What’s all this talk about SALVATION?
And all this musing about redemption
What’s all this deliberation about HEAVEN?
And this fuss about the need to be forgiven?
Is there for a fact only one single way?
Aren’t all religions just as effective today?
What is all this talk about being a sinner?
And that from my birth I was in sin a beginner?
Couldn’t I receive this SALVATION if I behave?
Can’t I keep the Ten Commandments to be saved?
And what about Lucifer who is now the Knave?
And in Adam and Eve we all became depraved?
This is more than a mouthful for me to swallow,
My way of reasoning won’t allow me to follow,
Such a bogus story so nonsensical and shallow
That I refuse in such hocus-pocus to wallow.
If this is your stance then a sorry mess you’re in,
There is nothing hocus-pocus about your sin,
The Bible says it’s a fact and we had better believe
That it is only in Jesus that we can be relieved.
I pray today that this is beginning to sink in
How from Adam and Eve we are all born in sin
And it doesn’t matter where we live on this earth
To receive SALVATION there must be a spiritual rebirth.
Don’t dismiss all this yet, certainly not right now
For in the next few stanzas I will show you how
Such SALVATION can be yours and with it HEAVEN
And you can be truly and eternally be forgiven.
All have sinned according to Romans 3 verse 23
And the soul that sins is worthy of death eternally,
That is the sinner’s just recompense, both you and I
So declared the Almighty God and in Him is no lie.
Yet God in His justice also demonstrated His mercy
When Jesus died on the cross for both you and me,
From that day all believing sinners would be forgiven
Everlasting life would be theirs and at last HEAVEN.
A believing sinner, is that what I just heard?
Yes you heard correctly and it’s found in God’s Word
That he who comes to Him must believe He exists
For God rewards everyone who Him no longer resists.
So acknowledge that you are a sinner; do it today!
Acknowledge your need of the Saviour; no longer delay,
Confess your sins to the Father; this is the Bible’s
way
Any contrary instruction and you’d still be astray.
Repent of your sins for this is your godly sorrow,
Trust the crucified Saviour and as Lord you must
follow,
For with the heart a man believeth unto SALVATION
And the witness of that change is unashamed confession.
You see this SALVATION is not really about a plan
Instead this SALVATION is really about a man,
It is the man Christ Jesus whom his own denounced
But Saviour of the world whom the angels announced.
That is why there is SALVATION in no other name
Read Acts 4:12 and you’ll see it there proclaimed,
Jesus God’s Son bore the cross, the anguish and pain
So that each poor lost sinner could be reclaimed.
A critical point before I bring this poem to an end
Is the serious nature of our sin debt, my friend,
It’s not to be taken lightly as so many do today
As they try to by pass it and come in another way.
There is no change when some claim conversion
Because regarding their sin there was no confession,
Regarding the good news sin is the bad news part
That must be dealt with before the good news start.
There can be no SALVATION unless your sin you confess
Then turning away from such sin is critical I stress,
And accepting Jesus Christ as your Saviour and Lord
Allow the Holy Spirit to guide you in the light of the
Word.
Then and only then can you be a candidate for HEAVEN
Being born again you become enlisted in the kingdom,
SALVATION is then yours; there is surely no doubt
SALVATION now and HEAVEN to come; Hallelujah let’s
shout!
Stewart Russell © 2016
