GOSPEL NUGGET #16

Mr 10:26 And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves, "Who then can be saved?"

27 But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible."

Did you get it? Salvation is humanly impossible. And yet many of us have attempted it by our works, efforts and religious activities etc.

We are all sinners, spiritually dead. Just as it is impossible for a physically dead man to make himself alive again so it is impossible for a spiritually dead man, a sinner, to save himself.

But with God, who is gracious, kind and merciful, a sinner can be saved. But not without cost. The salvation of a sinner is costly. It cost God His Son.

Since salvation is humanly impossible for a sinner, salvation then is not earned by our trying. It is received by our trusting in what the Savior did on the cross.