We need salvation because we have sinned. Sin separates us from God who desires a relationship with us. It is impossible for any man to restore that broken relationship with God by any amount of personal goodness, religious deeds, or by belonging to a church. We cannot earn or achieve a right relationship with God by our own efforts.

The death of Jesus was not an accident. It was God's plan from the beginning to save us from our sins through the death of Jesus Christ. The Bible calls God's act of love, grace. His grace is His gift to us. The way we receive His gift is by entering into a covenant relationship with Jesus by placing our trust and faith in Him.

When we decide that we will follow Jesus for the rest of our lives, we demonstrate our trust in Jesus by obeying His commands to repent of sin, confess Jesus as the Son of God and to be immersed (baptized) in water demonstrating the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

Study these verses to learn more about what God has done for you and how you can receive salvation through Jesus Christ.

• "For it is by grace you have been saved through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not of works, so that no one an boast." Ephesians 2:8-9
  
  
• "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." Hebrews 11:6
  
  
• "You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone." James 2:24
  
  
• "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned." Mark 16:16
  
  
• "I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them--do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish." Luke 13:3-5
  
  
• "Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."" Acts 2:38

• "In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent." Acts 17:30
  
  
• "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Romans 10:9-10
  
  
• "Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus. As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, "Look, here is water. Why shouldn't I be baptized?" And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him." Acts:8:35-38
  
  
• "Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven, But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven." Matthew 10:32-33
  
  
• "Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."" Acts 2:38
  
  
• "So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days." Acts 10:48
  
  
• "and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also--not the removal of dirt from the body but he pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ," 1 Peter 3:21
  
  
• "Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life." Romans 6:3-4
  
  
• "You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ." Galatians 3:26-27
  

• "And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name." Acts 22:16