Plan of Sal­va­tion for your Soul
By David Cox ver­sion 4r

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1John 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eter­nal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; [and] he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

How can I be saved?

God has placed a sin­gle con­di­tion on being saved; you must “have” Jesus Christ. This means to have a per­sonal rela­tion­ship with him, just as two peo­ple have one in being married.

John 17:3 and this is life eter­nal, that they might know thee the only true God…

To have eter­nal life is to know Jesus as your per­sonal Saviour.

To know Jesus is the same as believ­ing in him and receiv­ing him

John 6:47 Ver­ily, ver­ily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath ever­last­ing life.

Your con­fi­dence must be only in Jesus Christ alone. If so you are saved. If it is some­thing else, a good work, a per­son besides Him, then you are not saved.

John 1:12 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:

Hav­ing a for­mal rela­tion­ship with Jesus

Sal­va­tion is not some­thing that “per­haps” you have. It is a rela­tion­ship in which you have com­plete con­fi­dence that your Sav­ior Jesus Christ will save you. If peo­ple ask you if you are mar­ried or not, you would answer yes or no with­out any doubt. A wed­ding, a mar­riage license, etc are things that tan­gi­bly reflect that com­mit­ment you made with your spouse. If there isn’t any­thing, you prob­a­bly aren’t mar­ried. Hav­ing made a com­mit­ment with another per­son, you will always remem­ber it. Nobody is saved with­out hav­ing made this com­mit­ment per­son­ally with Christ as their Savior.

To not believe is to be con­demned to hell.

John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not con­demned: but he that believeth not is con­demned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begot­ten Son of God. 36 He that believeth on the Son hath ever­last­ing life: and he that believeth not (refuses to believe) the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

God sends peo­ple to hell because they refuse to believe in Jesus. This refusal means you are not saved.

Four steps to be saved

1. Recog­nise our prob­lem, sin.
2. Decide to cor­rect it, repen­tance.
3. Believe (accept­ing or receiv­ing) in Jesus Christ as your per­sonal Sav­ior.
4. Pub­lic con­fes­sion of Jesus as your Savior.

1. Recog­nise that you are a sinner.

With­out rec­og­niz­ing you prob­lem, you can­not be saved. Luke 5:31 they that are whole need not a physi­cian, but they that are sick.

We are all sinners.

Ecc 7:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sin­neth not.

1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive our­selves, and the truth is not in us. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him (God) a liar, and his word is not in us.

We are all sin­ners, and if you say oth­er­wise, then you are deceiv­ing your­self, and you are call­ing God a liar. The con­se­quence of sin is death in hell, the wrath of God.[1]

At death, there are no more opportunities.

God closes all fur­ther pos­si­bil­i­ties of sal­va­tion at death.

Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judg­ment:

God sends us to an imme­di­ate judg­ment after we die. There is no such thing as pur­ga­tory, there is no sec­ond chance, there is no rein­car­na­tion, and there is no return­ing from the grave to make bet­ter choices. When Lazarus and the rich man died (Luke 16:19–31, each one imme­di­ately were in their eter­nal judg­ments the next sec­ond (hell and pun­ish­ment or in paradise).

Nobody has spe­cial con­sid­er­a­tions with God. Acts 10:34 “God is no respecter of persons”.

God will send you to hell if you have even 1 sin­gle sin against you. Some peo­ple think that sal­va­tion is like a bal­ance, your sins on one side, and your good works on the other, and whichever weigh more decides. But God sees things from another point of view.

James 2:10 For whoso­ever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.

As in our country’s laws, one sin­gle infrac­tion can send you to jail. There is no need for more than one crime.

Gal 3:11 But that no man is jus­ti­fied by the law in the sight of God, it is evident…

Good works (or law keep­ing) do not get you out of jail, and they don’t jus­tify you before God either. In a court, all the good you have done does not erase any infraction.

2. Repent­ing of your sins

Luke 13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all like­wise perish.

Repen­tance is a total change in the direc­tion of your life. If you are going to one city, but you are totally turned around going in the oppo­site direc­tion, then repen­tance would be to totally aban­don where you were going to go in the right direc­tion. Mov­ing your direc­tion “a lit­tle bit” doesn’t help any­thing here, you must totally give up every­thing. God only responds[2] to peo­ple who are bro­ken hearted over their sin.

3. Relieve in Jesus as your per­sonal Savior.

A. Sal­va­tion isn’t by work, but only by means of faith.

Titus 3:5 Not by works of right­eous­ness which we have done, but accord­ing to his mercy (God) saved us

Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of your­selves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

God con­di­tions His sal­va­tion on us not adding any­thing to it. In other words, if you believe in Jesus plus your own works[3], Jesus has no part in it. It is like in love, if a hus­band brings two of his lovers to his home to live with him and his wife, the wife will just leave com­pletely and not accept the sit­u­a­tion. She must be the only one, or noth­ing. God is like­wise very jealous.

