HOW TO BE SAVED

Tuesday – July 28, 2020

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“He then brought them out and asked, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’  They replied, ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved--you and your household.’” – Acts 16:30-31 
 
Pastor W.A. Criswell said the following: “I was seventeen years old when I began pastoring, preaching.  I look back over some of the things that I did and I am astonished at them.  Here’s one.  In this village where I was the undershepherd, there was one general store.  And the man who owned and ran that store was the number one citizen in that part of the earth.  Naturally, one store, and he owned it and ran it.  He was not a Christian.  I talked to him so fervently and earnestly.  And did you know in one of the morning services in the little church where I pastored, down the aisle he came.  Down the aisle, he came and took me by the hand.  And he said, ‘Today, I accept Jesus as my Savior.’
Oh, I was so wonderfully glad.  Then he added, ‘But I’m going back to my seat for I have said all of my life I will never stand down there at the front and confess my faith in the Lord Jesus.  I’m going back to my seat.’
I don’t know what I’d say to him now.  But this is what I said to him then, being a youngster in my teens.  I said to him, ‘Sir, you go back to your seat and you’ll go back a lost man.  You will face the judgment of God in the eternal damnation of hell and separation if you go back to your seat.  You have to stand here at the front and publicly, openly, and unashamedly confess your faith in the Lord Jesus.  And if you don’t, you’re going to be lost.  Now, I said, Let’s pray.’
And I took his hand again and prayed that God would give him that openness, that unashamedness to publicly confess His name, and commit his life to the Lord Jesus, and said amen.  And praise God, I don’t know what I would have done if he refused.  And praise God, he squeezed my hand and said, ‘Young fellow, I’ll do it.’  And there in the front of the church, he gave his life and committed his life to the Lord Jesus and was the leading member of that church for the years remaining in his days.  That is what it is to believe.  It is to commit your life to the Lord Jesus.”
 
Jesus Christ died for your sins. He desires to give you eternal life if you put your faith in Him. Today in prayer, praise the Lord that He is our Savior and has blessed us with eternal life in Him.
 
“Christians are not men and women who are hoping for salvation, but those who have experienced it.” – M. Lloyd-Jones 
 
God’s Word: “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.” – 1 John 5:13