What Does It Mean To Be Saved ?
There's a lot of A.I. generated videos and messages online now from trusted pastors that aren't really from them. I've seen several false sermons from people like Billy Graham and David Jeremiah and Tony Evans that were never preached by them. This morning, I received a distraught voice message from a facebook friend about a sermon they heard from David Jeremiah saying that it isn't enough to be saved to go in the Rapture. I knew immediately that they had stumbled upon an A.I. generated video because I know with 100% certainty that David Jeremiah would never say such a thing. Ever!
Saying "it's not enough to be saved to go in the Rapture" is the same thing as saying "it's not enough to be saved to go to Heaven" when you die. It's just another way of saying that the Blood of Jesus isn't enough. "You have to do something more." And that's a lie from the pit of Hell.
What does it mean to be saved? The Blood of Jesus that was shed on the cross was provided as a "balance transfer" of debt that everyone owes to God. It's a blank check signed by Jesus Himself in His own Blood and received and accepted by The Father to pay for the sins of the entire world.
God transfers our debt to the cross so that it's "paid in full" and in exchange, God transfers His Son's righteousness to us so that He no longer sees our sins, but only sees the righteousness of Jesus.
All anyone has to do to be included in this and be saved is to believe in the "balance transfer" that God has provided and accept it. Embrace it. It's no more complicated than that. There's no 12 steps. There's no list of things you have to do. The payment for your sins has already been paid. You don't have to ask God to do it, it's already been done. All you have to do is let God know that you accept it and receive it.
All you have to do is to allow God to place your sins on the Cross with everyone else. In the privacy of your own heart wherever you are, just tell Him that you'll let Him do it and it's as good as done in that very moment.
In exchange for this, you will become an adopted child of God, loved unconditionally, permanently sealed by God's Holy Spirit, given a new nature that will grow in time, promised an imperishable inheritance, promised a dwelling place that's built just for you in Heaven, and promised eternal everlasting life that cannot be taken away from you by anyone, anywhere, at any time, not even you.
You are promised to go to Heaven in the event of your physical death OR to be taken into Heaven (without dying) to keep you safe from the day of the Lord's wrath against the world.
Don't let anybody tell you that it's more complicated than this. They're agents of Satan, every one of them.
Jesus is called the Savior for a reason! We need saving! He saves us! And He is the One Who does all the saving. We don't do anything to help Him save us. If we had to do that, we'd screw it up and get in His way! All we do is receive His salvation and all the benefits of being saved.
We don't earn it. We don't become worthy of it. We don't repent in dust and ashes and shave our heads and moan and cry all day about what a horrible wretch we are (although we are). We just acknowledge that we need a Savior and accept being saved by the Savior! He takes the penalty for our sins. We take the rewards of His righteousness. That's it! Period! Nothing more!
We human beings along with Satan's help have done everything we can to complicate this with ideas of embracing a new moral code and lifestyle that we have to strive to keep with all of our might after we get saved in order to stay saved, we have to join a church and go every Sunday like good little christian soldiers to stay saved, we have to publicly profess it with announcements and a public water baptism to get saved and stay saved, we have to read the Bible every day and pray every day to stay saved, we have to strive to show evidence of fruit that we're saved in order to really be saved and stay saved, we have to stop cussing to stay saved, never smoke or drink alcohol again to stay saved, no more R-Rated movies or PG-13 movies, or maybe even PG movies to stay saved, no more good music, it's all from the devil, it's nothing but christian music from now on to stay saved, we have to start calling everybody brother and sister, we have to start giving 10% of our money to the church and let everybody know we're doing it so they know we're not sinning and robbing God of His fair share, we have to start saying "bless you" and "have a blessed day" to everybody everywhere, &#%!@?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's a tragedy that we've done this to people when Jesus is the One who did all of the sweating and all of the bleeding to save us!!!! Some of that stuff in that list above is good, some of it's just okay and some of it's pure crap! But none of it has anything to do with getting saved, being saved or staying saved. Jesus does all the saving. Past, Present, Future!!