Exo. 34:14… for the Lord, whose name is jeal­ous, is a jeal­ous God.

God also uses two con­cepts to explain how we relieve His sal­va­tion, mercy (not receiv­ing a deserved pun­ish­ment) and grace (receiv­ing a gift not deserved). Our good works DON’T count at all with God. They are not taken into con­sid­er­a­tion in enter­ing heaven.

B. Jesus is the only Savior.

1Tim 2:5 For there is one God, and one medi­a­tor between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

Jesus is the only Sav­ior and medi­a­tor that we can seek to save us. Mary, the saints, Bud­dha, etc. are excluded. If you add some per­son other than Jesus, you are not saved.

Acts 4:12 Nei­ther is there sal­va­tion in any other: for there is none other name (apart from Jesus) under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

More­over you have to seek Jesus to be your Sav­ior. The Jehovah’s Wit­nesses seek sal­va­tion in Jeho­vah, but this is not the name that God has given for sal­va­tion. Jesus is Jeho­vah. If we add our good works, other inter­me­di­aries, or any­thing else to Jesus our Sav­ior, God refuses to save, and we are lost.

C. Jesus is our sac­ri­fice in our place.

We have a prob­lem. God sees all, and we are sin­ners. So then we all go to hell for this. But even though God sees all, God turned his head when Jesus took on Him­self our sin on the cross.

Mark 15:34… My God, My God, why hast thou for­saken me?

The only point in the his­tory of uni­verse where God as Judge didn’t see sin is when Jesus became our sin on Cal­vary. Because Jesus, the Son of God, being inno­cent, died as a sin­ner, he became sin[4], car­ry­ing the sins of the world upon him­self[5], so God the Father couldn’t bear to see this, and blocked his view of this.

Col 2:14 Blot­ting out the hand­writ­ing of ordi­nances that was against us, which was con­trary to us, and took it out of the way, nail­ing it to his cross;

If we receive Jesus as our per­sonal Sav­ior, He will save us. It is because of his shed blood[6] in the cross that we will be saved.

D.  Jesus is God

Mat. 16:15 But whom say ye that I am?

Mat 1:23 Behold a vir­gin shall be with child… his name Emmanuel, which being inter­preted is, God with us.

God saved us accord­ing to how we relate to Jesus, Is he the Christ or not? The impor­tant thing here is that Jesus is God, totally with­out sin (Heb 4:15), there­fore his death redeems oth­ers, but with­out his being totally God, his death would redeem only 1. Being God, his death redeems all humans if they believe in him. If we mis­tak­enly believe Jesus is not fully God, then we do so to the loss of our salvation.

4. Con­fes­sion of Jesus as you Savior.

Rom 10:9 That if thou shalt con­fess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Matt 10:32 Whoso­ever there­fore shall con­fess me before men, him will I con­fess also before my Father which is in heaven. 33 But whoso­ever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

We saw above that sal­va­tion is not through good Works, so this con­fes­sion is only a pub­lic dec­la­ra­tion of our faith in our Sav­ior, not a work. For exam­ple, two young peo­ple are dat­ing, and the guy never wants to make pub­lic his com­mit­ment to the girl. This isn’t right. A seri­ous com­mit­ment has to be pub­lic in some form or it isn’t seri­ous. God wants to see us pub­licly con­fess Jesus as our Sav­ior before He takes us as seri­ous in our faith. Seri­ous heart belief is always fol­lowed by pub­lic con­fes­sion and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with Christ; oth­er­wise you are just play­ing around with God.

Will you ask Jesus into your heart today? Pray and ask Jesus to be your per­sonal Sav­ior. You must con­fes­sion that you are a sin­ner, and you must repent of your sins because they caused Jesus His pain and suf­fer­ing, caus­ing Him to die on the cross. Tell him you believe His death on the cross saved you from your sins. Never be ashamed or embar­rassed about your won­der­ful Sav­ior, but con­fess Him to every­body, mak­ing the pub­lic pro­fes­sion of Christ in bap­tism, join­ing a Fun­da­men­tal local church.

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[1] Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death. Ezekiel 18:4, 20 the soul that sin­neth, it shall die.

[2] Acts 17:30 God com­man­deth all men every­where to repent.
Psa 34:18 The Lord… saveth such as be of a con­trite spirit.
Jere­miah 26:3 If so be they will hear­ken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil which I pur­pose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

[3] Isa­iah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our right­eous­ness are as filthy rags…

[4] 2 Corinthi­ans 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us who know no sin; that we might be made the right­eous­ness of God in him

[5] 1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto right­eous­ness (Jesus paid the price)

[6] 1 Peter 1:18 as ye know that ye were redeemed… 19 with the pre­cious blood of Chris, as of a lamb with­out blem­ish and with­out spot
Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and with­out shed­ding of blood is no remission.