Your Eternal salvation by divine
grace ALONE; This is what it means if it is indeed by grace alone:
- God ALONE purposed that
salvation for all elect before time.
- Christ ALONE accomplished
that salvation for all elect at the cross.
- The Holy Spirit ALONE applies
that salvation to each elect personally.
- These divine activities ALONE
make a man perfectly fit for eternal glory.
- Nothing more is needed
for a man's eternal salvation. 'It is finished!'
'Grace ALONE' means 'grace PLUS
nothing,' not 'grace PLUS something.' But the latter is really what many people
actually believe!
Timely salvation (deliverance
that pertains to the present life on earth) is conditioned upon the activities
of God's children.
- These divine activities
enable a child of God to perform activities that will secure him deliverance in
the life here and now.
There is the eternal salvation
that was already purposed and accomplished and applied to those dead in
trespasses and sins.
And there is ALSO the timely
salvation that God's children must work out for themselves with fear and
trembling, in obedience to their Father's will for them.
Distinguish the two, and don't
confuse them.
Is your eternal salvation by
grace ALONE plus nothing?
