Legacy of Christianity
52 FACTS OF
SALVATION
“The Legacy of Christianity”
Taken by permission from book, “Believers In Action”
by Dr. T. L. Osborn
Here are the significant facts of the Christian faith for salvation – treasured by First Century believers, lost during the Dark Ages, but now rediscovered by millions around the world. These 52 facts are fundamental to experiencing Christ’s salvation and His companionship as your friend.
1. We were unsaved before we received Christ. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. – Romans 3:23
2. We were guilty before God, under the penalty of death. For the wages of sin is death. – Romans 6:23
3. But God loved us too much to see us perish. He is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. – 2 Peter 3:9
4. God offered His best to prove His love for us. He so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. – John 3:16
5. Christ was God’s gift to us and He died for you and for me. But God commends His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. – Romans 5:8
6. We realize that our sins had separated us from God. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you. – Isaiah 59:2
7. Knowing that our sins cost God His Son, and Jesus His life and blood, we repent of them. You sorrowed to repentance … for godly sorrow works repentance, and you know that except you repent you shall perish. – 2 Corinthians 7:9-10; Luke 13:3
8. We confess our sins to Him and are cleansed. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. – I John 1:9
9. We recognize Jesus at the door of our heart. We open it and He comes in. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if you hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in and will sup with you and you with Me [dine together and have fellowship]. – Revelation 3:20
10. We receive Jesus and become God’s child. As many as received Jesus Christ, to them He gave power to become the children of God, even to them that believe on His name. – John 1:12
11. We become a new creature. If any one be in Christ, that one is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. – 2 Corinthians 5:17
12. We know we are born again because we receive Christ. Jesus said, You must be born again. And when you received Christ with power to become God’s child, you were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a human being, but of God, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever. – John 3:7; John 1:12, 13; 1 Peter 1:23
13. We believe the powerful message of the Gospel that saves us. The Gospel … is the power of God to salvation to every one that believes. – Romans 1:16
14. We believe on the name of Jesus Christ because of the record of the gospels. These are written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing, you might have life through His name. – John 20:31
