May I encourage you to ask the same question of the Lord and of the Christians you come into contact with. When meeting professing Christians, asking them this question— “What must I do to be saved?” is a wonderful way to discern whether someone is of the Lord or not.
If you come across some so-called Jehovah’s Witnesses on a street corner with their strange illustrations and pamphlets on offer, although I would encourage you not to engage in conversation with them, if you do happen to find yourself in conversation with them, then I would encourage you to ask this question, this very question that the Philippian jailer asked—a question that you will find in their mangled Bibles: “What must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:30).
The answer will not very likely be verse 31, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.” It will likely be a series of good works in their eyes which need to be completed. And if they are honest with you, according to their heretical, heterodox, evil system of thought that has been conjured up by the devil, there is no way for you to know assurance of salvation here and now in the way that Paul and Silas were able to offer this Philippian jailer.
If you have thirty seconds to live, and you ask the question of a JW, “What must I do to be saved?”, they will in all likelihood offer you no hope. And the same is true for many of the cults and false teachings. Their system simply doesn’t have room for such a hopeful answer as Acts 16:31— ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.’
