GOOD NEWS ABOUT GRACE (Part 2)

 

By Rev. Jose Francisco C. Sauco
Bible Baptist Church, Pasay
jfcs04@yahoo.com

 

GOOD NEWS ABOUT GRACE (Part 2)

Let us look at five aspects of God’s Saving Grace. How is it you know for sure you’re going to heaven when you die? I built this around an
acrostic: G.R.A.C.E. WHAT IS SAVING G.R.A.C.E.?

1. G - GIFT OF GOD TO ME Rom 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Palibhasa’y inaring-ganap na
walang bayad ng kaniyang biyaya sa pamamagitan ng pagtubos na nasa kay Cristo Jesus:

Since all of us are sinners and all of us have done God and each other so many wrongs,all of us need to be made right with God by His grace, which is a free gift through Jesus Christ.

It’s a free gift.

Because of work ethics I was just talking about, many people think that they would be saved by works, by earning their way to heaven, by being
good enough that God says, “OK, come on in.”

Listen, nobody is good enough to tell God you deserve to go to heaven.

And if there is somebody here who is good enough our being “good” would not erase the sins we have done.

We still commit sins, even when we claim to be good. And none of our good works would buy our way to heaven. If you were to ask
fifty to a hundred people along every sidewalk, “How do you get to heaven?” you’d get a lot of different answers. But basically they would all be
summarized in, “You’ve got to earn your way to heaven.”

You’d hear things like, “The way you get to heaven is you try to be good and do your best.”

Or “Work real hard at being good and just try to be a good, moral person.”

Or “Do more good things in life than you do bad things in life and if your good pile is higher than you bad pile, God’s going to say, `You’re a good guy. Come on in.”

These are all based on works, not grace.

You need to understand that God says salvation is absolutely free. It’s a “free gift” from nobody else but God.

You don’t work for a gift. It’s for free.

God says salvation is absolutely free. You can’t earn it, you can’t earn it, you can’t buy it, you can’t work for it.

This is the fundamental difference between True Christianity and every other religion.

Every other faith, every other belief system, I don’t care if it’s Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, etc.

You can summarize every religion in one word: Work.

And of all the other religions, Christianity is the only religion that’s built on grace.

But beware. Not all religions that claim to be Christian are really Christian religions.

True Christianity is not based on man’s teaching but based on the teaching of the Word of God.

Claiming Christianity doesn’t make a religion a Christian religion.

True Christianity is based on God’s grace stated in the Bible;

True Christianity is about God’s free gift of eternal life - a life with God in heaven not because of works but for free - that’s what you call grace.

You don’t do anything to earn it.

Every other religion is based on works and you can summarize them in one word: Do.

There are certain things you do in order to gain God’s approval. It varies. Each system is different. One religion says do “these” things, another “these” things.

You do certain things in order to gain bliss, gain heaven, gain God’s approval. It’s always something you have to do. Rules, regulations, rituals, etc.

On the other hand, if you were to summarize Christianity in one word, it’s the word “DONE”.

Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

(To be continued)