Good synopsis of the amazing grace of the Gospel. How prideful some people can be when they refuse to take God at his word and spend their entire lives fearful and worried that they might not be judged “worthy”. The good news is that NONE of us is or ever will be worthy of eternal life with the Lord so that is why we are not judged according to our sins nor deserve it based on our own merit but on the righteousness of God in Christ. Praise his wonderful name!
And since we find in that Romans 5:2: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. It follow Biblically speaking that this access by faith which we have represents access by faith together with Christ in Heaven during our believer-saint lives here on this earth. That alone is proof positive that if we have access by faith together with Christ in Heaven, then when our lives expire here on earth, our immediate and final destination is Heaven, not Hell (nor the so called purgatory). For Christ Jesus ONLY spoke about TWO destinations: Heaven and Hell.
*** How prideful some people can be when they refuse to take God at his word and spend their entire lives fearful and worried that they might not be judged “worthy”.***
It was a Grace Believer who broke the chains of legalism and set me free back in 1973.
Till then I had been laboring to be “approved” and found “worthy”.
I have never looked back.
When my mom lay on her deathbead she cried in terror to her “preachers” that she was afrain she “had not done enough” to merit salvation!
I wanted to scream that “It is not what YOU HAVE DONE, It is what Christ HAS DONE for you!”
Her preachers declared she “had done enough”.