ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTE:

Jesus Christ is the Head and the Center of our faith, of the faith of any true believer, any true Christian. And we grow closer to the understanding, ways, will, instruction, and knowledge of our daily walk in Jesus Christ and He in us through daily study and meditation upon His inerrant living Word.

We receive salvation only through repentance. Asking forgiveness of our sins. Committing our lives to God and Jesus Christ the Lord, believing in the power of the Spirit of God to forgive, heal, renew, and save.

Not by works.

By our faith, our love and devotion to God and making Jesus Christ Lord of our lives we do good works and bear good fruit as a result of our faith and the grace and salvation of the shed blood of Jesus Christ the Lord, and His resurrection conquering death, and our trust and faith in Him, in God, in the living inerrant word of God, in the Holy Spirit, and in the infinite power and grace of God our Father.

We are not saved by our works. We are not saved through baptism. Nothing wrong with baptism — just that alone, nor our works can save us.

We must make Jesus Christ the Saviour our Lord — Lord of our lives, and the center of our lives knowing our faith in Him and God and the word of God, and our repentance, our forgiveness of sin, our being renewed of mind and spirit and walking in the Spirit of God, our FAITH and BELIEF in Jesus Christ is what saves — not anything we do other than believe — serve — forgive — humble ourselves — and obey Jesus Christ our Saviour, Lord, and Head of us, His body.

Ken Pullen

Grace, Faith And Salvation

by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam

The largest segment of the organized Church [Church of Rome] has long opposed the teaching that salvation is by grace, through faith alone. She teaches that it is by grace, through faith and good works, protesting that we do not place the proper stress on good works, and that she does place as much emphasis upon grace and faith as we.

One advocate of this religious denomination agrees that men cannot be saved without Christ or faith or grace, but objects that the grace of God, accepted by faith in Christ, is not enough to save.

He says: “All men are born in original sin, and all must be cleansed by Baptism. In Baptism, Grace is implanted in the soul by God and confers the right to heaven.”

But what about the thief on the cross, who looked to Christ in his dying moments and never had an opportunity to be baptized? Was he not saved? (See Luke 23:42,43).

If, according to Hebrews 10:4, it is not possible for the blood of bulls and of goats to take away sins (even though required by God), could this writer explain to us how any amount of water could possibly wash away one sin or right one moral wrong?

But one might gather from the above quotation that the baptized soul at least is safe and secure, since the grace implanted by God “confers the right to heaven.” But not so. “The Church” never gives her devotees true peace or assurance; never sets them free. “The right to heaven,” conferred upon the baptized person, is the right to strive for it! This writer goes on to say, “We worship God by the practice of our religious duties in order to obtain our salvation.”

How satisfying and reassuring is the Word of God itself on this subject:

“Now to him that worketh [i.e., for salvation] is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

“BUT TO HIM THAT WORKETH NOT, BUT BELIEVETH ON HIM THAT JUSTIFIETH THE UNGODLY, HIS FAITH IS COUNTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Romans 4:4,5).