How to know that you are saved - sure signs that you have faith

Faith is an invisible substance. It's something that you see for yourself. The only way you can prove you have faith is if you understood the gospel and have decided to call on Jesus in prayer. Believing and confessing the right gospel and the right Jesus (the gospel of faith alone without works and eternal unconditional eternal security and the trinity) is the only thing that matters for salvation – salvation is a one time thing - Romans 10 :10, 13). The reason so many christians doubt their salvation is because of a couple things : 1 - sins which destroys their boldness and their fellowship with the Lord (spiritual immaturity - because walking in the Spirit brings about peace with God in your life and you can see Him answer your prayers, work things out and lead you intro all truth. If you walk in the flesh, you will grieve the Holy Spirit and He will stop revealing truth until you get right again and you won’t be effective in soulwinning. There’s no possible way to lose salvation but you can lose the peace and the joy of your salvation. Salvation gives you a right standing with God on an eternal basis, but you can screw up your life on this earth which will bring chastisement and loss of rewards). 2 - Ignorance concerning the fundamentals of the gospel (lack of clarity), and crucial bible verses can also lead to major doubts (especially if you were told all your life that salvation is based on your works rather than by faith alone in the blood of Jesus – i.e. if you don’t have the works then you’re not saved.). You can also develop the obsession, that, although you’ve called on Jesus in prayer, you’ve made the impardonable sin (or you've lost your salvation through sin) or that you’re somehow trusting in works althought you know that salvation is apart from any of the works that you do (and demons love to play with obsessions and fear). Once you’ve called on Jesus, write down the date in which you first heard the gospel and believed on Christ. You need to develop your trust that you know that you’re saved (you’re believing in your heart), and the best way to do that is to go to church and to prepare yourself to preach the gospel. If you can remember how you got saved, you should be able to tells others also. Doubts will be dissolved over time as you learn the fundamentals of the gospel and core bible doctrine and as you yield to the Spirit (if you can understand Bible doctrine, that is a good sign). Faith is trust. Trust builds over time. You need to rejoice and find something productive to do with your time to enjoy salvation and to rest yourself.

Process of growth:

1.        You hear the gospel preached from a saved person.

2.       You know that you are a lost sinner on your way to hell (You deserve hell).

3.       You call on Jesus by faith and ask him to save you in prayer by believing that He’s the Son of God (God manifest in the flesh, the second person of the trinity) and that He died on the cross, was buried and rose again to pay for all of your sins and that He offers you eternal life as a gift with no strings attached.

4.       The holy spirit (3rd person of the trinity, the Spirit of Christ) moves into your mind and body and resides there forevermore.

5.  You are convicted of your sins, you desire to do right, you desire to know the truth from the Bible and you desire to reach people with the gospel.  (Salvation is not a process and is seperate from the christian life (yes, the christian life is optional because salvation is not based on your works), but growth in grace is a process. You start off with the right desires, but as Paul said in Romans 7, you find not the means to do them, (this is especially true if you are immature, disobedient and lonely - and since we are mortal, fallen men, we will struggle with sin all the days of our lives, especially sins which we have already developped in the early phases of our lives. That’s why being filled with the Spirit through the Bible and preaching from a local church or group is crucial to live a clean life). The holy spirit will recall the Bible verses and the sermons you’ve listened to and will rebuke you when you’re making wrong decisions or facing temptations and comfort you when you’re afflicted (diseases, weaknesses, trials and persecutions, etc.).

6.       You love the brethren. You agree with hard Bible preaching and you start to grow in grace and knowledge as you yield to the word of God (KJV) and the Spirit’s leading in your life (the works that God has called you to do – Romans 12, 1Corinthians 12, 14). You develop a Bible mindset and you proceed to a greater level of understanding and wisdom on how to explain hard passages amongst the rest of the Bible (you see the bigger picture, and the important aspects as well). You’re able to better discern between right and wrong, and you let God conform you to His image through disciplining yourself (that’s what is meant by ‘’work out your salvation with fear and trembling’’ (trust and obey) – not for salvation (because you’ve already received it) but only to please the Lord. You cannot lose salvation no matter what, but you can get a severe chastisement down here.

