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What Must I Do to be Saved? Answering the Important Question

This article explores the question asked three times in Acts: "What must I do to be saved?" It delves into the importance of understanding the worth of the soul and the need for individual responsibility. It clarifies that salvation is received through grace, received through faith. It emphasizes the necessity of both belief and action, including repentance, baptism, confession, and obedience to God's commands. The article also addresses the different answers given in different situations and the role of God in saving and directing mankind.

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What Must I Do to be Saved? Answering the Important Question

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  1. Do Must What I To be Saved “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Acts 16:30 Important question Matt. 16:26 = worth of the soul Asked 3 Times in Acts Acts 2:37 “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” Acts 9:6 “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Acts 16:30 “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

  2. Do Must What I To be Saved Man Does Not Know Isa. 55:8-9 “my thoughts are not your thoughts” Jer. 10:23 “the way of man is not in himself” Prov. 14:12 “There is a way which seems right” A Reliable Source Acts 9:6 “go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” Isa. 8:20 “To the law and to the testimony”

  3. Do Must What I To be Saved Did not ask - What he may do - What he could do - What he thought he should do But what He do - A requirement Must

  4. Do Must What I To be Saved It Was Not… - What must my parents do - What must my relatives and friends do - What God, Christ, or the Holy Spirit must do Individual Responsibility Rom. 14:12 “So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”

  5. Do Must What I To be Saved Confused: - Not what we think, feel, hear, dream - It is not rejecting the Grace of God GRACE is received through Faith - Eph. 2:8 Water Received Through Pipes - No Pipes = No water - No faith = No Grace

  6. Do Must What I To be Saved Faith is a Work Jn. 6:28-29 “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” Acts 10:34-35 “works righteousness” Ps.119:172 “all Thy commandments are righteousness” To work righteousness is to work commands of God, and to work in order to salvation is to do what God commands Matt. 7:21 “He who does the will of my Father” 1 Jn. 2:17 “He that does the will of God abides for ever”

  7. Do Must What I To be Saved God Saves - - - Not Man - Devising a plan as futile as building tower of Babel - In one sense man saves himself - Acts 2:40 “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation” God Directs - - - Man Obeys

  8. Answers on Different Occasions Acts 16:31 “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved” Saved by Faith Jn. 3:16 “whoever believes in Him” Rom. 5:1 “justified by faith” Not by Faith Only Jas. 2:24 “…and not by faith only” Acts 16:32 “spoke the Word of the Lord to him” Rom. 10:17 “Faith comes by hearing”

  9. Answers on Different Occasions Acts 2:38 “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins” - Faith had been established through preaching Told To: Repent Baptized Mk. 16:15-16 “for” = in order to obtain Remission = freedom from guilt

  10. Answers on Different Occasions Acts 9:6 "Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do" • Jesus made Himself known to Paul - v. 5 • Told to go to Damascus - v. 6 • Told to be baptized - Acts 22:16 “And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.” Why are there different answers?

  11. How Far to Lane Stadium? Lynchburg 96 Miles Radford 14 Miles Johnson City 160 Miles Greensboro 171 Miles

  12. Do Must What I To be Saved Believe Acts 16:31 Be Baptized Acts 22:16 Heaven Repent Acts 2:38 Confess Acts 8:37

  13. Are You Ready ?

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