Salvation: How can I be saved? (An Ultimate Guide)

When offering the gospel to unbelievers, you should be ready to address the question, “How can I be saved?” This is because most unbelievers get curious about salvation, especially after hearing about Jesus’ death.

“Sirs, how must I be saved?”
Acts 16:30

When this question is posed to you as a Christian, you must respond appropriately to it in order to complete the mission Christ has given you.

You should genuinely consider this question today because your reaction will decide how you will carry on with your life and where you will spend forever after you pass on.

If you feel pretty uncertain about whether you are saved or not, take the time now to sort that out because this is the most crucial decision in your Christian life.

Why do I need to be saved?

Everyone is born with a sinful nature, according to the Bible.

You are all infected with sin; You are born with sin
Romans 3:23; Psalm 51:5

Until you get through the knowledge that you are lost, you cannot save yourself. By virtue of your inherent sinful nature, it is necessary for you to take steps to get saved from that nature into a godly one.

In any case, you want to settle on a decision for God and escape from your past sin.

Effects of salvation

Because of your sins, you all deserve death
Romans 6:23

When you die without salvation, God’s wrath and judgment will remain on you, and you’ll face condemnation in the afterlife, as stated in John 3:36. Hence, with salvation, you are free from this condemnation.

People were made by God to be involved with him. But because of your sins, you are separated from His heavenly presence.

“And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life.”
Matthew 25:46

Hence, salvation saves you from spending eternity in hell and being separated from God.

“And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.”
Revelation 20:15

How did God provide salvation?

God’s love for mankind made him send his son Jesus to earth to die for the sins of man. Jesus’ death on the cross was the perfect and complete payment for your sins.

“He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world.”
1 John 2:2

When the people rejected Him and His message, He willingly sacrificed Himself for you, allowing Himself to be crucified (John 10:15).

Jesus’ death redeemed all those who believed in God and accepted Jesus as their personal Lord and savior. Jesus paid the full price for your sin by dying on the cross. Without his death, you would have been eternally separated from God’s love and grace.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
John 3:16

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What do I need to do to be saved?

The first step to salvation is believing in the gospel of Jesus by accepting him as your Lord and Saviour.

“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.”
Acts 16:31

To be saved, you should decide to change your ways. You want to put your faith and trust in Jesus and accept that He is the only way to salvation.

There are no enchanted words to say to be saved. Be that as it may, God has already done all the work. All you must do is receive, in faith, the salvation God offers. (Ephesians 2:8-9).

To be saved, you want to admit with your mouth and trust in your heart that Jesus is God, and he is the one, in particular, who can save you from God’s wrath and judgment. Believe in him, and you will not perish (John 3:16).

Conclusion

There is only one way to salvation, and that is through Jesus, the only son of God. If you assume that Jesus is only “one of the numerous ways of getting salvation,” it means you don’t recognize that he is the only Lord and Deliverer.

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6

The Bible makes it clear that Jesus is the only way to salvation; hence to be saved, you should embrace Jesus today!

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