BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH

GOD'S SIMPLE PLAN OF SALVATION

 

     My Friend:  I am asking you the most important question of life. Your joy or your sorrow for all eternity depends upon your answer.  The question is:  Are you saved?  It is not a question of how good you are, nor if you are a church member, but are you saved?  Are you sure you will go to Heaven when you die?

 

     God says in order to go to Heaven, you must be born again.  In John 3:7, Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Ye must be born again."

 

     In the Bible God gives us the plan of how to be born again which means to be saved.  His plan is simple!  You can be saved today.  How?

 

     First, my friend, you must realize you are a sinner.  "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).

 

     Because you are a sinner, you are condemned to death.  "For the wages (payment) of sin is death" (Romans 6:23).  This includes eternal separation from God in Hell.  "... it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27).

 

     But God loved you so much He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus, to bear your sin and die in your place.  "... He hath made Him (Jesus, Who knew no sin) to be sin for us... that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Corinthians 5:21).  Jesus had to shed His blood and die.  "For the life of the flesh is in the blood" (Leviticus 17:11).  "...without shedding of blood is no remission (pardon)" (Hebrews 9:22).

 

     Although we cannot understand how, God said my sins and your sins we laid upon Jesus and He died in our place.  He became our substitute.  It is true.  God cannot lie.

 

     My friend, "God ... commandeth all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 17:30).  This repentance is a change of mind that agrees with God that one sinner, and also agrees with what Jesus did for us on the Cross.

 

     In Acts 16:30-31, the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas:  "... 'Sirs, what must I do to be saved?'  And they said, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved... .'"

 

     Simply believe on Him as the one who bore your sin, died in your place, was buried, and whom God resurrected.  His resurrection powerfully assures that the believer can claim everlasting life when Jesus is received as Savior.

 

     "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name" (John 1:12).