TEXAS GOSPEL VOLUNTEER

There is nothing you can do to purchase your salvation, and nothing in your own effort or goodness that could ever settle the debt your sin has created before God. The entire message of scripture on this point is consistent and clear: we are saved by God’s grace alone, which means it is completely unearned and entirely undeserved.

The greatest expression of that grace was God sending his Son Jesus Christ into the world to die in our place at Calvary, shedding his blood so that our sins could be forgiven. Because of what Christ did there, God can now pour out his grace on those who believe, since the full debt of sin has already been paid. Nothing else and no one else can clear that debt. Only the righteousness of Christ and his sacrifice make it possible for any person to stand forgiven before God.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Ephesians 2:8-9