“ Things That Accompany Salvation”

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. - Hebrews 6:9

    As election, predestination, justification, calling, adoption, sanctification, and glorification are connected in the salvation of sinners, so is faith, repentance, brotherly love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, commitment, and perseverance. The latter is the result of the former and is the fruit of the Spirit. Where the latter is not manifest there can be no scriptural claim of the former. Good intentions never realized are not virtues of the Spirit of God. The grace of God in salvation lays claim not only on the heart and soul, but on the life of it’s object as well.

    What we are inwardly by God’s grace, will govern who we are outwardly, as we live by faith in Christ in this world. The child of God earnestly desires, seeks, and longs to be found faithful to him that loved us and gave himself for us. We have a life of faith to live, a race of faith to run with patience, and a war of faith to fight to the finish. As God provides every thing for his people in bringing us to Christ and giving us life in Him, he does the same for us in our lives in this world—Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ (Phil 1:6). A profession of salvation without the things that accompany salvation isas a body without life.