Salvation By Grace Through Faith Alone

Believing one can keep themselves saved reveals two things: that Christ's sacrifice was not enough and that we must help Him out by being as good as He was in our own effort.

When Christ transforms us into a new creation, it is not just a mental assent, it is a spiritual metamorphosis that only Christ can do.

God gave us examples in nature that demonstrate this transformation. The worm in the cocoon emerges from that womb into a beautiful butterfly. That worm can never turn back into a worm again.

Many other examples happen every day in nature. The calf that emerges from the cow can never become a fetal calf again; it has emerged and will never return to that helpless state again.
This is true of every mammal and every human being.

Ephesians 2:9-11 "…9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life. 11 Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)."

When God makes two people one in marriage, their souls are blended and cannot be unblended until death because it is a work of God not of man.

Genesis 2:24 "24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh."

The problem we face in our Christian world today is that most people who say they are Christians do not believe the Bible because they have never been born again.

It is only when Christ transforms us that we can understand His Word and His Ways.

1 Corinthians 2:13-15 "…13 And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment."

Only those who are born again can understand the things of God, one must have the Holy Spirit of God to recognize the depth of His Word.

May the believers reading this pray for great wisdom as they search the Word of God to grow in holiness.