What MUST We Do To Be Saved?

this is our understanding the scripture segment we're in the book of Acts Acts chapter 16 and Dave we left off actually last week with a question and the question is in acts 16 chapter 16 verse 30 we back up to 29 put it into context then he called for a light that is this is the Philippian jailer the man in charge and sprang in and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas and brought them out and said here's the question sirs what must I do to be saved that's not just the $64,000 question Dave that's a question for eternity what must I do to be saved yeah well it's a straightforward question and of course you know Paul and Silas said well you got to be baptized you've got to join the church take the sacrament you know and so forth and so on live the best life you can keep the commandments no it's interesting they said none of that he says my Bible I have a square drawing around those two words I do what must I do to be saved no there it is there's the question Paul the great apostle yeah silence he's gonna give you the answer I think this is authoritative under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit what must I do what do you have to do well believe is that all I have to do believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and it says and by house in other words if your house everybody in your house believes they'll be saved - Tom it has often been said that Christianity the gospel is not about what I have to do but it's about what Christ has done so all I have to do is believe that Christ has done at all now why would that be well what is there that I could do you know on the cross Christ said it is finished to tell us died paid in full he said it's finished well if he said it's finished it must be finished why would it be finished John obviously it's finished because there's nothing I can do you know and we've given many illustrations in in the past I stand before the judge and I say judge I promise you scouts honor if you let me off this time I'll never ever ever break the law again well the judge says if you never break the law again you're only doing what the law requires you don't get extra credit for that once I have broken the law there's nothing I can do to undo what I've already done so what must I do anybody out there listening what must you do to be saved well you believe that Christ did it all you believe that he paid the penalty you couldn't pay I like that little chorus in fact Tom I don't think I ever mentioned this Ruth and I were up in a log cabin up in the woods up in the Sierra Nevada and standing around a piano with the lady who wrote this no it's in our hymn book now in fact she had just written it and was kind of going through it was he paid a debt he did not only remember that one sure I ordered it I could not pay I needed someone to wash my sins away and now I sing a brand new song Amazing Grace Christ paid the debt that I could never pay Dave you you remember our friend Jim McCarthy mm-hmm man whose ministry is good news for Catholics and he was a missionary to Ireland yeah he and his wife Jean went back to Ireland after he had been a missionary there for a while and he was on a bus and a nun was sitting beside him and they had got into a great conversation and Jim listening to her thought well maybe she really is born-again maybe she's really an evangelical because she was using terminology that the evangelicals are used to and so on and then before she got off the bus she said to him you know she was saddened because he left the church okay in her church but she said you know we are so much alike except for this difference you believe that jesus paid 100% of the penalty I believe that he paid ninety nine percent and I need to pay that one percent Dave that's sad because what is one percent of death what's one percent of separation from God forever it's separation from God forever well what do you say he paid ninety nine percent or ninety eight percent or 75 percent what you're saying is he didn't pay at all right and then you could pay some of them right there's something that you must do well show me in the Bible where it says what you must do it's right here what must I do the only thing you do is believe on the Lord Jesus Christ a problem with not just a Roman Catholic Church but many churches many pastors or impulses across this country and all over the world who don't believe the Bible Tom either the Bible is our authority or it isn't if it's our Authority then I go by what it says if it's not our Authority then what's the point throw it out forget it but Tom it's also very logical you can't pay for breaking the wall by keeping the law in the future it won't work there is nothing you can do furthermore the Bible says the wages of sin is dead but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord through Jesus Christ our Lord that's very important because if Christ hadn't paid the penalty God could not give us the gift he couldn't pardon us unless the penalty was really paid and furthermore it says it's a gift you can't earn a gift you can't pay for a gift you can't merit a gift a gift is a gift you give someone something and they insist on trying to pay for it it's an insult okay so anyone who thinks that the church membership prayers penance whatever it is that they somehow are paying part of the penalty for their sins because Christ didn't pay all of it they're rejecting the gift and Wow I mean what a thing to say when Christ says it is finished he says I give my sheep eternal life John 5:24 one of my favorite verses although they're all favorites he that hears my word believes on him that sent me has everlasting life has shall not come into condemnation has passed from death to life it's Tom it is so simple if but we have to acknowledge that we're sinners and that we can't do anything to merit our salvation only then can we accept the full payment from Christ Dave the other thing I think about regarding this is the penalty is separation from God forever now as finite beings how do you pay something like that off forever you in other words you can't you can't come to the end of that you're gonna be separated from God forever that's why we know that Jesus had to be God mm-hmm had to be the god man because only he could pay the penalty for an infinite penalty that covers all of us every sin past present future every person who ever lived and you know and will we'll be born Hebrews two says he tasted death for every man yeah well Tom verse 32 they spake unto him the word of the Lord in other words we haven't heard everything that he said no believe on the Lord Jesus Christ there has to be some content with believe on the Lord Jesus Christ you gave some of that but there's more and we know he must have explained that that he had to explain in other words it's not enough if you just believe that there was some person back there named the Lord Jesus Christ well I believe that okay well you're saved no you have to believe he died for your sins you have to believe he's God that he's qualified as you said Tom so verse 32 they spake unto him the word of the Lord in other words they're giving him the full story of the gospel but this is very interesting very important and to all that were in his house now Tom I know that there are groups that for more information about the berean call call us toll free at our order number or visit our website

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Length: 9min 50sec (590 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 06 2007