SAVING GRACE - GRACE FOR SALVATION

We Are ‘Called’ Through Grace :

We are ‘called’ to God as an act of His grace.

Galatians 1:5 But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, was pleased

We are Saved By Grace:

Grace in terms of God’s unmerited favour given to us is essential for salvation and our specific calling. We are not saved by works but by grace. We do not merit His salvation based on personal righteousness or good works. Grace for salvation is freely bestowed upon us. This is what many call ‘salvation grace’ or ‘saving grace’ , which is ‘freely bestowed on us’.

Ephesians 1:6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

Ephesians 2:4-8

5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

*‘Works’* is the reference to human endeavour or effort to attain salvation through goods works. We are saved through faith by grace, so that no one can boast in their personal righteousness or their part in the salvation process. Religion is given to externalities and attempts to work outwardly to receive right standing with God. But grace is simply accepting the love and forgiveness of God. In the early church, some taught that Gentile Christians must be circumcised to be saved. The apostles and elders met at Jerusalem to discuss the matter and resolved that circumcision was not essential for salvation, for this would negate the place and work of God’s grace in saving us through faith and not by works.

Titus 3:5-7

5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

6 whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

7 so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life._

Acts 15:10,11

11 “But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are.”

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