SERMON 148   SAVED BY WHAT

    There is good news for you .  You  can be saved from sin, death, wrath, and eternal punishment in hell.  We know that we haved sinned against God.  We know that if the world continues, we shall die.  Yes, the Day of Judgment is coming.  Yes, we need a Savior.  We need to be saved from sin, death, wrath, and eternal punishment.
    We are saved by the love of God.  God loves you.  Listen to:
    John 3:16,17:  For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
    that whoever believes in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life.
    For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that
    the world might be saved.  John 3:16,17.
Yes, we are saved by the love of God. God our savior,
     who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
     1 Timothy 2:4,
    We are saved by the savior Jesus the Messiah,. The angel said  in:
    Matthew 1:20,21:  . . . “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to
    you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
    “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He 
    will save His people from their sins.  Matthew 1:20,21.
The name Jesus means savior, which is Yeshua in Hebrew.  We are saved by Jesus.
You need a savior to save you from your sins.  Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost.  Will you be saved?  
    We are saved by the Good News, the Gospel of Messiah.  Let us read:           
    1 Corinthians 15:1-4:  Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which 
    I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand,  by which
    also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless 
    you believed in vain.  For I delivered to you first of all that which I also
    received:  that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that He 
    was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,... 
    1 Corinthians 15:1-4.
Yes, we are saved by the Gospel of Christ which is the good news that Messiah Jesus died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.  The Gospel is the power of God to salvation.  Romans 1:16.
    We are saved from  the wrath of God through Messiah Jesus.  Listen to:
    Romans 5:9:  Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we 
    shall be saved from wrath through Him.  Romans 5:9.
Yes, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Messiah Jesus.
    We are saved by grace through faith.  Salvation is a free gift.  Listen to:
    Ephesians 2:8:  For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not 
    of yourselves;  it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Yes, we are saved by grace through faith.  Will you recieve this free gift?  We need to notice that faith is not a work whereby we earn salvation.
    We are saved by the word of God.  Listen to:
    James 1:21:  Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness,
    and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your 
    souls.  James 1:21.
Yes, we are saved by the implanted word, the Bible, the word of God, the truth.  The word of God needs to be planted in our minds so that we will know and believe the truth.  The word of God teaches us to believe in Messiah Jesus.  The word of God teaches us to repent, to turn from sin to  righteousness.
     We are saved by those who teach us the word of God and the Gospel.  Listen
    Jude 23:  but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even
    garment defiled by the flesh.  Jude 23.
When Christians teach other people the word of God, they save them, pulling them out of the fire of eternal punishment in hell. The Apostle Peter preached:
    And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved
    from this perverse generation.”  Acts 2:40.
Will you believe the good news that Messiah Jesus died for our sins, was buried and raised  the third day?  Will you repent?  Yes, be saved from this perverse generation.  Next, let us read:
    1 Peter 3:21:  And 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.  1 Peter 3:21.  NASB
The word of God clearly states that “baptism now saves you.”  But how does baptism now save you?  Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ .  Baptism now saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  When you are baptized, you are baptized into Christ, into His death.  Romans 6:3.  Through faith you are buried in baptism with Christ into death and raised up to a new life in Christ. Romans 6:4.  Yes, baptism now saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Will you be baptized, immersed under the water, through faith into Christ?   --Next, listen to:
    Titus 3:4,5:  But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward 
    man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but 
    according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration
    and renewing of the Holy Spirit.  Titus 3:4,5.  
Yes, God saves us through the washing of regeneration, which is baptism.  When you are buried with Christ in baptism, it is then that the blood of Christ takes away your sin.  Read Hebrews 10:22.  Baptism is not something that you do, but is done to you.   We are saved through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit renews the Christian, giving life (Romans 8:4-16), and producing fruit in the life of the Christian (Galatians 5).
    We are saved by the love of God who gave His only begotten Son.
    We are saved from our sins by our Savior Jesus the Messiah.
    We are saved by the Gospel, the good news that Jesus Messiah died for our
        sins according to the scriptures, was buried and rose again the third day.
    We are justified by the blood of Messiah and saved from  the wrath of God.
    We are saved by grace through faith.  Salvation is the gift of God.
    We are saved by the word of God, the implanted word.
    Baptism now saves you through the resurrection of Jesus Messiah.
    Messiah Jesus saves us through the washing of regeneratioçn.
    Messiah Jesus saves us through the renewing of the Holy Spirit.
Do you want to be saved from sin, death,  wrath and eternal punishment in hell?
Be saved yourself from this perverse generation.(Acts 2:40.) Listen to Acts 2:38: 
    . . . “Repent, and let every on of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
    for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus said: “He who believes and is baptized will be saved. . . . Mark 16:16.