Salvation & Conversion

Are you saved? Is it the same thing as conversion? Many are asked that question as if the two things are the same! No one in the Bible ever spoke of the day that they "got saved" as so many people do in this time. What does the Bible say about the subjects of salvation and being saved?

Jesus said that he who endures to the end will be saved. Paul wrote of the "hope of salvation" and Peter spoke of salvation being the end of our faith to be revealed in the latter time. What is the truth? Are you already saved, or not?

Study this page to learn the truth about Salvation. There are also audio clips taken from the What Must I Do to be Saved CD teaching series. Click on an article title in the box in the right column to read from a range of articles covering different aspects of the truth about salvation.

What Must I Do to be Saved CD Set

What Must I Do to be Saved? examines an issue that everyone needs to understand. Confusion and error are everywhere on this subject and your eternal fate depends on understanding these things. Learn about salvation, being saved and the things you must do to be saved. This 4 CD set available at cost price from our eBay store

. This is vital understanding for walking with the Lord.

ONE HOPE

Taken from the Gospel Tract
"Seven Pillars"

The one hope of the body of Christ is "the hope of salvation" (1Thess. 5:8). Unbelievers are "strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world" (Eph. 2:12). Other ways of stating this hope is the "hope of eternal life" (Tit. 1:2), or "hope of glory" (Col. 1:27). Eternal life is promised to God's people, "unto which promise", said Paul, "our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come" (Acts 26:7).

In the early 20th century, some Christians began to claim to receive salvation at the moment of conversion. They were persuaded to believe that they "got saved" when they came to Christ, and in spite of the fact that it has no biblical basis, this error became widely accepted. "Salvation" is not "conversion". Salvation is the one hope of believers, a hope which the world does not have. Believers look for Jesus to return and to save them from the wrath of God. That is the sure hope of the saints. If Jesus does not save us, we who believe are hopelessly doomed along with everyone else. As Paul wrote, "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable" (1Cor. 15:19).

No, my believing friend, you are not saved yet, though we have the hope of it if Christ by his Spirit dwells in your heart, then you have the hope of eternal glory (Col. 1:27), a hope which the world does not have. And we should, as Peter exhorted us, "be ready always to give an answer to every man who asks you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear" (1Pet. 3:15). We humbly confess Christ everywhere we go, in both deed and word, for "confession is made unto salvation." Pointing us to our hope, the Master said, "Many false prophets shall rise, and will deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will wax cold. But he who endures unto the end, the same will be saved" (Mt. 24:11-13).