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"The law is the prison that locks man up under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key that unlocks the door, and lets them out." -- William Tyndale

Os Chambers

Justification by Faith
-- Oswald Chambers

"For if, when we were still sinners we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." Romans 5:10

do not know how, that I am saved.

The salvation of God does not stand on human logic; is stands on the sacrificial Death of Jesus. We can be born again because of the Atonement of Our Lord. Sinful men and women can be changed into new creatures, not by their repentance or their belief, but by the marvelous work of God in Christ Jesus which is prior to all experience.

The impregnable safety and sanctification is God Himself. We have not to work out these things ourselves; they have been worked out by the Atonement. The supernatural becomes natural by the miracle of God; there is the realization of what Christ has already done - "It is finished."

I am not saved by believing; I realize I am saved by believing. It is not repentance that saves me; repentance is the sign that I realize what God has done in Christ Jesus. The danger is to put the emphasis on the effect instead of the cause. Is it my obedience that puts me right with God? Never! I am put right with God because prior to all, Christ died. When I turn to God and by belief accept what God reveals I can accept, instantly the stupendous Atonement of Jesus Christ rushes me into a right relationship with God; and by the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done. The Spirit of God brings it with an all breaking, all over light, and I know, though I do