Do you know that the Bible contains both bad news and good news? The bad news is something about you. The good news is something about God. Let’s look at the bad news first.

1. Everyone is a sinner and everyone is lost without Jesus. “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” Romans 3:23
2. The penalty for sin is death. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23

1. Jesus loves you. He died for you and rose again (He paid the penalty for your sins). “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8
2. You can be saved through faith. “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9

Question: Is there anything that is keeping you from right now trusting Christ as your Savior?

Dear God, I come to you now. I know that I am a sinner. I believe Jesus Christ died for me and arose. Right now, I trust Jesus Christ as my Savior. Thank you for the forgiveness and everlasting life I now have. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

If you have just put your trust in Jesus Christ, congratulations and welcome to God’s family ! All of your sins have been forgiven and you now have eternal life in Christ which can never be taken from you. That means your salvation and eternal security is based on the truth of God’s Word, not feeling. Salvation is in no way dependent on our good works. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)

Memorize all these salvation verses as soon as possible so you can share them with others and assure yourself of your own salvation.

Assurance of salvation is clearly shown in Scripture. Once you are saved, you are always saved. Since your salvation is based totally on faith and what Christ did for you, this means there is nothing you can do that would cause you to lose your salvation. That is true freedom in Christ.

• John 5:24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.”
• 1 John 5:13 “ I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.”
• John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”

• Acts 16:31 “…Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved…”
• John 20:31 “But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”
• John 14:6 “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
• Romans 1:16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.”
• 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
• Ephesians 1:13-14 “And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.”
• John 3:36 “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.”
• Acts 4:12 “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
• Titus 3:5-6 “he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior”
• John 1:12 “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God”

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