The titanic battle within the human heart and the cardinal sin against which the Gospel fights is that proud tendency in all of us to rely upon salvation by works. This is truly the mother of all heresies and the father of every false religion. The idea is that somehow we can be our own Savior; that we can contribute something of our own to God’s Great Plan of Salvation.

Forget it. We can’t. The very idea is the worst possible form of pollution that muddies every religious river and every spiritual stream, making it not only useless – but deadly to drink.
Our purpose this morning it to take a long, thirst-quenching drink of the PURE Water of Life. Whoever drinks of it will never thirst again.

Ephesians 2:5
By grace you have been saved.

Grace. Pure. Unmeasured. Boundless. Free. Amazing Grace! Our tendency as individuals, as congregations and as denominations too is to wander away from this particular truth which is the sum total of the Gospel. There is something inside each of us that wants to add something, help it along, do our part. But it is Grace! It is Christ plus nothing! The formula for salvation is J + 0 = Infinity! Add nothing to God’s Grace and you get everything. Add anything to God’s Grace and you get nothing. “By grace you have been saved.” (Ephesians 2:5).

Welcome, dear friends, to Home Church Langley!