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God’s Plan of Redemption
This section contains many clear presentations of the Gospel Truth, the Good News of Jesus Christ! Read them all, over and over. Hear the Good News and trust the Holy Spirit to do what only He can do!
The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Triune God, fully God—just as the Father and the Son are fully God.
He is the Father’s agent in the miracle of salvation and regeneration, leading you through every aspect of your transformation. The Holy Spirit’s mission is always to point us to Christ.
“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. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him 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 3:16-18)
It is THE way, the ONE way, the ONLY way to be saved— only by God’s grace through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.
Without Him, you remain lost and condemned.
There was no sin or evil in the world until Lucifer and his fallen angels rebelled against God, and then when the first man—Adam—chose to disobey God’s command. God knew Adam and Eve would sin, but His perfect plan already included redemption. This plan, set in place before time began, would restore the relationship with God that mankind had broken through sin, through the death and resurrection of His Son.
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!
“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.” (Romans 10:17)
Salvation comes only to those who hear and believe the facts of the gospel.
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 any thing 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, hell, 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.
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This is how you get saved.
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.'” (John MacArthur)
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 (John 6:44; Titus 3:5).
The crucial truth is that God saves sinners entirely by grace through Christ, applied by the Holy Spirit.
This is the Good News of Jesus Christ
The one true and only living Creator God proves His love for you in this: nearly 2,000 years before you were even born—yet already cursed with sin and condemned to death and eternal punishment for that sin— God Himself, through His Son Jesus Christ, did what only He could do— He became the sinless human substitute that God’s justice required— the perfect Lamb who willfully suffered, bled, and died on the cross to pay the penalty for your sins and restore the broken relationship between God and humanity.
And on the third day, God raised Jesus from the dead. He walked out of the tomb in a victorious resurrection, conquering sin, death, hell, Satan and all the powers of darkness and granting eternal life to all who believe.
This is the response that the Holy Spirit will lead you to:
You must genuinely repent of your sins and put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ alone as your Lord, Savior and Master. When you do, God forgives your sin, declares you righteous through the righteousness of Jesus, gives you new life by His Holy Spirit, and promises you eternal life with Him forever, on earth and in heaven.
These are the facts of the true gospel of Jesus Christ you must believe in your heart in order to be saved.
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The One True God, the Problem, the Provision, the Call and the Promise of the Gospel
The One True God – He is the Judeo-Christian God, Elohim, Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of the Bible, the God of heaven, the God of miracles, the one true, sovereign, and only living Creator God and there is no other God besides Him. He makes redemption and salvation possible only by His grace through His Son, Jesus Christ. God is holy, utterly set apart—there is none like Him; and He is perfectly righteous and pure… and you and I are not. We all fall short of His perfect standard of righteousness… His glory!
He is the triune God, one Holy God, revealed in three distinct Persons:
God the Father – Who purposed salvation by His grace through His divine and perfect plan before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4-5).
God the Son – Jesus, who accomplished salvation through His sinless life, substitutional death and victorious resurrection (John 19:30).
God the Holy Spirit – Who produces and applies your salvation through conviction, regeneration, and sanctification (Titus 3:5).
Man’s problem: All have sinned and fallen short of God’s perfect standard of righteousness… His glory. We are wretched, vile sinners and are under God’s wrath, the powerful and just anger of a holy God, and rightful judgment, condemned to death, separation from Him and punished apart from Christ for eternity.
God’s provision: Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of God, lived a perfect life, willfully bore your sins and died on the cross as your substitute to pay the penalty for your sins and then rose victoriously on the third day— conquering sin, death, hell, Satan and all the powers of darkness.
The call: The gospel is a call to deny self, repent of sin, put your faith and trust in Christ and wholeheartedly surrender and submit to His authority and will for your life.
The promise: All who come to Christ in genuine repentance and saving faith are forgiven, declared righteous by His righteousness, born again as a new creation in Christ, given eternal life, and follow Him as Lord, Savior, and Master.
These are the facts of the true gospel of Jesus Christ you must believe in your heart in order to be saved.
