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We Need Not Fear of 'NoFault' Redemption

by Robert [Bob] Schaetzle Sr. 
10/13/22
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           We need not fear of ‘No-Fault’ Redemption         
             By Robert Schaetzle

  He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3:30ESV

What came out of the Reformation period we’re ‘The five Sola’s of The Protestant Reformation.’ Many might be unaware of these five essential ‘Sola’s’ meaning ‘Alone.’  Recognizing God standing apart from the creation He gave us. Not independent for which His Spirit abides in us, but to understand His preeminence over us. (CF: John 14:6)

Looking at them helps to understand God’s sufficiency, what John the Baptist proclaimed; ‘to decrease.’

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God. Eph 2:8 SOLA GRATIA

Through faith alone- SOLA FIDE
 He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, Titus 3:5

By Christ alone- SOLAS CHRISTUS
For Christ also died^] for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.  1 Peter 3:18 RSV ( my emphasis)

By Scripture alone- SOLA SCRIPTURA 
Because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. 2 Peter 1:21

To the glory of God alone- SOLI DEO GLORIA
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,  whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior. Titus 3:4-6 ESV

Robert serves in a Sharing and Caring Ministry