How Do I Get Right With God?

On Sunday we concluded our Back to the Basics series.  In many ways this was the most important message in the series.  It is like writing a test in school and getting all the answers right but putting down the wrong name.  If you get everything else right but this, you have gotten everything wrong.  The question is: how to get right with God?  There are only three options:

1) What You Know.  Proper doctrine is important but it is not enough to be right with God.  The demons understand God better than we do and yet they are not right with God.

2) What You Do.  People today are more interested in what you do than what you know.  The problem with good works is that you can go through the motions without putting your heart into it.  Also, God's standards are so high that we will never be able to meet them.  You do not want to try and earn God's love.

3) Who You Know.  It is all about who you know.  Putting your faith in Jesus and what He did on the cross puts you in relationship with Jesus.  That makes you an adopted child in the Father's family.  Knowledge and action are good when they flow out of our relationship with God but they are no substitute.