Micah 6:6-8

Listen to this: “He hath shown thee, O man, what’s good; and what doth the Lord require of thee … to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.” Three things here. Now how are you going to do this? Can you do this in your own flesh? Do you think that you can do it without God’s help? Do you think that you could do it without God’s salvation? Don’t tell me that you live by this moral code today without the power of God, for the very simple reason these are the fruits of the Holy Spirit. My friend, how does the Spirit of God dwell in you? “Ye must be born again.” The Lord Jesus said you must be born again.

How can you be saved? Learn from the Old Testament that a relationship, not rituals, is how God offers us redemption.

We’ve got the thing all backwards today. What must I do to be saved? And they came to the Lord Jesus—“What must we do, that we might work the works of God?” And the Lord Jesus said, “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent” And He is saying, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” That’s the only work God’s asking you to do. Believe. Faith is just about the opposite of works. Now saving faith produces works, as we have seen. But it certainly doesn’t originate. It doesn’t originate salvation. Works, your works have nothing to do with your salvation.