Thou Shalt Be Saved!
“And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” (Acts 16:31Acts 16:31
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31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
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This was Paul’s answer to the trembling jailer’s question: “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” (v. 30).
To our modern sophisticated ears, such terms as being “saved” may sound strange and oldfashioned, but there is no more accurate term than this to describe the miracle that happens when a person becomes a real Christian and is “born again.”
Before being saved, he is under God’s condemnation because of sin, destined for hell; but when he believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, he is “saved from wrath through him” (Romans 5:9Romans 5:9
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9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
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Not only is he saved from eternal wrath, he is saved to eternal life. Christ is “able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25Hebrews 7:25
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25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. to the...: or, evermore
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This great salvation is not achieved by good works of any kind or number, “for by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9Ephesians 2:8-9
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8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost” (Titus 3:5Titus 3:5
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5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
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