The Key to Belief

Summary

Jesus makes two things very clear about our salvation: without His active work of revelation we could not be saved, and God specifically set up salvation as something that could not be found apart from this. This is a difficult truth about ourselves, as well as about God. It leads us to numerous questions about those whom Jesus does not choose. Jesus teaches this truth, not to give us clues toward a mystery we are supposed to fully understand, but to make it clear that salvation belongs to the Lord. He is speaking to those who are His, making sure that we understand the relationship that we have. The truth of God revealed in His loving, effective grace on the hearts of His people, gives us a God that we can go to in our pain and struggle. He is not a God who expects us to maintain perfection in order to stay in His ‘good graces,’ but a God who gives us the grace we need daily.

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