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Lesson #8 – What About SALVATION BY FAITH ONLY?
Series: Baptism 101 - What The Bible Says About BaptismLesson #8 – What About SALVATION BY FAITH ONLY?
1) Have you ever heard a preacher teach that FAITH is all that’s needed to be saved?
Usually a passage is quoted leading others to conclude that merely believing brings salvation.
For example, Jn.3:16 / whoever believe in Him should not perish but have eternal life
But consider Js.2:14 & 17 / what use is it, my brethren, if a man says he has faith, but
he has no works. Can that faith save him? … Even so faith, if it has no works is dead.
James uses Abraham as an illustration of “faith in action”.
cf. Heb.11:8 / by faith Abraham OBEYED
Rom.1:5 & 16:26 speaks of “the obedience of faith”
Js.2:22 / faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected
What’s the difference in salvation by OT meritorious works versus salvation by NT obedient faith?
Rom.4:2-5
Eph.2:8-10
2) How did Peter & Paul conclude their sermons?
Acts 2:38 / repent and…be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins
Acts 3:19 / repent therefore and return, that you sins may be wiped away
Acts 10:48 / he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
Acts 16:13-15 / when (Lydia) and her household had been baptized
Acts 16:32-33 / (Paul) spoke the word of the Lord to (the Philppian jailor) together
with all who were in his house. And (the jailor) took them that very hour of the night
and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household.
Acts 18:18 / Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his household,
and many of the Corinthians when they heard were believing and being baptized.
3) Can you cite New Testament examples of people who believed but were not saved?
Jn.8:31 & 44 - - even though Jesus was speaking to “Jews who believed in Him”,
He went on to say, “you are of your father the devil”.
Jn.12:42-43 refers to Jewish rulers who believed in Him…but were not confessing Him
Js.2:19 – the demons BELIEVE, but true faith required obedience
