- 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:
- 1. Pray -- you talk to God.
- 2. Read your Bible -- God talks to you.
- 3. 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).
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