Grace, Faith & Life

What is Saving Faith?

by Theophilos on Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:37 am

We know God does the saving, but what is our part? We repent and believe. Does repenting mean we must make a commitment to make Jesus the Lord of our life before we are saved?

Listen to this seven minutes of a sermon on why a Pastor thinks that a man he is talking to can’t be saved. Click on Sermon to play audio.

That is a classic example of “Lordship salvation”.

Our problem is not our sins. How can we ignore the many scriptures which say that the sin issue was removed from the world by Christ’s death on the cross? Our problem is that we are spiritually dead. We need spiritual life. We are saved by the life of Christ, not the death of Christ.

8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Romans 5:8-10 (KJV)

 

What we repent of is unbelief. What we believe is.

1 John 4:1-2,4-6 NIV
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. [2] This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, [4] You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. [5] They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. [6] We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

What we receive is a new life in Christ.

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