Faith, rightly understood, is never to be viewed as competing with grace for our attention. We must take care to avoid a wrong emphasis on faith. We must never conceive of faith as a work by which we earn our salvation. This would be a contradiction of the sovereign grace of God. No matter how much we may choose to believe, our faith cannot, by itself, result in salvation. There is only one basis for believing that, through faith in Christ we receive salvation . It is the divine promise of salvation, so graciously given to us by God; "Everyone who calls upon the Name of the Lord will be saved" (Acts 2: 21).
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