29/04/2024
CAN YOU BE SAVED BY YOUR OWN EFFORTS?
You did not come into this world by your own efforts. You did not choose anything, not your height, not your complexion, not your family, not your country of birth, nothing at all. You did not choose to be born good or evil. all that you are is only the will of the creator,!
So how can you think that to go to the other world, to be in paradise, you have to make efforts? how can you think that your salvation and your entry into the kingdom of heaven would depend on your own works?
What works did you do to come into this world? None.
And what work do you think you can do to deserve paradise?
salvation is obtained by grace, nothing but grace. Salvation does not depend on man, otherwise what man could be righteous enough to deserve to enter the house of him who is thrice holy?
Job 9:2-3,20
[2]I know well that this is so; How can man be righteous before God?
[3]If he wanted to argue with him, Out of a thousand things he could not answer just one.
[20]Am I righteous, my mouth will condemn me; Am I innocent, he will find me guilty.
Job 15:14
[14]What is man that he should be pure? Can he who is born of woman be righteous?
Ecclesiastes 7:20
[20]No, there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Man is saved by grace. If someone tells you that heaven depends on how often you are good, kind, how often you love people and do good to them, just ask them to explain this verse to you:
Psalms 53:2-3
[2](53:3) God looks down from heaven on the sons of men, to see if there is anyone who understands, who seeks God.
[3](53:4) All are astray, all are perverted; There is none who does good, Not even one.
This is why the Bible repeats and insists:
Galatians 2
[16] However, we have understood that one is declared righteous before God, not by doing the works commanded by the Law, but only by faith in Jesus Christ. This is why we too have placed our trust in Jesus Christ to be declared righteous by faith and not because we