5. We believe in salvation. We believe that salvation is a gift of God, bestowed
upon those who trust on Jesus Christ alone as Lord and Savior; that meritorious
works are of no value in obtaining salvation, for all of man's righteous deeds
are as a filthy rag; that salvation is based on the vicarious atonement of Christ,
who paid the full redemptive price for the sins of God's people and satisfied
the righteous demands of God the Father for them too. Those who trust in Christ
for salvation receive eternal life and are justified before God, and are now
able and obligated to perform good works. Believers will persevere because they
are kept by the Father for Jesus Christ.
We also believe that salvation is a divine plan conceived of God in eternity
past to secure infallibly the glorification of His elect people. God the Father
chose in Jesus Christ a definite group of people, for whom Jesus Christ laid
down His life and the Holy Spirit most effectually calls to salvation. Jesus
Christ also is sanctifying them with the ultimate goal of bringing them to glory.
Not one will be lost in the process.
Ephesians 2:8-9
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is
the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Isaiah 64:6
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy
rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have
taken us away.
Galatians 3:13
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for
us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Romans 3:24-26
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood,
to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through
the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just,
and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Ephesians 2:10
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
1 Peter 1:5 (cf.,
John 17:24)
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be
revealed in the last time.
John 17:24
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where
I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst
me before the foundation of the world.
Romans 8:28-30
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,
to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the
image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called,
them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Additional Scriptures
Ephesians 1:4;
John 10:15;
John 6:37, 44-45, 65;
Ephesians 5:26
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