Ephesians 2:8-9 – “God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.”
The believer isn’t the man who boasts in their goodness. Non believers reckon they can be good without Christ. Not the believer, he’s the man who has no good but in Christ alone. So he believes in Christ who works in him and not he for Christ. Our goodness aren’t our efforts. Christ’s death is a judgment on humanism, whose best judgments are sinful.
On the cross Christ died to pay the debt of our sins. We were acquitted and discharged as free from the debt of sin according the pattern of Adam. But a free man in debt could be caught again in the same and become worse in that state. However Christ was buried and in His resurrection gave us a new life and a new identity; His very nature that makes it impossible for us to be slaves again to sin and its penalty.
A man once said he loves the teachings of Christ but frowns at the death and resurrection of Christ. He’s a man who has faith in human deeds not in a savior. He will perish in his thinking! For he says like John wrote “we have no sin and thus calls God a liar” Faith in Christ’s sacrifice for my sin and inadequacies is the ONLY eternal morality. All others are frailties. Believe in Him !
It’s a brand new day! Keep enjoying Kharis!
Pastor Josh Laryea