I want to affirm that we are saved by Grace through Faith in Christ alone.
As a Believer in Christ, I think one of the challenges I’ve noticed over time is the ability of many Christians to understand and differentiate between Grace and Works in the concept of Salvation.
It usually raises questions like, Who saved you? By what are you saved? And when are you saved? We will get there, but take note of the tense.
Meanwhile, I encourage The Believers Today and everyone reading this to check out our recent article on By The Grace Of God, I Am What I Am.
Saved by Grace through Faith verse
While the scriptures are able to make us wise unto salvation, which is through faith in Christ Jesus, there is a verse of scripture that explicitly points to that fact.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (WEB) says “for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
not of works, that no one would boast.”
This statement of scripture is very clear on salvation being exclusively God’s work minus man’s effort or contribution other than to reject or receive.
Saved by Grace through Faith meaning
Usually the contention has been about Grace vs. Law, but the content is Life. In a nutshell, man sinned, and death followed. So man needed life, which only God could give. To have this Life, man needed to come into right standing with God; that is justification.
“Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.
For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.” – Romans 5:12–17 (WEB).
“Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.” – Galatians 3:21–22 (WEB).
“For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” – Romans 8:3–4 (WEB).
To be saved by grace through faith therefore means people are saved, delivered from the curse of the law, and brought into right standing with God when they believe what God has done to the sins of the world, for the world in Christ Jesus. What God has done in Christ is freely given, as is the ability to receive.
We are Saved by Grace through Faith in Christ alone
We are saved (justified or put in right standing with God) by the Grace of God when we believe in Christ. The Grace of God provided Christ for us (our Passover, the lamb of God who took away the sins of the world). Our faith in Christ Jesus (in his sacrifice for sins) leads to salvation, the new birth, and eternal life.
Ephesians 2:10 (WEB): “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.”
Furthermore, and in conclusion, The Believers Today are saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God prepared for us to walk in. Therefore, let’s walk in good works, knowing that we have been made right with God in Christ.
