Salvation
- What is it?
Saved
from what and by whom?
How can I
become “saved”?
You
can experience “salvation” when, in genuine
faith, you acknowledge
your shortcomings and the need for forgiveness, and
place your faith and hope in Jesus Christ1 who
is the only One2
who can forgive you, cleanse you, redeem you, and
put His Holy Spirit in you,
making you a totally new creation– one that is righteous
and connected again with your loving creator, God3.
“Salvation” is
real! You can be assured that you have been redeemed and
now belong to Christ by the inner witness of the Holy Spirit,
who comes to dwell in the heart of anyone who truly believes in the
salvation of Jesus Christ4.
What
Next?
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References |
1 |
Romans
10:9-10 -that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes
unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation. |
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Ephesians
2:8-9 - 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. |
2 |
I
Timothy 2:5-7 - For there is one God and one Mediator between
God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom
for all, to be testified in due time, |
3 |
Colossians
2:14 - having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped
out the handwriting of requirements that was against us,
which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the
way, having nailed it to the cross. |
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Galatians
4:6-7 - And because you are sons, God has sent forth the
Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba,
Father!" Therefore you are no longer a slave but a
son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. |
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Romans
8:9 -
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed
the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not
have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
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II
Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he
is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold,
all things have become new. |
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II
Corinthians 5:21 - For He made Him who knew no sin to be
sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God
in Him. |
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Ephesians
5:24-27 - ...just as Christ also loved the church and gave
Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with
the washing of water by the word, that He might present her
to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle
or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without
blemish. |
4 |
Ephesians
1:13-14 - In Him you also trusted, after you heard the
word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also,
having
believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption
of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. |
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Romans
8:16 - The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit
that we are children of God, |
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