What does it mean to be saved by grace alone apart from your works?

Question

What does this mean to you? I can't figure it out. Thanks

Answer 1

IT WILL TAKE AN ACT OF GOD...

Answer 2

Based from Efesisns 2 :8-9For by grace are ye saved through faith;and not that of yourselve:it is the gift of God:
Not of works lest anyman should boast.

You will be saved by grace alone means _Salvation is free grace and a gift from God to everyone those who believe and accept that gift in your heart which is Jesus Christ you will be saved.

And good works will be followed after you are saved you must do good works to glorify God but not to be saved because we are im perfect and nobody is good so we need Jesus inour heart.

Answer 3

It means that you do not properly understand the relationship between grace, faith and works.

Works of obedience has never been opposed to grace or faith, but they go together.

Now these are not works that you come up with on your own in an attempt to try to earn salvation! These are works of submission to commandments of God!

Look at the example of Noah. "Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD." (Genesis 6:8)

Noah also had faith! (Hebrews 11:7)

He was saved from the flood by grace and faith, but this did not mean Noah did not have anything to do, and it does not mean he was not also saved by this obedience.

Hebrews 11:7 also specifically says, He "prepared an ark for the saving of his household".

Noah was saved by faith! Noah was saved by grace! Noah was saved by obedience (works)! These are not contradictory statements!

Those who say we are saved by faith and grace only often point to Ephesians 2:8-9. Verse 10, however, talks about good works!

These verses also say that it is works of ourselves that do not save and do not earn salvation. When we submit to the things God has commanded, then these are not works that we have come up with on our own. This is not doing our own thing, but it is submitting to God!

We are saved by faith and grace! There is nothing we can do that will earn salvation, but that does not mean that there is not anything we are required to do!

Jesus is "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him"! (Hebrews 5:9)

In the Old Testament, there is one thing that is called a gift from God more than anything else. That is the land of Caanan, the Promised Land.

Over and over the Bible talks about this land as being given by God, but there were things the children of Israel had to do to take possession of it. They had to cross the Jordan, march around Jericho, blow trumpets, etc.

These were not works of their own choosing, and these works did not mean that the land was not a gift, but they were required for the people to take possesion of the land.

Suppose I told someone I was going to give them a million dollars and told them to take possession of it they had to take a check, go to a certain bank where they would cash it when they endorsed the check and showed proper I.D. Who in their right mind would say that it was no longer a gift because I specified how it was to be received? These conditions would not earn the money, but a person could not receive the money if they did not meet them.

A gift is still a gift, even when there are conditions on how it is to be received.

Grace is a gift from God, but He has established how we are to receive this grace! These conditions (you must believe, repent, confess, etc.) do not earn salvation, but it is not received if the conditions are rejected.

Answer 4

Grace is a gift - a gift from God. We can not earn (by works) our salvation. Our salvation is a gift. While a believer naturally wants to do 'good works', these good works will not buy his/her salvation. Paul made it clear that our salvation was a free gift (grace) from God. James taught that if you were saved, you would naturally want to do good works. Paul and James did not differ in their teaching of works and grace as some people think.

Answer 5

You can not save yourself no matter how good your are or how great you are because you are human, to be saved by grace means that GOD had mercy on us and this is how we were saved by grace and not by works.

Answer 6

Your works are like filthy rags before God.

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

We are saved by His grace alone, (an undeserving gift, His will, desire) as long as we accept the gift through Jesus Christ and repent our sins.

Answer 7

It means we are saved because of the grace God gave us through our faith in him. Unfortunately, that is not all there is. In opposition to the man who said we can be saved from hell just if we say we follow Jesus, if you are getting drunk, beating you wife, and other horrible things he said, I would seriously challenge the faith you posses. God is looking for a faith that changes your life not provides you a cop-out from paying for your sins when you die.

Answer 8

Some people believe that if they are good and help people that they go to heaven or even if they belong to a particular church or religion. Jesus came so that all we have to do is accept Him to go to heaven. After knowing Jesus, a person wants to help others out of love and not obligation. We cannot get to heaven by being good, as in the Bible it says that all have sinned and we need a savior (Jesus).

Answer 9

It means you have nothing to do with it. It is something that can only be accepted not worked for. Do yourself a favor and get out now while you still can. Or, in other words, Beware of Xians bearing gifts.

Answer 10

One view says that baptism plus good works get you into heaven, and the other says that it's God's grace alone that gets us there, and that our good works don't enter into whether we can bargain our way into heaven.

Answer 11

i think that we are saved with the aid of grace yet that we are called to do stable works and to persist with him with our lives. i think of if we thoroughly overlook approximately God's calling on our lives and prefer to not persist with him then we would be giving up our present of salvation. yet as quickly as we turn it back around after ignoring him for a time, i think of we would be re-accepting his present... I say persist with God, don't be lukewarm, be on hearth for Jesus! Do stable and ask forgiveness and repent once you shrink to rubble.