"SALVATION BY WORKS?"

NO! Absolutely no! Salvation is free, said the Bible, and if we try
to “buy it” with our “good deeds” it wouldn’t be free.
AND FREE IT IS! Romans 11- 5 and 6.
Well, and how the Apostle James says that we do need them?
Yes! We do need them, but not for salvation!
Let me explain it: Wanting to do good deeds to be saved is like
saying that Jesus Christ is not sufficient to save us and He needs
our help to be able to do it, but that is not the case at all.
If we could be able to be saved by our own works, we would not
needed Jesus to die for us, But no, our good deeds cannot save us!
ONLY CHRIST CAN!
I’m sorry my friend but I don’t understand!
Don’t worry, you’re not alone!
Many people in the world do not understand because they don’t
want to read the Word of God!
Permit me to illustrate it like this:
Our mothers gave us birth with pain, and after they gave us life,
devoted their lives to care for us, defending us, protecting us so
we could be safe and sound.
We understand this when we grow up and try to do something
for them, to appreciate their love and care!
Hugs, flowers, kisses, or simply taking them out for dinner.
These nice things we do for them are in appreciation for what
they have done for us, not to do something for us!
We don’t do it for them to save us, but because they already
saved us for the perils of the world.
In the same token, our good deeds are in appreciation for God
because He saved us! Do you understand now?
Salvation is ours when we believe, and put our faith in Jesus!
Jesus paid a great price to rescue us from sin!
To accept Jesus Christ is to renounce of the world of sin
we are living in, beginning a new life with true love for God
and people!

OPEN UP YOUR HEART!
LET HIM IN!

José Salazar
S. de C.

"NUMBER ONE"

God gave us a body to move throughout this world, and
a mind to think and choose between good and evil.
He gave us a mouth to worship and a heart to love and
To keep all the nice things we love in this life:
Our families, friends, our work, entertainment
( sports, music, movies ) and God.
Of course, the list does not have to be in this order!
No? Then, in which order should it go?
Well, think a little, God should be first!
Yes! That is true, but … do we do it?
Not always we leave God at the end of our list?
The day pass, and we never got to the last in our list!
We did not have time for God! Weird, is not it?
The next day, we begin with the first one again:
Entertainment, work, work, work, family, and God!
No! Not me you may say, The first thing I do is to pray in the
morning to God and all his saints so I may have a good day!
That is nice, but when you are referring to the saints,
who is first, the saints, or God?
God of course!
Very well my friend! That is the way it should be!
God said: Do not put other “gods” before me. Exodus 20.
And that is something we should always consider not to do!
We must always give the first place to God in our lives, so,
He could bless us with his best blessings.
I think it would be better not to have him at all in our list,
like the atheists do, than to have Him forgotten at the end!
God knows us like an open book, however…
We have to open his book to know Him!
Read the Bible, know the Lord!
Your life will be truly blessed!
He gave us a heart to love!
Open it up and invite Him to live in it!

Praise the Lord!

José Salazar
S. de C.