If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved

God loved the world so much that He came down upon the earth as man, lived a perfect life without sin, and took on our punishment on the cross in our stead. He died and rose again after 3 days and now sits at the right hand of God, waiting to return back to earth. He died for us, so that we can be reconciled back to the Father! If we choose to accept his sacrifice, we can have our sins forgiven. Not only that, we can now have a relationship with Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit! This gift is free and can only be free, because there is no way we could ever pay back such a wonderful gift. 

Romans 3:23 tells us, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” God is so holy that if we were to approach Him as sinners, we would die. Thus, the reality of sin needs to be acknowledged by all who approach the throne of God for salvation. A sinner must acknowledge the hopelessness of his guilt before God in order for forgiveness to take place, and he must understand that the “wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Without this foundational truth, the gospel message rings hollow.  

Because Jesus is both God (Colossians 2:9) and man (John 1:14). Jesus lived the sinless life that we could never live (1 Peter 2:22), and, because of that, He is the only one who could die a substitutionary death for the sinner. Sin against an infinite God requires an infinite sacrifice. Therefore, either man, who is finite, must pay the penalty for an infinite length of time in hell, or the infinite Christ must pay for it once. Jesus went to the cross to pay the debt we owe to God for our sin, and those who are covered by His sacrifice will inherit the kingdom of God as children of the king (John 1:12).

With the resurrection of Christ, if you choose to believe, you are guaranteed freedom from death and sin. The eternal punishment that awaited you has been taken on by Jesus! What a victory! The resurrection is the proof of the power of God. Only He who created life can resurrect it after death, only He can reverse the hideousness that is death itself, and only He can remove the sting that is death and the victory that is the grave’s (1 Corinthians 15:54–55). Now you can live in victory because Jesus has already won the battle! Unlike all other religions, Christianity alone possesses a Founder who transcends death and who promises that His followers will do the same. All other religions were founded by men and prophets whose end was the grave. But God!