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In What Sense Is Everlasting Life the Gift of God?

February 20, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Free Gift, John 4:10, saving faith

In Eph 2:8-9, Paul says that everlasting life is “the gift of God.” Well, some object when I say that, because Paul actually says that salvation is the gift of God (“By grace you have been saved through faith…it is the gift of God, not of works…”). But three verses earlier, Paul makes it clear

Do We Need to Believe with All Our Hearts? Acts 8:37

September 24, 2024 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Acts 8:37, Great Faith, saving faith

WW asks an interesting question about saving faith: LOVE your channel. QUESTION: Acts 8:37 says, “And Philip said, ‘If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.’ And he answered and said, ‘I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.’” Can a person be saved by belief, but maybe Not with All his

Why Is There So Much Confusion about What It Means to Believe in Jesus Christ?

August 7, 2024 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - saving faith, Whoever believes in Him

All Christian traditions share certain common beliefs, but there is tremendous disagreement regarding the most important issue: What does it mean to believe in Jesus Christ? There are many different ways various traditions understand what whoever believes in Him means. But they mostly come down to faith in Christ being some type of good works

July 24, 2024

How Is the Biblical View of Saving Faith Under Siege?

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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii are talking about Bob’s new book, a sequel to one of Zane Hodges’ books. The Gospel Is Still Under Siege is the title. What are some faulty views of saving faith that are being used these days? Bob and Mike continue to offer some

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July 23, 2024

What Is Faith and Saving Faith?

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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii are looking at the content of The Gospel is Still Under Siege (Bob Wilkin). Today, Chapter 3, Faith under Fire is a quest for the meaning of faith in scripture. Many will speak of true faith. What is the test for faith? Should there

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Nuclear Spiritual Warfare

June 11, 2024 by Kathryn Wright in Blog - Acts 15:1-10, identity, John 3:16, Matt 7:13-14, saving faith

The attacks on the saving message of eternal life by faith alone in Jesus are not new. For example, beginning in Acts 15, both unbelieving and believing Jews attempted to bring works into the saving message by saying that Gentiles needed to be circumcised. Today, the distortion of grace is still very much alive and

May 15, 2024

What Is Saving Faith in Focused Free Grace?

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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii are talking about saving faith. Specifically, is assurance a salvation issue or a sanctification issue? Is assurance of eternal salvation of the essence of saving faith or not? Are there degrees of certainty? What is the nature and content of saving faith? Bob and

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Does Faith Save, Or Does Jesus Save?

July 6, 2023 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - saving faith

On June 26th, on our YouTube channel, we posted a video by me called “Can Miracle Faith Save?” You can see the 7-minute video here. One of the comments at the bottom of the video caught my attention. S.P. wrote: “Faith does not save a person. There is no such thing as ‘saving faith.’ Jesus

They Are Believers, but Are They Saved?

April 18, 2023 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance, saving faith

Frank says, The more I read the Bible and then read comments by those who write commentaries, the more confusion results. It is no wonder there are cults. I think the church starts cults because one day, you are saved by believing. The next day, you are saved by believing and working. I know many

Was Zane Hodges’s View of the Saving Message Misguided, Anemic, Inconsistent, and Evasive? Part 1

March 22, 2023 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Repentance, saving faith, Zane Hodges

A 2019 doctoral paper by Nicholas James Claxton (available online—see here) is entitled “Faith Without Works: The Gospel According to Zane Hodges.” Claxton’s paper is irenic in tone. In his conclusion, he raises seven objections to the views and exegetical method of Hodges. I’ll briefly answer three objections in part one and the other four