Plan of Salvation

A sinner is a person who has done something that will keep him from being in fellowship with God because God cannot look upon sin. Being a sinner also comes with a death penalty because the wages or payment that we owe for sin is death.

Romans 6:23 “For the Wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

The Bible tells us that we have all sinned. No man can measure up to the standards of God’s holiness. “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 5:8

Our sin separates us from a loving God who wants us to live with Him in heaven when we die. In order to be rid of this sin someone who hadn’t sinned had to die to make the payment for our sin. We couldn’t earn our way to Heaven because we had already sinned, “But God Commended His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)

We cannot save ourselves but God loves us, and he gave us the gift of grace to keep us from being separated from him “For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is a gift of God. Not of works lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9) “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through Him might be saved.” (John 3:16-17)

He sent Jesus his son to die in our place. The Bible says that if we believe that God’s Son Jesus died in our place and if we are willing to accept His gift of salvation we will be saved “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead thou shalt be saved.” Romans 10:9-10 God will save anyone who will take Him at His word and give them the power to become his children. “But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name.” John 1:12