What Does God Say?

When someone ask you what they should do to be saved, what do you tell them? Some people think they can live a good enough life to get to heaven. Others think it doesn't matter how they live, God will let them in. Some others just don't believe there is life after death. What really is important is what God tells us about eternal life. God has given us His Word and His Word is true.

[DO YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?]
What does the Scriptures say about eternal life and who has it? Let's go to the Book of 1st John.
1John 5:11-12
(And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in the Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.)
That pretty much sums up how we get life. If you have Jesus in your life you have life, if you don't have Jesus , you don't have life. There is no grey area here. God is explicit when He tell us how to have eternal life.

[HOW DO WE GET THE SON INTO OUR LIFE?]
John 3:16
(For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.)
God sent His Son to earth to die for the sins of the world. There was no other way that a righteous God could forgive sins with out the penalty being paid. We all know that the penalty for sin is death for the wages of sin is death. So God put our sins on Jesus and nailed them on the cross.
2Corinthians; 5:21
(For He made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.)
God the Father, using the principle of imputation treated Christ as if He were a sinner though He was not, and had Him die as a substitute to pay the penalty for the sins of those who believe in Him.

We must believe in the Son to have eternal life. We either believe what God has told us concerning the Son, or we don't believe what God has told us and are defiant in disbelief. Failure to believe in Jesus brings about the wrath of God.
John; 3:36
(he who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on Him.)
God the Father has told us that if we want to see life WE MUST BELIEVE IN THE SON,
there is no other way.
When Jesus died on the cross He paid the price of sins for all who would believe on Him. If a person chooses not to believe, his sins still remain unpaid. Once again the Scriptures are perfectly clear, we have to believe in Jesus to have our sins forgiven.

If you notice in all of the Scriptures, we are instructed to believe in order to have forgiveness. If you don't believe in Jesus how can you put your faith in Him? Maybe you don't feel that God will forgive you if you come to Him for forgiveness.
John; 6:37
(All that the Father gives to Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.)
Jesus is telling you that if you come to Him for forgiveness, you will be forgiven. There is no other way for salvation, it is through Jesus Christ and Him only.
Acts; 4:12
(Nor is there salvation in any other, for their is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.)
This refers to the exclusivism of Salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. There are only two religious paths; the broad way of works salvation leading to eternal death, and the narrow way of faith in Jesus, leading to eternal life.
John; 10:9
(I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.)

Come to Jesus and ask Him to forgive you and save you. His promise is that He will do exactly that, He will save you. Once you are saved you have eternal life, you have been born again into a new life. You have been given a new nature and the Holy Spirit comes to dwell in you and lead you into all truths. The truth is that you are saved.
Ephesians; 1:13-14
(In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession to the praise of his glory.)

I keep stressing faith and believing in Jesus. The Word of God says that we must have faith and believe in Jesus. Do it today. Today, is the day of your salvation, if you come to Jesus. You will be a new creation in Christ. A member of God's family, a brother or sister in Christ Jesus.

God Bless You!