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“Dear Friend, I Found Salvation”

Friend, the things that I’m sharing with you that I have found are not inconsequential.  These are significant matters, and I trust that you have perceived that yourself.

I want you to know that I’ve found something particularly exciting—salvation.  I’m not sure what that might mean to you, for I know it means different things to different people, but I hope you will consider this vitally important subject.

First, I found how desperately I need salvation. The Bible teaches that all have sinned, including me and you (Rom. 3:23), which has created a barrier between me and God (Isa. 59:1-2), and will lead me to an eternity in hell (2 Thess. 1:8-9) if that barrier is not removed.

Second, I found how much God has done to save me. God sent His perfect, holy and only begotten Son into this wretched, sinful world, in order “that the world through Him might be saved” (John 3:16-17).

Third, I found how much Jesus has done to save me. When the debt of my sin (i.e., death, Rom. 6:23) needed to be paid, Christ “loved me and gave Himself for me” (Gal. 2:20), as “an offering and a sacrifice to God” (Eph. 5:2).

Fourth, I found the instruction manual for how to be saved. The Bible gives us “all things that pertain to life and godliness” (2 Pet. 1:3), including “the truth” that I need to “know” in order to be made “free” from sin (John 8:32).  There is a lot of confusing (and conflicting) information out there today that people and organizations have taught about how to be saved.  Fortunately, I have the Bible, which is “the power of God” to save me (Rom. 1:16), if I will just follow what it says.

Fifth, I found in the Bible how to be saved. In the New Testament, people were saved from their sins by [1] “hearing” the gospel (Rom. 10:14, 17); [2] “believing” that Jesus truly is the Son of God (Acts 8:12-13; 16:31); [3] “repenting” of their sins (Acts 2:38; 3:19; 17:30); [4] “confessing” their faith in Jesus (Acts 8:36-38; Rom. 10:9-10); and [5] “being baptized” “into Christ” (Gal. 3:27), “for the remission of sins” (Acts 2:38).  Their immersion in water was not a ceremony or a demonstration; it was an immediate act of obedience that was essential to save their souls (Mark 16:16), as it was the moment when the blood of Jesus (shed in His death) washed their sins away (Acts 22:16; Rom. 6:3-4).

Friend, I have a very important question to ask you.  Will you please, please consider it?  “Are you saved?” You are important to me, and I desperately want you to go to heaven!  Have you done what the instruction manual (the Bible) teaches to do in order to be saved?  If not, will you do it today?