Why Should I be Saved
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We talk about a lot of different stuff in youth group. We’ve talked about questions that we have about the faith, we’ve talked about specific Books of the Bible, we’ve even talked about Christmas movies. However, one theme pops up every single week, and that’s that Jesus died to save you.
Salvation is the main theme of every single sermon we preach. Every time we meet together, we want to make sure you hear the Gospel. But, that leads to a question that we need to ask.
Why should I be saved?
What’s the point in salvation?
Going to heaven?
That’s just a transaction, it’s not giving your life to God, it’s trading it for something better.
Basically, saying that you’re saved so that you don’t go to heaven is just not wanting to go to hell
“Do you want to burn in torment forever or be literally anywhere else?” I will pick anywhere else every time!
Jesus loves me.
Love given doesn’t require love in return.
Someone loving me doesn’t make me love them.
If I have a stalker that loves me, that doesn’t mean that I have to love them, right?
My sin
Yeah, but what’s the point of that? Couldn’t I just be sinful?
Sinning feels good now, why not keep doing that?
Big Idea: We should want to be saved because God created us for the purpose of being in relationship with God.
We were built for a relationship with God.
We were built for a relationship with God.
We see that from the very beginning.
In the creation of the world, God made us so that we could be like Him and have a relationship with Him.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
We were made very specially, different from anything else
No other thing has a line in the Bible about how God specially made them, but we do!
That means something! That means that God created you special, and that, from the very beginning, you were built to be together with God!
Sin ruined our purpose.
Sin ruined our purpose.
Then, sin entered in to the situation.
Real quick, what is sin?
Sin is anything that pulls you away from God, it can be an action, a thought, an attitude of your heart; anything that pulls you further and further away from God.
When we sinned, that broke our relationship with God.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So, we removed ourselves from God and now we’re broken. We can’t be close to God like we were built for, and instead we just have this broken existence of wanting more, not knowing what that is, and not knowing where to find it.
Before God saved me, I knew about Him. I knew the right answers in Sunday school, and I was pretty good at faking being a Christian. But, I was hollow inside.
I didn’t really feel joy, I didn’t even really feel sad, I just felt unheard, angry, and alone.
I knew that I was messed up in the same way that we all pretty much know that we’re all messed up, but I had no idea what to do with it outside of hate myself.
I needed a Savior! I needed someone to pull me out of my own mess because I knew that I wasn’t able to!
God came down to right our relationship with Him.
God came down to right our relationship with Him.
Jesus, who is God in the flesh, entered into our situation to live a perfect life and die as a sacrifice for me!
He was born, which shouldn’t have happened. He’s God, and yet He chose to be born, to be weak, to rely on others, and then to grow up and eventually die, all so that you might be saved.
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
And He planned the whole thing ahead of time!
So, Jesus lived and died so that we could then have a relationship with Him!
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Now the real question after all this is how?
How do you get saved?
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
You don’t do anything!
There’s no special words, no magic prayer, no signing on the dotted line!
You are saved because God loves you and died for you, so you don’t get to do anything!
If you want to be saved, then you have to receive the gift of salvation that Jesus gives you by believing that He is God, that He died for you, that He took your sin on His shoulders, and that you run away from sin because it’s the brokenness that ruined everything in the first place!
Do you want to know why I got saved?
It was because I was broken and alone and I knew it! It didn’t matter how many friends I had or how good I was at hiding my brokenness, I knew I was messed up and needed something. And God stepped in and gave me a place to belong and called me His son. God saved me because I had no other option but to be saved!
Questions:
What is one class you wish they would teach in school?
Can you define what it means to be saved?
Before this, what would you say would be the reason to be saved? What about now?
How can this knowledge about salvation change the way you approach your daily life? (School, family, friends, etc)