The wages of sin is death

but the gift of God is eternal life

through Jesus Christ our Lord. It is

the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.

Romans 6:23, Ephesians 2:8-9

Salvation: Eternal Life: God's everlasting gift to you. It is eternal and not dispensational, or temporal. Do not leave earth without it. There is only one way to receive it: God's way. In this book, I'm going to help you how to receive it.

There is only one plan and only one way of salvation that God hath provided for men in every age, time and generation: through faith in Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One, the Lord and Savior Jesus, the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. He was promised in the Garden of Eden and He was preached by the prophets and men of God of the Old Testament, and He was revealed and manifested and preached in the flesh in the New Testament. We are part of the New Testament.

WHY DO WE NEED A SAVIOR? WHY DO WE NEED SALVATION? WHAT DO WE NEED TO BE SAVED FROM?

We need a Savior because we are sinners and we can't save ourselves. We need to be saved from sin to be saved from eternal destruction and eternal death. We need salvation so we can go to heaven when we die. And there is no name under heaven given unto men whereby we must be saved. There's no other name but the name of Jesus Christ.

What is Sin? What's the Big Deal About It?

"The wages of sin is death..." Romans 6:23

Sin is disobeying the will and commandments of God. Sin is a big deal to God because sin destroys, kills, steals and leads to eternal death, hell, and everlasting suffering and torment.

God did not create us or give us life just to wander in life aimlessly, or to suffer, get old, perish and die. God created us to bless us with all the heavenly blessings according to His riches and glory and eternal purpose. But because of sin, we fall short of the glory of God and of the purpose of God in our life. Like a machine with faulty wirings, we spin out of control, going against the plan of God, hurting ourselves and harming others. Because of sin, we self-destruct. God our Creator who loved us and wants every one to be saved, gave us the simple plan of salvation to redeem us and preserve us both our spirit, soul and body for heaven and save us from being rejected, discarded, forever condemned and thrown into the lake of fire.

"...but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord," Romans 6:23

Friend, do you know that you may know that you may have the gift of God (eternal life) while still here on earth? Do you know that you can have all your sins forgiven and you can be saved and have the promise of everlasting life, and know for sure that you are going to heaven if you were to die today? HOW? By hearing and hearing and receiving the word of God, believing in the gospel written in the Bible, and believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible says, "These thing I have written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God," 1 John 5:13.

Can you know for sure that you have eternal life and is going to heaven? The answer is yes. The Bible says you can. The Bible is written so that those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ may know that they have eternal life. And you can too right here right now if you open your heart, believe on the name of the Son of God and put your faith in Jesus Christ. The Bible said, "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself, he that believeth not God hath made him a liar because he believeth not the record that God gave of His own Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life and this life is in His Son," 1 John 5:10-12. So those who believe not the record that God gave of His Son and through His Son is either making God a liar, or God had made him a

liar, because he believed not what God says. The Bible says in John 3:36, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him." So, if you believe not on the Son of God, you not only made God a liar, but you also made God's wrath, or curse, or condemnation abide on you. The Lord Jesus also said in John 5:24, "Verily, verily, I say unto, 'He that hears My word and believes on Him that sent Me, has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death to life."

If you have the grace and mercy and saved of the Lord according to the word of God, the book of Jude 1:1 says, "you are sanctified by God and preserved in Christ Jesus," and Jude 1:24 says, He is "able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy." The apostle Paul also assures you in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 that "the very God of peace sanctify you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit, and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ." He was not only praying for God to preserve your whole body, soul and spirit but He is also confident that God is able to do that because he said in verse 24, "Faithful is He that called you, who also will do it." God who called you and saved you is faithful, and able, and mighty to do it. He will do it.

Not only that, He is also faithful and able and mighty to preserve you, body, soul and spirit and present you blameless, without wrinkle and without spot before the presence of His glory at the last day in the day of the Lord. If you are saved, you are His masterpiece, His workmanship, your salvation is His work and no one can pluck you out of His hands. You are sealed unto the last day and you are preserved in Christ. Philippians 1:6 says, "Being confident on this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." All these verses tell us that the apostles are writing to people who are saved and they know they have eternal life and they are assured that they can't lose it not because they are good and already perfect but because God is good and perfect, and mighty and able and faithful to do what He says.

"Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts,"(Zechariah 4:6). It is impossible for us human to be saved and to be saved until the end by our own works of righteousness, but for God it is possible.

My friend, you don't have to die first to see if you are saved and have the gift of eternal life and see if you're going to heaven. God loves you for you to know. His word says you can know, you may know, you may have eternal life, you can have everlasting life, you can know you're going to heaven when you die, you can rest assured you're preserved in Christ Jesus and you can believe the record that God hath given to you eternal life through His Son. But first, you need to get saved. To get saved, you need faith.

The Bible said in Titus 1:2, "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began..." God, who created the heavens and the earth, cannot lie. His word is established in heaven and is written and recorded for us to believe and to hold on and to hang on. When we doubt God's love, God's faithfulness, we can go back to the word of God, the word of life.

The Lord Jesus said in John 14:1, "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." It's not enough that you believe in God coz the devil also believe in God, you must also believe in Jesus. Other religions believe God, but they don't believe in Jesus.

The Bible tells us in the Book of Acts, when one man asked the Apostle Paul and Silas, "What must I do to be saved?" They answered, "Believe on the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved, you and your family." (Acts 16:30-31)

The word "believe" here is to put your faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, to believe and receive who He is: the God in the flesh, and what He did long before you were born to pay for your sins, believing and receiving the gospel of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Bible said in Mark 1:15, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye and believe the gospel."

The word "repent" here is to change your mind, to change what you believe, what you trust, what you put your faith on for eternal salvation, like trusting in good works, in church, in religion and its teachings that opposed the word of God, trusting and praying to the dead saints and other mediators or mediatrix and praying and bowing down to their carved and graven images. Turn away from those things and just believe the gospel and put your trust in JesusChrist. That's believing. That's putting your faith in Christ.

Here's

How To Be Saved

according to God's Word:

Put Your Faith in the Lord Jesus:

What You need:

1.) Humility

2.) Faith

3.) Direct Confession/Prayer

1.)Humility: (open your heart to the word of God, the Bible)

A.) Humbling yourself before the righteous God.

The Bible says in 1 Peter 5:5-6, "God resists the proud and give grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God." Psalm 51:17, "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, Oh God, thou wilt not despise." Come to God with a humble spirit, broken and in need of God's mercy and salvation.

B.) Acknowledge you are a sinner.

The Bible says in Psalm 51:3,5 says, "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceived me. I acknowledge my transgression: my sin is ever before me." Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."

C.) Understand that sin has punishment: Death, Hell, & 2nd Death.

1.)Death: It is appointed unto man to die once, Hebrew 9:27

"The wages of sin is death", (Romans 6:23). "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned," Romans 5:12)

2.) Hell: Hell is real. Jesus talked about it and described it.

"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell," Mat 10:28). "And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go to hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched, where there worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched," Mark 9:43-44).

"If thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched, where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched," Mark 9:45-46).

"If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hellfire; where there worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched," Mark 9:47-48).

So, hell is real, according to the Lord Jesus, the fire in hell shall never be quenched and there were worms there that do not die and were immune to the fire.

3.) The 2nd Death: the Lake of Fire

"And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire," Revelation 20:14-15). Here's the list of who else is thrown in the lake of fire: "But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death," Revelation 21:8).-