"IF": Have You Done Enough to Receive Salvation? || Spoken Word

We all ask the question, "Have I done enough to receive salvation?" Even if we aren't thinking about it from a heaven/hell point of view, we all want to be saved from something: boredom, purposelessness, fear, shame, persecution.

But if there is a perfect God who is a perfect judge, how do we know if we have done enough to be in his good graces?

As you will see in this video, there is nothing you can do to receive salvation. Asking "if I" will only lead to feelings of condemnation. Asking "if Christ" however, will lead to you being convinced that God has done everything for you to save you. All you have to do is believe that Jesus is God, that he died for your sins, and that he rose again to make all things new: including you.

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Lyrics:

If
If I
This is the condition
The why
The question mark over each of our lives
If
If I

If I am good enough
If I don’t mess up too much
If I go to the right church
If I prove to God my worth
If I pray before I eat
If I read scripture before I sleep
If I
Do enough good works
Share the gospel with those who search
Always give it my best try
Do the most I can before I die
If
If
If
If I

The problem with these questioning lines
Is not actually that you’re asking “if”
But that your “if” is dependent upon your “I”

Because if you are trying to provide
Yourself with an equation
That assures you of your salvation
And you’re using yourself
As
The standard
The cause
The determinant
The foundation
Then
The only answer you will ever get out of your internal interrogation
To the question, “Have I finally done enough to receive salvation?”
Will be a resounding negative declaration:
NO!

No, you aren’t good enough
No, you messed up too much
No, you did not do enough good works
No, you did not prove to God your worth
No, you didn’t give it your best try
No, you didn’t do enough before you died

If your “if” is based on your “I”
Your assurance of salvation will always be denied

And yet, for every single one of us
This is what we have tried
To base our salvation
On self-evaluation
Yet, all we will ever get out of this arrangement
Is condemnation

That is why you feel lacking no matter how hard you try
Because your “if” is based on your “I”
That is why you feel disobedient no matter how often you comply
Because your “if” is based on your “I”
It’s why you feel
Distant
Like a misfit
A second-class citizen
It’s why you feel empty no matter how much you supply
Because your “if” is based on your “I”

And your “I” can never measure up
To the standard of God on high
Not because his standards are awry
But because he is perfect and we always fall short of that prize

So, there is always condemnation for those who are in “I”

But there is good news
There is Gospel
Free to all without a price
For there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ

So let’s make a new condition
Let’s ask a different why
With the old one gone
Let’s fly a freshly drawn question mark over each of our lives
Let’s ask a new “if” to replace our “if I”
Let’s ask
If
If Christ

If Christ was good enough
If Christ loved so much
If Christ died to save his church
If Christ rose to give us his worth
If Christ provided bread of life to eat
If Christ fulfilled the scriptures by crushing death beneath his feet
If Christ
Performed every good work
Sought out those who never searched
Died the death we should have died
Beat the grave to raise us to life
If
If
If
If Christ

The joy within these questioning lines
Is that the “if’ of our salvation is no longer dependent
On something that we supplied
Instead, the if of our salvation is dependent
On the one who loved us so much that he was crucified

So let’s abandon our “If I’s” and run toward “If Christ”
Let’s move from feeling like “I’m condemned” to say, “I’m convinced”
That neither life nor death
Neither heights nor depths
Not my own faults or mess-ups
Not my guilt or distrust
Nothing can separate me from the love of God
Because all my “if’s” Christ answered on the cross

So we ask this final if, and with it all condemnation is crushed
If God is for us who can be against us?