Did you say that your salvation is by grace?
Just what do you mean by that?
How and when did God save you?
Have you believed the gospel of your
salvation, or have you been deceived by some horrid lies?
Many LIARS teach that it is when you hear
their preaching and decide to heed their call to believe in Jesus!
That is VERY BAD NEWS - if God has to wait
for someone to preach the gospel to you and you need to hear, and to believe in
order for Him to save you, you will never be saved! By nature, it is absolutely
impossible!
The Scriptures say these about you:
- when you WERE without strength, i.e.
IMPOTENT to believe! Rom 5:6.
- when you WERE ungodly, CONTRARY to
God's will! Rom 4:5.
- while you WERE yet sinners, i.e. in the
STATE of sin and death! Eph 2:1,5
- when you WERE enemies, i.e. WARRING against
God! Rom 5:10, 8:7.
When you were still in such a pathetic,
miserable helpless condition:
- Christ DIED for you, the ungodly! He didn't
wait till you believe!
- God COMMENDED His love towards you! He
didn't wait till you believe! - Christ JUSTIFIED you by His blood! He didn't
wait till you believe!
- Christ SAVED you from the wrath to come! He
didn't wait till you believe!
- Christ RECONCILED you to God by His death
in your stead (when you have no real existence yet, except in the mind of God,
and yours names were already in the Book of Life! )
Romans 5:
6 ¶ For when we were yet without strength, in
due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one
die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in
that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified by his
blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we
shall be saved by his life.
Ephesians 2 KJV
1 ¶And you hath he quickened, who were dead
in trespasses and sins...
4 ¶But God, who is rich in mercy, for his
great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath
quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)...
8 For by grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
By grace ye are saved; WHEN are ye saved by grace?
When ye were YET DEAD IN SINS.
Do you read that?
Do you see a wee bit better now?
When ye were yet DEAD in trespasses and sins, were you capable of faith?
Yes, or No? Read John 3:3,5.
Then through WHOSE FAITH are ye saved by grace?
Are you thinking yet?
What can you do to be saved WHEN you were dead in trespasses and sins?
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Here is an exposition on Ephesians 2:8-9.
Take a close look. May the Lord bless you to see the truth. Amen.
https://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/2008/01/saved-by-grace-through-faith-whose.html
