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Salvation
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, in Your name did we not prophesy, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many miracles?’
And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’ (Matthew 7:21-23)
There are four kinds of people: 1) Those who are not saved and know they are not saved. 2) Those who are not saved and don’t know they are not saved. 3) Those who are saved and know they are saved. 4) Those who not saved and know they are saved.
Which one are you?
Salvation means you are set free from the penalty of sin and its eternal punishment— God’s rightful judgment, only because of what Christ did for you on the cross.
You are spiritually dead in your sin and must be ‘born again,’ by repenting and putting your faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
Scripture tells us that salvation is a free gift— offered by God’s grace and received through faith. You are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone and there are no works that you can do to earn it.
“Salvation is found in no one else but Jesus Christ, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” (Acts 14:6)
There must be a great sense of urgency for you to come to salvation because you really don’t have much time. Your earthly life is short, like a mist or vapor, and time passes quickly with no time-outs or do-overs. You are not guaranteed another day of life, not another breath, not one more heartbeat and you will eventually die… we all will, and you don’t know the day and the hour when Christ will return to bring history to its proper conclusion. Life’s brevity must awaken us to our need for God, prompt urgency in seeking Him and highlight the hope of eternal life through Christ.
Jesus came to purchase salvation, and will, when he comes again, bring salvation with him, full and final deliverance from the wrath which is yet to come. Let all, without delay, flee from that wrath to come, and seek refuge in Christ and his salvation. (commentary on 1 Thessalonians 1:9)
Salvation comes to those who hear and believe in their heart the facts of the gospel.
The Holy Spirit does a supernatural work of grace to reverse your unwillingness or ignorance and releases you from the bondage of your sin leading you to genuine repentance and enables you to come to faith in Christ which leads to regeneration and justification, where you are “born again” as a new creation in Christ and God declares you righteous through the righteousness of Jesus— salvation!
“The greatest of all God’s miracles is the salvation of a soul.” C.H. Spurgeon
We Believe…
There is only one true, sovereign, living, Creator God — One Savior — One Mediator between God and man — One Holy Spirit — One true religion — One holy book — One gospel — One way to be saved — One way to eternal life.
Jesus—the Christ, the Son of the Living God—is that WAY. He is the ONE way— the ONLY way to salvation.
“For there is [only] one God, and [only] one Mediator between God and mankind, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom [a substitutionary sacrifice to atone] for all, the testimony given at the right and proper time.” (1 Timothy 2:5-6)
The gospel is the most offensive claim to the many who are lost. It just happens to be the TRUTH— the absolute, unchanging, indisputable and exclusive truth of Christianity and the Bible is the source of that Truth.
You are saved by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
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