Who is Saved?

In being in regular church assemblies for years, we have seen a lot of different types of churches, people from all walks of life, many sinners and many saints. An often vocalized question that runs through the minds, (mainly of "church people") is, "Are they saved?"

Wouldn't it be wonderful if when someone gets saved, God would just automatically give you a sign to let people know that you are saved? What if it were like a red hat would supernaturally appear on your head, or a white bracelet on your wrist, better yet, how about a little golden halo over your head that followed you everywhere you went. But since it doesn't happen that way, people often wonder if so and so is saved, perhaps they even wonder if they themselves are saved. We stated the last part here, because a lot of people "get saved" in church when they are kids, but never really live for Christ and later on in life wonder if they are in fact saved or not. I guess they wonder these things because there is really no "fruit" that is shown from their being grafted into the True Vine.

The first thing we want to share is who Jesus was and what He died for. A lot of people have heard that Jesus was the Son of God, that He died for their sins, and that is the extent of what they actually know of the place we call Calvary and the thing we call the Cross of Christ. There actually is much more than that to it all, and it takes just simply believing to get saved while often times we need more of an explanation so that we can have a personal understanding and experience to fully grasp what has happened.

In a nutshell, Jesus was born of a virgin: Because God needed to come to earth to save humanity from their sin. Since no human being could be sinless after the fall in the Garden, He needed a representative man to come here like we have to live a perfect life and die perfect in exchange for our sin.

Jesus was born of a virgin because the Holy Spirit overshadowed a virgin woman named Mary, making her pregnant. In today's science we learn that the blood type is determined not by the mother of the child, but by the father. God is the Heavenly Father that supernaturally impregnated Mary, that way the baby that would come forth would be totally sinless and without man's tainted blood.

Then we should know that Jesus lived a perfect and sinless life. The Jews would every year take a lamb that was perfect, spotless and without blemish and would kill it, pour it's blood out upon the altar as a sacrifice to cover sins for mankind for that year. They did this because it was to typify the One that would be to come to save us all. John the Baptist refers to Jesus as the "Lamb of God who takes AWAY the sin of the world." Meaning, there would be no more need of any more lambs, He WAS the Final Sacrifice for all sins, (John 1:29).

Who did Jesus die for? Whosoever will believe that He died to pay the price for their sins.

Who then is reconciled to God? Reconciled means "to change or even better to exchange." The whole world is reconciled by the sacrifice of Christ! (Rom 5:10, 1 Cor 6:10-12) So for those whom aren't even sure if they are actually saved or not, no fear, He died for all because all were dead in sin. He died for you, He died for me, everyone you can think of, He died for them. Are they all saved, no, but they all have the chance to be saved.

We need to realize that it matters not to God if we are liars, haters, idolators, jealous, homosexual, straight, young, old, slaves or free, the truth is that we can all safely say that "He died for me."

How do you receive what He did into your heart? Simply Believe! Ac 19:4, Rom 4:24). In fact the only ones that will not make it into Heaven are those that DO NOT believe on Him and receive what He has done on their behalf. God can't accept anything else other than His Son. Adam was once His son, but lost that standing when He sinned. Now, with Jesus being our representative man, we just put our faith in Him and what He did for us, and instantly God sees us as His Son. When God looks at us, He doesn't see us, He sees Christ! In that moment we are "washed, purified, and justified" in the sight of God! (1 Cor 6:11).

We hope to be able to elaborate on these teachings. We try not to write too much in one, since it is a daily devotional, although we have much more in our hearts that we burn to share on these subjects.