1. How Do We Receive Salvation through Jesus?
What is the Gospel? Three Questions - Focus on Jesus
1. Why do we need Jesus?
2. What did Jesus do for us?
3. How do we receive salvation through Jesus?
Why We Need Jesus
1. Sin
2. Spiritual death
3. Physical death
4. Judgment
5. Hell
6. Wrath of God
7. Eternal death
What is Sin?
1. Unbelief
2. Idolatry
3. Rebellion
4. Breaking God’s law
5. Denying God His glory
What Did Jesus Do For Us? (to deal with our sin and its consequences)
1. Born of a virgin and became a man
2. Sinless life
3. Sacrifice on the cross
4. Resurrection
What did Jesus Accomplish for Us through His Life and Death?
1. God’s justice and wrath were satisfied for our sin.
2. Paid the price for our sin.
3. Declared righteous and our sin forgiven.
4. Reconciled with God.
5. Adopted into the family of God.
What did Jesus Accomplish for Us through His Resurrection?
1. Proved He was the Son of God
2. Proved His victory over sin and death
3. Proved that resurrection is real
4. Proved He will judge the world with justice
5. Provided us with hope
Summary: Sin is the problem and Jesus is the solution
Final Question: How Do We Receive Salvation through Jesus?
Another way of asking this question is: What must we do to be rescued from sin?
Important to Know that Jesus is the Only Way
Why? Because only He took care of our sin problem by suffering the punishment for it.

2. John 11:25
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die,
he shall live.”
1 John 5:11-12
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the
Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
John 14:6 (NLT)
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except
through me.
This final question about what we should do was the question asked after Peter preached the
gospel at Pentecost.
Acts 2:36-37
“So let everyone in Israel know for certain that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, to
be both Lord and Messiah!” Peter’s words pierced their hearts, and they said to him and to the
other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”
The Answer to What Must We Do - Repentance & Faith
Mark 1:15
and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the
gospel.”
Acts 20:20-21
You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have
taught you publicly and from house to house. I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they
must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.
Definition of Repentance
The Greek word for repentance is metanoia. It means to change one’s mind.
The Hebrew word for repentance is shub. It means to turn back, return, return to the starting
point, restore and come back home again.
Repentance is a change of mind, which leads to a change of heart, which leads to a change in
actions. This change involves both a turning from sin and a turning to God.
What is Repentance?
1. Conviction of Sin
2. Confession of Sin
3. Turning from sin to God
4. Restitution through Jesus
5. Restoration
Definition of Faith
The Greek word for faith is pistis. It means conviction, confidence, trust, belief, reliance,
trustworthiness, and firm persuasion.
2

3. Example of Faith: Falling Off a Cliff
If you fell off a cliff and spotted a branch on the way down that you could grab it would not do you
any good no matter how much faith you have if you don’t grab it. But even if you have just a little
faith and reach for the branch it will save you. What matters most is the object of our faith not
how much faith you have.
What is Faith?
Belief → Trust → Embrace
Head → Heart → Action
What is Saving Faith?
1. Believing that the gospel is true and that Jesus is the Messiah.
2. Trusting in the gospel and Jesus, who is the object of faith.
3. Embracing the gospel and Jesus and living your life accordingly.
When we repent and believe we are reversing what we did when we rebelled against God. Our
doubts about God led us to unbelief which led us to turn away from Him to be our own gods.
1. Unbelief 1. Repentance Summary:

2. Idolatry 2. Faith Rebellion  Surrender  Submission
Paul Washer
You see, to repent is to realize that all your thinking, your entire view about reality was wrong.
And then to see and to submit to God’s truth...
Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords and all those who are His submit to His rule by trusting
and obeying Him.
Paul Tripp
The fundamental difference between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of self is captured by
one question. Who resides at the center?
3