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How Can We Be Saved?

We can be saved when we confess Jesus as Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead.

The Bible teaches us in Ephesians 2:5 that when we were dead in our sins, God made us alive with Jesus it is by grace we have been saved!

We can’t do anything to earn our salvation. Can a dead person make themselves alive again? Of course not. Only God can perform the miracle of raising the dead back to new life. That’s exactly what Paul says has happened to us. Sin places all of us in a condition of spiritual death, and the miracle of salvation is that God makes us alive again through Jesus.

Romans 10:9 says, ‘‘If you declare . . . ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.’’

This kind of belief is more than just a mental agreement that Jesus died for our sins and rose again. The Greek word is pisti , which means ‘‘trust.’’ Trusting Jesus means placing our lives in his hands and following his commandments. It means turning away from sin, knowing we have been freed from its bondage and living as God’s children.

This trust doesn’t mean we’ll never doubt. We all feel unsure at times, but faith means we press on with hope, following even when the way seems unclear. Even when we can’t see God’s saving work in our lives, we trust Jesus is faithfully bringing us home to eternal life with God.