The Plan for the Sal­va­tion of your Soul

by David Cox
V3.3 ©2005 www.davidcoxmex.mx/tracts
This tract can be freely copied but not sold under any circumstance.

This is a free pho­to­copi­able sal­va­tion tract to be used in door-to-door evan­ge­lism. This idea of this tract is to pho­to­copy a cou­ple of hun­dred of them, and then use them in evan­ge­lism, read­ing the verses and explain­ing these verses in pre­sent­ing the gospel.

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• To “have” the Son = Salvation

1Jn 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. 13 These things have I writ­ten unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eter­nal life…

• Eter­nal Life = Relieve in Jesus Christ

John 6:47 … He that believeth on me hath ever­last­ing life.

• You have per­son­ally receive Christ

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:

• Not believ­ing = Con­demned to Hell.

John 3:15 …whoso­ever believeth in him should not per­ish, but have eter­nal life. 18 He that believeth on him is not con­demned: but he that believeth not is con­demned already, because he hath not believed in… the only begot­ten Son of God.

4 Steps to be Saved:

1. Rec­og­nize our prob­lem, sin.
2. Decide to cor­rect it, repen­tance
3. Believe (this is to accept or receive) in Jesus as your per­sonal Sav­iour
4. Con­fess Jesus publicly.

4 Con­di­tions to be Save: under­stand it, want it, receive it, and be sincere.

1. Rec­og­nize you are a Sinner.

With­out rec­og­niz­ing your need, you can­not be saved.

Luk 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,… 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him (God) a liar, and his word is not in us.

The Con­se­quence of sin is phys­i­cal and eter­nal death

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death
Rom 5:12 …death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Every man has this sin prob­lem)
Eze 18:4,20 the soul that sin­neth, it shall die.

We are all under the con­dem­na­tion of God.

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

• There is no pur­ga­tory, nor sec­ond chance.
• There is no rein­car­na­tion, nor return­ing in another body.
• After death… Lazarus awoke in par­adise (Luke 16:19–31).  Dives in hell. Hell does exist!

Nobody has lever­age with God

Act 10:34 God is no respecter of persons:

• God is not impressed with any human being. Nobody has an “advan­tage” with God because of whom that per­son thinks he is.

To break the law in only 1 point is to be guilty

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

• Only 1 sin­gle infrac­tion is enough to cause you to go to jail. The same with God. One sin­gle sin is all you need to go to hell.

Good Works do not erase either crimes nor sins.

Gal 3:11 no man is jus­ti­fied by the law in the sight of God

• Good works do not get you out of jail. In law, any good you have done does not excuse your crimes.

2. Repent of your sins.

(“Repen­tance” - You are in a spir­i­tual road, and by your own deci­sion, you must com­pletely turn around and aban­don what you thought was good, and fol­low what God says is good.)

Psa 34:18 The LORD saveth such as be of a con­trite spirit.
Act 17:30 God.. com­man­deth all men every where to repent
Luke 13:5 but, except ye repent, ye shall all like­wise per­ish.
Jer 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.(God responds to our repentance)

3. Believe in Jesus as your per­sonal Saviour

A. Sal­va­tion is not for Works but by means of faith.

Tit 3:5 Not by works of right­eous­ness which we have done, but accord­ing to his mercy he 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.

• Mercy – not receiv­ing just pun­ish­ment you deserve
• Grace – birth­day present, unmer­ited favor
• You are not saved if you have faith in your Works, even if it is beside faith in Jesus. The Bible teaches that  it is not what you do, but what Jesus has done on the Cross of Calvary.
• Other Lovers – No woman will accept her hus­band if he shows up with other lovers, because love is sin­gu­lar, and so God will not allow any other con­fi­dence in any per­son or thing beside faith in Jesus. God is very jeal­ous, only Him.

Exo 34:14 thou shalt wor­ship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jeal­ous, is a jeal­ous God:
(Jesus + Mary ¹ sal­va­tion)
(Jesus + your works ¹ sal­va­tion)

Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our right­eous­nesses are as filthy rags;…

• Our works don’t count for any­thing with God.

B.  Jesus is the only Savior.

Isa 43:11 I, even I, am the LORD (Jeho­vah); and beside me there is no sav­iour.

(The Jehovah’s Wit­nesses focus on Jeho­vah not Jesus.)

