The Importance of Receiving Jesus Personally as Your Savior

If you look at these eight things, they're like rungs of a ladder that you've got to climb to get to heaven. You can never be these things enough in order to earn the blessing of God. Have you ever received Jesus personally as your Savior? That's where everything starts. Salvation is a gift that you have to receive. The core word of the gospel is substitution. And if I'd never learned to trust in Jesus, I would have never had this grateful response"