Ephesians 2:8 English Standard Version (ESV) For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Is it really that simple?

Grace is unmerited favor, That means it is a free offer void of any consequences in accepting the offer of salvation through faith. Apart from faith salvation is impossible.

Jesus said to us “I am the Way.” 

That does not mean we will find salvation by living our life as the man Jesus Christ lived His. He was sent by Father God to be the atonement for all sin.

We were not born again in the Spirit to be an atonement for anyone’s sin. We are a witness to Father God’s great mercy in the face of unimaginable sin. The worst sin can be forgiven. We need to stop seeing sin as a scale of worth.

Romans 3:10-11 English Standard Version (ESV) as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands no one seeks for God.”

What changed when we accepted Christ by faith? The Holy Spirit was given so that we will have understanding, and we will have the desire to seek God.

What didn’t change is our righteousness.

Philippians 3:8-10 English Standard Version

8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

To be found in Him, in His righteousness, not our own, is found in being like Him in His death.

Dead men don’t sin.

Romans 6:3 English Standard Version (ESV) Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Let those who have ears, let them hear. Amen