Ephesians 2:8-10 NASB "...For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them...."
Faith of our fathers! living still
In spite of dungeon, fire and sword;
O how our hearts beat high with joy
Whene'er we hear God's glorious Word:
Faith of our fathers, holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death.
Our fathers, chained in prisons dark,
Were still in heart and conscience free;
And blest would be their children's fate
If they, like them, should die for thee:
Faith of our fathers! God's great pow'r
Shall draw all nations unto thee;
And through the truth that comes from God
His people shall indeed be free:
Faith of our fathers! we will love
Both friend and foe in all our strife,
And preach thee, too, as love knows how
By witness true and virtuous life: (TH, 487).
In spite of dungeon, fire and sword;
O how our hearts beat high with joy
Whene'er we hear God's glorious Word:
Faith of our fathers, holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death.
Our fathers, chained in prisons dark,
Were still in heart and conscience free;
And blest would be their children's fate
If they, like them, should die for thee:
Faith of our fathers! God's great pow'r
Shall draw all nations unto thee;
And through the truth that comes from God
His people shall indeed be free:
Faith of our fathers! we will love
Both friend and foe in all our strife,
And preach thee, too, as love knows how
By witness true and virtuous life: (TH, 487).
1.) The gift of God is His awesome grace.
2.) The gift of God is His Spirit granting faith.
3.) The grace of God is from His freedom.
4.) The grace of God is not native to man.
5.) The grace of God is the instrument of faith.
6.) Grace is not a work of fallen man.
7.) Faith is not a work of fallen man.
8.) The flesh has no spiritual good in it.
9.) The sinful nature is radically corrupt.
10.) No one is able to believe from themselves.
11.) It takes the Spirit and Word to bring faith.
12.) Faith is a free gift of God and His Word.
13.) Grace is a free gift of God and His Word.
14.) Grace is the life and death of Christ alone.
15.) Faith is pleasing to a holy Triune God.
16.) Foredetermined good is from the Christian.
17.) We are quickened by the Spirit for Jesus.
18.) We are His workmanship for Jesus' glory.
19.) Reflect God's intent and live holy.
20.) Live by grace through faith unto good.
21.) Foredetermined good is what God's all about.
22.) Faith in the self-existent God-man is life.
23.) Grace from God the Son is eternal life.
24.) Workmanship is God's plan for us to do good.
25.) No one could do good unless it was of the Lord.
26.) There is civil and redemptive good.
27.) The civil goodness is those outside of Jesus.
28.) The unified merit of Jesus is right before God.
29.) The unified merit of Jesus is all about free grace.
30.) True faith is a living faith that is by grace.
31.) True grace is a living grace that brings good.
32.) Foredetermined good should be all we do.
33.) Predestination encourages divine and free grace.
34.) Foredetermination encourages spiritual life.
35.) Eternal life is all about Jesus Christ.
36.) Spiritual life is all about love of Jesus.
37.) Love of Jesus cannot come from us but God.
38.) Love of good is a work of God.
39.) God created all good and we ought to do good.
40.) The gift of God is about God's love.
41.) The gift of God is about Jesus' love.
42.) The gift of God is about the Spirit's love.
43.) The gift of foredetermination is about good.
44.) God works for either mercy or justice.
45.) A holy Triune God loves His own.
46.) There is only spiritual deadness for unbelievers.
47.) There is only spiritual life for the converted elect.
48.) It is about the good of Christian honor.
49.) The honor of Jesus is excellence of grace.
50.) The honor of Jesus is excellence of faith.
51.) The gift of love is spiritual salvation.
52.) The unregenerate hate themselves and God.
53.) The unregenerate hate each other.
54.) There is no grace in unregenerate people.
55.) The nature of man is no good.
56.) Grace is all-sufficient for being right with God.
57.) Faith is a gift of the Triune Godhead.
58.) Divine grace is matchless.
59.) The merit of Jesus is matchless.
60.) Faith is a good gift from God.
61.) Faith does not earn eternal life.
62.) The unified merit of Jesus earns eternal life.
63.) No one can earn spiritual salvation who sin.
64.) No sinners can make himself right with God.
65.) We are right with God by the grace of faithful repentance.
66.) We are holy only by God's foredetermined way.
67.) Good works are God's foredetermined gift.
68.) Good works do not add to Christ alone.
69.) Good works demonstrate our faith.
70.) Good works are all about God.
71.) No one is saved by good works.
72.) Jesus is sinless and only His work matters.
73.) Jesus makes all things right for His people alone.
74.) True repentance to God means all is right.
75.) Repentance to God is about faith and grace, contrition and excellence.
76.) A holy Triune God loves true repentance.
77.) True repentance does not earn salvation.
78.) There is a false and true repentance.
79.) The false repentance is from the sinful nature.
80.) True repentance is from God's Spirit and grace.
81.) There is no redemptive love in the unregenerate people who are unconverted.
82.) Grace enables a true love of God.
83.) Faith enables a Jesus way of life.
84.) Love is about Jesus because of grace.
85.) Everything is about pleasing God.
86.) No one can please God in unregenerate state.
87.) There is civil love of God that is not redemptive love.
88.) There is a false and true grace of God.
89.) The grace that is not false is of His Word.
90.) The grace that is true is not of false religion.
91.) Redemptive love is only from God.
92.) Good works are all about the moral law.
93.) Obedience to the moral law is a picture of Jesus.
94.) A picture of Jesus is following His thought, word and deed unto conformity to His matchless image.
95.) Grace that is earned is not grace, but faith that is imputed or earned is not faith.
Marvelous grace of our loving Lord,
Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt,
Yonder on Calvary's mount outpoured,
There where the blood of the Lamb was spilt.
Grace, grace, God's grace,
Grace that will pardon and cleanse within;
Grace, grace, God's grace,
Grace that is greater than all my sin.
Sin and despair like the sea waves cold,
Threaten the soul with infinite loss;
Grace that is greater, yes, grace untold,
Points to the refuge, the mighty cross.
Dark is the stain that we cannot hide,
What can avail to wash it away?
Look! there is flowing a crimson tide;
Whiter than snow you may be today. (TH, 705).
Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt,
Yonder on Calvary's mount outpoured,
There where the blood of the Lamb was spilt.
Grace, grace, God's grace,
Grace that will pardon and cleanse within;
Grace, grace, God's grace,
Grace that is greater than all my sin.
Sin and despair like the sea waves cold,
Threaten the soul with infinite loss;
Grace that is greater, yes, grace untold,
Points to the refuge, the mighty cross.
Dark is the stain that we cannot hide,
What can avail to wash it away?
Look! there is flowing a crimson tide;
Whiter than snow you may be today. (TH, 705).
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