You Must Believe

     "and after he brought them out, he said, 'Sirs, what must I do to be saved?' And they said, 'Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household.'" Acts 16:30-31

      I once heard a very popular preacher say regarding salvation, "You didn't do anything to get it, so you can't do anything to lose it." This is the extent to which some preachers are willing to go to justify the doctrine of OSAS; however, if you think about it, logic will tell you that if you didn't have to do anything to receive salvation, then everyone must have it, because God is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34); so, if He saved you without you having to do anything, then He must do the same for everyone else, unless He is the God of the Calvinist who believes that God arbitrarily picks out only certain ones to save, but that is a topic for another day.

      My argument against this preacher's statement is that there IS most certainly something you MUST DO to receive salvation. You must BELIEVE! Does everyone receive salvation? The obvious answer is no, unless you happen to be a Universalist. According to the scriptures, only those who CHOOSE to believe and put their trust in the atoning sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross will be saved. That is something each individual person must actively and willingly DO in order to be saved! Anyone who believes otherwise has not read their bible very closely. Also, as I stated in a previous post, we must CONTINUE to believe if we want to be saved. 

     In John 6:28-29, Jesus was asked the question, "What shall we do that we may work the works of God?" His response was, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent." My prayer for you today is that you WILL BELIEVE!!!!