God's grace

 
What happens if we try to “earn” our salvation?




   To say “we need to earn it” takes away from God’s grace, making it not grace. This grace is unmerited favor- He saved us because we could not save ourselves Eph. 2:8 "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God". For us to work to obtain our salvation is to lessen the work of Christ for us. He died on the cross because we could not save ourselves by following the Law, Romans 5:20“The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more…” This grace is not a license to sin even though people say, “Does that mean we can sin because we are not under the law but under grace?” That is said to be wrong in Romans 6:15-23 and Romans 7:4-13. The works we do are a sign of our salvation, not a means to it. “Jesus paid it all,” not us. The law showed us that we could not keep it(our salvation could not be met), but that we needed the grace we have. Without God’s grace we deserve Hell; because of our sin. So, we truly have amazing grace and it is well with our souls.