THE FIVE SOLAS AND MAN

You might think that after two thousand years that man would finally understand that our salvation cannot be bought at any price. That there is absolutely no performance, work, act, sacrifice or mechanical effort of any kind that will satisfy the requirement for salvation. NONE! This being a biblical fact, the Apostle Paul writes; " Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of FAITH." {Rom 3:27}

If this were not so, imagine how our lives would resemble a television game show, with game show egos and prizes for the best planned salvation! There is nothing whatsoever on this earth that is created by, created from or created through man. Even the products by which we color our gray hairs comes from material and substance created by God! "For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?" {1Co 4:7} Why indeed!

"For by GRACE you have been saved through FAITH; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; (9) not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. (10) For we are His workmanship, created in CHRIST JESUS for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them." {Eph 2:8-10 }

Paul continues citing his direct experience in discovering that Christ even found purpose in him who was trying very hard to kill and imprison those followers of the Way; all in the name (he thought) of God! "But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me." {1Co 15:10 }

It is a gift. It cannot be bought, sold, bartered, or earned. It is through His magnificent GRACE that we find forgiveness and the true Light.

King David understood and attempted to share this Gospel with his flock in Psalms; "And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no man living is righteous." {Psa 143:2}

Here are the Five Solas by which we all are saved:

We are saved by GRACE alone, {Sola Gratia}  Through FAITH alone, {Sola Fide} In CHRIST alone, {Solus Christus}  according to SCRIPTURE alone, {Sola Scriptura}  all for the glory of GOD alone. {Soli Deo Gloria}

"For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever." {Rom 11:36}

AMEN.

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