Daily Word - Not by Works

Daily Word - Not by Works
 
We have been born into a world of consequence ... sin and death ... and
our minds have taken shape in this environment of "cause and effect" ...
"Do good" and I am rewarded ... "Do bad" and I am punished ... which is
the basis of so many trying to earn the grace of God ... and the gift of
salvation.

But God's grace and mercy is not subject to what we've done ... or what
we can ever do.  His grace and mercy was promised from before creation
... and bestowed upon us before we ever knew Him ... But by His grace
which was poured upon us by the blood of Christ ... we have been
justified.  By His Holy Spirit ... we are being sanctified ... and by
His eternal love ... we are adopted as His heirs, to glory.

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

Titus 3: 3-7
For we ourselves also were ... foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving
divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and
hating one another.  But after that the kindness and love of God our
Savior ... Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but
according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and
renewing of the Holy Ghost ... Which he shed on us abundantly through
Jesus Christ ... That being justified by his grace, we should be made
heirs according to the hope of eternal life