Salvation is the single greatest benefit that any human being could receive.
To be saved spiritually means that you were on your way to hell when Jesus Christ rescued you. Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. What is Grace? But what exactly does that mean? It is God’s unmerited and undeserved favor in bestowing upon us the gift of grace. With the guarantee of heaven, believers are ‘saved’ from eternal damnation in hell. Is that all there is to it? The term ‘saved’ simply refers to the standing a believer has in Jesus Christ. Thus the gospel is not about how to have a better life now, but rather about how to have eternal life and not come into judgment (John 5:24).
C. God saves us by His … Here we see two great truths. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. Notice what Jesus taught about how serious sin is: “The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.
And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. The old saying that grace is “God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense” is certainly true but it goes so much deeper than that. Being saved by grace means that we have received a gift from God that we do not deserve.
W hat does it mean to be saved by grace? How can you be saintly if you have not been changed? As we explain in detail in our other articles about salvation , being saved is a process that begins with the human mind turning away from living and thinking the way that comes naturally to us, and instead turning to living and thinking the way God expects. To be saved (in the bible) means to be saved from our sins — forgiven. We are saved by grace; the work is God’s, not ours. For you, you who are still of your old self, it is true that you were saved by Jesus, and that you are not counted as a sinner because of the salvation of God, but this does not prove that you are not sinful, and are not impure. All who are believers are sealed with the blood of Jesus Christ, and seen as righteous in the eyes of the Lord…’saved’ to be with God in heaven. However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness” (Romans 4:4–5). What does it mean to be saved? God gives us his favor, his love, his son…despite the fact that we have done nothing to earn it.
“Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation.