Understanding and Sharing the Gospel: Salvation by Faith Alone

This gospel message is so important. It's really short, really concise, but it's so important that God gave it a title. It is called the gospel of Christ. Secondly, this gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation simply and only by believing only it for salvation. Thirdly, do you notice here? Everyone who believes it will be saved. Now, when he says everyone, who does that leave out? No one. Everyone who believes this, and in case there's any question about what he means about everyone, look how he closes that to the Jew first and also to the Greek. That means the Jew and the non-Jew. The invitation to believe is open to everyone and everyone who believes it will be saved. [00:32:39] (52 seconds)  #GospelPowerForAll

It is so powerful that when you believe it, when an unbeliever believes it for the purpose of salvation, they receive the forgiveness of sins, a home in heaven, a right standing with God. But also there's power in this life to walk in the deliverance. By that, I mean, we no longer as believers have to yield to the tyranny of our three enemies, the world, the flesh, and the devil. You are, as Paul says, freed to be free. Now that's some real power. [00:35:54] (30 seconds)  #FreedomInChrist

When Paul says Christ died for our sins, here's who he's talking about, because here's who the Bible tells us he is. Jesus Christ is the Old Testament prophesied Messiah who was born of the Virgin, who lived a sinless life while he was on earth, who died physically, bodily on the cross for our sins. He was buried. By the way, that proved he died. He physically, bodily rose from the dead on the third day. He's 100% man and 100% God. He's God the Son, the second person of the Trinity. He's the one and only way of salvation, and he's coming back again someday. That's who Jesus Christ is. [00:47:37] (37 seconds)  #JesusTheMessiah

He died for me. He died on my behalf. I'm the guilty one. But he died in my place. He took my sin upon him, the scripture says, when he died on the cross. He made the payment for my sin when he died on the cross. [00:48:57] (15 seconds)  #HeDiedForMe

How do I get it? We see simply by accepting, here in this passage, it says they accepted this, this gospel message that Christ died for their sins and was buried and rose again. So it's by faith alone. No works are included. Nothing. No rituals. Simply believe in what He did is the payment for my sin. And it's enough. [00:50:43] (19 seconds)  #FaithAloneSaves

Anytime anyone says that you have to do something to get saved, I've got to take them to Hebrews 9 and ask a couple of relevant questions here. One of them is, is there the shedding of blood? Is there the shedding of blood involved in that which you tell me I have to do to get saved? The other one is, can there then be forgiveness from doing that thing you tell me I have to do? [00:55:43] (22 seconds)  #BloodAndForgiveness

Do you think Jesus would have come and fulfilled all those prophecies about his first coming, lived a sinless life, born of a virgin, died on the cross expressly to pay for sin, rose physically bodily from the dead, all of this to pay for sins. And then do you think he would do all of that and ask you to believe something else for the forgiveness of sins or do something else to get the forgiveness of sins? No way. No, no, he came to pay for sins and that's what pays for sins. And all you need to do to be saved is accept what pays for sins. [00:59:55] (40 seconds)  #JesusPaidItAll

You know why I have security as a believer and I can say I know I'm saved today? It's not because I'm good. It's because I'm resting in the work of someone else. I'm resting in the work of the one who is good and all the burdens on him to do what he said he would do and he has done what he said he would do. [01:01:30] (20 seconds)  #RestInHisWork