by Vincent Charles

Created on: September 20, 2009

The only way to be saved is through the knowledge and revelation of Jesus Christ. No one will ever accidentally trip and fall into heaven. There are so many verses in the New Testament that tell us that the only way to be saved is by knowing Jesus. Look at John 14:6, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. This verse declares that the only way to be saved is through knowing Jesus Christ who is the Son of God, and who laid down his life for our sins.

How do you come to know Jesus? The four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John record the life and teachings of Him. Read them and begin to apply the principals taught to your life. Don't worry if you fail in some areas, just get back up, repent, ask for forgiveness, and go after it again. King David who is said to be a man after God's own heart had many failures, but he always came to a place of repentance and God forgave him.

Reading and learning about Jesus isn't really getting to know him fully. As you begin your journey of reading about Jesus, begin a lifestyle of prayer. Ask him for his strength in your areas of weaknesses, repent, and ask him for forgiveness. And watch transformation take place in your life.

In the book of Acts, Saul, a highly respected Pharisee, hated Christians and everything to do with them. He did everything in his power to find and arrest anyone practicing Christianity, because he believed they were blasphemers and teaching heresies. On a journey to Damascus with orders from the King to arrest all Christians, Jesus appeared to him as a bright light from Heaven that knocked him off his horse and blinded him. During the time he was blinded he received a full revelation of Jesus Christ. A new believer, Ananias came to Saul and prayed for his eye sight to be restored, and told Saul that he received a word from the Lord that Saul would suffer many things for Jesus' name sake. After this Saul changed his name to Paul, he went before a group of Christians and gave his testimony, as he showed his orders from the king to arrest all Christians, he threw the papers into a fire. Paul began his ministry and planted churches everywhere he went. He also wrote majority of the New Testament.

Paul knew Jesus, and Jesus knew him. Which brings me to the other side of this topic, Jesus said in Matthew 7:21-23, Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'

You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven as a result of good works, but by faith in Him, without faith, he does not know you, and those he does not know He will command them to depart from Him.

Yes, you must know Christ to be saved, but more important, He must know you.

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