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Many people think that they are headed the right way in life, but God says, There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death (Proverbs 14:12, 16:25). Consider what the only true north, the Bible, tells us.

WE ARE SINNERS!

God’s standard is Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48), but you have fallen far short of His holy glory. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God (Romans 3:10-11). You possess a heart that is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9). Your corrupt nature makes you as an unclean thing, and all your righteous acts are as filthy rags (see Isaiah 64:6). It only takes one sin to keep you out of God’s presence. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all (James 2:10). You have broken the greatest commandment, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind (Matthew 22:37). Until you are born again, you cannot please God (Romans 8:8) in any way but are defiled and unbelieving with nothing pure; but even your mind and conscience are defiled (see Titus 1:15). The wrath of God abides on you (see John 3:36).

WE DESERVE A PENALTY FOR SIN!

God’s law says, cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them (Galatians 3:10). You have not continuously and perfectly obeyed, so you are under this curse. Since the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23), you are subject to both physical death, the separation of the soul and spirit from the body (Hebrews 9:27), and to spiritual death, the separation of a person from God. You are currently dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1); your damnation is just (Romans 3:8), and you are consequently headed for the second death—eternal separation from God in 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).

The question arises: How can you escape the damnation of hell?

JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR YOU!

Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh (1 Timothy 3:16). He is the Son of God, who existed from eternity past with the Father and the Holy Spirit, the three eternal persons of the one and only true God (1 John 5:7), took to Himself a human nature. Although He was still 100% God, He became 100% man. Jesus lived a sinless life and then died on the cross, where His Father made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him (2 Corinthians 5:21). He then rose bodily from the grave and ascended to heaven.

On the cross God laid your sin upon His Son, who suffered to pay your debt. The law demands perfect righteousness, but Christ died as your substitute so that His death and shed blood could pay for your sin, and you could have His righteousness. You can be saved, not by your attempts to obey the law, but by His perfect obedience to it and death to satisfy it. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us (Galatians 3:13). Since by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified (Hebrews 10:14), there is nothing that you can do to save yourself!

YOU MUST BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST!

To have the Lord Jesus’ blood wash away your sins, you must place your faith in Him. God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). Saving faith in Jesus Christ involves two things:

Repentance: Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish (Luke 13:3). In repentance, you agree with God that you are just as bad as the Bible says you are, that you are headed to hell and deserve it for your sins, and you turn from your sins to submit unconditionally to God. Jesus Christ said, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me (see Mark 8:34-36).

Faith: Trust in the Lord Jesus alone to save. You are not really believing on Jesus Christ for salvation if you think that any good deed you have done or are doing will help save you. Ephesians 2:8-9 says, For by grace [undeserved favor] are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. And Titus 3:5 says, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us. Saving faith is not just a mental assent to facts, and nobody can say that he has always believed in Christ. You must come to a specific point in your life where you see yourself as a lost, helpless sinner, you turn from your sins, and you trust solely in the Lord Jesus for eternal life.

You must forsake all confidence in your supposed goodness and your religious rituals and place your confidence in the Savior’s blood and righteousness alone. If you come to Jesus Christ for salvation, you can trust Him for the promise of eternal life (Romans 8:28-39). You will be saved from sin’s penalty, eternal damnation, and from sin’s power: if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (2 Corinthians 5:17). If you will repent and believe in Him, He promises you everlasting life with Him in heaven upon His return or your death, and a holy life on earth now, freed from the bondage of sin.

Receive Jesus Christ immediately to save you from your sin. He promises, him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out (John 6:37). Turn to Him today. Tomorrow it may be too late. Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth (Proverbs 27:1).

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