)
In other words, Jesus said, “You’re gonna get condemned because you don’t believe in me.”
That’s the great sin of all sins, the ultimate sin, which is rejecting the saving grace of Jesus Christ.
The resurrection of Christ is the most important event in the history of the world.
It is God’s declaration that Jesus is exactly who He claimed to be and that His sacrifice was fully accepted. He ascended into heaven and now reigns as Lord and King. One day He will return in power and glory to judge the living and the dead. Every person will stand before Him. Those who reject Him remain under condemnation, but those who belong to Him receive eternal life, complete forgiveness, reconciliation to God, and the promise of everlasting joy in His presence. (Romans 8:1)
Only Christianity proclaims a risen Savior who conquered death and lives forever.
Do not be deceived!
Respond to the Gospel Truth as the Holy Spirit leads you.
Be persistent— Read and hear the gospel over and over as many times as it takes. Pray to God for Him to forgive you, to fill you with His Holy Spirit and to deliver you from the darkness of your sin. Keep calling, keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking, keep praying.
Remember Jesus’ promise: “how much more will our heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and continue to ask Him?” (adapted from Luke 11:11-13)
He will answer!
A Biblical Worldview
The absolute, unchanging and indisputable “TRUTH” for every living person is this:
“There is simply no solution to the human problem of sin and its eternal punishment, outside the grace of the one true and only living, Creator God and the sinless life, substitutional death and victorious resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
“For by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
When you are saved — you have been reconciled to God, forgiven of your sins, declared righteous before the Father through the righteousness of His Son, born again by the Holy Spirit, made a new creation in Christ, delivered from the kingdom of darkness, adopted as a beloved child of the one true and only living Creator God, and made a fellow heir with Jesus Christ of the gift of eternal life.
You are all of these things in Christ!
Because you have believed the gospel (Romans 10:9-10) and have been born again (John 3:6-7), you are a new creation in Christ. The old you no longer exists and everything about you has been made new. God has given you a new heart, a renewed mind, new desires, new attitudes, new character, a new identity, and a new way of living. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
You no longer identify as who you are and what you have done. Instead, you find your identity in whose you are—in Christ—and in what He has done for you. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, you now seek to live out your faith each day with righteous thoughts, attitudes, and actions that are Christlike, pleasing to God, and bring Him glory.
You have been sanctified by God, set apart for His purposes and He perfects you and ultimately makes you holy
And because you are a born again believer— no matter what happens in your life each day, always conduct yourself in a manner worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ! (from Philippians 1:27; emphasis added)
“There is therefore now no condemnation [no guilty verdict, no punishment, no hell] for those who are in Christ Jesus [who have genuinely repented and put their faith and trust in Him as Lord and Savior].” — (Romans 8:1)
You have been are saved!
Thank you Lord Jesus!
What Are You Going To Do About Sin?
How Do You Know You Are Saved?
Just to be clear—
We will all die physically one day. Everybody does (except the prophets Enoch and Elijah). But our souls are eternal and will spend forever either in a place where God is (heaven) or a place where God is not (hell).
We are living in a grace period between the first coming of Christ and His return, although we do not know the day or the hour, and your life on earth is brief and uncertain.
The Gospel is not merely information to admire—it is truth that demands a response.
The greatest tragedy in life is not poverty, sickness, failure, or even death; it is to reject the saving grace of Jesus Christ. The greatest success is to know God through His Son.
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).
He also said, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).
The invitation is open today.
Turn to Christ while there is still time.
Trust Him completely. Receive the forgiveness, salvation, peace, and eternal life that only He can give.
Nobody is born a Christian. The flesh does not produce redemption. You don’t inherit salvation from your parents, nor do you magically become one over time.
Christianity is not merely a religion. It is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Do not be confused by all the “religious” voices in the world. There is only one true gospel.
A Christian is not simply someone who believes in God. Even the demons believe—and tremble in fear of God’s wrath to come. Genuine repentance and saving faith are required. Belief in Christ without repentance is not true salvation. It is the faith, trust and complete confidence in who Jesus is and what He has done for you. Turn to, trust in and rely on Jesus alone.