7.       If you disobey the Lord and sin (especially through big sins), you will be chastised by God (bad things will happen in your life, some can bring permanent damage on your life and body depending on the severity of the sins you commit. Being stubborn and disobedient will stunt your christian growth and your ability to walk with God (as well as your peace of mind) and your relationship with others. You will fear God. Sin not only hurts yourself, but others also. No one can make you walk with God if you do not want to. Grievous sins can lead to death and a miserable life and loss of rewards in heaven. Salvation is guaranteed, but happiness and rewards in this life are only obtained through the door of obedience. Remember Romans 14 :12 and 1Corinthians 3 and the judgment seat of Christ. Your salvation is forever settled, however your rewards in heaven and the quality of your life down here are based on the works that you do and your own discipline. God can use as strong a measure as He sees fit to correct you, and if you refuse it long enough, you will be broken.

     8. If you persevere to do right and you’re patient in trials (testings), you will see the blessings of God in your life and He will lead you to greater works. If you endure to the end, you get a full reward. If you do any amount of works and then cease for a while or fall away, you will lose the time you failed to serve God, but if manage to get back on track you can still get something great and acceptable (plan B or C or whatever). Keep your mind on the things of the Lord and find whatever good you can do, and bring everything to the Lord in prayer. You ought to desire a full christian life. (Is anything too hard for the Lord? Only if it’s too hard to believe on your end).

 

 

Explanations on salvation - the gospel made clear

 - Explanations on the gospel -

*The words ''faith'' and ''believe'' mean ''to trust''. The word ''grace'' means ''unmerited favor''. You must depend on Christ and His righteousness alone to get to heaven and not on your own works. There's nothing we can do to earn salvation. It is a free gift bought and paid for by the blood of Christ (In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace). Your sins need to be paid for (atoned, covered, washed away) in order to go to heaven. You cannot pay for your own sins by doing good works and by repenting from sin- that's why redemption (the fact of being redeemed and made righteous before God) is only possible through faith in the blood of Jesus. If you do not believe on Christ for salvation (if you do not accept the payment He made for your sins), you will have to die in your sins (John 8:24) and spend eternity in the lake of fire to be punished for every sin you've ever done (Matthew 25:41, Revelation 20:14-15, 21:8).

Salvation only concerns Christ's payment for our sins and whether we accept it or not. It is not based on how we live our lives, the good that we do or the sins that we repent or turn from. Jesus does the saving and the keeping, all of it (he saves you and keeps you saved forever - Jesus saves you and gives you eternal life and He won't take it back because it's not probationary life - it's not based on how you live). The only commandement God gave us to be saved is ''Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.''. You do not need to do any works because salvation is not by works, it's only through the blood of Jesus (Jesus' blood pays for your sins in full - you cannot add works to it. God will only accept Jesus' payment alone, and if you believe that He did it for you and rely entirely upon that payment without adding anything to it, you will be saved.). Once we believe on Christ, all of our sins (past, present and future) are washed away in the literal blood of Christ (Rev. 1:5) and there's no further effort to do on our part. The only change that happens in a person's life and body is chastisement (correction from God). The flesh stays the same after getting saved. Only the spirit (the mind) is renewed (quickened or born-again) by the Holy Spirit as a response to a person's faith in the gospel. It is the Spirit of Christ dwelling in every saved person which enables the person to understand the Bible on her own, or to preach the gospel (the real gospel of faith alone without works and eternal uncondtional security). However, it is possible and it is very common for saved persons to do zero works for the rest of their lives after gettting saved (such as the Corinthian believers in 1Corinthians 3). You can decide to walk in the flesh for the rest of your life, do zero work and still go straight to heaven when you die because your sins are covered (and that is a fact, because works do not count for salvation, so you cannot be lost even if you had none). The judgement seat of Christ is all about receiving or losing rewards in Heaven (for soulwinning or prayer, or things that matter to the Lord). If a believer fails to yield to the Spirit and disobeys the Lord, he gets punished in this life and loses eternal rewards in Heaven, but his soul will be saved, yet so as by fire (1Corinthians 3).

