Main Words Used in Salvation: Justification: Acts 13:39; Romans 5:1; 1Corinthians 6:11; Galatians 3:24. Redemption, Romans 3:24; 1Corinthians 1:30; Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14; Hebrews 9:12; 1Peter 1:18,19. Regeneration, John 3:3-8; 2Peter 1:3,4. Adoption, Romans 8:14-17; Ephesians 1:5; Galatians 4:5-7. Sanctification, John 17:17; 1Thessalonians 4:3,4; 1Thessalonians 5:23.

Salvation Is Possible Only Through Christ: John 14:6; Acts 4:12.

Stated Human Conditions of Salvation: Not works but grace: Romans 4:1-8; Ephesians 2:8,9. Repentance from sin and faith toward God, Mark 1:4,15; Matthew 4:7; Luke 24:47; Acts 3:19; Acts 26:20; Romans 2:4. Personal faith in Jesus' atoning work, John 5:24; Acts 10:43; Acts 20:21; Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 1:12-14; 2Timothy 3:15; Hebrews 12:2.

Main Evidences of Salvation: Peace with God: Romans 5:1; Good life and works: Ephesians 2:10; James 2:26; 1Peter 2:9-12.

Main Results of Salvation: Become new creature, 2Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 6:15. Become a member of God's family, John 1:11,12; Galatians 4:6. Become free from Satan's kingdom, Colossians 1:13; Romans 6:18. Become a servant of righteousness, Romans 6:18,22.

Salvation Is Open To All Peoples: Given to the Jew first, Romans 1:16; Now given to all people, Acts 13:35-49; 1Timothy 2:4; 2Peter 3:9.

Water Baptism Testifies To Salvation: Matthew 28:19,20; Acts 2:38; Acts 8:36-38; Romans 6:3,4; Colossians 2:12.

Bible Promises Testify To Salvation: John 1:11,12; John 3:14-17; Acts 15:11; 1Corinthians 6:11; 2Corinthians 5:17; Titus 2:11; 1John 5:11.

Our Testimony or Witness Tells of Salvation: Acts4:18-20; Acts 5:31,32; 2Timothy 4:7

Salvation is God's Gift: Romans 6:23; Romans 8:32; Ephesians 4:7; 2Peter 1:3.

Salvation Pardons Sins: Psalms 32:1-5; Isaiah 55:6,7; Mark 3:28; Ephesians 4:32; Hebrews 10:2; I John 1:9.

Salvation Forgives Sins: 1John 1:9; Mark 11:26; John 8:11; 1John 2:1,2.

Salvation Cleanses From Sins: 1John 1:9; Isaiah 6:6; Psalms 103:12; Matthew 26:28; Hebrews 8:12.

Salvation Is Offered to The Worst Of Sinners: Romans 5:6,8,10; Luke 23:39-43; 1Corinthians 6:9-11; 1Timothy 1:12-15.

Salvation Is Forever: Matthew 25:46; John 4:14; John 5:24; John 10:10,28; Titus 1:2; 3:7; 1John 5:11.

Salvation's Message Is To Be Shared: Matthew 28:19,20; Acts 1:8; Acts 5:41,42; 2Timothy 2:2; Acts 8:4,26-39.

Church Membership Should Follow Salvation: Acts 2:41; Acts 2:47; Acts 6:7.

Good Works Should Follow Salvation: Ephesians 2:10; 2Corinthians 9:8; Colossians 1:10; Colossians 3:12-14,17; 2Thessalonians 2:17; Titus 2:14.

The Saved Should Praise God: Luke 24:52; Acts 2:46,47; Hebrews 13:15; 1Peter 2:9.

Salvation Gives Peace With God: John 14:27; 16:33; 20:19; Romans 5:1; Romans 14:17; 15:13,33; Ephesians 2:14-17; 2Thessalonians 3:16.

Being a Christian means more than ?going to church? on Sunday. In fact, salvation has more to do with your relationship with Jesus Christ. It is not about what you do for others, it is about what you do for yourself! Do you have a personal relationship with the Lord? What does salvation mean to you?

The Christian life is not only about what the eyes can see but about what the heart can feel. It is about living our lives for the Lord. Heaven is the Christians spiritual place of refuge and enlightenment. I wonder how many believers have taken sanctuary within the spiritual walls of God?s kingdom. Though we live in the world the Christian is not a part of the world. The Christian is a part of the Lord?s kingdom that has been prepared especially for Him.

?Then the King will say to those on his right, ?Come, you who are blessed by my Father, take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world?. (Matthew 25:34)

But some of us do not know that the Lord has already left us a kingdom because we have been influenced by the ways of society ? we have lost the understanding of ?what it means? to live by the Holy Spirit and live in God?s spiritual kingdom, right now ? today! Are we still waiting for Jesus to come back? Jesus is with us in Spirit through the Holy Spirit!

?If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever ? the Spirit of truth (Christ? Spirit). The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you?. (John 14:15,16)

Sadly, when Christians act by the standards of the world they are doing something wrong. Where have Christians missed the mark? If I only had one word to describe what Christians are doing incorrectly, it would be ?unfaithfulness?. I say this because it takes faith to live the Christian life. It takes faith to apply the supremacy of the Holy Spirit into our lives.

