D.L. Moody

Posted : 30 Oct, 2009 06:36 AM

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.



Salvation is a gift from God. If a man worked it out, he would boast of what he had done, and say, "Oh, I did it." A Scotchman once said it took two persons to effect his salvation�"God gave me His grace and I fought against Him." It is not then for men to work, or they will boast of it, and when a man boasts you may be sure there is no conversion. The Ethiopian cannot change his skin, neither can the leopard change his spots. We do not work to get salvation, but we work it out after we get it.8 If we are ever saved it must be by grace alone. If you pay anything for salvation it ceases to be a gift. But God isn�t down here selling salvation. And what have you to give Him if He was? What do you suppose you would give? Ah, we�re bankrupt. "The gift of God is eternal life"; that�s your hope. "He who . . . climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber."



In Christ



Steve

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