And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
There are millions who know God is real but only those who have placed their faith in Jesus will be saved.
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Is it enough to know we are saved?
I cannot answer that question for everyone, only myself. As a teenager God made Himself known but did that mean I was saved? That is a question that has haunted me for many years. I know without a doubt that I was changed through no will of my own, it was a thing that happened to me with no effort on my part. Seeing change, did that mean I was born again? I don’t know, all I have is what I experienced after that moment.
- Psalm 95:7
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice,
John 10:3
To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
I did not hear His voice for decades. Does that mean I wasn’t His until I heard His voice?
I don’t know.
- Psalm 7:10
My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. - 1 Peter 3:21
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Right after my encounter with God I was baptized but my appeal to God for a good conscience did not come until I heard His voice. Yet strangely enough I felt that my life was shielded from harm so that at the appointed time I heard His voice.
Was I saved as a teen? I don’t know but now that I understand what it means to be saved I have to say not from everything. Salvation is not just one thing. I did not know that then.