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What Must I Do to Be Saved?

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(The following is the May 28 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read Acts 16 and pay close attention to verses 25-34.)


Several remarkable things happened in a matter of hours when Paul and Silas were in prison at Philippi:


  • They sang and praised God even though they were in chains.

  • An earthquake opened the prison doors and broke the chains.

  • The prisoners chose to remain rather than escape.

  • Paul and Silas kept the jailer from killing himself.


Overwhelmed by the events, the jailer asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” (v. 30). They answered, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved – you and your household” (v. 31). They explained more to him, after which the jailer took them to his home and fed them. He and his household were saved and baptized.


No question is more important than “What must I do to be saved?” One’s eternal destiny hangs on the answer. The world and even professing Christians may suggest multiple inadequate answers: do more good works than bad ones, be a loving and kind person, be generous in your giving, ask Jesus into your heart, be faithful in church attendance, and other unbiblical formulas wrongly believed to earn eternal life. Many people see no need for salvation because they do not consider themselves lost or in need of a Savior.


God initiates salvation by drawing us to himself. He softens our hearts, and the Holy Spirit uses the truth of his Word to convict us of sin. When we turn from our sins and place our trust in what Christ has done for us through his death and resurrection, he saves us by his grace, and we become his children.


Like the Philippian jailor, we must understand how to be saved – for our salvation and to correctly explain the gospel to others.


Next Step:

Describe your salvation experience. How would you explain how to be saved to an unbeliever? Can you support your explanation and approach with Scripture?

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