We Are Saved By The Precious Blood of Jesus

1st Peter 1:18-21, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.”

The Holy Bible teaches in 1st Corinthians 6:20, “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” That price is the precious blood of Jesus Christ! The place is the Mercy Seat in Heaven (Hebrews 9:12, 22-24; 12:24). 

We are not saved by sacraments in the Roman Catholic church. We are not saved by turning from our sins. We are not saved by doing good deeds. We are not saved by joining a religious organization like Seventh-Day Adventism. We are not saved by our own human effort. We are saved solely by the sin-cleansing blood of Jesus! 1st John 1:7, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” Revelation 1:5, “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, 

A commonly misunderstood passage of Scripture is 1st Corinthians 6:9-11, “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.Carefully notice verse 11... BUT YE ARE WASHED!!! The Bible says: AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU!!! We are all guilty sinners. You are either saved by the blood, or you are still lost in your sins.

I knew Dr. Steve Pettit (president of Bob Jones University since 2014) was unsaved, when I heard him preach in BJU chapel on January 26, 2015. Dr. Pettit teaches that faith in Jesus is not enough to be saved. In addition he says that you must faithfully “run the race” until the end to earn the “reward” of “Heaven itself.” A born-again believer doesn't talk like that. I was saved at 13 years of age by the blood of Jesus, and I don't have to live the Christian life to get to Heaven. I've been saved by the blood of the crucified One!

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