GRACE MUST BE EARNED
“Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, "If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us." But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, "Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? "And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong." Then he said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom." And Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise." Luke 23:39-43. This is the story about the thief on the cross that Saul of Tarsus referred to in his theory of salvation in Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace you have been saved through faith , and that not of yourselves; [it is] the gift of God , not of works , lest anyone should boast.“ Readers, do you think Jesus would save the thief on the cross who said, "Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? "And we...