Hearing About Your Salvation

“God our Savior…will have all humanity to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4)

“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Timothy1:15)

"The wages of sin is death but the free gift of God is eternal life...." (Romans 6:23)

What does a person have to do to be saved? 

Only two things. First you have to be BORN. Second you have to DIE. 

Since all will be saved, the important thing is to become AWARE of our salvation and believe it is true...thus being able to have peace and joy. That belief comes from hearing about it.

"Faith comes from hearing..." (Romans 10:17)

Note that it is not salvation that comes from hearing, but faith (belief). It is clear from Scripture that all will bow and confess Jesus is Lord. (Philippians 2:10-11). 

"Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord" (Philippians 2:10)

Confess means to “agree with” and thus have faith that Jesus is the Lord of our salvation. Most people have never heard of Jesus during their lives, so could not have confessed him.  They will after they are resurrected from the dead. 

"For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive... (1 Corinthians 15:22)

Some hear about Jesus but the message they hear is flawed - it requires them to do something by their own righteous free will. However, "the faith that comes from hearing" is the hearing of the message of the grace of God in saving all sinners, regardless of what they have or have not done.

"For in grace, through faith, are you saved through faith, and this is not out of you..." (Ephesians 2:8 CLNT)

Some will experience a "second death" (See my blog post Second Death - The Lake of Fire), but even the second death is to be destroyed, and those who experienced it will be "made alive".  Then God will be "all in all".

"The last enemy to be destroyed is death...so that God may be all in all."
(1 Corinthians 15:26-28)