Welcome to the Understanding God’s Great Salvation Podcast. This is episode #83.
I am your host, Daniel Whyte III, president of Gospel Light Society International. This podcast is designed to explain what it means to be saved from sin and from the punishment of sin through Jesus Christ. This podcast is primarily for non-believers and some new believers and it will help you understand what it means to be saved from hell and have a home in Heaven as well as the blessings of the abundant Christian life.
God made salvation simple. However, down through the years many people, including some preachers and other Christians, have made the matter of salvation complicated and confusing. I know from my own experience that many people would get saved if someone would sit down and share with them straightforwardly from the Bible what it really means to accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour. That is what I intend to do with this podcast.
Let’s start out with the Word of God. The Bible says in Titus 3:5: “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;”
Today’s God’s Great Salvation quote is from Philip Graham Ryken. He said: “Salvation is offered for all people through one Person. Whoever believes in Him will not perish. Anyone who receives or believes in Jesus will live forever with God. There are no racial, social, intellectual, or economic criteria that prevent anyone from joining God’s family. Only Christianity offers salvation to everyone as a free gift.”
Our topic today is The Whole Gospel in a Single Verse (Part 4) from the book, “Salvation Crystal Clear” (Book 1) by Curtis Hutson.
Jesus came to save sinners without strength. “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came . . . to save sinners.” Sinners without strength. Romans 5:6 says, “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” The truth is, the sinner has no desire to be saved. Oh, he may have a desire to miss Hell; but he has no desire to be saved. We are without strength to feel or desire to be better and without strength to do better if we had the desire. “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came . . . to save sinners.”
I wish I had the ability to pry the gate of salvation as wide as it should be opened, but I am incapable of presenting it as open as it really is. Jesus Christ came to save sinners.
I want you to notice not only our name but:
II. OUR NEED, OR A BRIGHT WORD OF SALVATION
Jesus Christ came to s-a-v-e sinners. You might think He came to condemn. In the book of Genesis, when the people sinned and started to build the tower of Babel, God didn’t come down to save but to condemn; and He scattered them across the face of the earth. Since God has given man every opportunity to do right, and man still turns his back on God, you would think He came to condemn man; but that is not true. He came to save man.
Jesus said in John 3:17,18, “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world [us]; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already.” He didn’t come to condemn us but to save us.
Notice something else. He didn’t come to show us how to save ourselves. Most religions of the world don’t understand this. He didn’t come to show you how to save yourself; He came to save you. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came to save, not to show. He didn’t lay out certain things and say, “In the doing of these things you will save yourself.” No. He came to save you. He didn’t come to point out the way and say, “Now if you will get on that way and stay on that way and never err, you will make it.” No. He came as the way. In John 14:6 He said, “I am the way,” not the one who points out the way. He didn’t say, “Follow some prescribed way and Heaven will be your home.” Wait a minute. That is the unauthorized translation. What He said was, “No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
Religion says, “Study the Bible and make sure you live up to this, and live up to that, and do this, and do that, and you may go to Heaven when you die.” Friends, Jesus Christ didn’t come to show the sinner how to save himself; He came to save him. Bless His name!
On our next broadcast, we will continue this topic, “The Whole Gospel in a Single Verse.”
Let’s Pray —
As we close today, let me leave you with these words from Hebrews 2:3: “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation…” I encourage you to not neglect the salvation and grace offered by God. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for our sins and take the punishment that we deserve upon Himself. Romans 5:8 says that “God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
If you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, and you want to get to know Him today, here is how.
Please believe “that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures” and you will be saved. The Bible states in the book of Romans 10:9, 13: “That 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. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Pray and ask Him to come into your heart and He will. It’s just that simple.
Until next time, my friend, thank God for His simple, great salvation. God bless you!
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