What Must I Do To Be Saved?
 ARE YOU SAVED?
What is God's Plan?
Studying the Bible
We must study the Bible in order to find out God's plan. The Bible should be studied with an open mind. If we believe that it is inspired by God, we should also believe that He is capable of delivering His Word without error or contradictions, despite the different languages, writers, translations, geographic locations, and time frame. If we find something that appears to be a contradiction, we should try to figure out how "we" are interpreting it incorrectly, and change "our" beliefs to match His word.
 
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom...
Which Law Are We Under
The Law of Moses was written for the Jews and was only to last until the time of Christ. In the Law of Moses, the blood of animals was required to atone for the sins of the people. These sacrifices were temporary. Now, we have the perfect sacrifice. God's only begotten son, being without sin, offered Himself as a sacrifice to forgive sins from the time of His death until His return. When Jesus died on the cross, the temporary Law of Moses was fulfilled and is no longer necessary. Now we are under the law of Christ (not the Ten Commandments), found in the New Testament. Christians were never under the Law of Moses.
 
Exodus 34:27,28 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel [the Jews]. And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Galatians 3:19,16 Wherefore then serves the law? It was added because of transgressions, [only] till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; .... To thy seed, which is Christ.
Ephesians 2:14,15 He [Christ] is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Hebrews 8:13
 		A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away.
Galatians 3:24,25 The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster
Authority of Christ's Word
Since all power is given to Jesus and we will be judged by the Word, we should learn His will for us by studying it diligently.
 
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
John 12:48 He that rejected me, and receives not my words, hath one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Colossians 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
We Must Understand
The Bible makes it apparent that understanding it is essential to salvation. In fact, those "without understanding" are listed in the same category as murderers and homosexuals (Romans 1:24-32). Such people are counted as "worthy of death" (Romans 1:32).
 
Romans 1:31,32 ...Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Ephesians 5:17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.(NKJV)
Matthew 13:19 When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart....
2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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