Adam and Eve, the first human beings, disobeyed God’s rules for them. By their disobedience, sin entered the world and shattered the perfect relationship mankind had with God. Since then all human beings born of both a human father and mother have been condemned to die and to suffer for eternity in hell separated from God. We are born in a sinful condition, with a bent toward evil, and unable to save ourselves. Because of our disobedience to God, we are separated from Him, with no way to get back where we belong without His help.

Jesus is the only one who is able to save you from your sin.

God the Father sent His own Son to become a human to live and to die in your place. God the Son became the man Jesus who perfectly obeyed God the Father, and He is the only one who is able to save you from your sin. There is no other way to God except through Jesus.

Jesus lived a sinless life in perfect obedience. As a perfect human being, He took the penalty of your sin upon Himself and died in your place on the Cross. Someone had to die, because God has declared that the penalty for sin is death. As the only perfect person to ever live – and as God in human flesh – Jesus made the perfect sacrifice. God the Father was pleased with the Son’s sacrifice and raised Him to life from the dead. It is believing and accepting this work of Jesus on your behalf that provides for your salvation.

Jesus was the only perfect person who ever lived.

Jesus said that you must be born again in order to be restored to a right relationship with God. This new birth or regeneration occurs when you accept what Jesus has done to save you. It brings you out of your spiritual death in sin, gives you spiritual life, and creates a new you that wants to live with and for Jesus. God the Holy Spirit works in you to make you a new person in Jesus Christ.

Repentance is a change of direction. When you repent, you change the direction you were heading and turn to go in the completely opposite direction. Repentance is a result of being born again. When God creates a new heart in you, bring spiritual life, you will stop walking in the darkness of sin and begin to walk in the light of life with Him. Changing your lifestyle about sin will involve experiencing grief about your sin as you realize how much you have offended God who made you. You will learn to hate your sins, turn away from them, and turn to living in a way that pleases God.

Turn to living in a way that pleases God.

The kind of sorrow God wants makes people change their hearts and lives. This leads to salvation.
2 Corinthians 7: 10

Faith is a gift of God resulting from being born again and is a necessary condition for salvation. Faith is the positive response of turning to Jesus Christ and trusting His work of salvation for you. Faith is more than simply wishing something to be true. Faith is personal trust relying on the person and work of Jesus. Faith is based on the truth of the person and work of Jesus. Faith is the intellectual agreement that this truth as is the truth. Faith is embracing the beauty and love of Jesus. Faith, then, is not only believing in God, but faith is believing God and trusting Him to fulfill His promises in the future because of what He has already done.

Faith is believing God and trusting Him.

In order for you to be free of the sin’s guilty verdict, you must be justified. Justification involves God as Judge declaring you to be righteous and pardoning you of your sin. The basis for this justification is the work of Jesus on the Cross, when He died in your place and paid the penalty of your sin. God accepts the death of Jesus as the payment or atonement for your sin, “credits” it on to your account, and declares you to be righteous. Faith – trusting in the person and work of Jesus Christ – is the only condition for your justification.

You become a child of God through adoption. Adoption means that God makes the people He has justified His children. Jesus is the only-begotten Son for all eternity, but you become a child of God through adoption because of the work that Jesus did. You become an heir together with Christ to share in the glory that is now His. As a child of God you enjoy an intimacy with God as Father and pray to Him as Father. At times, He also lovingly disciplines you so that you might become more and more like Him in character.

But when the right time came, God sent His Son who was born of a woman and lived under the law. God did this so He could buy freedom for those who were under the law and so we could become His children.
Galatians 4: 4-5

No amount of your good works can make up for your imperfection before God. Your good works do not justify you. In fact, compared to His righteousness, all your best efforts are like dirty rags. You are saved by the grace of God through faith in the work that Jesus has done for you. Salvation will, however, result in good works as you become more like your heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. This process of becoming more like God and being made holy is called sanctification.Works do not produce salvation, but salvation produces good works.

Salvation produces good works.

When you die your spirit is separated from your body. Your body decays and returns to the dust of the earth.
The spirit of a saved person enters into heaven and enjoys the presence of God. When Jesus returns to earth, He will raise the bodies of the saved, making them perfect, whole, and glorified. The saved will be with God for all eternity. But the spirit of an unsaved person enters a place of torment and is separated from God. When Jesus returns, He will raise the bodies of the unsaved and condemn them to eternal hell.

All you have to do is ask in faith, and God will do the rest. Read this prayer and really mean it, and God will change your life:

Dear God, I come humbly to You knowing that I have sinned against You. Please give me new life in Jesus Christ, the One who died in my place on the Cross.  I am truly sorry for my sin and I want to trust in Jesus. I am asking now for the gift of salvation, that I may know Your forgiveness through Jesus Christ the Lord and have eternal life with Him.