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SALVATION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH # 1

Read Acts 15:1-35

One of the hardest things for these poor minds of ours to grasp is the freeness of God’s salvation. It is so difficult for us to abide in a sense of grace. To realize that the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ is justified by faith. Justified on the ground of the finished work of Christ.

This is the gospel preached in the beginning and as preached by God’s faithful servants down through the centuries. But there have always been those who have found it to good to be true. Those who because of their legalistic minds think it not possible to be saved by grace alone. They have always attempted to add something else to the Gospel.

One says, “You are saved by faith - but, you must be baptized.” Another says, “Grace saves you, but, it is mediated through the sacraments and you must partake of the Lord’s Supper to have divine life.” Still, another says, “ We are saved by grace - but, it is through church membership.”

Now this very thing is what got Paul and Barnabas in trouble. They labored among the Gentiles and preached salvation by grace plus nothing, minus nothing. There were those who said, “Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.” This was an attempt to add something to the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

All this ignores the simple truth of God's Word. Eph 2:8-9 - 'For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works , lest any man should boast.” Over the next few Nuggets of Gold we show you for the Bible this simple truth.

Russell Stolp
Chaplain, CFO

Psalm 37:4 "Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart."
Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy
ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.