SALVATION IS ONLY BY FAITH THROUGH THE GRACE.
We are saved by faith through graceMost believers think that they can be saved by keeping the laws, others believed their salvation depends on their own righteousness.
Salvation is not just by faith alone, but the faith must be through the grace of God
To understand the definition of the grace of God , it is wise to know the Greek and Hebrew words behind this term.
The Hebrew word describing the grace of God is “chesed’. This word speaks of deliverance from enemies, affliction, or adversity. It also denotes enablement, daily guidance, forgiveness and preservation. While the Greek word describing God grace is called “Charis”. It focuses on the provision of salvation.
What is the grace of God?
In the New Testament, grace means God’s love in action towards men that He favored. For man to merit the grace of God or to be favored by God, God had to sent His only Son Jesus Christ to descend into hell on the cross of Calvary to take away the guilty of man before the presence of God. God hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Grace may be defined as the unmerited or undeserving favor of God to those who are under condemnation.
For it is by grace you, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by work.
Salvation Grace
Having discussed about God grace, it is necessary we move on to salvation
Salvation is of divine origin. But it is not anything that God was bound to arrange by the necessity of His nature. It is the product of His gracious will. If not for his good ,pleasure, salvation Would never have come.
The grace of God is the only surviving hope of man salvation, in the absent of the grace, faith would be insufficient to earned us righteousness before God.
Faith, wherever present, exist in the in the mind, and it is generated by the Holy Spirit influence of light and peace. Faith, in common with every other Christian virtue, exist in the heart.
Do You Know
Jesus’ prayer “Father, forgive them” was answered in the lives of many people. The Roman centurion at the foot of the cross, upon seeing how Jesus died, exclaimed, “Surely this man was the Son of God!” (Mark 15:39). One of the two thieves crucified with Jesus exercised faith in Christ, who promised him paradise (Luke 23:39–43). A member of the Sanhedrin publicly aligned himself with Jesus (John 19:39). And, a little over a month later, three thousand people in Jerusalem were saved in one day as the church began (Acts 2:41).
On the cross Jesus provided forgiveness for all those who would ever believe in Him (Matthew 20:28). Jesus paid the penalty for the sins that we commit in our ignorance, and even the ones we’ve committed deliberately. When we are born again, we, too, become an answer to Jesus’ prayer “Father, forgive them.”
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