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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”
(Lev. 17:11).
“ . . . without shedding of blood is no remission
[pardon]”
(Hebrews 9:22).
“ . . . God commendeth His love toward us, in that,
while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us”
(Romans 5:8).
Although we cannot understand how, God said
my sins and your
sins were 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 is a 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).
“For whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved.”
(Romans 10:13).
Whosoever
includes you.
Shall be saved means not maybe, nor
can, but
shall be saved.
Surely, you realize you are a sinner. Right now,
wherever you are, repenting, lift your heart to God
in prayer.
In Luke 18:13, the sinner prayed:
“God be merciful to me a sinner.”
Just pray:
“Oh God, I know I am a sinner. I believe Jesus was
my substitute when He died on the Cross. I believe
His shed blood, death, burial, and resurrection were
for me. I now receive Him as my Savior. I thank You
for the forgiveness of my sins, the gift of
salvation and everlasting life, because of Your
merciful grace. Amen.”
Just take God at His word
and claim His salvation by faith.
Believe, and you
will be saved. No church, no lodge, no
good works can save you.
Remember, God does
the saving. All of it!
God’s simple plan of salvation is: You are a sinner.
Therefore, unless you believe on Jesus Who died in
your place, you will spend eternity in Hell. If you
believe on Him as your crucified, buried, and risen
Savior, you receive forgiveness for all of your sins
and His gift of
eternal salvation by faith.
You say, “Surely, it cannot be that simple.” Yes,
that simple! It is scriptural. It is God’s plan.
My friend, believe
on Jesus and receive Him as Savior today.
If His plan is not perfectly clear,
read this tract over
and over, without laying it down, until you
understand it. Your soul is worth more
than all the world.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain
the whole world
and lose his own soul?”
(Mark 8:36).
Be sure you are saved. If you lose your soul, you
miss Heaven and lose all. Please!
Let God save you
this very moment.
God’s power will save you, keep you saved, and
enable you
to live a victorious Christian life.
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is
common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not
suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but
will with the temptation also make a way to escape,
that ye may be able to bear it”
(1 Corinthians 10:13).
Do not trust your feelings. They change. Stand on
God’s promises. They never change.
After you are saved, there are
three things
to practice daily for spiritual growth:
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Pray
-- you talk to God.
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Read your Bible
-- God talks to you.
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Witness
-- you talk for God.
You should be baptized
in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ
as a public
testimony of your salvation, and then
unite with a Bible-believing church without delay.
“Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of
our Lord . . . .”
(2 Timothy 1:8)
“Whosoever therefore shall confess
[testify of]
Me before men, him will I confess also before My
Father which is in heaven”
(Matthew 10:32).
Copyright:
Robert Ford Porter, 1991
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