Nuggets from "An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith" by Dave Hunt - So Great a Salavation

Nuggets from “An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith” by Dave Hunt – So Great a Salvation

To “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” includes believing who He is and what He has done. Jesus said, “Ye are from beneath; I am from above…if ye believe not that I am…[I AM is God’s name, Yahweh – Exodus:3:14And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
See All...], ye shall die in your sins” (John:8:23-24 [23] And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. [24] I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
See All...). Jesus himself says we must believe that He is God, for He is; and no one less than God could save us. We must believe that the sinless One “died for our sins,” was buried, and rose bodily from the grave. Only by believing this gospel are we saved. So says God’s Word.

But wouldn’t the exceptional good works of a Mother Teresa get her to heaven? No, because we are all sinners, including Mother Teresa. Once we have broken one of God’s commandments, we are “guilty of all” (James:2:10For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
See All...). Furthermore, “by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight” (Romans:3:20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
See All...). Keeping the law perfectly from now on could never make up for having already broken it. Good works, no matter how good, can never pay for sin.

For God to grant salvation by any other means than faith in Christ alone would be an insult to the One whom the Father insisted had to endure His wrath as sacrifice for sin. Moreover, if He allowed entrance into heaven on any other basis, God would be breaking His own code of justice and going back on His Word. Not even God himself could gratuitously forgive earth’s most notable “saint” without the penalty being paid and accepted by the sinner in gratitude. Christ’s blood avails only for repentant sinners.