Scripture Reading: I Timothy 3: 16
The mystery of godliness might well be defined in human terminology as an incredible paradox. To be both God and man, to be both visible and invisible, to walk guilelessly among men and reign supreme in glory—surely this is a mystery beyond comprehension. Even though this mystery has been divinely revealed, it remains nevertheless incomprehensible.
How then can mankind possibly acknowledge such a seeming impossibility? In the realm of mortality, we think of “solving” a mystery. That this is impossible becomes immediately self-evident. One alternative exists—only one. Only BY FAITH can we accept and possess such profound spiritual truth. And even that very faith is itself of God; it cannot be self-generated. We can exercise the believing faith only because He has enabled us so to do.
“By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast” (Eph. 2:8,9). In the words of Matthew Henry (in his commentary), “Both that faith and that salvation are the gift of God. God has ordered all so that the whole shall appear to be of grace.”
God’s mysteries cannot be discerned apart from faith. And precisely what IS faith? “Faith is the substantiating of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen … Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed [ages were planned] by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear” (Heb. 11:1,3),
How God Saves
Men
Believing
Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing
Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
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Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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