The Written Word of God We confess that this Word of God was not sent nor delivered by the will of men , but that holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit, as Peter says. Strong Christians get that salvation comes by grace alone, through faith alone because of Christ alone You know the pages I mean: the ones that have paragraph after paragraph that begin with the words WARNING

also a deep-rooted assurance, created in me by the Holy Spirit through the gospel, that, out of sheer grace And third, the strange and surprising account of the dead man who instantly comes to life after being unceremoniously dumped in a grave, in which he touches Elisha's bones. Scripture alone provides all that we need to be eternally saved in the grip of God’s grace, which was

Dig Deeper   These five 'Doctrines of Grace' that we've begun unpacking this year are known by a famous This means that God has legally obligated Himself to you. Your election is completely based in God's grace.

A legitimate oath means calling upon God as the one who knows my heart to witness to my truthfulness But the good news is that all of history is rushing to re-establish this relationship between God and man But still you're obligated to strive to live a life defined by Psalm 15 out of gratitude for the grace

answer about true faith (Q&A 21) prompted the series of questions and answers about what each statement means The only action attributed to the recipients of this amazing grace is hearing and believing it (1:13)

. 8 “Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them. 9 But I, with shouts of grateful The story is meant to have a comedic bent to it. The reason this is important is because in a chiasm, the primary meaning of the passage often comes in it's certainly the case that "salvation comes from the LORD" (the final line of the poem), the primary meaning

Rather, in his grace God grants me the righteousness of Christ to free me forever from judgment. Let's strip away some of the literary beauty and figure out what Paul means here: v13 - The law helps

converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity Point 4 - Irresistible Grace For this reason, people t­hemselves,  by that grace which they have received,  are also rightly said just heard, some followed Paul and Barnabas, and talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace

that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men They could sense that the words they heard and read were not the ordinary words of men.

After all, the whole Abraham narrative began only five chapters earlier in the book of Genesis, which means God's promise was far more than an ordinary promise; it was more than just an optimistically set goal