Since salvation is by faith alone (and faith means ''to trust'', ie., what we believe and rely upon to save us) then you don't need works to prove that you're saved (because faith is invisible, we are to judge a person's confession, not lifestyle (if a person is a reprobate then they'll have the wrong answer for salvation anyway and they won't be chastised by God so they will do the worst imaginable sins). Those who say that trusting (relying upon) Christ alone ''isn't enough'' and that you must also do the works and repent of your sins and make Jesus the Lord of your life (live a clean life and stop sinning) and surrender to Him/keep the commandements are NOT fully trusting the death, burial and resurrection of Christ and are NOT saved - (they haven't received the gospel as payment for their sins and are too proud to realize they cannot please God by their efforts to merit salvation). They have failed to separate salvation from service (because service or the christian life after salvation is optional). They are ''establishing their own righteousness'' which is of the law (through their efforts to keep the law and commandements). They think that they are good enough '' and are working at it'' but the Bible is clear that we must rest completely in Christ and cease from trusting our own works of righteousness in order to be saved (Hebrews 4:4, Titus 3:5).

The death, burial and resurrection of Christ is the only thing that can get us saved and it is the only thing we must trust in order to go to heaven- it's a free ticket! In the Old testament, a sinless and spotless animal had to be offered as a sacrifice and its blood was sprinkled on the altar (to picture the coming blood atonement of Christ). That's why our righteousnesses (good works) are filthy rags in God's sight. Only a perfect, innocent victim was to be slain for the people's sins. We're not perfect, and we are not innocent so our righteousness doesn't measure up to God's.

Sadly, the english word ''repent'' does not convey the meaning of the equivalent greek and latin words for repentance (in greek: metanoia and in latin: resipiscere) (which are defined as a change of mind - and means to rethink - NOT to change our lives!). The closest word that represents this meaning in English is ''resipiscence''. In regards to salvation, repentance is simply a change of mind which leads us to admit that we are lost sinners, unable to save ourselves by our own efforts and leads us to trust, hope and rest in Christ as Savior by receiving the gospel (His death, burial and resurrection -1Cor. 15:3-4) as the full payment for our sins and as the only means of redemption - without a further need to change our lives or to do works for our justification - which would be the keeping of the commandments (the Law - Rom 4:5, 10:4, 11:6, Ga. 2:16). 2Timothy 2:25 proves this definition: ''if God peradventure will give them repentance (the change of mind) to the acknowledging of the truth''. So when the Bible says ''repent and believe'' it's not saying ''repent from sin'' but rather ''change your mind TO believe the gospel'' (Matthew 21:32). 

In order to be saved, we have to stop trusting in our religion and good works (including ''repentance from sins or being a good person/keeping God's commandments, our own faithfulness'') and simply trust and rest in Christ because of his finished work - through faith in his blood for the remission (forgiveness) of sins - Rom. 3:25. The bible says in 2Corinthians 11:3 that those who have corrupted the meaning of repentance have perverted the gospel and are corrupting people's minds concerning salvation. This is causing people to trust in themselves instead of Christ alone - ''But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.''. The simplicity that is in Christ means that it's simple and easy to be saved! Those who say that believing and resting in the gospel is not enough and that we must also do works to stay saved or to prove our salvation are not saved! Those who mock faith alone as easy believism and call you ''antinomian'' are ''men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith'' - 2Tim. 3:8. They are guilty of preaching another gospel - a gospel of works! ''For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him''.

Don't trust in yourself- Only trust the blood of Jesus. The blood saves! Once we have believed on Christ, all of our sins have been forgiven and washed away forever - ''Jesus Christ ... washed us from our sins in his own blood'' (Rev. 1:5). Those who call God's grace ''cheap grace'' are blaspheming the spirit of grace. Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

Our salvation depends on Christ alone. Our own works (such as repentance from sins, church membership, baptism) have nothing to do with salvation - we're saved apart from our works, by faith alone in the gospel alone. If you are trusting your own works to save you, you will go to hell. You need to put 100% of your faith in Jesus alone to be saved. Romans 4:5, 24-25: 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed (counted), if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

The promise of eternal life is '' upon all them that believe'' (Romans 3:22) - In John 5:24 Jesus says: Verily, verily, I (Jesus) say unto you, He that heareth my word (the gospel), and believeth on him that sent me (God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead), hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation (shall never go to hell for any reason); but is passed from death unto life (eternal life- heaven).

