This is summarily how one gets saved! Repentance of one’s sins of the past is necessary and then they are done away with by acceptance of the atoning blood of Jesus Christ, shed on the cross 2000 years ago. There He underwent the punishment a humanity sold to sin would otherwise have had to undergo, namely a criminal’s death. But unlike our sinless Lord, we humans would thereafter have gone to eternal hell to pay the ultimate price for sin.
Yet now, our Lord Jesus was resurrected from death! Death could not hold Him, Who had not sinned and had come for the express purpose from heaven to die for us in our stead. He was risen from the dead on the third day by the Holy Spirit, and He is : “(…) gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto Him.” New Testament, the letter of 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 22
Accept Him as your Savior therefor, and He will give you His Spirit. The Spirit will renew your spirit (called the being born again) in order to come and live in your heart, where He will help you to grow into the likeness of Jesus Christ, and to get to know both the God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ!
Baptism explained
After you have given your life to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bible says that you have to be baptized: “Go you therefor, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost (…)” New Testament Gospel according to Matthew chapter 28 verse 19
Baptism shows to all in heaven and on earth that you have quit following the ways of this world and will follow Jesus. “Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory and power of the Father, we too might walk (habitually) in newness of life (abandoning our old ways of carrying on in life).” New Testament the letter to the Romans chapter 6 verse 4
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