No One Was Found Worthy – by Joseph A. Cortes
Romans 4:5, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth [pisteuo; have trust and confidence] on him [Jesus Christ] that justifieth the ungodly”—[it is God who justifies me, you and all sinners]—“his faith,” [his trust and confidence that God can do that for us] “is counted for righteousness.”These aren’t my words; it’s what Scripture is declaring. It’s not for those who are willing to reform or first clean up their act in some way before being saved. This Scripture is clearly saying faith is counted for righteousness, faith in Christ. That means faith in Christ is all that is required to be saved.
“Well, that is fine and dandy, but I don’t know if I have enough faith for that. How much faith does it require?”
Let’s go to Romans 10:13, this is all you need to do:
“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”That is how much faith is required. God didn’t even make that difficult and complicated or confusing. It is as simple as that. With all sincerity, “whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Circle the word call. What does that mean? The word call means to appeal unto, which means if you look unto the Lord to be saved, then He will save you. All you must do is put your trust and confidence in the Gospel and you are safe and secure in the Father’s hand forever, if you keep having trust and confidence in Him and what His son did.
“How can you say forever?”
John 10:29, “My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.”
That is security, my friend, when you have trust and confidence in Jesus and what He did. No one can pluck us away or snatch us away from His hand. No one.
Jesus paid our debt in full, my friends. Scripture teaches Jesus paid a debt he didn’t owe. We owed it. It was a woeful debt of sin that we in no way could pay, no matter how goody-two-shoes one might be. Salvation is without works. Salvation is without man’s effort. Salvation is without intent of reformation. Salvation is those that believeth on Him, as we read in Romans 4:5, He justifies the ungodly. No one else can. That is what the Scriptures proclaim.
Revelation 5:4, “And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.” Some of you may have caught it right away, but “no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.” Verse 9, “And they sung a new song, saying, Thou [referring to Jesus Christ] art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.”
Now there has been some big heavy hitters in faith throughout the millenniums. Think about it; if your good works, your good deeds, even if your faith can part the Red Sea, and even if your faith brings people back from the dead, it wasn’t good enough. “And I wept much because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book.” No man except who? Jesus Christ. If those giants of faith couldn’t open the book, what makes you think we can? Let’s look at something greater. What makes you think (because we can’t open the books) that we can merit our own salvation by our deeds? It can’t be done. I’m sorry, you goody-two-shoes, thinking that your dead works will get you to heaven, you’re wrong. Good works are part of discipleship, but it has nothing, and I repeat, nothing to do with salvation, nothing whatsoever. Good works are in the category of eternal rewards not salvation. Only Jesus can provide salvation that makes us right with God. Thank you Jesus.
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