Questions?
There are many important
questions in life. When we’re younger, we ask:
What am I going to study in college or university?
Where am I going to work? Who will I marry?
And what about a family? These are all very
important questions and the results will change what
we do for the rest of our life. However, I
want to ask you the most important question:
Are you Saved? This question is so important,
because it not only changes how you will live the
rest of this life, but it determines your destiny
for eternity. The question is simple.
The answer is simple as well. If you were to
ask yourself the question right now, what would the
answer be: yes or no?
Why Do I need to be Saved?
It is important to understand
that this is not something that mortal man has
declared. The Bible tells us that “we must be saved”
(Acts 4:12). Why do we need to be saved?
The Bible states the “all have sinned and come short
of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). The Word of
God also likens each one of us to sheep that have
gone astray, and we have gone our own way.
Every single day, we choose to sin. If we
continue in life as we are, we must be punished for
our sin. God is righteous and holy and must
punish sin and if we don’t do anything about all the
sins we have committed, we will have to be punished
for them in Hell. Therefore, we need to be
rescued, or delivered, or saved from our sin so that
we can be Heaven.
Who Can Save Me?
It might seem that we have
painted a very gloomy picture. We are all
sinners, that continue to sin everyday. If I
need to be without sin in order to be in God’s
heaven, how is it ever possible? Thankfully,
the Bible provides the answer to that question as
well. “Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners” (1Tim 1:15). That was the entire
reason the Lord Jesus came into this world – so that
he could save us! The Lord Jesus Christ was
born into this world in Bethlehem, died on a cruel
Roman Cross at Calvary in order to pay the
punishment for the sins that we deserved.
Jesus was without sin. He was the Son of God
and as God, He could not sin. However, God
loved sinners, such as ourselves, so much that he
punished His Son in order to pay the price for our
sin. Isaiah 53 and verse 5 says, “But he was
pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for
our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace
was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.”
(NIV). The Lord Jesus Christ is the One who is
able to save you today!
What Must I do to be Saved?
This is a very important
question has well. This is the exact question
that a jailor asked in a true story that is recorded
in the Bible (Acts Chapter 16). The jailor was
a man who knew that he was a sinner and realized
that he needed the Lord Jesus Christ to save him and
he asked the Apostle Paul, “What must I do to be
saved?” (Acts 16:30). The Apostle Paul
responded by saying, “Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” (Acts 16:31).
What a marvel that sinners such as ourselves can be
made right with God. Through faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ and His finished work at the Cross of
Calvary, a lost sinner is saved. The jailor
was saved that night when he asked that question.
And I can say that I am saved. I have a
specific time and place that I can look back to in
my life experience when I was saved. I was a
boy of nine years old and realized that I was a
sinner. I recognized the fact that God would
be right in sending me to Hell because of all the
sins that I had committed. But it was at that
time that a verse from Romans chapter 5 and verse 6
came to me this way, “Christ died for me the ungodly
one!” And now I can say that I am saved!
Are
you saved?
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