By trusting Christ alone as your Savior (by believing that He died, was buried and rose again to pay for all of your sins (the gospel - 1Corinthians 15:1-4)) you are saved from your sins and hell (the second death- the lake of fire) forever. You receive eternal life the moment that you put all of your trust in Him for salvation - 1 John 5:11-13 - 11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 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, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Once you believe on Christ, you receive God's righteousness (His justice, His moral perfection, His goodness, His sinlessness - Romans 4:5, 2Corinthians 5:21) and it is imputed (counted and accounted for) to your account by faith (after trusting Christ as your Savior - Ephesians 1:13-14). There is absolutely nothing you can do to lose your salvation after having believed because salvation is not of works (it doesn't depend on how you live nor what you do after getting saved-eph. 2:8-9). It's only what Jesus did that gives us redemption and forgiveness of sins (Romans 3:24). Christians are sealed with the Holy Spirit as a down payment until the day of redemption (Eph. 4:30). We have received salvation and the remission of our sins the moment we believed (trusted) in Him (Titus 1:2, Acts 10:43).

God will chastise you (judge you) if you choose to disobey His commandments on this earth (1Cor. 11:31, Hebrews 12:6, Revelation 3:19) but he will never disown you as His son or daughter (Hebrews 13:5). If you do good works as a service, and not as a means to buy your way into heaven, He will reward you - especially for soulwinning (Pro. 11:30-31).

You can doubt your salvation (even all your life because you've done x, y, and z), but if you have trusted Him, God abides faithful and has promised to give you eternal life and to keep you saved (2Timothy 2:13). It's the record of God.

If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, you have received eternal life and you are now saved. ''Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ''. - Romans 5:1. Assurance comes from trusting what the Bible says about salvation and not trusting your experience/feelings/doubts.

Lessons on prayer - 7 Steps to Spirit filled prayer

7 basic steps to Spirit filled prayer (prayer is faster than cable :)

My favorite prayer verse is Ephesians 6:18 - Why ? Because it tells you the three most important things in the prayer life:

I. Pray always (in all circumstances) and with all perseverance (or endurance and patience through the struggles). You have to learn to pray mentally as you do your daily tasks and are busy doing other things. God can read your thoughts and answer your mental prayers. Pray as matters come into your mind.

II. Pray in the Spirit (be filled with the Spirit, don't quench the Spirit, follow His leading in your prayer life). Be filled with Bible reading and preaching – they will greatly empower you.

III. Pray for others (pray for their needs and welfare, and for the gospel to be preached in the whole world everywhere). Don’t be selfish. Spend more time praying for others than for yourself.

Here's some short prayer guidelines which will work wonders in your life. Have faith that prayer works. Things won't go your way 100% of the time because the Lord knows what He's doing and what is best for you and what is or isn't possible to be done.

1. Be specific in your requests (tell God exactly what you want Him to do for you - be thorough in your prayers (put in some depth), include the most important details about your requests until you feel satisfied with your requests - Pray for every specific need that you have in your life. Simply say ‘’Lord give me this, or Lord do that’’ as a starter for the things you want or need. You can repeat the same prayer and add more details if you feel a burden for it over time.

2. Ask for spiritual and physical needs first (as well as for wisdom, discernment, counsel: Php. 4:19, Rom. 8:26-27, Pro. 3:5-6, Ps. 37:4 – every good thing and need you can think of). Ask the Holy Spirit to give you ideas of things and people you can pray for. The more you read your Bible (especially the Psalms and Proverbs), you’ll have a easier time knowing what to pray for. Read the scriptures and pray over all the promises of God you can find, and try to memorize them. Scripture memory is a blessing and will help you in all of your needs.

3. Pray for others (Eph. 6:18). Praying for others is one way to get rewarded. Prayer is hard labor. (Col. 4:12).  It is just as important, if not more, to pray for others than to pray for yourself. If you start praying for others, you will learn to pray better and it is one of the best ways to develop compassion and hope. Prayer is half the work in the Christian life.

