How do we know that salvation is solely by God's grace?
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Salvation is solely by God's grace as illustrated through God's initiative in loving and saving the sinner who can do nothing for themselves.
The sermon emphasizes the state of humanity as being utterly lost and helpless, symbolized by the abandoned infant in Ezekiel 16. This imagery illustrates that just as the infant could not save itself, we too cannot initiate our salvation. God’s action in saying 'Live' signifies that salvation is a sovereign gift, fully dependent on His grace and not on any merit of our own. This aligns with the historic Reformed understanding that God chooses and calls the sinner to salvation based solely on His mercy.
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