1. What Does It Mean To Be Saved FOR GOD SAVED US AND CALLED US TO LIVE A HOLY LIFE. HE DID THIS, NOT BECAUSE WE DESERVED IT, BUT BECAUSE THAT WAS HIS PLAN FROM BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF TIME—TO SHOW US HIS GRACE THROUGH CHRIST JESUS. II TIM. 1:9 NLT

2. SAVED  During this Christmas season, we need to remember why Christ was born.  Jesus Christ came to die for our sins  Asking Jesus Christ to become your personal Savior is the greatest decision you can make in your life.  SAVED is a Bible word. “Whosoever ever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be SAVED.” (Romans 10:13)

3. SAVED  ITS DEFINITION The word Salvation simply means deliverance. It is commonly used to describe the act by which a person is delivered from a danger that threatens him. We speak of a person being "saved" from drowning, or from a burning building, or from a sinking ship.

4. SAVED  In each case, three things are taken for granted. (1) The person to be saved was in danger of death. (2) Someone saw his peril and went to his rescue. (3) The rescuer was successful in his mission and delivered the person from his perilous plight, and thus "saved" him.  The words: "save," "saved," "Savior," and “salvation” occur many times in the Bible and have exactly the same meaning in a spiritual sense.

5. SAVED  S stands for sanctified. Being cleansed from sin.  Why do I need to be saved? Because all are sinners, If we confess our sins, he will forgive us and cleanse us. (I John 1:9)  So when you asked Jesus Christ to come into your life he saved you from an eternal Hell. For this purpose Christ was manifested to destroy the works of Devil. I John 3:8

6. SAVED  A in s a ved stands for A ssurance  How do I know I am saved? Salvation is not based on a feeling, though you may have experienced the joy of your sins forgiven when you became a child of God.  Blessed Assurance-based on the Word of God, the bible, God’s promise book for you.

7. SAVED  Feelings may change, but His Word abides forever. When you were saved, God was knocking at the door of your heart. You opened the door of your heart and invited Him to come in.  He took up residence in your life in the person of the Holy Spirit and will be with you until you get to heaven.

8. SAVED  13 And because of what Christ did, all you others too, who heard the Good News about how to be saved, and trusted Christ, were marked as belonging to Christ by the Holy Spirit, who long ago had been promised to all of us Christians. 14 His presence within us is God’s guarantee that he really will give us all that he promised; and the Spirit’s seal upon us means that God has already purchased us and that he guarantees to bring us to himself. This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God. Eph. 1:13-14 TLB

9. SAVED  V in sa v ed stands for V ictory  Victory does not mean you will never sin again. However, if you do sin, God now has a provision for you to get forgiveness.  Sin does not cause you to lose your salvation, but you can lose your fellowship. To illustrate; when you did something wrong as a child, it did not mean you were no longer a child of your father.

10. SAVED  However, you did lose your fellowship with your father until you confessed your wrong. When you confessed, your fellowship was restored.  For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God” (Romans 3:23-26).

11. SAVED  The E in sav e d stands for E dify  Edify is a word that means to strengthen and build you up. As you daily read the Bible and memorize verses, you will grow spiritually.  Like pizza is physical food for the body. Jesus and the Word of God is spiritual food for our souls, He said, “I am the bread of life”. (St. John 6:35)

12. SAVED  D in save d stands for D irection  Direction When were saved, the Holy Spirit comes to live within us. He is the third person of the Trinity. He is that “still small voice”. When we sin or do wrong, the Bible says He will be "grieved” and convict us of our sin. But when all is right He brings peace. (St. John 16:7-8)  He is also your teacher, to lead you into all truth and help you understand the Bible. Here are some verses. *(Ps. 23:2-3, Ps.139:7-10, St John 16:13)

13. SAVED  ELEVEN THINGS SALVATION AND THE NEW BIRTH ARE NOT 1. Not of natural generation or descent - "not of blood." Though one may be born in a Christian home and of Christian parents, this does not make him a Christian. 2. Not of self determination - "will of the flesh." Just as a child cannot will itself to be born physically, so no one can produce the new birth by his own efforts.

14. SAVED  3. Not of human mediation - "nor of the will of man, but of God." No human being whether priest, prophet, preacher, bishop, or other supposed spiritual leader, however eminent his position, can impart the new birth or spiritual life to anyone.  All the rites, rituals, ceremonies, sacrifices, penance, confessions or repetitious prayers of any or of all organized religions can never produce the new birth.

15. SAVED  4. Not a physical change. Christ corrected Nicodemus' misunderstanding concerning this and showed him it was a spiritual change. St. John 3:6. 5. Not a social and geographical change. The born again person is not suddenly translated to heaven, but he continues to live on earth, now to please his Lord and Savior. Colossians 3:23-24.

16. SAVED  6. Not an intellectual apprehension of what it is. A person can be religiously educated, ordained to the ministry, and become a preacher without being born again. There are many such. Theoretically they may know its necessity, yet know nothing of it by experience. II Peter 2:1, 20-21.

17. SAVED  7. Not an evolutionary process. It is not a gradual development of some germ of spiritual life that is within. Ephesians 2:1-2. Sinners are described as being spiritually dead.  It is not a process. Birth brings life instantaneously. Life cannot be developed where birth does not exist!

18. SAVED  8. Not a reformation or self- improvement by which outwardly bad habits are relinquished. It is not a change of the manners or habits of the person. Ephesians 2:8-9. It imparts a new life. “I give unto them eternal life.” John 10:2.

19. SAVED  9. Not of water baptism. All the water in the ocean cannot save or cleanse you. There is no saving power water no matter what man may tell us.  Baptism is an ordinance showing the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ and nothing more. When we are baptized, it is a public testimony of what God has done in our life. I Peter 3:21b.

20. SAVED  We are not saved by water but by the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed on the cross.  1 Peter 3:21 (TLB)- 21 That, by the way, is what baptism pictures for us: In baptism we show that we have been saved from death and doom by the resurrection of Christ; not because our bodies are washed clean by the water but because in being baptized we are turning to God and asking him to cleanse our hearts from sin.

21. SAVED  10. Not a confirmation. Some churches administer certain rituals that claim participants, usually children 12-13 years of age, as saved. Sometimes this is an anointing with oil, which supposedly signified the receiving of the Holy Spirit.  We should speak blessings over our children but we do not receive Christ or the Holy Spirit by an act of man but by receiving Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. John 3:6.

22. SAVED  11. It is not a religious belief or church membership.  It is possible to be sincere in one's religious convictions, be baptized, confirmed, join the church, take communion, teach a Sunday School class, occupy a church office, be a preacher or priest or do supposed miracles of healing and prophecy without being born again. *Acts 8:18- 24.

23. SAVED  The new birth is a spiritual transformation, (You can’t go back into your mother’s womb to be born again) St. John 3:3- 6.  Salvation can only be brought about by confessing of our sins and God’s spirit.

24. SAVED  Resource  BBN.org-New Beginnings  BBN.org-Salvation