Ever been asked that one?
It's a loaded question....
Wanna know the answer?
What does it even mean?
Or is it different for everyone....?
Plain and simple - - the answer is
- we all have -
No matter what, Christ covered the whole deal. Period. No matter how many sins, he got 'em all.
We will be resurrected and brought into the presence of God.
No matter what WE can do.
We are 100% saved by Christ's grace.
The question is, will we be "changed by grace".
People get so excited about this "one-time" fix of our mistakes that they forget to think about what comes after being "saved by grace".
He didn't just suffer for us so we could sit back and relax, he suffered for us as an investment - we have to BECOME something - like Him.
HOW?!?
He saved us - He just asks us to show faith in him, repent, be baptized, receive the Holy Ghost, and "endure to the end".
These make us a new person. A person like Him.
His part was really hard... ours is simple.
We just show Him our appreciation by letting Him change us today.
We can't do it by ourselves but...
It seems that many believe too much that their own efforts can save them. Others, on the other hand, believe too much that being saved by grace requires nothing of them. Both are wrong. No one can be saved, except through the grace of Jesus Christ. On the other hand, those who believe they are saved automatically have a much too narrow view. Saved from what? Saved for what? What is the purpose of the judgement, if we are saved with no effort on out parts for the same universal reward. Grace, or the mercy of the Lord, requires that we repent and be baptized. How can we repent, except we obey his commandments to the end? If two accept Christ as their Savior, but one is faithful to the end while the other wastes his life, can they expect the same reward, even though they are both "saved"? It seems to me that a natural outcome of accepting Christ's atonement through our repentence and baptism is a commitment to obey him, which gives as "hope" for an eternal reward in his presence, living the kind of eternal life he lives.
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