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The True Gospel (part 2)

So having become saved we have also been delivered from bondage to sin and Satan and transferred from the kingdom of Satan into the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. Where we were "widows" and "orphans" and "fatherless", and have become the "bride" of Christ and adopted into God's family as His Children. And are safe and secure from the Wrath of God because where we were once at "war" with God, we are now at "peace" with God.

Now I have only scratched the surface here. But notice that every single action is the action of God, and not any action that we take. Our actions, our obedience to any commandment of God, our repentance, our belief, our endurance, etc. are all "works" That we will begin to do, not to initiate or maintain our salvation, but they are the result and evidence of our salvation, and the work that God has done for us, and in us.

There are those that would say that Christ paid for the sins of every individual in the entire world and that in order to be saved we must reach out and accept that salvation that God had earned for us. That is not the gospel of the Bible. It is a gospel of grace plus works. It is a gospel that declares Christ has done what he can do, and now it's up to us. It is a gospel that cannot save.

The true gospel is a gospel where God does 100% of the work in saving us He chose us, He paid for our sins, He draws us, he applies his salvation to our life , He keeps us, and He will complete our salvation at the Last Day.

So what can we do to become saved? We can do NOTHING.

But we can come to God in whatever condition we are, no matter how sinful we have been or may be now, Knowing that it is still the day of salvation, and God is still saving his elect, and we may be one of his elect. And we can cry to God for his mercy, and begin to turn away from our sins, in the very real hope that God might save us.

Christ came for sinners he did not come for good people.