As you hear or read the Good News—the Gospel of Jesus Christ, telling of the greatest life ever lived and what He has done for you—the Holy Spirit begins His unique work. In His timing, He shines sufficient light into the darkness of your sin, where you are naturally unwilling and even unable to believe.
“No sinner can ever make the first move in the salvation process. This is what Jesus meant in John 6:44, when He said, ‘No one can come to Me, unless the Father who sent Me draws him.’”
The Holy Spirit draws you to Himself, unblinds your eyes, “tugs on” and softens your hardened heart, opens your mind and “convicts you about the guilt of sin, the punishment for it, your need for a Savior and about righteousness and judgment.
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.
Nothing happens without the Holy Spirit. Whether one emphasizes regeneration before faith, or faith before regeneration, both sides affirm that it is the Spirit who initiates and enables. No sinner can repent or believe apart from His work.
The crucial truth is that God saves sinners entirely by grace through Christ, produced and applied by the Holy Spirit.
Salvation comes only to those who believe in their heart the facts of the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
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.
It is the truth of the gospel that saves and transforms believers from death to life. This is one of God’s greatest miracles!
This is the Good News of Jesus Christ!
“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. That’s a serious problem, because one day you and I will stand before this holy God, and in our sin we are completely unprepared and unequipped and will be judged, found guilty, and thrown into the lake of fire.
How can an unholy person stand before a holy God on the last day and expect anything but condemnation? We can’t. We are all sinners and have fallen short of His perfect standard of righteousness. That’s why God, in His mercy and because of His love for us, sent us exactly what we needed—a Savior. Jesus Christ lived the perfect life we couldn’t live, died the death we deserved, and then rose again in victory over sin, death, Satan and all the powers of darkness.
If you genuinely repent of your sins and completely surrender your life to Christ and put your faith and trust in Him, God, by His grace, will forgive you, declare you righteous through the righteousness of Jesus, and give you eternal life. This is the Good News of the gospel of Jesus Christ!“
These are the facts you must believe in your heart in order to be saved.
Your Response
Repentance and faith are the necessary responses you must make to God’s gracious offer of salvation. They are inseparable, two sides of the same coin and linked in scripture, yet distinct acts that work hand-in-hand. Both are gifts of God’s grace and neither is possible without the work of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus first preached the gospel of God in Galilee, saying: “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel” (Mark 1:15). Repentance and faith.
This is the human side of salvation—called conversion—where with a Godly sorrow you change your thinking about sin and make a decisive turn from sin and to God in order to restore your relationship with Him, and place your faith and trust in Jesus Christ for who He is and what He has done for you through His death and resurrection, all which results in righteous living.
This turning leads to the divine side of salvation called regeneration (spiritual rebirth) and justification, where through your faith in Christ, God credits the perfect righteousness of Jesus to you, acquits you of all guilt and declares you innocent, removes your status as His enemy, and declares you to be in right standing with Him—fully pardoned and accepted.
By repentance, you give glory to your Creator, God the Father, whom you have offended over and over. By faith, you give glory to your Redeemer, God the Son, Jesus Christ, who came to save you from your sins.
It requires a total surrender to His authority and His will for your life, as you repent and confess your faith in Jesus.
Applying Romans 10:9-10
Paul says if these are genuinely true of you — confession with the mouth, belief in the heart — then the Holy Spirit grants you faith and you are saved.
Have you genuinely repented of your sins? Are you ready to put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ and completely surrender to His authority and submit to His will for your life?
Do you confess that Jesus is Lord, the one true, sovereign God with all authority in heaven and on earth?
Do you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead in a victory over sin, death, Satan and all the powers of darkness and to grant you eternal life?
If you do— according to scripture— YOU ARE SAVED! 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).
Praise God!
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