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by John A. Kohler, III
I. Salvation is by grace.
A. It is entirely by God’s grace, not by human merit or morality (Rom. 11:6).
B. Grace is “unmerited, unearned, undeserved Divine favor shown to hell-deserving sinners.”
II. Salvation is through faith.
A. Salvation is through the channel or instrumentality of faith, but it is not on account of or caused by faith. That would make faith a work and would nullify grace.
B. Faith is “personal trust or belief in and total reliance upon the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.”
III. Salvation is not of ourselves.
A. Salvation is of the Lord (Jon. 2:9).
B. Repentance and faith are gifts of God, not exercises of the natural man’s will (Acts 5:31; 11:18; II Tim. 2:24-25; Jn. 6:65; Acts 18:27; Rom. 10:17; 12:3; Gal. 5:22; Phil. 1:29; Heb. 12:2).
IV. Salvation is the gift of God.
A. It is not an earned reward, but a free gift.
B. “The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Rom. 6:23).
V. Salvation is not of works.
A. It is not based upon positive, outward, physical acts or positive, inward, spiritual acts performed by the natural man.
B. If it were of works, then Christ’s death would not have been necessary (Gal. 5:4).
VI. Salvation is not something about which man can boast.
A. To boast means “to speak vaingloriously of; to glory in oneself.”
B. Salvation by grace alone through faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ alone excludes boasting altogether (Rom. 3:27).
VII. Salvation is unto good works.
A. It produces positive, outward, physical acts performed by God in and through saved human beings.
B. Where there is a total absence of good works, there is also a total absence of salvation (Jas. 2:17-26).
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