Salvation Is Simple

How easy is it to get saved? As easy as walking through a door—"I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture" (John 10:9). How easy is it to get saved? As easy as drinking a cup of water—“If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water” (John 4:10). Oh listen my friend, salvation is a free gift from God, paid for by Jesus' literal, physical, precious blood which He shed for our sins (1st Peter 1:18,19; Hebrews 9:12). 

Please don't listen to some false prophet who tells you that you cannot be saved simply by trusting upon the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive your sins. Kindly said, Dr. John MacArthur is a false prophet! Ray Comfort is a false prophet! Paul Washer is a false prophet! Jack Chick, Don Piper, and Kirk Cameron are all false prophets! Why? All these men teach that believing on the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins is not enough to be saved. Jack Chick requires lost sinners to “be willing to turn from sin” to be saved. This is a false gospel. Jesus never asked us to be willing to give up anything to be saved—It is the gift of God.  Salvation is receiving, not giving. You don't make Jesus Lord, He is Lord! 

Salvation is easy! It is so easy to be saved that even a small child can be saved simply by BELIEVING on the name of Jesus. Did you know that 85% of all Christians get saved between the ages of 4 and 14? A child needs to be taught that when they steal cookies, throw tantrums, lie and refuse to listen to Mom and Dad, they are sinning against God. Jesus loves them, which is why he went to the cross to pay for everyone's sins. If a child is old enough to understand these basic truths, they are enlightened enough to be saved. 

Acts 10:43, “To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.” John 3:16, “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.” What is so difficult about that? Why do men like Ray Comfort and Paul Washer complicate the Gospel into a lie, saying that a changed life is required for genuine salvation? Although I believe these men are sincere, they are dead wrong. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverb 14:12). 

Do believers have a license to sin? Yes, technically! Certainly, no one has God's permission or blessing to sin (2nd Corinthians 5:10); but if a believer wants to go kill somebody, it won't affect their salvation one bit. To teach otherwise is self-righteousness. Romans 4:5-6 proclaims that salvation is without works. A man's faith is counted for righteousness. I'm not saying it's okay for believers to live in sin, not at all (Romans 3:31). God chastises (disciplines) and scourges (whips) His children when they sin (Hebrews 12:6-8). I'm simply saying that eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 5:15; 6:23) which has absolutely NOTHING to do with the life we live (Ephesians 2:8,9). 

Like it or not, God promises eternal life to anyone who simply receives Christ's death on the cross, burial and resurrection (i.e., 'The Gospel') as full payment for their sins, regardless of their lifestyle. It's easy to be saved. Repentance concerning salvation is a change of mind—a change of mind about what you want to do to get to Heaven, to what God says you have to do to get to Heaven. Repentance is from WRONG THINKING to get saved, not from WRONG LIVING to reform your behavior! Our life doesn't transform as we REPENT; but rather, as our mind is RENEWED by studying the Word of God (Romans 12:1-2). We don't grow in repentance, we grow in the milk of the Word (1st Peter 2:2). 

There is much debate over the meaning of repentance, but if you study the purpose of the Mosaic law in the Scriptures, it is simply to show us that we are hopeless sinners incapable of saving ourselves (Romans 3:19). Thus, the law “BRINGS US” (Galatians 3:24-26) to Christ to be saved by God's righteousness through faith, because we have no righteousness of our own to offer God (Isaiah 64:6; Romans 10:3-4; Philippians 3:9). There is absolutely nothing in the Bible that requires a person to turn away from sinning or surrender their life to Christ in order to be saved.

Christ died on the cross for our sins, was buried, and raised up from the dead three days later (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). If that's your hope for Heaven, you are saved. Christ died, that's history; Christ died for me, that's salvation! Do you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the only begotten Son of God? Simply come as a helpless guilty sinner (as you are) and place your trust in the 'GOOD NEWS,' completely RESTING in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved immediately, irreversibly and eternally. It is easy to be saved! Don't ever allow anyone to deceive you, trying to convince you that salvation is difficult and hard. The only hard part is not tampering with the simplicity of salvation by faith alone in Christ. Men tend to complicate things, but God made it very easy, free and simple to be saved. 

Acts 13:39, “And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.” I love that Bible verse! Acts 13:39 means that we don't have to make an effort to stop sinning to be saved, nor does God require any person to labor in works to prove that they are saved. To say otherwise is adding works to grace, and then grace is no more grace (Romans 11:6). It is a wicked sin, heresy, and a false plan of salvation to teach people, to make a full surrender to Christ, count the cost, forsake the world, stop sinning, intend to reform, start a relationship with Jesus, or commit to serving Christ as 'Lord' AS A REQUIREMENT to be saved. None of that is The Gospel! 

There are NO CONDITIONS of salvation except to realize that you are a hopeless, guilty, needy sinner in God's sight, incapable of saving yourself; therefore, you completely REST (Hebrews 4:10-11) in Christ for redemption. Jesus died on the cross for our sins, was buried, and bodily resurrected from the dead after three days. That is The Gospel according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-4. Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” Romans 4:5, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”