Hello everybody, it's MrTol23 back in the video. This is another video on the basic doctrines of the Bible.
Today I want to talk about the subject of salvation by grace through faith alone.
We believe that a man is justified or made right in the eyes of God and that he is saved
from his sins simply by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is that he must trust in
or believe in the name and of the person of Jesus Christ and in doing so he has been given
everlasting life.
The question is only asked once in the Bible, what must I do to be saved? And that's in
Acts chapter 16 verse 30 where it says, and brought them out and said, Sirs, what must
I do to be saved? Verse 31, and they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved and thy house. It is a guarantee that the only requirement for salvation is
just believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. For it says, thou shalt be saved. It's an absolute
statement rather than thou might be saved or thou can be saved. No, the only requirement
is belief on the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus himself said in John 3 16, for God so loved
the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish but have everlasting life. The word whosoever means anybody or whoever. That is
all who believe on him, Jesus says, shall not perish or shall not die but they have
everlasting life. Because of our sins we are already dead spiritually and on our way to
hell but through Jesus Christ and putting our faith in him and what he did in his death
burial and resurrection, we are quickened or made alive and given everlasting life.
The moment that our faith is placed on the Lord Jesus, in fact, we are given that eternal
life. It's written in John 3 36, he that believeth on the son hath everlasting life and he that
believeth not the son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him. In John 6
47, Jesus said, verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting
life. When we believe on him, meaning trust in our hearts in Christ and not anything else,
not anyone else but trust in him to save us, then we at that moment have everlasting life.
All who do so, all who believe on him are saved from their sins at that point and have
been given the free gift of God. This is the only way to receive the free gift of salvation
and eternal life, to ask for it through faith. Therefore, any other attempts at being justified
fail. As it's written in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8 to 9, for by grace are you saved
through faith and then not of yourselves. It is a gift of God, not of works lest any
man should boast. So we're not saved by works. We're not saved by that which we do but we're
saved by grace through faith. We don't deserve salvation because we are condemned as wicked
sinners. But God shows mercy and unmerited love and kindness which is grace unto us when
we simply admit that we ourselves are sinners and in humility believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, believe on the name of the Lord to save us from our sins. It says in Romans 3
28, therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. In
Romans 4 5 it says, but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the
ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. So our own works and our own obedience to
the commandments of God are entirely separate from salvation. We couldn't keep the law of
God in the first place. Our disobedience is what was condemning us in the past but our
sins are forgiven and we are justified or made righteous before God only through faith.
Our sins are taken away from us and God's perfect righteousness is placed upon us and
the only way to experience this great conversion is through faith, not of works. As it says
in Titus 3 verse 5 to 7, not by works of righteousness which we have done but according
to his mercy he saved us by the washing of our generation and renewing of the Holy Ghost
which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior that being justified by
his grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Those who have
believed wrongly and have trusted in their own works, trusted in themselves, in their
baptism or anything else besides Jesus Christ in order to get them to heaven, they are in
danger for Jesus is the only way to heaven, the only way to God and the only way to receive
eternal life. Therefore the Bible says in Hebrews 6 one, therefore leaving the principles
of the doctrine of Christ let us go on unto perfection not laying again the foundation
of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God. That is the foundation of our
faith, of our beliefs. The repentance from dead works toward God. Repentance is a change
of mind or a turning. When we turn from trusting in one thing to placing our face on another
thing that is repentance. We have to change what we believe to give up on all things which
we formally trusted in for our salvation and to place all of our faith on the Lord Jesus.
In Romans chapter 10 verse 9 to 11 it says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth
the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised from the dead thou
shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession
is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith whosoever believeth on him shall not
be ashamed. So all those who have done so simply believing on the Lord Jesus Christ
without any works without any of their own righteousness but simply through faith through
belief through trust if they believe on the Lord Jesus Christ in your heart and you express
that faith by calling on the name of the Lord God in prayer anybody who does that has for
sure received the gift the gift which Jesus Christ paid with his own blood the gift of
eternal life the free gift of salvation. Thank you buddy for watching and goodbye.