4. Pray in faith (Mt. 21:22). You have to trust in the invisible hand of God. Prayer has a tremendous effect when things are asked according to God's will. You have to pray over a long enough period of your life to get to the point of absolute confidence that prayer will lead to results in your life as well as in others' lives (1John 5:14-15). Also God works in natural ways today, not necessarily in miraculous ways. Prayer requires faith that it works. The Lord wants to be involved in your life and He wants you to trust Him that He will deliver you from evil and give you all your needs and good things. You have to learn to enjoy your blessings and to count Him faithful. He wants you to brag on Him and to fellowship with Him (Luke 11:11-13). Don’t hesitate to ask for big things (Eph. 3:20-21, Jam. 4:2).

5. Be patient (never stop praying – wait for the answer - the answer is coming!) (Jam. 1:4, Ga. 6:9-10, Luk. 18:1-8). God is testing us through the trials of life and it will take time for us to learn to trust Him always and to depend upon Him for our needs and deliverance. We have to learn to pray in the face of bad circumstances. If we hold onto prayer, then we are assured spiritual victory and the power of God over our lives. Once you pray, God is in the process of answering your prayer so it will take time and it most likely won't be instantaneous. Keep praying and pushing on the Lord and continually wearing Him and trust that He will act on your prayers.

6. Keep the commandments and confess sins you’re aware of (1John 3:22, 2Ch. 7:14, Jos. 1:8-9). Unconfessed and unrepented sin as well as unbelief and pride will hinder your prayer life. You will lose power and effectiveness in prayer, as well as in soulwinning and other aspects of your life. Backsliding always lead to a loss of God’s power in your life.

7. Write down your requests in a prayer journal. (Psalms 103:2 - A small book or sheets of paper kept in a binder - Write your current requests as well as answered prayers in a notebook in a weekly or monthly format (one side for requests, other side for answers). If you live right, you will be amazed at the results (Jm. 5 :16) ! To begin with, you can use a sheet of paper and write whatever needs to be fixed in the present moment, and as you get used to it, you will want to put in more and more. Write whatever God lays on your heart to pray for. If you read a lot of books (such as a dictionary, and online articles), you will find alot more ideas to pray for.

As a final tip, try to find a prayer partner and pray with them regularly (Matthew 18:19). Even if you are alone, try to pray at a regular time every day (when you wake up or before you go to bed). This will help maintain consistency in your prayer life and will encourage you to do more. In the morning, ask Him for a good day and for deliverance from evil. Ask Him to show you tasks and things you can do, and for people to reach with the gospel or for whom you should pray for or help. Whenever you feel stressed, remember the promises of God in the Bible. At evening, you can pray for a short time thanking God for the day and for what He’s allowed you to accomplish. Remember to praise God and to thank Him for all the things He’s doing for you. Trust and obey the Bible, and you will have peace and power in your prayer life. Find your own favorite Bible verses on prayer, and apply them in your daily life (Ephesians 6:18 – this is probably the single verse that will help you the most in the whole Bible – and prayer promises - Joshua 1:8-9, Isaiah 26:3 – Philippians 4:6-7, Proverbs 3:5-6).

The Bible Way to Heaven in 38 languages

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The meaning of repentance - Resipiscence

The best word that defines repentance in English is: resipiscence (change of mind or heart: return to a sane, sound, or correct view or position.). I found the word through reading Miles Coverdale's new testament preface - it comes from the latin word ''resipiscere''. 2Timothy 2:25 proves it's only a change of mind (acknowledging the truth) - 2Cor 11:3 talks about ''the simplicity'' that is in Christ so it's very simple and easy to be saved. Acts 16:31 is the only commandment God gave us for salvation (which is only to believe or rely on Christ apart from all else) so people who add any other step other than simply believing (relying) on Christ are false prophets and have a damnable works-based gospel. Repentance from sins is a work of the law (Jonah 3:10 - it's not free grace, it's based on your own faithfulness to keep the law and to please God by your own efforts or works (which doesn't save at all.) (you,re thinking that you're good enough to go to heaven because you've given up this sin or that sin). It is impossible to turn from sin because sin dwells in your mortal body (the flesh is weak and cannot keep the whole law (romans 8:4), so if you cannot keep the whole law you cannot save yourself - you have to cease from your own efforts and works and completely rest in Christ for salvation and believe the record that God gave you eternal life by simple faith in Christ). The only thing that can save you is to trust the blood of Jesus Christ to wash away all of your sins. All your sins were laid on Christ and He's the savior so you have to trust in Him alone - if you trust in your repentance from sins (or your own goodness), you will be damned because you are ''under the works of the law'' (Ga. 3:10) and you cannot be justified before God by turning from your sins because you cannot keep the whole law (a.k.a stopping sinning). You cannot do a single sin by doing any amount of good because the only acceptable payment for sins is the blood of Christ (He's the only sinless man and the only Savior so He doesn't need your help). It's not partial faith in Christ and a little bit of works (nope, it's only Jesus, and He saves you forever no matter what you've done or will do because His death, burial and resurrection are entirely sufficient to save your soul). Salvation is relying on the facts of the gospel and not living a good life. That is the gospel of God versus the gospel of works. Salvation is based on Christ's righteousness (His sinless life, His death, burial and resurrection) and nothing of yourself.

