Friday Night Apologetics 12-29-2006

How does one get saved?

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     This is an awesome discussion we had live in Paltalk again with Friday Night Apologetics where we discussed the topic of "Eternal Security" and "How does one get saved?", and had some very good discussions from those on the microphone.  There are many views out there on how someone gets saved, and some of them are:  Being water baptized; speaking in tongues; doing works.  We discussed and examined many Scriptures concerning these, and encourage you to listen carefully, take notes, and if you have any questions or comments please contact us. 

• Some Scriptures that were discussed Eternal Security were:

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. 

(1 Jn. 5:13 NASB)

 

4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith.   5 Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

(1 Jn. 5:4-5 NASB)

 

13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,   14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory. (Ephesians 1:13-14 NASB)

 

27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;   28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.   29 " My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.   30 "I and the Father are one." (John 10:27-30 NASB)

 

21 "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.   22 "Many will say to Me on that day, `Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'   23 "And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'

(Matthew 7:21-23 NASB)

• Some Scriptures discussed on salvation were:

21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you--not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,   22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him. (1 Peter 3:21-22 NASB)

 

38 "You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.   39 "We are witnesses of all the things He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They also put Him to death by hanging Him on a cross.   40 "God raised Him up on the third day and granted that He become visible,   41 not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.   42 "And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead.   43 "Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins."   44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were listening to the message.   45 All the circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.   46 For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered,   47 "Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?"   48 And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on for a few days.

(Acts 10:38-48 NASB)

 

7 After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe.   8 "And God, who knows the heart, testified to them giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us;   9 and He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.   10 "Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?   11 "But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are." (Acts 15:7-11 NASB)

 

1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;   2 this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him."   3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."   4 Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?"   5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.   6 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.   7 "Do not be amazed that I said to you, `You must be born again.'   8 "The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit."   9 Nicodemus said to Him, "How can these things be?"   10 Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?   11 "Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.   12 "If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?   13 "No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.   14 "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;   15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.   16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.   17 "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.   18 "He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.   19 "This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.   20 "For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.   21 "But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God." (John 3:1-21 NASB)

 

14 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,   15 so that no one would say you were baptized in my name.   16 Now I did baptize also the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any other.   17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.   18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  (1 Corinthians 1:14-18 NASB)

• Some Scriptures discussed on how to be saved:

44 Now He said to them, "These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."   45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,   46 and He said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,   47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

(Luke 24:44-47 NASB)

 

1 Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,   2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.   3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,   4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:1-4 NASB)

 

13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,   14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory. (Ephesians 1:13-14 NASB)

 

9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;   10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.   11 For the Scripture says, "WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."   12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him;   13 for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED." (Romans 10:9-13 NASB)