Lesson 1 · Upper Room Study Guides

You Can Be Saved

God loves you and wants to save you. The good news is that no matter what you have done, Jesus made a way for you to be forgiven and made new.

Key verse

“For "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Romans 10:13 · NKJV

The problem — sin

Every person has sinned and fallen short of God’s glory (Romans 3:23). Sin separates us from God and its wages is death (Romans 6:23; Isaiah 59:2).

The provision — Jesus

God so loved us that Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again (1 Corinthians 15:3–4; Romans 5:8). In His name there is salvation.

The pattern — Acts 2:38

When the crowd asked, “What shall we do?”, Peter answered: repent, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. This is God’s plan of salvation, and it is for you.

Search the Scriptures

Read these passages in your Bible

  • Romans 3:23
  • Romans 6:23
  • Acts 2:38

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Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version (NKJV).

Work through it

Read Romans, then Acts, in that order

Three references carry the lesson: Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, and Acts 2:38. Open your own Bible and read them before you come back to the teaching. Romans 3 states the problem and says whom it belongs to. Romans 6 names what sin costs and what God gives instead. Acts 2:38 is Peter's answer to a crowd who had just asked what they should do, so read from verse 36 through verse 41 and notice who was asking, what he told them, and what they did that day. The three sections above follow the same order — the problem, the provision, the pattern — which means the lesson is a frame around those passages rather than a replacement for them.

Where it leads

The first of six, and repentance is next

This opens the New Believer study: six lessons running from salvation through repentance, baptism in Jesus' name, receiving the Holy Ghost, holy living, and growing in Christ. Read them in order, because each assumes the one before it. The step this lesson asks for — turning to God honestly — is the whole subject of lesson two, so it is a short walk from here. If you would rather work on paper, the six print as a free seven-page booklet in which every lesson carries the key verse, the teaching, a fill-in-the-blank Bible study, and a step to take. Read alone, with one other person, in a new-convert class, or as a family. Nothing is scored, it is open to everyone, and marking a lesson complete leaves a note in your own browser and nowhere else.