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By Grace Alone
Part 1
1. 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."
2. Rom. 4:6,7 - God imputes
"Righteousness without works."(see #9, #4, #45, #7, #12, #53).
3. Rom. 10:3 – It is a fatal error for anyone to try and,
"Establish their own righteousness."
4. Rom. 5:17 – A Heaven-deserving Righteousness is a "GIFT", not something you earn.
5. Rom. 5:18 - Justification by God is a "FREE GIFT”, not something you work toward.
6. Phil. 3:9 - Paul, as ‘good’ as he was, still would not trust his "own righteousness" to save him.
7. Rom. 3:22 - God's Righteousness is credited to "ALL THEM THAT BLIEVE", not all them that work.
8. Rom. 8:3,4 - The flesh is too "Weak" to save itself. We need a Savior. We need Christ. (see #86).
9. Rom. 4:3 - Abraham's faith, not works, "Was counted unto him for Righteousness." It is what God gives a man that is counted for Righteousness, not anything which is in the man by nature.
10. Rom. 4:4,5 - Works are "Not reckoned of grace, but of debt." Faith is counted as Righteousness.
11. Gal. 3:10 - To earn Heaven you'd have to "Continue," perfectly, in the whole law. (see #81, #86).
12. Titus 3:5 - "NOT BY WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost." Salvation is not by what we have done, but only by what God has done.
13. John 5:24 - In Christ we have "PASSED from death unto life." We don't have to ‘wait’ to find out. We do not have to perform works of obedience to do this. The Savior has done it all by grace.
14. Rom. 9:31,32 – Israel, "Sought it (Righteousness)
not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law." (#33, #54). Paul did not
praise God for their salvation, he
prayed FOR their salvation.
15. Acts 4:12 - No other name but Jesus Christ of Nazareth (Acts 4:10) can save us — not the name of works, nor our own name. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
16. John 1:12,13 - Only God's power, through His Son, makes us a child of God. We are not born into God's family by "Blood" (heritage, family ‘pedigree’), "Nor of the will of the flesh" (good works), "Nor of the will of man" (minister, or man-made religion), "But of God" (see #12, #53, #21, #17, #22, #46, #15).
17. Isa. 45:21,22 - No one else can save a soul from Hell but God; God says: “…there is no God else beside Me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside Me. Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.”
18. Acts 13:39 - "And by Him [Christ] all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye COULD NOT BE JUSTIFIED by the law of Moses." (see #33, #54, #53, #5, #42, #64, #82, #87, #80).
19. Rom. 8:7 - We can't follow God's law even if we wanted to. So how can we save ourselves? (see #86, #8).
20. Matthew 7:21-23 - Christ describes a future scene in which those who are trusting in their "Many wonderful works”, will, sadly, be told by Christ: "I never knew you: depart from Me, Ye that work iniquity.” Their good works will not save them. This includes the ‘
good work’ of believing, or ‘
accepting Christ’. True
believers all trust Christ, and His Righteousness ALONE. (see #46, #12).
21. John 10:1 - We must enter through Christ, "THE DOOR", not by "…some other way…" (see #46). All who are saved by grace alone enter through Christ. All who do not believe in grace alone, failingly attempt to enter some other way.
Only those who are not saved trust in their works.
22. John 8:24 - A person can work all they want, but it will not save them. Jesus said the bottom line is that, "If ye believe not that I am He [the only true God], ye shall die in your sins." (see #53 and #69).
23. Rom. 4:2 - If Abraham could have saved himself, he'd have something to brag about.(see #25, #1).
24. Acts 10:1-43 - Cornelius' good works would put anyone today to shame, yet he still had to get saved by grace through the gift of faith which trusts solely in Christ as Savior (see #6, #12, #1, #88).
25. Rom. 3:27,28 – “Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith WITHOUT the deeds of the law” (see #1 and #23).
26. 1 John 5:11-13 - If your salvation depends on a lifetime of good works, then why does the Bible teach that you could "KNOW" for sure, before you die, that you are going to Heaven? (see Jn. 5:24; 1 Jn. 3:14). The answer is because salvation doesn't depend on you, but on Christ, Who ALREADY paid the price for your sins: “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God” (see #87).
27. Heb. 1:3 - "He had BY HIMSELF purged our sins."He doesn't need help from us! (see #15).
28. Heb. 2:3 - If we have to work at earning it, why does the Bible call it "So great a salvation"? Salvation is God’s work, not by the works of His people.
29. Heb. 2:9,10 - Christ is "The CAPTAIN of their salvation."
30. Heb. 2:14-15 - Christ is the one who will "DELIVER" us from death. We cannot deliver ourselves! (see #53).
31. Heb. 2:17 - Christ makes "RECONCILIATION for the sins" of His people. We cannot reconcile ourselves. Works is man’s way, grace is God’s Way. Works always fail. The grace of God can never fail in saving God’s chosen.
32. Heb. 5:9 - Christ is "The AUTHOR of eternal salvation", not us! It's not in our hands. Eternal salvation is beyond any man’s deeds.
33. Gal. 2:16 - "Knowing that a man IS NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE WORKS of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, ...that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and NOT by the WORKS of the law: FOR BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW SHALL NO FLESH BE JUSTIFIED."
34. Heb. 9:28 - "Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many." God will not accept good works (see Gen. 4:3-5).
35. Heb. 10:10-12 - Christ's body was offered "Once for all", So stop insulting God with your works in an attempt to get saved or stay saved.
36. Heb. 10:14 "For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified."
37. Heb. 10:17,18 - "There is no more offering for sin." So stop offering your ‘good works’, which are in reality nothing but dead works.
38. 2 Cor. 1:9,10 - "We should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who hath delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in Whom we trust that He will yet deliver us.”
39. 2 Cor. 1:10 – Christ "Delivered us from so great a death." It could not have happened any other way; His chosen people could not deliver themselves.
40. Eph. 1:12,13 - You are saved by grace through faith in Christ “In Whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the Word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation: in Whom also after that ye believed, ye were SEALED with that Holy Spirit of promise.”