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

(Mary is excluded)

Act 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.
(JWs say “Jeho­vah” is the name, not “Jesus”)

Luke 2:11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Sav­iour, which is Christ the Lord.

If you add works, or other medi­a­tors, any­one except Jesus and Jesus alone, then you are not saved.

C. Jesus is the sac­ri­fice in your place

1Pe 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 on the cross)

2Co 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the right­eous­ness of God in him.

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;

1Pe 1:18 Foras­much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with cor­rupt­ible things… 19 But with the pre­cious blood of Christ, as of a lamb with­out blem­ish and with­out spot:

Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and with­out shed­ding of blood is no remis­sion. (Jesus had to bleed)

• We believe in Jesus’ jus­tice rather than in our own good works, and there­fore God sees us with­out our sins.

D.  Jesus is God

Why is this impor­tant? Because many men of God like John the Bap­tist have died, but God never accepted these deaths because (1) they were them­selves sin­ners, (2) because they were not God incar­nate. Jesus made an issue of cor­rectly iden­ti­fy­ing Jesus as fully divine. To make an error in “who is Jesus” is to not be saved.

Mat 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
Mat 1:23 Behold, a vir­gin shall be with child… call his name Emmanuel, which being inter­preted is, God with us.

For Mor­mons	For Jehovah’s Witnesses
What they Relieve: Jesus is “a god” apart from God the Father. Jesus and Lucifer were sup­pos­edly broth­ers, among many more “broth­ers” (the angels) and each of these will be gods some day. Every good Mor­mon man will become like the angels, and then like god almighty, cre­ator of his own universe.	What they Relieve: Jesus is not God Almighty, Jeho­vah, but an infe­rior god. Jesus was accord­ing to them the first cre­ated crea­ture. They don’t explain how Jesus can be a true god, but some­how less than Jeho­vah, and yet hold there is only one true God. They say Jesus is god, not a false god, but reject equal­ity with the Father, and reject the Trin­ity.
Gen 3:5 your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, know­ing good and evil. Doc­trine of Eter­nal Pro­gres­sion: Men will become as God. The lie of the ser­pent again. God does not change (progress) Hebrews 13:8; 1:12. Deu 6:4 The LORD our God is one LORD: Our God is the only God, Isa 43:10 Ye are my wit­nesses,… before me there was no God formed, nei­ther shall there be after me. Yah­weh Jeho­vah is Elo­him Gen 2:4; Deu 4:35; Psa 100:3	Exo 3:14 I Am = Jesus Jn 8:456–59 Heb 1:3 Jesus=essence of God Phil 2:6–7 being equal  to GodJesus = Jehovah Isa 40:3 The voice of him that cri­eth in the wilder­ness, Pre­pare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a high­way for our God. Mat 3:3 The voice of one… cry­ing in the wilder­ness, Pre­pare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight OT Jeho­vah God, NT refers to Jesus. Wor­ship him – Mat 2:2, 11; 14:33; 28:9; Jn 9:35–38; Heb 1:6 Call­ing him “God” -  Jn. 10:28; Heb 1:8 “of the son, Your throne oh God” Pray to Jesus as God – Acts 7:55–60; Psal. 116:4; Zec – 13:9.
Catholics relieve that Jesus is God, the Savoiur, but they add Mary, the Church, good works, and the sacra­ments to faith in Jesus.
Catholi­cism pro­poses to wor­ship images
Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any like­ness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thy­self to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jeal­ous God, vis­it­ing the iniq­uity of the fathers upon the chil­dren unto the third and fourth gen­er­a­tion of them that hate me; Dt 4:15–19 Deu 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abom­i­na­tion unto the LORD, the work of the hands… God the Father com­manded that we are to “all wor­ship” the Son (Heb 1:6), and angels refused wor­ship to them­selves (Rev 22:8–9), as did the men of God (Acts 14:11–15), but Jesus accepted wor­ship to his person.

4. Pub­lic Con­fes­sion of Jesus as your Saviour.

This is not works to be saved, but demand­ing a qual­ity to sav­ing faith, that it not be hidden.

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.

• You have to pub­licly before men con­fess Jesus Christ as your Sav­iour.

Mat 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.

Won’t you stop now and ask Jesus into your heart?