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How do I get saved?
To get saved indicates that you have realized that you are lost (no one knows where to find you and you don't know how to find your own way to safety), or you have been discarded (no one wants to find you). Since God sees all, He knows exactly where you are. The Bible says that the unsaved are "dead in your sins"(Col 2:13). Additionally, God knows all, this is the good part, and God wants to find you. Jesus said that He "came to seek and save that which is lost" (Luke 19:10). You may have been thinking that you have been seeking God when in actuality He has been seeking you.
Spiritually the lost (unsaved) are "dead" in their sins (Col 2:13). God often uses the physical to teach us about the spiritual. Let's take that same approach just for a moment and look at the physically "dead." Have you ever been to a funeral and looked in the casket? What do you think would happen if you poked the "dead" with your finger? Nothing! Why? The "dead" can not respond to stimuli of any manner. You can't poke them into action and you can't scream them into sitting up. Therefore, if they did respond it would be because of some supernatural intervention. That is same reason why the preacher knows that he can't make a person respond by ranting and raving about being lost, dying, and going to Hell. This is a good message but unless there is supernatural intervention the message will fall on deaf ("dead") ears. Does that mean I don't preach it? No it doesn't! God called me to preach even if I don't know whom God has prepared to receive the message. He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy (Rom 9:18). He is probably showing you mercy at this moment if you are interested in salvation.
In John 6, starting at verse 44, Jesus taught about the "bread of life." Some of the teaching became hard and prompted His disciples to ask, "who can hear it"? In verse 65 Jesus again said, "no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father." What does Jesus' statements tell us? Unless God gives us supernatural understanding, we can never hear (accept) the gospel message. That is why there are so many that are lost and will remain lost - they can't hear (accept) the truth. Acts 4:12 tells us that there is salvation is no other - there is no other name by which man may be saved. If man is going to be saved - Jesus must save him. Jesus himself said that He is "the" way (John 14:6). Being "the" way removes all possibility of other ways.
Since Jesus is the "way", then that also removes the possibility that I can save myself. In other words, I can't preach enough, I can't teach enough, I can't pay enough tithes, I can't give enough to good causes, I can't build enough hospitals, I can't do anything to earn my way into Heaven. Why? The Bible gives us two reasons that immediately come to mind. One, Isaiah the Prophet said my righteousness is nothing but filthy rags (Is 64:6). And two, Ephesians 2:8-9 tell us "by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of ourselves: it is the gift of God not of works, lest any man should boast."
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Spiritually the lost (unsaved) are "dead" in their sins (Col 2:13). God often uses the physical to teach us about the spiritual. Let's take that same approach just for a moment and look at the physically "dead." Have you ever been to a funeral and looked in the casket? What do you think would happen if you poked the "dead" with your finger? Nothing! Why? The "dead" can not respond to stimuli of any manner. You can't poke them into action and you can't scream them into sitting up. Therefore, if they did respond it would be because of some supernatural intervention. That is same reason why the preacher knows that he can't make a person respond by ranting and raving about being lost, dying, and going to Hell. This is a good message but unless there is supernatural intervention the message will fall on deaf ("dead") ears. Does that mean I don't preach it? No it doesn't! God called me to preach even if I don't know whom God has prepared to receive the message. He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy (Rom 9:18). He is probably showing you mercy at this moment if you are interested in salvation.
In John 6, starting at verse 44, Jesus taught about the "bread of life." Some of the teaching became hard and prompted His disciples to ask, "who can hear it"? In verse 65 Jesus again said, "no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father." What does Jesus' statements tell us? Unless God gives us supernatural understanding, we can never hear (accept) the gospel message. That is why there are so many that are lost and will remain lost - they can't hear (accept) the truth. Acts 4:12 tells us that there is salvation is no other - there is no other name by which man may be saved. If man is going to be saved - Jesus must save him. Jesus himself said that He is "the" way (John 14:6). Being "the" way removes all possibility of other ways.
Since Jesus is the "way", then that also removes the possibility that I can save myself. In other words, I can't preach enough, I can't teach enough, I can't pay enough tithes, I can't give enough to good causes, I can't build enough hospitals, I can't do anything to earn my way into Heaven. Why? The Bible gives us two reasons that immediately come to mind. One, Isaiah the Prophet said my righteousness is nothing but filthy rags (Is 64:6). And two, Ephesians 2:8-9 tell us "by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of ourselves: it is the gift of God not of works, lest any man should boast."
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