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Sunday, July 5, 2020

Salvation is a Promise?


How can I say to you that when you say yes to Jesus you'll see Him in glory? Can it be so simple? What about baptism? These are all great questions I've recently ran across while studying the Word with a dear friend. John 5:24 says ( Jesus is speaking ), "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My Word, and believes Him Who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgement , but has passed out of death into life." Let's read 1 John 5:10-12" The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son. And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." Romans 10:9-10, Paul states, " 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; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation." I've got to throw in Mark 16:16 which states ( Jesus speaking) "He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned." Now, the reason a said " I've got to", is because folks who feel you must be baptized or your going to hell use this verse to " prove" themselves correct. Y'all, Jesus said believe and receive! 1 John 3:5" You know that Christ came to take away our sins. There is no sin in Him," There are no hoops, nothing we can do physically can give us the atonement unto forgiveness except to fall on your knees, turn from your sins, ask forgiveness and to accept Jesus into your hearts! If a person gets baptized and he doesn't believe on Jesus, is he still forgiven because he was baptized!? NO! All they are is a wet sinner! It states that fact in Mark 16. " he who does not believe will be condemned." You won't find that not being baptized sends you to Hell in the Bible, because we are saved by faith in Jesus, not works. (Romans 3:21-31.) What being baptized does, is show the body of Christ and the world you are committed to Jesus through the death, burial, and resurrection of Him! It is purely a symbolic gesture following in the footsteps of Jesus Whom was also baptized in water! Jesus said it in John 5. Believe and you will be saved! Thank you Father for sending Your Son to die in our place! Without His death and resurrection, we'd never have salvation! No forgiveness from sins! No eternal life in heaven with God the Father! " For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

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