How To Know You Are Saved

Scripture Reading: Romans 4:13-25

Focus Verses: Romans 4:24-25  “God will credit righteousness for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.  He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.”

How are we saved?  How do we become a Christian?  It is not a complicated process.  First we recognize that we can not save ourselves.  There is nothing we can do that is good enough.  Verse 15 says that we still get punishment if we rely on the law.  You may have done a lot of good things in your life, but I can assure you, you have also done a lot of bad things also.  I sure have.  The good news is in verse 24 that says, " for our benefit, too, assuring us that God will also count us as righteous if we believe in him, the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead."  We need to tell God we are sorry for our sins.  We are sorry for the things we have done wrong.  You must believe that Jesus died on a cross to pay for your sins, and that three days later the power of God raised Jesus from the dead.  He came out of the grave just as He said.   We were not there to see these things happen with our own eyes, so we must demonstrate faith and believe that this happened.  The Bible is trustworthy and true, so what the Bible says you can believe.  We turn and walk a new life with God.

I attended the funeral of a five year old girl today.  We mourned with her family, but we also celebrated her life today, because we have the hope that we will see her again one day.  We heard testimony that she had a childlike faith, but also she perhaps had not reached the age of accountability.  Where does this faith start?  The resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of our faith.

Preaching without the cross and the power of the resurrection leaves out the most important thing:  If Christ did not raise from the dead, then we have no hope after the grave. It’s all because Jesus was raised from the grave that we have hope!  Have you settled in your heart the reality of Jesus’ resurrection?  If not, accept it today.  Don’t be swayed by the beliefs of this world.  There will always be those out there who try to justify their conduct.  They will say Christ is not who he claimed to be.  But we know better, because He has changed our lives.  2 Corinthians 5:15  says, “And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for Him who died for them and was raised again.”

Bobby Johnson
Interlocking Ministries