By Rob Albright
A few years back, I entered a men’s baking contest. It was
all desserts. I found a recipe that I liked so I started putting all the
ingredients together. I also took into account how long I was to cook. It was
all spelled out in the recipe. I thought I made a good cake – at least some
people could eat it.
In the matter of salvation there are different ingredients.
The Bible teaches us we are saved “by grace, through faith” (Eph. 2:8); by
“works” (James 2:24; by “calling on the name of the Lord” (Rom. 10:13; Acts
22:16); by “obedience” (Heb.5:8-9) by “baptism” (Mk. 16:16) by “belief” (Acts
16:31); and other things as well.
Here is my point: Just as the ingredients of the recipe must
be combined to make a cake, so must the ingredients of salvation be combined.
You do not have salvation by faith alone. Just like you cannot take just one
ingredient and claim to make a cake, you cannot just pick one ingredient and
have salvation. The ingredients must be combined to get the desired results. You
cannot produce a cake on flour alone and you cannot have salvation by faith
alone.
- Rob Albright serves as one of the ministers at
the Northwest Church of Christ in Greensboro, NC. He may be contacted through
the congregation's website: http://www.nwchurchofchrist.com/
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