"SALVATION, A GIFT FROM GOD"

“ARE YOU SAVED?”
I asked a friend of mine, a simple but some how, a daring question that
most of the times, it is not easy to answer!
The question was: Supposing that you die right now!
Do you think you would go to heaven?
His answer was: I don’t know! I wish I know, but, I am not sure!
Why not? I asked!
Well, because at the last minute of our lives, we could sin and loose it all!
Don’t tell me you are sure of it!
Of course I am! I answered, and let me tell you why:
It is obviously not because I am good, because I am not!
But Thanks to Christ who died for me and paid with his life for my sins!
And because that all my confidence and Faith I had deposited in Him!
Listen my friend I said, HEBREWS 11;1 says:
“FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR,
THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN.”
It is Like a present somebody sent us but has not yet arrived!
By Faith we know we are saved! However…
Our doubts that are the opposite of Faith, laughing tell us that it is a lye
and we have to earn it if we want to go to heaven!
Our job is to choose who we are going to believe, our Faith, or our doubts!
Let’s see what the Bible tells us about this:
“God says that He will accept us, purify us, and take us to heaven, if we
trust Jesus to take away our sins we all can be saved this way by
coming to Christ no matter who we are or what we have been like.”
Romans 3- 21 and 22.
“Our forgiveness is not base in our good deeds, but in what Christ
has done for us, and in our Faith in Him!” Romans 3-27
“Did God accept Abraham because of his good deeds? No!
Because if it had being this way he would have had something to boast!
The scriptures said that Abraham believed God and because of that,
God forgave his sins and declared him Innocent! Romans 4.
In other words, it is not enough to believe in God, but:
WE HAVE TO BELIEVE HIM! AND BELIEVING…
IS THE BASE OF OUR FAITH!
In Romans 4 – 4. We find:
“Did Abraham obtain his right to heaven for his good deeds?
No! Because: SALVATION IS A GIFT!
If somebody could obtain it for being good, it wouldn’t be free!
AND FREE IT IS!

To be continued!