GRACE IS SALVATION THAT WORKS

 
QUESTION: If salvation is by grace alone and not by works, then could not a Christian live any old way?

ANSWER: Salvation is defined in Ephesians 2:8, 9 as being by grace (on God's part) and faith (on our part) ALONE and "not of works lest any man should boast."
 
The following verse states, “For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works........"
 
Grace alone saves, but grace is never alone. Salvation is not by works, BUT IT WORKS. We have too many professing Christians who have a salvation that DOES NOT WORK.
 
Paul said in 1Corinthians 15:10, "I am what I am BY THE GRACE OF GOD."
 
Salvation is like a person that has a plumbing problem. They know nothing about plumbing. They are absolutely incapable of fixing it, but they know a plumber that they believe can fix it.
 
Their confidence in him is so high that through their faith in him they call him to fix it. They do no more. They leave it all to him. If when he is finished, the plumbing works and their faith in him produced it. If they had not called him, it would still be the same.
 
A person has a sin problem. His life is all messed up. He cannot straighten it out. He is absolutely helpless. So he calls in a Savior. He trusts in Him to do for them what they cannot do for themselves. The Savior comes in and the life begins to work right.
 
If you have a salvation that does not work it is NOT THE SALVATION THE SAVIOR PROVIDED. Salvation is a reflection on the ability of the Savior.         
 
Good works has nothing to do with our salvation, but it is the evidence that we are saved. Titus 3:8 points out, "......that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works."
 
"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation......teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and that we should live soberly, righteously and godly.
 
You can be saved by trusting Christ. It works because He starts working in you.