?He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit?. (Galatians 3:14)

I believe that because of lack of faith Christians are losing their place with the Lord. They are gradually moving their religious lives into the culture of society and not relying on the Power of the Holy Spirit to go to work in their lives. Our natural propensity is to think of living our life away from God but He is our Source! The Lord is EVERYTHING for the Christian. Pride, emotion, rationalizations, and excuses keep many folks from ever discovering the Power of the Lord in their lives.

They are darkened in their enlightenment and separated from the life of the Lord because of ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all compassion, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. (Ephesians 4:18-19)

The first thing to understand about being a Christian is that our place is in God?s enlightened kingdom that He left us, where we live our lives faithfully in Jesus Christ. Many Christians think that by ?going to church? and doing good deeds they are saved. But the good book adamantly contradicts this Christian thinking and it has misled many good people.

For one thing, if the Lord?s church is made up of His people, then how can ?the church? be a structure? I?m not saying that church is a bad thing because going to church is a great place to hear the message of Jesus Christ and to meet other Christians and witness for Christ. But you can do that anywhere! God?s church is within each of us because it is spiritual.

Salvation is an important part of the Christian lifestyle. That means the Christian continues learn and grow, love and forgive. Good Christians are to be examples of Christ by applying scripture into their own individual way of life. How can the Christian do that if they do not have a good basis of faith? How can they do that when they are behaving just like the unbeliever?

?I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20) So, then just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. (Colossians 2:6,7)

Martin Luther learned that by grace are you saved not by works. What he learned has made a tremendous impact on today?s church.

But there is more to it than that--there are conditions that go with grace and for good reason. (Jude:1:4: For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.)

In order to be reconciled to God a person must repent of their ways and turn to God?s ways. Because Adam and Eve chose to do their own thing. Their choice was the initial big mistake that started all the suffering in the earth. Their choice separated mankind from the Father God. (Ps: 81:13, 95:10, Prov: 8:32, 23:26. Is: 58:2, Mal: 2:9, Matt: 7:14, 21:32, 22:16, Acts 14:15-17, 18:25)

Jesus came to fix what Adam and Eve ruined. Therefore He chose to obey God the Father. Jesus' choices made a way for us to be reconciled to the Father God. Our choices either reconcile us to Father God or alienate us from Him.

If you receive Jesus into your heart, His blood will wash away your sins, past, present, and future. Grace is for those who want to be reconciled to Father God not to those who merely wish to escape hell after they have lived here by their own rules.

It is written:
I John 5:11 that God gave us eternal life and this life is in his Son. Col. 1:27 says that it is Jesus in us our hope of glory.

Romans 8:1-14: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3: For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5: For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6: For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7: Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8: So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9: But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10: And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11: But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12: Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13: For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

It goes like this:
GRACE: unmerited love and favor with God was bought for the believer by Jesus Christ.
Eph:2:8: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.

His shed BLOOD washes away the believer?s sin.
Heb:9:14: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Heb:9:22: And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

FAITH in the finished work will give us the victory. Heb. 11
Gal:2:16: Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Eph:2:8: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.

Col: 21-23: And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22: In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 23: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

It is the WORD put to work in our lives that will save our soul.
James 1:21-22: Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22: But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23: For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

To be ADOPTED back as a child of God a person must repent, that is turn from doing things their way and turn to doing things God?s way and they must choose Jesus as their Lord. You can choose the Adam way or the Jesus way. The Adam way leads to death. The Jesus way is eternal life.

2Cor:5:19: To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

Eph:1:5: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

How it works:
Hear
Believe
Repent
Receive
Learn
Apply
Overcome

What is the objective of this article?
To declare that you must have Jesus in your heart to be saved from hell and go to heaven. Your works or deeds will show whether you have Him in your heart or not.

Romans 2:6-8: Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

? Sylvia Huffnagle

The mule?s curious dark eyes stared back at the camera. Lou had no way of knowing he was being photographed for his heroic deed.

Lou?s fame was born on a New Year?s Day in the peaceful countryside of beautiful Tennessee. Many moons before, Lou had been brought to the family?s farmstead to help with the chores. Since that day, Lou had added many years of faithful service to his resume.

And now, this New Year?s Day was to be the day that Lou would be used of God. Lou?s owner, a senior citizen living alone, had just finished dinner when she heard her mule braying and causing a ruckus outside. Distracted by Lou?s frantic calls, the woman was drawn outdoors and was shocked to discover her home engulfed in flames.

This gentle mule?s love for his caring owner was made manifest when he sensed something was drastically wrong. Lou realized that the woman who had made him a part of her family so long ago was in imminent danger. He was aware that her salvation depended on him.

Lou?s owner had been wise enough to heed the voice of her dedicated mule. God used Lou to warn her of the impending danger, and she had heeded his call. Had she ignored Lou?s timely warning, she may have perished that very day. But because of her decision to listen, this woman?s life was spared.

As we read troubling reports of humans who engage in demonic acts of tormenting and abusing animals, we also read inspiring stories of love, such as Lou?s, that touch our hearts to remind us that animals, too, are used of God.

The most beautiful demonstration of love occurred on an old wooden cross over 2,000 years ago when Christ performed the greatest sacrifice ever known to man. We, too, have a choice. We can ignore Christ?s timely warning of impending danger and perish, or we can heed His call and find salvation. The decision we make today will determine our eternal future tomorrow.