Thematic Bible: Insufficient to secure salvation


Thematic Bible



For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God's gift- not from works, so that no one can boast.


Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. Verse ConceptsProphecies Concerning ChristTrusting In WorksSaved By FaithWorks Of The LawConversion Of Israel


On that day many will say to Me, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in Your name, drive out demons in Your name, and do many miracles in Your name?' Then I will announce to them, 'I never knew you! Depart from Me, you lawbreakers! '



But when the goodness and love for man appeared from God our Savior, He saved us- not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

This is a symbol for the present time, during which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper’s conscience. Verse ConceptsConsciousnessGuilt, Human Aspects OfThe Present AgeBlemished PeopleHuman Awareness Of Guiltconscience

You do not delight in sacrifice and offering;
You open my ears to listen.
You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.
Verse ConceptsEarsTeachablenessGod's DesiresThe Faculty Of HearingSacrificesSacrifice



You do not want a sacrifice, or I would give it; You are not pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.

“What are all your sacrifices to Me?”
asks the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams
and the fat of well-fed cattle;
I have no desire for the blood of bulls,
lambs, or male goats.
Verse ConceptsMultitudesGoatsBullsBlood Of SacrificesDelighting, Wrong Kinds OfGod, Will OfPleasureNot Pleasing GodMore Than EnoughSacrificesMeat offeringsRewards Of RitualSacrificetired


If you had known what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent. Verse ConceptsdesiresBurnt offeringNominal ReligionValuing KnowledgeCondemning The InnocentGod's DesiresRight SacrificesThe Need For Mercy

This is a symbol for the present time, during which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper’s conscience. Verse ConceptsConsciousnessGuilt, Human Aspects OfThe Present AgeBlemished PeopleHuman Awareness Of Guiltconscience

You do not delight in sacrifice and offering;
You open my ears to listen.
You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.
Verse ConceptsEarsTeachablenessGod's DesiresThe Faculty Of HearingSacrificesSacrifice



You do not want a sacrifice, or I would give it; You are not pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.

“What are all your sacrifices to Me?”
asks the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams
and the fat of well-fed cattle;
I have no desire for the blood of bulls,
lambs, or male goats.
Verse ConceptsMultitudesGoatsBullsBlood Of SacrificesDelighting, Wrong Kinds OfGod, Will OfPleasureNot Pleasing GodMore Than EnoughSacrificesMeat offeringsRewards Of RitualSacrificetired


If you had known what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent. Verse ConceptsdesiresBurnt offeringNominal ReligionValuing KnowledgeCondemning The InnocentGod's DesiresRight SacrificesThe Need For Mercy

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God's gift- not from works, so that no one can boast.


Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. Verse ConceptsProphecies Concerning ChristTrusting In WorksSaved By FaithWorks Of The LawConversion Of Israel


On that day many will say to Me, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in Your name, drive out demons in Your name, and do many miracles in Your name?' Then I will announce to them, 'I never knew you! Depart from Me, you lawbreakers! '



But when the goodness and love for man appeared from God our Savior, He saved us- not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God's gift- not from works, so that no one can boast.


Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. Verse ConceptsProphecies Concerning ChristTrusting In WorksSaved By FaithWorks Of The LawConversion Of Israel


On that day many will say to Me, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in Your name, drive out demons in Your name, and do many miracles in Your name?' Then I will announce to them, 'I never knew you! Depart from Me, you lawbreakers! '



But when the goodness and love for man appeared from God our Savior, He saved us- not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

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