Isaiah 45:22
“Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.”

Acts 4:12
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

Acts 16:30-34
“And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.”

Romans 5:9
“Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.”

Romans 10:13
“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Ephesians 2:8-9
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”

John 10:9
“I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”

Acts 2:21
“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Acts 11:14
“Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.”

1 Corinthians 1:18
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”

Ephesians 2:5
“Even when we were dead in sins, (He) hath quickened us (brought us to life) together with Christ, by grace ye are saved…”

2 Thessalonians 2:10
“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”

Titus 3:5
“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost…”

Romans 10:9
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

John 3:17
“For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

There are a few things to highlight here. First that it is God that saves alone. He does not need our help or for us to establish our worthiness. We call because we’re desperate. We turn to Him because there is no other who can help. We are judged in our sin already, separated from our Creator and living with the sentence of death hanging over our lives.

Second, God steps in because He can and wants to help. He will not come uninvited. So there needs to be these elements present for salvation. 1) Awareness of our true condition of sinfulness before God and his absolute right to be the judge. 2) Willingness to call on Him and to throw ourselves on His mercy. 3) Open acknowledgment that He has faithfully kept all He has promised because you believe the word of the One who has promised eternal life.

The reality is that He is door. We enter because He has taken our punishment on himself and given us His life. We cannot enter apart from Him. We cannot stand in God’s presence without Him. He must live in us and through us. We must give ourselves to Him so that He is able to put that sinful person to death in His body and give us new life. We are quickened (spiritually made alive) in Him. He now lives in us and we will not die. We now may dare to stand in the presence of a Holy God.