When addressing the issue
of salvation, most want a formula or prescribed method of attaining eternal
life – a recitation (i.e. sinner’s prayer). They desire to know what
steps are necessary or what must be accomplished and what are the allowable
limits. The central problem is that most think of salvation with regards to
being saved from something, namely hell or eternal damnation. The only thing
we must desire to be saved from is SELF, that being our fallen sinful
nature. Rather than thinking in terms of being saved from something, it
would be more applicable to think of who we must be endeared to, namely
Jesus Christ.
Salvation is not a
formula, ritual, practice, method, mental acknowledgement, repeated
statement, outward reformation, religious education or ceremony, but rather
the result of a heart and life lived for God. Salvation is the result of
a life dedicated to God by abiding in Christ Jesus - the fruit of God
working in us (Jn 15:2, 8, Js 5:7)! We must come to understand
Christ’s gospel with our heart (Mt 13:15). The clearest evidence of
such is the divine influence of the Holy Spirit in one’s life, which will
always be manifested in one’s actions (fruit). This book contains a
comprehensive and thorough study of the Word of God (scriptures)
regarding eternal life and right standing before God. The answer is clear,
but is not the one, two or three-step approach that man desires to follow.