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The Very Heart of the Gospel
“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” — 2 Corinthians 5:21
Jesus became that sinless human substitute that God’s justice required.
He (God) made Jesus sin— not that He made Jesus commit sin; He never sinned, but He made Him sin in this sense— He treated Jesus as if He had personally committed every sin ever committed by every person who would ever believe— though, in fact, He committed none of them.
Hanging on the cross, He was still holy, harmless, and undefiled. Hanging on the cross, He was the spotless Lamb of God. He was not—even for a split second—a sinner, but the Holy God bearing your sin, nailed to the cross.
But God is treating Jesus as if He had lived your life. God punished Him for your sin and then—even two thousand years later— turns around and treats you as if you had lived Christ’s perfect, sinless life.
Through Christ, all your sins, past, present and future, were nailed to the cross and you bear them no more!
This is the very heart of the gospel.
And what you get is complete forgiveness covered by the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
When God looks at the cross, He sees you and when He looks at you, He sees Christ.
The death of Jesus on the cross and His resurrection—His atonement for our sins, are the means of your reconciliation with God restoring the relationship that was broken by sin; redemption. Redemption is the result of reconciliation and atonement. The wrath of God was exhausted on Christ and the just requirements of God’s law were met on behalf of those for whom He died.
Let this sink in… The Creator of the universe stepped into His creation and was born of a woman, just like you were, lived a sinless life and then willfully died on the cross on your behalf, to save you from sin and evil.
God Himself died to pay the penalty for your sins— so you wouldn’t have to.
These are the facts of the true gospel of Jesus Christ you must believe in your heart in order to be saved.
This is the greatest expression of love in the history of the world!
My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
(It Is Well With My Soul, Horatio G. Spafford, 1873)
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most important event in human history.
It is the foundation of our hope for eternal life. Without the resurrection, we would all remain lost and condemned.
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 perfect, sinless life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
It is THE way, the ONE way, the ONLY way to salvation.
Thank you Lord Jesus!
The resurrection proves that Christianity is true and all the others are not.
It proves that God accepted Christ’s sacrifice as payment for sin.
It proves that Jesus is God, fulfilling prophecy and His own predictions, and that sin, death, Satan and all the powers of darkness have been conquered forever.
The Victory of Christ’s Atonement
Christ’s atonement — the price He paid for your reconciliation with God when He died in your place on the cross and then rose victoriously — is God’s dramatic victory over evil, a cosmic rescue mission that sets humanity free. To the world, the cross looked like a crushing defeat: Jesus humiliated, condemned as a criminal, silenced by religious leaders, executed by Rome, and swallowed by death itself. (Colossians 2:4-15)
But in reality, what seemed like devastating loss became the decisive triumph over every enemy of God and humanity. Jesus is not merely a victim of punishment or simply a moral example, but the divine champion who conquered the grave and liberated us from bondage. (1 Corinthians 15:54-57; Hebrews 2:14)
The price that Jesus paid for us is more than forgiveness of individual sins; it is the once-for-all triumph of Christ the Victor, securing our freedom and eternal life.
This is the Truth that will set you free. (John 8:32)
The Value of Your Soul
You don’t have to believe any of this, but if you have heard the Good News and reject Christ, you are literally choosing to forfeit your soul for eternity and you are without excuse.
Your soul is the essence of who you are — your true self, the eternal part of you that lives on after the body dies. It is who you are in this life, and who you will be in the next.
- The body is temporary, but the soul endures forever (Matthew 10:28).
- The soul is the seat of your mind, will, emotions, and spiritual life — the “you” that makes choices and relates to God.
- Because it is eternal, your soul will experience everlasting life with God or eternal separation from Him depending on what you do with Christ.
“Whatever is the object for which men forsake Christ, that is the price at which Satan buys their souls. Yet one soul is worth more than all the world.” — Matthew Henry Commentary
What is the object in your life for which you forsake Christ?
No object, no sin, no temporary pleasure is worth the eternal price that must be paid for them… your soul.