Let Him do it. Tell Him that you'll let Him do it! And it's done.
Saying "it's not enough to be saved to go in the Rapture" is the same thing as saying "it's not enough to be saved to go to Heaven" when you die. It's just another way of saying that the Blood of Jesus isn't enough. "You have to do something more." And that's a lie from the pit of Hell.
What does it mean to be saved? The Blood of Jesus that was shed on the cross was provided as a "balance transfer" of debt that everyone owes to God. It's a blank check signed by Jesus Himself in His own Blood and received and accepted by The Father to pay for the sins of the entire world.
God transfers our debt to the cross so that it's "paid in full" and in exchange, God transfers His Son's righteousness to us so that He no longer sees our sins, but only sees the righteousness of Jesus.
All anyone has to do to be included in this and be saved is to believe in the "balance transfer" that God has provided and accept it. Embrace it. It's no more complicated than that. There's no 12 steps. There's no list of things you have to do. The payment for your sins has already been paid. You don't have to ask God to do it, it's already been done. All you have to do is let God know that you accept it and receive it.
All you have to do is to allow God to place your sins on the Cross with everyone else. In the privacy of your own heart wherever you are, just tell Him that you'll let Him do it and it's as good as done in that very moment.
In exchange for this, you will become an adopted child of God, loved unconditionally, permanently sealed by God's Holy Spirit, given a new nature that will grow in time, promised an imperishable inheritance, promised a dwelling place that's built just for you in Heaven, and promised eternal everlasting life that cannot be taken away from you by anyone, anywhere, at any time, not even you.
You are promised to go to Heaven in the event of your physical death OR to be taken into Heaven (without dying) to keep you safe from the day of the Lord's wrath against the world.
Don't let anybody tell you that it's more complicated than this. They're agents of Satan, every one of them.
Jesus is called the Savior for a reason! We need saving! He saves us! And He is the One Who does all the saving. We don't do anything to help Him save us. If we had to do that, we'd screw it up and get in His way! All we do is receive His salvation and all the benefits of being saved.
We don't earn it. We don't become worthy of it. We don't repent in dust and ashes and shave our heads and moan and cry all day about what a horrible wretch we are (although we are). We just acknowledge that we need a Savior and accept being saved by the Savior! He takes the penalty for our sins. We take the rewards of His righteousness. That's it! Period! Nothing more!
We human beings along with Satan's help have done everything we can to complicate this with ideas of embracing a new moral code and lifestyle that we have to strive to keep with all of our might after we get saved in order to stay saved, we have to join a church and go every Sunday like good little christian soldiers to stay saved, we have to publicly profess it with announcements and a public water baptism to get saved and stay saved, we have to read the Bible every day and pray every day to stay saved, we have to strive to show evidence of fruit that we're saved in order to really be saved and stay saved, we have to stop cussing to stay saved, never smoke or drink alcohol again to stay saved, no more R-Rated movies or PG-13 movies, or maybe even PG movies to stay saved, no more good music, it's all from the devil, it's nothing but christian music from now on to stay saved, we have to start calling everybody brother and sister, we have to start giving 10% of our money to the church and let everybody know we're doing it so they know we're not sinning and robbing God of His fair share, we have to start saying "bless you" and "have a blessed day" to everybody everywhere, &#%!@?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's a tragedy that we've done this to people when Jesus is the One who did all of the sweating and all of the bleeding to save us!!!! Some of that stuff in that list above is good, some of it's just okay and some of it's pure crap! But none of it has anything to do with getting saved, being saved or staying saved. Jesus does all the saving. Past, Present, Future!!
Let Him do it. Tell Him that you'll let Him do it! And it's done.
Jesus Does The Saving, Not You
Getting Into Heaven Isn't Hard
Salvation Isn't Based On Performance
