Christianity points us to who Jesus is and what he has done on our behalf.
Sermon Title: SALVATION (PART 1)
Sermon Text: VARIOUS TEXTS
Sermon Series: ICYMI: BACK TO BASICS
By: PTR NIC SY
Sermon Notes:
EPHESIANS 2:8-9 NIV
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
ROMANS 5:12 NIV
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned--
FALSE HOPES OF SALVATION
PROVERBS 14:12 NIV
12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
A. Good Works
ISAIAH 64:6 NIV
6 All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
JAMES 2:10 NIV
10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
B. Baptism
“baptismal regeneration”
teaches salvation by baptism.
1 CORINTHIANS 1:17 NIV
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel--not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
C. Keeping The Law
GALATIANS 2:16 NIV
16 know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.
THREEFOLD METHOD OF SALVATION
ROMANS 3:10-12 NIV
10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; 11 there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
A. Always by Blood
HEBREWS 9:22 NIV
22 In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
1 JOHN 3:5 NIV
5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.
1 PETER 1:18-19 NIV
18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers,
19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
B. Only Through Jesus
ACTS 4:12 NIV
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.
1 TIMOTHY 2:5 NIV
5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus
JOHN 14:6 NIV
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
C. Always by Grace
TITUS 2:11 NIV
11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
ROMANS 3:23-24 NIV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
Grace is not us reaching up to God, but God reaching down to us.
Christianity points us to who Jesus is and what he has done on our behalf.
Three simple truths to be saved:
I am a sinner.
Jesus died in my place.
Ask God’s forgiveness and trust Jesus as your Savior and Lord.