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Why do I need to be saved?
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It is a fair
question and a necessary one. Simply, the answer is because
we are lost. Jesus once observed a crowd of people following
Him and it was said of Him that He had compassion on them
because they were like sheep without a shepherd. That is,
they were lost and wandering around not knowing where they
were going for they had no one to guide them.
We need
saved because we are lost in sin. Sin is defined as going
against God’s law (I John 3:4) and it is the common
experience of all mankind as Romans 3:23 tells us, “for all
have sinned and come short of the glory of God”. Sin is also
described as when a person “knows the right thing to do and
does not do it, to him it is sin” James 4:17. Further, we
can even go against our conscience and that is considered
sin (Rom.14:22,23). Finally, John the Apostle tells us that
“all unrighteousness is sin” (I John 5:17). If you can stand
before God and tell Him that you have never disobeyed His
law, and that you have never failed to do a good thing, and
that you have never gone against your conscience and that
all you have ever done has been right, then, at least in
your eyes, you have never sinned. Or to say it another way,
you are perfect! Are you to ready to think that about
yourself? Are you ready to tell others that? Are you ready
to stand before God and tell Him that?
But a person may say, “I don’t feel like I am
lost”, and may even take offense at such a suggestion, but
the thing to keep in mind here is that God and His Word need
to be factored in before coming to such a conclusion. What I
feel like and what I have actually done are often two
different things. When you get pulled over by a policeman
for speeding, many times we don’t think we were speeding but
the radar says we were. So with God’s Word we may not think
we violated His Word, but He says we did when He tells us
that “all have sinned…”. Please think about these things.
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