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The Biblical Answer to Why Salvation Is Necessary

Today's question is, why do I need to be saved? In this video I'll answer that question from a biblical perspective. Then afterwards, as always, I'll share some helpful resources, so stick around until the end.

After their miraculous release from the Philippian jail, Paul and Silas tell the repentant jailer, "'Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved Acts 16, verse 31. Their words are one of many expressions of the underlying message of the whole Bible.

God has provided salvation for the lost. Scripture is clear that all people need to be saved, and here are seven reasons why that salvation is necessary. First, we need to be saved because we are totally lost in sin.

Total Depravity and Human Sinfulness

It's not that we need to save ourselves—we cannot do so—but that we need to be saved. The Bible teaches the total depravity of the human race. That is, every aspect of our being has been corrupted by sin.

There is no one righteous, not even one. There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God. All have turned away. They have together become worthless. There is no one who does good, not even one.

Romans 3, verses 10 -12. We need the good shepherd to seek out the lost sheep and bring them home, rejoicing—see Luke 15, verses 3 -6. Second, we need to be saved because we are under God's wrath. We are by nature deserving of wrath—Ephesians 2, verse 3.

God’s Wrath, Condemnation, and the Need for Christ

Without salvation, we stand condemned. Whoever does not believe stands condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son—John 3, verse 18. We need Jesus Christ, the righteous One, to propitiate the wrath of God and forfend our.

Judgment.

Third, we need to be saved because we are in danger of hell. After death comes judgment—Hebrews 9, verse 27. And if we die without God's salvation, we will meet the same fate as the rich man who lifted up his eyes in Hades, being in torment—Luke 16, verse 23.

We need a Savior to rescue us from a fate literally worse than death. Fourth, we need to be saved because we are spiritually dead. Before salvation, we are dead in our sins—Colossians 2, verse 13. Dead people can do nothing for themselves.

Spiritual Death, Hard Hearts, and the Need for the New Birth

We need resurrection. We need the life-giving power of Christ, who alone can conquer death. Fifth, we need to be saved because our hearts are hardened by evil. The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.

Who can understand it? Jeremiah 17, verse 9. The unsaved are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.

Ephesians 4, verse 18. We need a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit to fix our hearts and align them with God's will. Sixth, we need to be saved because we are enslaved to sin and Satan. Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin—Romans 3, verse 9.

In our natural state, we are held in Satan's snare and bound by his will—2 Timothy 2, verse 26. We need a Redeemer to liberate us, and in Christ we have been set free from sin—Romans 6, verse 18. And seventh, we need to be saved because we are at odds with God.

Enslaved to Sin and Reconciled to God

The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God—Romans 8, verses 7 -8. We need Jesus, the Prince of Peace, to reconcile us to God and to bring us into the family of God as adopted sons and daughters.

When Jesus told Nicodemus, you must be born again, He spoke of necessity—John 3, verse 7. Being saved, receiving the new birth, is not just a nice idea or a divine suggestion. It is the deepest need of the human soul—you must be born again.

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