What is the first step in salvation according to Les?
The first step in salvation is faith—believing what God's Word says about oneself, specifically that all have sinned and fall short of God's glory. It means taking God at His Word concerning yourself, acknowledging your need as Scripture declares it. This faith guides not only into salvation but through the Christian experience.
Les teaches that the first step in salvation is to believe that I am what the book says I am—short of the glory of God, as Romans 3:23 says. It is taking God at His Word concerning myself and concerning you. He explains that unless we can believe what God says about certain activities or acts, we do not know that it is sin. But when God says it and we believe it, then we know what it is. Faith is that which guides us not only into salvation but all through our Christian experience. It is all based on what the book says, not what someone else says.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
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Where does a person have to start in order to be saved?
Every person who wants salvation has to start by realizing how lost they are, because that is what Romans 3:23 says: for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.