"No one had, or ever could be, good enough to earn salvation. All stand condemned by the law and subject to the wrath of God. If anyone is to be saved it must be by another way. It must be not by trying to be good, because no one can. It is by simply believing in Jesus Christ, faith in Him alone.
Now we ask the obvious question, where does that faith come from? What is its origin? Paul has made it clear that it does not originate in man. The faith that saves does not originate in man, and it cannot originate in man.
He's taken great pains, two and a half chapters of the opening chapters of Romans to prove that pleasing God is impossible by a man who is fallen in sin and all men are fallen in sin. The fallen nature cannot please God and yet faith is something that does please God so therefore it cannot originate out of the fallen nature. It must come from somewhere outside himself. It must be supplied to him by God.
Thus we see that faith is a gift of God according to His grace. Grace the unmerited favor that God pours out on the undeserving is the foundation of the faith by which God justifies the ungodly." -Pastor Bridge
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