Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
SOLA GRATIA (GRACE ALONE) - 2
By Grace God's Son, our only Savior,
Came down to earth to bear our sin.
Was it because of your own merit
That Jesus died your soul to win?
No, it was grace, and grace alone,
That brought him from his heav'nly throne.
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. (Galatians 1:3-5)
"But these promises of grace are all based on Christ from the beginning of the world, so that God promises this grace to no one in an other way than in Christ and through Christ. Christ is the Messenger of God's promise to the entire world. This is also the reason why He came and let the promise go out through the Gospel into all the world; but before that time He always proclaimed it through the prophets.
"Therefore it is vain for anyone to expect the divine promise apart from Christ. Everything centers and terminates in Christ. The man who does not hear Him hears no promise of God. For just as He recognizes no law except Moses' Law and the writings of the prophets, so He gives no promise except through Christ alone."
-- Martin Luther
