What Shall I do to be Saved

"Now I noticed on a particular occasion, when he was walking in
the fields, that he was, according to his habit, reading in his book,
and greatly distressed in his mind; and as he read, he burst out, as
he had done before, crying, “What shall I do to be saved?”"
John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress


Those that heard Peter preach had the same response, "When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do to be saved?” Acts 2:37


The jailer that listened to Paul responded in kind, "He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Acts 16:30


When brokenness comes, the first question to leap to the lips of the sinner is, "What shall I do to be saved!"


The psalmist made it clear that the sinner is forever in danger of just slipping forever into the pit of Hell.

"Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors."

Psalm 73:18-19

The great theologian Jonathan Edwards preached, "There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment. Men's hands cannot be strong when God rises up. The strongest have no power to resist him, nor can any deliver out of his hands. -- He is not only able to cast wicked men into hell, but he can most easily do it. Sometimes an earthly prince meets with a great deal of difficulty to subdue a rebel, who has found means to fortify himself, and has made himself strong by the numbers of his followers. But it is not so with God. There is no fortress that is any defense from the power of God. Though hand join in hand, and vast multitudes of God's enemies combine and associate themselves, they are easily broken in pieces. They are as great heaps of light chaff before the whirlwind; or large quantities of dry stubble before devouring flames. We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so it is easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs by: thus easy is it for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell. What are we, that we should think to stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down?"

The Westminster Shorter Catechism makes it clear what state we are in without Christ.


"All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under His wrath, and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.
This is a horrible situation to be in and the man, in Bunyan's story, was in full realization that he was in such a situation!


He is ready to meet a dear man that goes by the name, Evangelist.