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Here's a sampling from our newly-posted article, "Faith And Works," by Arlen Chitwood:
Actually, in Scripture, there is no such thing as salvation apart from works, whether past, present, or future aspects of salvation.As well, in Scripture, there is no such thing as salvation apart from grace and faith. The wording in Eph. 2:8, “by grace…throughfaith,” would apply not only to the past aspect of salvation, asseen in this verse, but to present and future aspects of salvationas well — the salvation of the soul.
(Both “grace” and “faith” are seen in relation to the salvation ofthe soul in I Peter 1:9:“Receiving the end [‘goal’] of your faith, even the salvationof your souls.”“Grace” in relation to the salvation of the soul in v. 9 is seen in vv.2, 10, 13; and “faith” in relation to the salvation of the soul is seen invv. 5, 7-9.)
The salvation which we presently possess is wrought through Divine works — the Spirit breathing life into the one having no life — and is based on a finished, Divine work, the finished work ofGod’s Son. Unsaved man is spiritually dead and cannot function in the spiritual realm. He can do no more than allow God to do a work on his behalf.
But, once man has passed “from death unto life,” coming into possession of spiritual life, he can then be active in the spiritual realm. And, as the ruined earth was able to bring forth in Genesis chapter one after the Spirit of God had moved upon the face of the waters, God had spoken, and light had come into existence (vv. 2b, 3 , 11 ), ruined man, as well, is able to bring forth following a Divine work on his behalf (Eph. 2:8-10).
Once man possesses spiritual life and is able to function in the spiritual realm, as in Hebrews chapter eleven or James chapter two, he, as the earth in Gen. 1 :11, can bring forth. But faith must precede and be inseparably connected with man bringing forth, producing works. And to understand how this all comes together, a principle from the Old Testament must be understood first.
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