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The Way of Salvation
We frequently meet people who have no lasting peace in their hearts, even though they live a religious life and say they are Christians. What has gone wrong? They constantly look at themselves. When they think they have managed to do the will of God they become self-confident and even proud. If they have suffered defeat, they despair.
The Bible tells us that this is not the way of salvation. “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt” (Romans 4:4). No effort of ours will ever bring us any nearer to God. The Bible confirms that all our attempts to satisfy God will never meet with His approval. “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one” (Romans 3:10).
We have to look away from ourselves and accept by faith the work of the Lord Jesus Christ at Calvary. There He satisfied God in every respect, and took our place in judgment, bearing the punishment for our unrighteousness, pride, and self-will. “Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).
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