Saved By Grace Through Faith

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SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH Prepared by Daniel Keeran, Victoria, Canada

Saved By Grace Through Faith prepared by Daniel Keeran, Victoria, Canada With attention to selected terms: grace, obedience, works, dead, alive, raised, circumcision of Christ, faith, baptism, baptized, forgiven, sins, saved, new life, crucified with Christ.

How does Jesus save us from our sins?

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will SAVE his people from their SINS.- Matthew 1:21 Out of his fullness we have all received GRACE in place of GRACE already given.

- John 1:16 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. – 2 Corinthians 5:21 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.- 1 Peter 3:18

What must one do to be forgiven of sins?

Peter replied, "Repent and be BAPTIZED, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the FORGIVENESS of your SINS. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

– Acts 2:38 "No! We believe it is through the GRACE of our Lord Jesus that we are SAVED, just as they are." – Acts 15:11 However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me – the task of testifying to the good news of God's GRACE.- Acts 20:24 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be BAPTIZED and wash your SINS away, calling on his name. – Acts 22:16

What is this grace?

Through him we received GRACE and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to FAITH and obedience for his name's sake. – Romans 1:5 And all are justified freely by his GRACE through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.- Romans 3:24 Through whom we have gained access by FAITH into this GRACE in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.- Romans 5:2

Is this grace based on works?

So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.' – Luke 17:10 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, discovered in this matter? If, in fact, Abraham was justified by WORKS, he had something to boast about—but not before God. What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”Now to the one who WORKS, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their FAITH is credited as righteousness. - Romans 4:1-5 And if by GRACE, then it cannot be based on WORKS; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.- Romans 11:6 For you know the GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

- 2 Corinthians 8:9 But he said to me, "My GRACE is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.- 2 Corinthians 12:9 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the GRACE of Christ and are turning to a different gospel. - Galatians 1:6 who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and GRACE which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity, but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel – 2 Timothy 1:9-10

What is the relationship of faith and baptism into Christ?

For you are all sons of God through FAITH in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were BAPTIZED into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. – Galatians 3:26-27 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from GRACE.- Galatians 5:4 To the praise of his glorious GRACE, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

- Ephesians 1:6 he SAVED us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his MERCY. He SAVED us through the WASING OF REBIRTH and renewal by the HOLY SPIRIT – Titus 3:5

When is one forgiven, raised, and made alive?

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's GRACE. – Ephesians 1:7 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were DEAD in our transgressions, made us ALIVE together with Christ (by GRACE you have been saved), and RAISED us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. - Ephesians 2:4-6 For by GRACE you have been SAVED through FAITH; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. - Ephesians 2:8-9 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST; having been buried with Him in BAPTISM, in which you were also RAISED up with Him through FAITH in the working of God, who RAISED Him from the dead. When you were DEAD in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you ALIVE together with Him, having FORGIVEN us all our transgressions. – Colossians 2:12-13 Who 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. This GRACE was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time. – 2 Timothy 1:9 But he gives us more GRACE. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble and oppressed." – James 4:5-6 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the GRACE that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care. – 1 Peter 1:10 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the GRACE to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. – 1 Peter 1:13

Who can receive this grace?

For the GRACE of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. – Titus 2:11 But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the GRACE of God he might taste death for everyone. – Hebrews 2:9 See to it that no one falls short of the GRACE of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.- Hebrews 12:5

Can faith save without action?

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have FAITH but has no deeds? Can such FAITH SAVE them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but

does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, FAITH by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

But someone will say, “You have FAITH; I have deeds.”

Show me your FAITH without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - and shudder.

You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his FAITH AND HIS ACTIONS were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and NOT BY FAITH ALONE. In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? As the body without the spirit is dead, so FAITH without deeds is dead. – James 2:14-26

Does grace allow false teaching and immoral behaviour?

For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the GRACE of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.

- Jude 1:4

When was Paul crucified with Christ? Is baptism only ritual symbolism or something more?

For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God. "I have been CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by FAITH in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me "I do not nullify the GRACE of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly." – Galatians 2:19-21 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were BAPTIZED into Christ Jesus were BAPTIZED into his death? We were therefore buried with him through BAPTISM into death IN ORDER THAT, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a NEW LIFE. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was CRUCIFIED WITH HIM so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been SET FREE FROM SIN. Now IF WE DIED WITH CHRIST, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all;

but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but ALIVE to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore DO NOT LET sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to LIFE; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.

For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under GRACE. – Romans 6:1-14

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