Thursday, October 7, 2010

You Don't Save Yourself

One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.
(John 5:5-9 ESV)


It's not what we do, how we behave, what rules we keep, what music we listen to, what movies we watch, how much we pray, how much we give, how much we know, how clean our language is, what political party we belong to or whether or not we believe the correct doctrines that saves us.

We are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus alone. This is not your doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one can boast.

Soli Deo Gloria.

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