What is salvation?
Salvation is an escape from harm, deliverance from danger or a restoration of a defective item to its original state. God created man in his own image to rule on earth just like God rules in heaven.
Man fell from his glorious state (Genesis 3) and were sent were sent away from the garden of Eden, God’s presence after they listened to Satan and disobeyed God.
Man felt an emptiness (spiritual death) that nothing could fill and begun finding the way back to reconcile with God. This resulted in many religions and spiritual practices.
In his mercy, God himself had to reach out to save man. The whole bible from Genesis to Revelation, provides an account of series of the actions taken by a loving father (God), to rescue his beloved children from malfunctioning and its consequence, eternal death.
Who needs to be saved?
Everyone needs salvation. We all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) and the wages of sin is death, (Romans 6:23). We deserve to die because of our sins, but God loves us so much and provided a temporary solution of using the blood of animals as sin offering in the Old Testament.
A sinner will present an animal to the priest, place their hand on the animal and confess their sins. The priests sacrificed the animal on the altar of God as an atonement for the sinner. Anyone who disobeyed this instruction remained a sinner (spiritually dead) and cut off from God.
Jesus, our lamb is the permanent solution that God had planned for mankind.
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29
How do you get saved?
This is as easy as ABC. Check out the ABC of salvation by Aryn the Libraryn. We can obtain salvation only through Jesus, the lamb that God provided to take away the sins of the world.
This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:11-12 (ESV)
Good works alone does not lead to salvation. Accept the free gift of the eternal life that God provides through Jesus.
Jesus is the only way, the truth and the life. No one comes to God except through him Jesus.
If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation’. Romans 10:9-10
Salvation Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ I believe that you are the son of God, and that you died for all my sins (Romans 3:23-26; Hebrews 9:27-28). I repent and choose to turn from all my sins today and receive your forgiveness (Revelation 3:20). I accept you as my Lord and Saviour (Acts 16:31). Please come into my heart and reign in my life. Thank you, Father God for making me your son/daughter through Christ, In Jesus Name Amen!
Congratulations!
Next steps after salvation
- Grow your faith – Develop your relationship with God by daily prayers and reading of the word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
- Join a church – Be part of the body of Christ, the church. Find a church which stand by the principles of Jesus not worldly standards. Do not forsake the assembly of the brethren.
- Baptism – Be baptised as a sign of declaring Jesus publicly, dying and resurrecting with him.
- Be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit and become a witness
- Testify – You have witnessed the love of God through salvation, help someone to also find Jesus. Share your testimony. Jesus said, you shall be witnesses of me in Jerusalem, in Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth. We have a ministry of reconciliation.
