What is Saving Faith?

March 7, 2008 |

Author Theophilos

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 guy 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 receive is a new life in Christ.

What we believe is.

[29] Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” [30] Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. [31] But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. John 20:31 – New International Version Emphasis mine

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