Facts To Help You Decide
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“For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not” (Ecclesiastes 7:20).
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
“We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6).
“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way”(Isaiah 53:6).
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart” (Jeremiah 17:9,10).
“Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).
You Cannot Save Yourself
“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 16:25). “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all” (James 2:10).
“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost”
(Titus 3:5).
Your Salvation Has Already Been Provided For
“God commendeth His love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). “We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” (Ephesians 1:7).
“God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself” (2 Corinthians 5:19).
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John
3:16).
“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” (Ephesians 2:8,9).
God’s Word Shows You How To Be Saved
“Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near: let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon” (Isaiah 55:6,7).
“He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24). “Then they that gladly received His word were baptized . . . And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved” (Acts 2:41-47).
You Must Confess Christ As Lord Before Men
“Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32,33).
“For whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when He shall come in His own glory and in His Father’s and of the holy angels” (Luke 9:26).
If You Choose Not to Believe
“He that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18).
“It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).
But If You Believe
“He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me . . . shall not come into condemnation” (John 5:24). “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved” (John 3:17).