The Good News

How Can You Be Saved?

1 Corinthians 15
3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first
importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures,
4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day
according to the Scriptures,

This news reveals several important truths. First, that
Christ died for our sins, shows we are sinners. God is holy,
and cannot tolerate anything which falls short of His
character or will. The Bible teaches we inherited a sin
nature when we were conceived, that God puts the sin of Adam
to our account, that we have all committed personal acts of
sin, and that God has concluded we are all under sin. Nothing
confirms we are sinners, who deserve eternal separation from
God, like the fact Christ for our sins.

Second, that Christ died for our sins, reveals death is the
just penalty. The Bible teaches the wages of sin is death,
which includes eternal separation from God, in the lake of
fire. If Christ died for our sins, then that means the
penalty we deserve is to die, and be separated from God.

Finally, that Christ died for our sins, reveals that He paid
our debt. There is nothing more that needs to be done to
atone for our sins, since Christ has died for them. His death
has satisfied God's righteous demands, and God has shown us He
accepted this payment by raising Him from the dead.

That is the good news of the gospel. Christ died for our
sins, and God raised Him from the dead. God applies the value
of Christ's atonement to your account by grace, through faith
in His death and resurrection alone, so that He alone will get
glory for your salvation. Any attempt to work for your
salvation, to pay for your own sins, or add something to
Christ's finished work, is to reject God's free gift, and die
in your sins.

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Christ died for our sins, and God raised Him from the dead.
Rely on this work alone to escape hell and receive eternal
life (Jn. 3:16; 1 Cor. 15:1-3; Eph. 2:8-10; 2 Thess. 1:8-9).