What Must I Believe to Be Saved?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 22 April 2014

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Our sin, God’s holiness, and Jesus’s cross are the core truths around which saving faith is formed.

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0:00.0	It's one of the most important questions that can ever be asked.
0:09.0	What must I believe to be saved?
0:11.5	It was asked to Pastor John a few years back in a Q&A setting.
0:14.9	Here's how Pastor John answered the question.
0:17.9	Well Paul says, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
0:22.0	He says, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that
0:26.3	God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
0:32.9	So I take texts like that and I would say you begin at this core of the death of Jesus.
0:43.5	He died for our sins, which means I must believe I'm a sinner.
0:49.6	A person that doesn't believe he's a sinner can't be saved.
0:54.3	Because there's nothing to forgive.
0:55.3	He didn't do anything for me.
0:57.2	If he didn't do anything for me, I'm not believing in for salvation.
0:59.9	If I'm not believing in for salvation, I'm not saved.
1:02.7	So you must believe that you are a sinner.
1:04.7	You must believe that there's a God who has created the possibility for sin.
1:11.5	That is, sin only has meaning as the following short of the expectations of your Creator.
1:17.6	So there has to be a Creator God out there who has expectations of humans that they trust
1:23.4	him, love him, live for him, and we fail.
1:26.6	And therefore, we are under his, that'd be the third thing now, we are under his holy
1:31.7	call it, different things.
1:33.2	Judgment, wrath, you got to believe that.
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