~SIMPLY TRUST HIM.................. No one deserves salvation. It cannot be earned by what the Bible calls dead works (Heb. 6:1; 9:14). Dead works include all religious activities, good deeds, or charity that one may do as a means of being justified before God. Faith towards God and what He has done through Christ Jesus is the only means of receiving His free gift of salvation. To trust in any human work or effort as a means of salvation is to fall from grace and to sever ones self from the Savior (Gal. 5:4). No one can be saved by the combination of grace and works, for they exclude each other (Rom. 11:6). You must be saved by grace through faith alone ~We get saved by God’s grace; and we stay saved by God’s grace. Grace is grace and works are works - you cannot mix them (Rom 11:6). You are not saved by a combination of the two. They exclude each other by definition. Grace means it cannot be earned. Works means it cannot be a gift. Gifts cannot be earned - wages cannot be gifts. If you can do anything to earn righteousness, then it is a wage God owes you. God will owe no man anything. If righteousness is the gift of God (Rom 5:17), it is impossible to work for it. It can only be received.
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 19:01:21 +0000
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