How to be saved
What must one do to be saved?
1. Realize my personal need to know God.
Admit to myself and to God that I am a sinner in need of salvation from my sins and from hell.
Romans 3:23 – For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2. Repent of my sins – I must feel a deep need to turn away from my evil ways and live the way God wants me to live.
Acts 2:37-40:
37 Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?”
38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 “For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
40 And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!”
Believe that Christ died for my sins as payment in full and receive Him into my life as Savior and Lord.
9 That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
John 1:12 – But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,