We Saved By Jesus Christ !

We Are Saved by "Grace" Through Faith in Jesus Christ

These first 16 verses all have to do with our own personal salvation in the Lord. Each one of these are major power verses and they all have to do with the first definition of grace - which is that grace is the unmerited favor and mercy of God towards mankind.

In these verses are complete and full revelation on exactly what our eternal salvation in the Lord is really all about. If you can grasp what the Lord is trying to tell you in these specific verses, you will then be able to walk away with a much better and much clearer understanding as to who you really are in your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and exactly how you were saved in the first place.

I'll go ahead and run all of these verses together and then point out key words and key phrases in these verses so you can see exactly what God is trying to show you.

1. "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone boast." (Ephesians 2:8)
   
2. "... who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began." (2 Timothy 1:9)
   
3. "And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work." (Romans 11:6)
   
4. "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." (Romans 5:1-2)
   
5. "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men ..." (Titus 2:11)
   
6. "But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they." (Acts 15:11)
   
7. "But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." (Ephesians 2:4-7)
   
8. "... that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life." (Titus 3:7)
   
9. "... for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ..." (Romans 3:23-24)
   
10. "For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." (John 1:17)
    
11. "Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace ..." (2 Thessalonians 2:16)
    
12. "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence ..." (Ephesians 1:7-8)
    
13. "For if by the one man's offense, many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many." (Romans 5:15)
    
14. "... having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved." (Ephesians 1:6)
    
15. "But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 5:20)
    
16. "I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain." (Galatians 2:21)