Becoming a Christian is not just joining and attending a church, following religious traditions, or being baptized in a group setting without even hearing about sin or grace or repentance or faith or surrendering your life to Jesus.
You don’t get baptized to “get saved,” you get baptized because you have been saved. You get saved when Jesus baptizes you with the Holy Spirit. The reality of the forgiveness of sins precedes the rite of baptism. Since we are united by faith with Him…. as water baptism symbolizes, His death and burial become ours. We have also been united with Him in his resurrection. Peter was obeying Christ’s command from Matthew 28:19 (The Great Commission) when he urged the people who repented and turned to Christ for salvation to identify, through the waters of baptism, with His death, burial and resurrection.
Everybody does not go to heaven when they die. Some are traveling on the broad road which leads to destruction. You won’t get there because you “think you’re a good person.” Your self-righteousness is also a sin. Only God is perfectly good—and perfectly good is the standard we all fall short of every day, but it only takes one sin to be a sinner.
We do not become angels when we die, we do not “get our wings,” and we will not be reunited with unbelieving family or friends in heaven. And family and friends who are saved won’t be reunited with you if you are not saved.
There are not millions of ways to be saved—only one. Works can’t save you, your family and friends can’t save you and you certainly can’t save yourself.
Salvation comes only by the grace of the one true, sovereign, living, Creator God—through faith in Jesus Christ. “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). You cannot be saved and remain the same.
Right now, no matter where you are and what you’re doing, Jesus stands ready to forgive you, to cleanse you, and give you eternal life.
“At the acceptable time I listened to you,
And on the day of salvation I helped you.”
Behold, now is “the acceptable time,” behold, now is “the day of salvation.”— (2 Corinthians 6:2)
You may never have another moment like this.
Stay in the Gospel and trust the Holy Spirit to do what only He can do. Be persistent! Keep asking! Keep seeking! Keep knocking! Keep pleading!
Cry out to God and ask Him to be merciful and to save you!
Please do not live here and leave here without Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Too many people do! Do not experience the second death. Too many people will!
And eternity is a long, long time to be wrong!
Don’t be wrong!
These beliefs are simply the honest expressions of what God has placed in your heart through the Holy Spirit:
You believe in the God of the Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of heaven, the God of miracles, the one true, sovereign, and only living God and there is no other God besides Him. He makes redemption and salvation possible only by His grace applied by the Holy Spirit through His Son, Jesus Christ. God is holy—utterly set apart— perfectly righteous and pure, and you and I are not. We are all sinners, without exception, and have fallen short of His glory— His perfect standard of holiness and righteousness and there is a penalty to be paid for that. ✅
You believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. ✅
You confess Jesus as Lord, the one true, sovereign God with all authority in heaven and on earth. ✅
You believe in your heart that Christ died on the cross to pay the penalty for your sin and that God raised Jesus from the dead, conquering sin, death, hell, Satan and all the powers of darkness and granting you eternal life. ✅
You genuinely repent and put your faith and trust in Jesus and have been born again as a new creation in Christ, completely surrender to his authority and submit to His will for your life ✅
All of these things are necessary to produce a lifestyle where you truly “know“ the Father and the Son through a personal and intimate relationship by spending time with Him each day in scripture and in prayer and then live out your faith daily every day through righteous thoughts, attitudes and actions which are always Christlike, pleasing to God and bringing Him glory.
To know God is to be brought into a real, loving relationship with Him through Jesus Christ that results in trust, surrender, obedience, love, a changed heart and the assurance of our salvation.
If you have truly put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ — according to scripture— YOU ARE SAVED! (Romans 10:9-10); completely forgiven (Ephesians 1:7), reconciled to God through the righteousness of Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21), made a new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17), indwelled with the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13–14), and given eternal life which begins immediately upon salvation (John 17:3).
And yes, your name is written in the Lamb’s book of life! (Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:27)
Praise God and Give Him All the Glory!
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