How to be Saved
The most important decision that a person needs to make is where they will spend eternity. The Bible is very plane that you will spend it in one of two places. Heaven or Hell, fortunately the Lord has made a way for us to know where we will spend eternity. Below is what the Bible says about how to be saved and born again and know when your life on earth is over you can spend eternity in heaven with Him.
The Gospel - Good News
First
First you have to understand your condition as a sinner.
Romans 3:23 tell us that "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God"
Rom 3:10 “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:”
Next
I realize I am a sinner what does that mean?
Rom 6:23 states that sin has wages. "For the wages of sin is death"
Furthermore, Jesus states that the wrath of God is upon you and God requires righteousness to go to heaven.
And that wrath is eternity in Hell and separation from God to pay for sin.
What do I do now
This is where you make the decision to turn toward God for reconciliation for salvation.
Acts 20:21 - "repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”
You need to know even though we were sinners the Lord made a way out for you to be reconciled to Him.
2 Cor 5:20-21 - "be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him"
Believe the Gospel
1 Cor 15:1-4 The Apostle Paul tells us the Gospel (Good news) on how to be saved.
"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”
Eph 2:8&9 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast."
Rom 10: 9-13 says - "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
Believe and confessing that Christ died for your sins and was buried and rose again for forgiveness of your sins and now you have Christ's imputed righteousness which is God's free gift which is the righteousness that God requires to go to heaven. Also, understand the blood that Jesus Christ shed on the cross of Calvary was payment for your sins.
Now that I am saved.
Jesus said you are no longer condemned, and you can know you have been born again and have eternal life.
John 3:18 “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
You can know you have eternal life because of your belief in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
1 John 5:9-13 “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”
Follow through with believers' baptism and find a local Bible Believing church and grow in the Lord.