I Was Made for This!

Paul has summarized the majestic and beautiful and life-changing truth of salvation by grace, and repeated in several creative ways the truth that it is indeed by grace and not because of anything we’ve done. But lest we begin to think that salvation has nothing to do with works, Paul provides a clincher here. Salvation cannot be the result of works for two major reasons, which together imply three major truths about the nature of salvation. What I will show you from this text with God’s help this morning is that that salvation is by grace because it means that God is new-creating you and that His goal is for you to begin to do good works. This further implies that you didn’t make yourself a Christian, that God preset good works for you, and that you were made to walk in God’s way. In short, salvation means being recreated by God for the purpose of walking in God’s preset good works.