Imagine you are on a ship in a severe storm. You are on deck trying to get to safety. A strong gust of wind blows you off into the water. A man on board sees you and throws you a life preserver. You grab it and swim back to the ship and climb to safety. The question is: “What were you saved by?” The ship, the man who threw the life preserver, the life preserver, the water or yourself – The truth is you were saved by all of them. If you take any one of them away, you will be lost.
The Bible informs us that one is saved by many things. What are we to make of that? Jesus said that we are governed by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. (Matthew 4:4) “But He answered and said, ‘It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God’ ” NKJV So anything which God declares as necessary for salvation in one passage of Scripture must be implied and included in all other passages which speak of salvation. So what does the Word of God declare we are saved by?
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