UNMERITED SALVATION

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In Christ, Mark

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of His own purpose and grace.

2 Timothy 1:9a

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

Quick questions to consider, not just today but every day.

What did you have to do to gain eternal life despite your sinner status?

No physical action was needed, right?

No assignment to prove your worthiness for salvation, correct?

Nothing else was required except to believe in Jesus with faith. That’s it.

From that moment forward, you became a true child of God and as if that wasn’t amazing enough, you also became spiritually wealthy, a co-heir along with Christ who is entitled to a place within the coming Kingdom of God.

God didn’t establish this covenant promise out of compulsion because no one can come against Him with any leverage to make Him act in any way. This made His salvation gift completely unmerited and available to all people. Indeed, God so loved the whole world that it was by “His own purpose and grace” that He provided a way for us to avoid perishing in eternal damnation and instead receive everlasting life (John 3:16). All one needs to do to be saved is confess with their mouth and believe in their heart that God raised Jesus from the dead (Romans 10:9).

When one does this, when one willingly chooses to place their faith in Jesus as Savior and become a Christian, then God does something special through the leading of the Holy Spirit He send to dwell within us.

He leads us to live the holy lives He has called us to...to be holy as He is holy.

It’s true, right?

When we choose to be a Christ believer and model our lives after His, then we will see our behavior become drastically different from those who live for the world. This is because following the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Advocate and Counselor Jesus promised God would send after He ascended, sets us apart or sanctifies us. We no longer live in earthly ways but rather the ways of our Lord and Savior. And each day we do this, we become a better version of ourselves in Christ than we were the day before.

Friends, this is the story outline of every Christian in a nutshell.

First, they chose to accept God’s unmerited offer of salvation through Jesus by doing nothing more than simply believing in faith.

Then, they submitted to the guidance of God’s word and the Holy Spirit, allowing their lives to be transformed and conformed to the life of Christ. Doing this day by day leads to holiness as the Jesus disciple is set apart more and more from the world.

This daily process of growing more and more holy while striving to model the life of Jesus continues until that day when either the Rapture comes or this earthly life ends, whichever comes first. Either way, the cessation of this worldly existence becomes the introduction to an eternal life where we will abide with our Father God and Savior Jesus forever.

It’s the best ending a life story can have and it beats the alternative. For anyone who decides to reject God’s offer of salvation through His Son will gain a merited eternal life of torment and damnation (aka Hell).

Every person’s life is going to end one way or another. I pray you have chosen the undeserved saving God brings through Jesus for all who would simply just believe.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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