4 Important Things You Need to Know about Salvation > 목회자칼럼

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1. "The basis of salvation is grace."

Without grace salvation is not possible. 

Whose grace? If this is a fallen world and we can produce nothing 

good apart from God, then this grace has to come from outside of us. 

This is God’s grace. Grace must come from the one you are indebted to.

The Creator who knew His creation would turn against Him loved 

His creation enough to carry out a plan across thousands and thousands 

of years to deliver them and fulfill His promise through the ultimate 

sacrifice of His Son on a cross. 

Death was defeated and eternal salvation was made possible for all 

those who believed through faith before Jesus’ resurrection and after.

The dead can come to life…this is grace by way of substitution. 

This substitution—Jesus paying the penalty of sin 

instead of you—is a gift, and by this extraordinary gift (called grace) 

your debt has been paid.

2. "The instrument of salvation is faith."

So in order to have faith, you must first receive grace. 

As Greear expressed, both grace and faith come from God. 

Saving grace was made possible through a one-time act of substitution, 

and faith is something God can produce in you through the Holy Spirit. 

So it is God who opens your eyes to His grace 

and gives you the means to have faith.  

Through faith you believe that Jesus is who He said He is and that 

He did what the Bible said He did. 

You believe in Him for your salvation that 

He alone can remove death’s hold on you.

3. "The result of salvation is good works."

Those who are saved believe in Christ through faith alone by grace alone, 

and they continue to follow Jesus through obedience and good works. 

However, obedience and good works are not done in order to receive 

something or to climb the ladder higher than other believers. 

Followers of Christ obey and do good works because they are already loved; 

it is the response of a transformed soul to God’s existing and lasting love.

4. "The confidence of salvation is that what God started, he will finish."

God gives us grace and the means to believe through faith, our faith is 

acted out through good works, which we do in obedience because of 

God’s great love for us. 

And we continue to live out our faith for God’s glory because we believe 

that what God has started in us He will finish. 

Because God’s promises are true and lasting, 

we can have complete assurance in our salvation and our heavenly futures.