WE ARE ALL SINNERS BY NATURE AND BY CHOICE
By nature, we were born sinners. We must realize that we are sinning by choice, we must be saved and receive the Holy Spirit into our life to guide us. Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” All of us are sinners and nothing we do can help us reach heaven. We have come short of getting there by our own goodness because we still have sin in our lives.
WE RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE AS A FREE GIFT
Eternal life is free – a gift – Someone already paid for on the cross and by the blood of Jesus Christ. When you receive a gift for your birthday does the person giving you the gift ask you to do something in order to receive that gift? No! They just love you enough to give you a gift – a free gift – one that you just have to reach out your hands and accept. That is salvation. It is free. You just have to reach out and accept that Jesus died for your sins! Our sins can not get us into the purity of God’s presence but accepting that Jesus’ blood is the only way sure can! Romans 6:23 is a good reminder of this. It says, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” We must pay for sins through eternal death but we can accept the free gift of Christ’s life for ours.
GOD DEMONSTRATED HIS LOVE FOR US, HIS ENEMIES
Before we accept God’s saving grace in our lives we are actually enemies of His. When we are dead in our sins, we are the servants of sin and servants of Satan; who is the father of this sinful world. Satan is definitely the enemy of God and we need to turn from him to a loving Savior.
Just think for a moment what it took Jesus to come from heaven as a baby to an imperfect world. He knew He would be dying a horrible death just to save us! Doesn’t that sound more like love than anything Satan can hold out to us in this world? We were the enemies of God before we were saved but even so He loved us. Romans 5:8 says, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
WE MUST TRUST AND SURRENDER TO JESUS AS LORD
Romans 10:9-10 says, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” What do we need to do to be saved; washed clean from our sins and know that we are on our way to heaven? We need to trust that Jesus died for us as sinners but we also must surrender to Him our will and recognize we are sinners. Sometimes people have a hard time saying they are sinners. Because we all sin, we all must confess and believe in order to be saved! It is that simple and that wonderful. God made a way for us to escape the fires of hell by sending Jesus to die for us. All we need to do is surrender and trust Jesus!
OUR ASSURANCE OF SALVATION IS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST
Now that we have prayed and told God that we are indeed sinners in need of a Savior; now that we have asked Jesus to forgive us our sins and come into our heart and dwell within; we are saved. This means eternally secure in Christ and drawn far away from eternal burning in hell. Our home now rests in heaven and we are just pilgrims on this earth! It’s all so amazing but how do we keep our salvation because we are still humans and we will still sin? We can’t keep our salvation! Our salvation is kept by Jesus Christ. No one can take us from Him. We are secure and our assurance lies in Him. Romans 10:13 tells us, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