The Romans Road to Salvation:
[Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, Romans 5:8 and Romans 10:9-10, 13]
All have sinned and fallen short of God’s perfect standard of righteousness—His glory. (from Romans 3:23; emphasis added)
And the wages of sin, the price that sin pays—is death, separation from God and eternal punishment, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (from Romans 6:23; emphasis added)
But God demonstrates His love for us, that while we were still sinners, God Himself, through His Son Jesus Christ willfully suffered and died to pay the penalty for your sin so you wouldn’t have to, and then on the third day, was raised from the dead to grant eternal life to all who believe. (from Romans 5:8; emphasis added)
Applying Romans 10:9–10, 13
“If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus as Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.” (Romans 10:9–10)
“For whosoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Romans 10:13; “whosoever” is from the KJV.)
Paul says if these are genuinely true of you — confession with the mouth, belief in the heart — then the Holy Spirit grants you faith.
God commands people to hear the gospel. Our responsibility is to be confronted with the truth of the gospel and not ignore it or suppress it when it is heard. But it is the Holy Spirit who enables people to believe the truth and to be saved. You cannot do it by yourself.
Faith is not self-generated and genuine confession and conversion cannot occur apart from the work of the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit acts first and provides sufficient light in the midst of the darkness of your sin so that the truth of the gospel is rightly understood and embraced, when otherwise, you could not do either. He convicts you of sin, He leads you to genuine repentance, He grants you saving faith and regenerates your heart, enabling you to believe the truth of the gospel and be born again as a new creation in Christ. You are no longer identified as who you are and what you’ve done, but as whose you are in Christ and what He has done for you through His death and resurrection.
You are saved: completely forgiven (Ephesians 1:7), reconciled to God through the righteousness of Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 5:10), made a new in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17), indwelled with the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13–14; Romans 8:9), and given eternal life which begins immediately upon salvation (John 3:36; John 17:3).
Confessing “Jesus as Lord” includes:
- Repentance — turning from sin and to God.
“Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.” (Acts 3:19; cf. Acts 2:38; Luke 24:47) - Trusting Jesus alone for your salvation — relying on Christ’s finished work, not your own efforts.
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” (Ephesians 2:8–9; Titus 3:5) - Acknowledging His deity — Jesus is the one true God, with all authority in heaven and on earth.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” (John 1:1; John 1:14)
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.” (Matthew 28:18; cf. Colossians 2:9) - Submitting to His authority and will for your life — making Him not only Lord and Savior, but also Master of your life.
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?” (Luke 6:46)
“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” (Luke 9:23)
Confession is more than just words — it is a declaration of allegiance and surrender to Jesus. It is more than a profession of faith; it is the possession of faith (James 2:17–18).
“Believing in Your Heart That God Raised Him From the Dead” includes:
- Trusting in the resurrection — God accepted Christ’s sacrifice as payment for sin.
“He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.” (Romans 4:25)
“If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.” (1 Corinthians 15:17) - Affirming His identity — He is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Lord, and Savior exactly as He claimed.
“…[He] was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 1:4; cf. John 20:28–31) - Assurance of victory — He conquered sin, death, judgment and hell.
“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 15:55–57; Hebrews 2:14–15) - Confidence in His present and future role — He is alive, reigning now, and returning again to bring history to its proper conclusion.
“…Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.” (Romans 8:34)
“…This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11)
Belief isn’t just intellectual agreement — it is personal trust in the living Christ (John 20:29; Hebrews 11:1).
There is no other way to be saved!
God offers redemption and salvation to whosoever believes. The price was fully paid by Jesus on the cross.
To receive it requires a complete surrender to Jesus Christ, genuine repentance, turning from sin and to God, and saving faith in who Jesus is and what He has done for you.
When Jesus said “I am the way”… He was saying He is THE way for those who are lost. He is the ONE way, the ONLY way to salvation. Without Him you remain lost and condemned.
Salvation comes to those who hear and believe (in their heart) the facts of the gospel.
“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
— (Acts 4:12)
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