What Must I Do to Be Saved 2022 revised and abridged

Hearing and Believing

Romans 10:17 (ESV)

17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Matthew 7:24 (ESV)

24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

James 1:22 (ESV)

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Repentance

2 Corinthians 7:10 (ESV)

10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Romans 2:4 (ESV)

4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Confess

Why

1 John 1:9 (ESV)

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Who

Matthew 10:32,33 (ESV)

32 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven,

33 but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 16:16–17 (ESV)

16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

How

Romans 10:9–10 (ESV)

9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Baptism (How and Why)

Water

Acts 8.36 as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”

Much Water

John 3.23 also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized

Going down into the Water

Acts 8.38 he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

Coming out of the Water.

Acts 8.39 when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.