The Wednesday Word ~ 08 April, 2026 A.D.

All That He Has Is Ours!

by DG Miles McKee

 

"By grace are ye saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God." -Ephesians 2:8 [KJV]

  • Here’s some good news for the believer; we may at times feel like we are the greatest of sinners, but Jesus is greater than all our feelings about our sin. 

As believers, we are now called to have faith in the Lord Jesus.

Why?

Because He alone has made the satisfactory wrath offering for the sins of His people (see 1 John 4:10: Romans 3:25: 1 John 2:2).

Here´s how it works.  The Spirit of God generates faith (Galatians 5:22) and links us as sinners to Jesus the sin bearer. True Bible faith recognizes that salvation is something that God has already accomplished outside of us, in the person of Jesus (Acts 13:32-33, 38-39). Salvation was not accomplished when we said the “sinners prayer." It was accomplished 2000 years before that in Christ.  However, we must remember that faith itself does not qualify us to receive God’s acquittal. Salvation is an undeserved gift of grace received by faith, but it is not created by faith. What Spirit generated faith does is to receive the truth concerning Jesus as it recognizes the sufficiency of His great sacrifice for our sin.

Faith makes the Gospel personal for us.

Faith sees that the Great Shepherd has laid down His life, not just for the sheep in general (John 10:11) but for believers in particular.

Faith sees that the Lord Jesus came to this earth for the express purpose of ransoming, not merely people in general (Matthew 20:28), but came to ransom us especially (Galatians 2:20b).

Faith sees that Christ came not merely to say something about our sin but came to do something about it.

Faith sees that Christ came, not primarily to preach the Gospel, but that we would have a Gospel to preach.

Faith sees that this Christian life is not about us and our performance but rather it´s about Jesus and His. The hymnwriter said:

“The best obedience of my hands

Dares not appear before Thy throne;

But faith can answer Thy demands,

By pleading what the Lord has done.”  

-Isaac Watts

 

Faith is not something that buys us salvation; Christ has already bought it. By faith the believing believer sees that they have been purchased by God's own blood (Acts 20:28) and that no further payment is necessary!

But what if my faith is weak?

All of us at times suffer from weak faith, yet a weak faith cannot undo what Christ Jesus has accomplished at Calvary. In Christ, God made us

Wisdom,

Righteousness,

Sanctification,

and Redemption:

(see 1 Corinthians 1:30).

In Christ we are in union with the Almighty and are now found in Him. Our strength of faith, therefore, is not our security. Remember, faith is not the purchaser of our salvation, Christ alone has bought us!  Faith receives this already accomplished salvation. A weak faith may indeed sometimes interfere with our enjoyment of salvation, but our salvation and security are in Christ alone.

Jesus is our Lord and Master, and we are joined to Him (Romans 5:15-21). All that He has is ours! We may feel like the lowest and the least; we may feel that we are too weak to even grasp the promises ... but no matter, the promises have already grasped you. Our Saviour has already taken a hold of us and He will never let us go (Hebrews 13:5).

 

And that’s the Gospel Truth!

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