Grace in Focus – October 1989
Test Yourselves to See If You Are in the Faith: Assurance Based on Our Works? – 2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Prove yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?–unless you are disqualified. John Calvin taught that one should not look to his works for assurance of salvation. He said we should look to Christ, the object of our faith. However, his
Salvation by the Installment Plan?
Many Bible teachers are fond of a saying that goes like this: “You are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.” Doesn’t that sound neat? It states a fundamental truth–that we are saved by faith alone–then turns around and states that while it is faith alone that saves us, that
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Not Only Necessary-But Enough
By H.A. Ironside* In a hospital ward a lady missionary found an undersized and undeveloped little Irish boy, whose white, wizened face and emaciated form excited her deepest sympathy. Perhaps of about fifteen years of age, he scarcely looked to be twelve. Winning the lad’s confidence by gifts of flowers and fruit, she soon found