Are You
Saved?
Audio Message:
Are you saved, and do you have a Saviour? What is the gospel? Do you know where you are
going? The bible says that saved people go to Heaven and
lost people go to Hell.
The bible says that the gospel is
the good news that if you trust Jesus Christ
as your Lord
and Saviour that God will save you. The
bible says that there is one God and one mediator between
God and men, the man
Christ Jesus, who gave himself a
ransom for all.
A ransom is the price that has to be paid to redeem
someone. The bible says that we have redemption through
His blood, even the
forgiveness of sins. Have you
committed sins? Then the bible says you need a
Redeemer.
What is the gospel? The gospel is that Christ died for your sins. He
was delivered for your offenses and was raised again for
your
justification.
The gospel is not to keep the commandments. Nobody
ever has. Then what are the commandments for? The Law was
given to show you that
you need a Saviour. By the works of the law there
shall no flesh be justified in his sight, the bible says,
for by the law is the
knowledge of sin. The law makes you
know what sin is. Adam sinned. By one act of
one man, sin
entered the world and death by sin. So death passed to all men for
that all have sinned. All have sinned and fall short of
the glory of God. Hence,
all need a Saviour to save them from their
sins.
The gospel is not to ask Jesus into your heart. The
gospel is to trust that Christ died for your sins. The
gospel is not to walk the
aisle for Jesus but to
acknowledge that Jesus Christ walked up
Salvation is not to pray through at the alter but to simply trust that Christ got through to God
for you, in your behalf. You don’t have to go to the alter
to be saved, you have to trust Jesus Christ as your Saviour to be saved. There is no other name given
under
Heaven among men whereby we must be saved. Not Mary,
not the Pope, not the
Preacher, not a religious leader
with a big following, but ONLY Jesus Christ. He
alone died
for your sins and rose again for your justification.
Salvation is not to repent of your sins and clean up
your act. The bible says that there are none that are good
and none that doeth
good. So you are no good and you don’t
do good and you
can’t be good,
you still need a Saviour, Jesus Christ.
He is the only way. Christ say I
AM the way, the truth
and the life. Do you want life? Then
get Christ and you will have life. The
bible says to a
saved individual that when Christ who is our life shall appear
then shall we also appear with him in
glory.
Salvation is not in joining the church or shaking the
preacher’s hand. Salvation is in Jesus Christ. If you want
life, get Christ as
your Saviour, believe on him and trust in him and God
will save you. You don’t have to go to a religious meeting
in order to find
salvation. You can be saved right now
without lifting a finger or going
anywhere. Salvation is
not in going, or doing, or saying, but in trusting. Are you
trusting Jesus Christ alone for
salvation?
Salvation is not in water baptism. Salvation is in
the baptism Christ was baptized with. He was baptized into
death and it was your
death he was identified with. The
wages of sin is death, and Christ died for
your sins. He
took the payoff. God made him to be sin for you. The issue is not
getting wet but getting saved and you can’t get saved in
water, but only in
Christ. Trust Jesus Christ and the Holy
Spirit will do the baptizing INTO the
body of Christ. For
by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body. There
is one Lord, one faith and one baptism. The Holy
Spirit
does the baptizing today, not men. If you are trusting
your baptism for salvation then you are not trusting
Jesus
Christ to have done the work of salvation. Getting water baptized might be
a sign…that somebody is trusting in his own efforts and
not in Christ’s work on
the cross. He said, “it is
finished.”
Salvation is not goose bumps. The bible never says
“feel on the Lord Jesus Christ,” it says BELIEVE on him. People say, “well I know what I felt.” Yes, but do you know who you are
trusting? Salvation is a faith issue, not a feeling issue.
When your faith
follows the facts then the feelings fall
in line. But when your faith starts
following your
feelings and ignores the facts then what you really have is an
emotional upheaval, not salvation. Salvation is in the
FACT that Christ died for
your sins, all of your sins, and
by trusting those facts, God will receive you, no
matter
what.
Salvation is not in water, or wafers, or Wesley or
Calvin or Allah or Budda or Mary
or a holy cow.
Salvation is in Jesus Christ. Salvation is
not by works but by faith. Faith in
what Christ did for
you, not in what you are doing, or are going to do for him.
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but
according to his mercy he
saved us.
Deliverance is not salvation and healing is not
salvation. Just because you cured a bad habit doesn’t mean
that you are saved.
Just because you were sick and got
well doesn’t mean you are saved. Salvation is
only by
trusting Jesus Christ and what he did, on the cross, for you. When you
trust the Lord alone for salvation then you are saved. The
bible says that the
word of God standeth sure and hath this seal: The Lord
knoweth them that are his. In
other words a saved
person is a sealed person. Sealed with that Holy Spirit of
promise. The Lord will never say to a saved person,
“depart from me ye
workers of iniquity, I never knew you.”
The bible says he DOES know you and that
he has sealed you
unto the day of redemption. So a sealed person is a saved
person. Are you sealed?
What is the evidence of your salvation? The evidence
of salvation is not speaking in tongues. You can’t look at
a person, or watch a
person and tell whether or not he is
saved. Saved people look just like lost
people. They all
look the same, and sometimes they all act the same. So how can
you tell if a person is saved? By his
testimony. By the
words that come out of his mouth.
You shall know them by their fruits. Fruits
are words.
They are not physical actions. Jesus said “by your words you will be
justified and by your words you will be condemned.” Jesus
said the mouth speaks
what the heart is full of. So what
is your heart full of?
Could you stand up somewhere and give a testimony of
your salvation. If somebody asked you, are you saved,
what would you say? A salvation
testimony is not a colorful account of all the
bad things
and horrible experiences you have had in your life. A salvation
testimony would be something along these lines. I was a
lost, doomed and damned
sinner, lost, on my way to Hell,
without God. I am the criminal. I am the thief,
the drunk,
the murderer, the backstabber, the fornicator, the gossiper. I am no
good. I don’t do any good. I can’t do any good. But
somebody shared the gospel
with me. The word of truth, the
gospel of my salvation, and I realized that it’s
not about
me. It’s about Jesus Christ. And I realized that all that I was, all that I am and all that I ever will be, sinful,
ungodly and the enemy of God, that God made Christ to be
all of that for me.
Christ died for me and all that I am.
Christ died because I am a sinner and I
commit sins.
Sinful I was born and sinful I will be. But Christ died for all my
sins, and the proof that God has forgiven me is that he
raised Christ from the
dead. I trust Jesus Christ as my Saviour, my only
Saviour. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved.