QUESTION: Does works or doing good works have or play any part in the salvation of a soul?




The sufficiency of the work of Christ is taught in Romans 5:12-21. In commenting on these verses, Dr. Ironside quotes an epitaph on a tombstone of four children in Scotland:

«Bold infidelity, turn pale and die.
Beneath this sod four infants lie.
Say, are they lost or saved?
If death is by sin, they’ve sinned,
For they are here.
If heaven is by works,
Then in heaven they can’t appear.
Reason, how depraved!
Turn to the Bible’s holy page.
And there the knot’s untied.
They died for Adam’s sin.
They live, for Jesus died.»

Although children are born in a state of sin, it is commonly believed that they are sheltered by the blood of Christ. If they die before they reach the age of accountability, that means that they have never had the opportunity to accept or reject the Saviour. Although they might know nothing about the work of the Lord Jesus, God knows about it, and He reckons the value of that work to them.

The bodies of four infants lie dead.
Where did they go and why?
If sin causes death then they were sinners for there they lie.
If heaven is gained by doing good works then they can’t go because they have no good works.
They have done nothing to earn it.
This reasoning is totally depraved!


They died because of Adam’s sin.
They live because Jesus Died.

The infants are dead because they came from Adam.
Their blood was bad therefore they had to die because Adam died.
It was Adam’s fault and not the infants, they had no option.
If they can die through no fault of their own, then they can go to heaven without receiving Christ as Saviour.
The Lord made that decision for them.
Christ’s blood maked provision for them.


Суббота, Июль 19th, 2014 at 15:56

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