RELIGION says we must act our best.
SALVATION says we must accept God's best. Romans 6:23:
"The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
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RELIGION depends on the sufficiency of character.
SALVATION depends on the Sacrifice of the Cross.1 Corinthians 1:18:
"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;
but unto us which are saved is the power of God."
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RELIGION tries to furnish a sacrifice.
SALVATION trusts in a finished sacrifice. John 19:30:
"When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said. IT IS FINISHED:
and he bowed his head. and gave up the ghost."
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RELIGION is striving for a better attainment.
SALVATION is secured through a perfect atonement. I Peter 1:18-19:
"For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,
as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition
from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ,
as of a lamb without blemish and without spot."
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RELIGION tries to bring us from darkness to light.
SALVATION does bring us from death unto Life. John 5:24:
"He that heareth my Word, and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life,
and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life."
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RELIGION says we must be found in God's house.
SALVATION says we must
"be found in him (Christ), not having our "own righteousness"
which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ." Philippians 3:9:
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Again I remind you of our text:
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name
under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."
My dear friends, do you have religion or salvation?
If you only have religion, then you will miss heaven and spend eternity apart from God and His Son in a place of torment. If you have salvation, you now have the promise of eternal life with God and His Son forevermore.
The Peoples Gospel Hour P. O. Box 1660 Halifax N.S. Canada B3J 3A1