A simple Bible way to Heaven presentation

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If you were to die today, are you a 100% sure that you’d go to heaven? You can know for sure! First of all, the Bible says that we’re all sinners - For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. So we’re all guilty of lying, stealing or coveting - and the Bible says there’s a punishment for our sins - For the wages of sin is death. This is not only referring to a physical death, but also to a second death in hell. And all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. And we know that we’ve all lied before, and we’ve all done worse things than lying. Therefore we all deserve hell because of our sins.

But the good news is that God loves us and He doesn’t want us to go to hell to be punished for our sins. That’s why He sent His Son Jesus Christ to be the propitiation (or payment) for our sins. Jesus is the Son of God and He’s also God manifest in the flesh. The Bible says that Christ died for our sins, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day in order to pay for all of our sins and to save us from hell. When Jesus died on the cross for our sins, it’s just as if He had done them Himself – He was being punished in our place. But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Who his own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree. He died for all of our sins- past, present and future.

Moreover, the Bible says that salvation is a gift. ‘’For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast’’. Since salvation is a gift, and gifts are always free, we don’t have to give anything in return (it’s not of works, not of our own doing). It’s an undeserved gift. Jesus paid the full price for our salvation with His death, His shed blood, and His resurrection. The word grace means ‘’something we do not deserve’’ (remember, we deserve hell, not salvation). And the word faith means ‘’what we are trusting to be saved’’.

The one thing the Bible says we must do to be saved is: ‘’Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved’’. To believe means to trust – it doesn’t mean to only believe that Jesus exists, but to actually trust Him to save us personally. To believe on Him means that we put all of our faith and trust in His death, His burial and His resurrection as the complete payment for our sins (which guarantees us eternal life). Notice the verse doesn’t say that you have to repent of all of your sins, or join a church, or be baptized, or keep the commandments, or be a good person- it only says believe (because salvation is not of works).

And once you believe on Christ, you will be saved forever. So that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. The moment you put your trust in Christ alone as Savior, you receive forgiveness of sins and eternal life. Now, if you do good things after you’re saved, God will bless you, and if you commit sins, God will correct you – but there’s nothing you can do to lose salvation because you’ve become a child of God and all of your sins are paid for and covered by the blood of Jesus. You are justified before God – it’s just as if you had never sinned. Salvation is based solely on Christ’s payment for our sins and whether we accept it or not. No one is good enough to go to Heaven on their own merits.

So the only thing you must do to receive the gift of eternal life is to call on Jesus by faith - That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus (if you ask Him to save you), and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. So if you believe that you are a sinner, condemned to hell, and if you believe that salvation can only be received through faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ as the complete payment for your sins (and that it’s not based on your own goodness or efforts), and that you can never lose it (either by sinning or by a lack of good works), then you can repeat after me : Lord Jesus, I know I’m a sinner, and I deserve to go to hell, but I believe that you died on the cross and rose again to pay for all of my sins. Save me right now, and give me eternal life. I’m trusting in you alone as my Savior– apart from my works. Thanks for saving me, Amen. So if you have sincerely asked Jesus to save you, you’re saved forever. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. You can write down today as your salvation day. Congrats. For more info, visit: Thepreaching.com, Wordproject.org (Audio Bible) and BW2H.com (Gospel video). Godbless you!